The Koa Sports Podcast

In a tough week for garage sports we discuss the big issue, after all Greg has experience in this space!
 
Koa Sports secured its 5th IRONMAN 70.3 Sunshine Coast title in a row, continuing the streak of domination since 2022, GO RED!!  We unpack an action packed World Champs also over in Nice.
 
It’s getting closer now, Kona is in the air.
 
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It’s a stacked weekend of IRONMAN and 70.3 racing across the world, with the 70.3 World Championships in Nice, France taking centre stage.  No better time to have super coach Caroline Steffen Murray, a 40 x 70.3 and IRONMAN Champion on the pod to chat all things racing and stories. 
 
In Australia is the IRONMAN 70.3 Sunshine Coast, with a big Koa Sports team set to open the Oceania 26/27 season, and in Asia 70.3 Da Li and IRONMAN Japan…. Wow!
 
Some ripping take aways from this episode, not just a blow by blow course description and boring strava segment chat. 
 
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Nicola Wadey and Tom Upton are on the Road to Kona in 2026.  Nicola is a 6 x IRONMAN & 70.3 AG Champion and has been working with Koa since 2019, Tom has won his AG multiple times and juggles emergency services shift work with an appetite for solid training!  In 2025 at IRONMAN Western Sydney, they shared the top step both taking out the 35-39 AG titles.
 
For Nic, this will be her second time to Kona (2022), and Tom his first, having both qualified at IRONMAN Busselton in 2025, uniquely both athletes have rejected Kona slots in the past.
 
You’d have it all wrong if you think it comes easy and their performances are linear, from DNF’s to DNS’s and race destroying mechanicals. 
 
Based in Melbourne, find out what not only their ‘road to kona’ has been like, but AG endurance sports for the past 6-7 years.
 
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Greg sits down with Jack Garside and Lachie Rose, two Koa Sports athletes who have trained the house down for the Ironman World Champs in Nice next week.
Between them they can plan towns out, ride scooterslike mad dogs, measure 25m pools and build training facilities for AFL clubs.
Both classic age group athletes who balance the training load against work and “normal life” as up and coming fitfluencers.
Holiday before or after your event, to race inthe bucket or not? We are always diving into triathlons most important topics.
Greg goes off and rant (or two) as usual whilethe boys keep it straight with the Nice nerves kicking in.
Good luck to every  athlete tackling the Nice course next weekend.
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A cheeky bat raise for the Koa Sports Podcast today we notch up episode 250, thank yous all. 
 
An episode stacked with content as Greg and Tim return to the mics to share the past few weeks of life in the fast lane.  We draw the winner of the $200 Maple Movement Gift Pack, congratulations to them, T & C’s apply. 
 
We give plenty of feedback for the industry to ponder, feedback is a gift and Greg is exposed for the fraud that he is! 
 
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