Episode 122: Pro Files with Georgia Taylor-Brown

Send us a textThis week on Another Triathlon Podcast, brought to you by maunaapparel, we sit down with Olympic medalist, SuperTri superstar, and long course newcomer Georgia Taylor-Brown. Fresh off a year that has taken her everywhere from Dubai to Phuket to Bahrain, Georgia joins us to talk about her transition season, the joy of racing without pressure, and why this unexpected year of gravel racing, T100 experiments, and twenty two races has completely reset her love for the sport.In this conversation, Georgia takes us from her early days as a swimmer who never loved swimming, to being terrified on group rides, to becoming one of the most consistent forces in WTCS racing. She opens up about learning how to ride a bike from scratch, the years where she doubted she belonged, the Tokyo Olympics and how stepping away from the intensity of Olympic qualification has helped her rediscover why she started triathlon in the first place.Highlights • Growing up swimming twelve to eighteen hours a week and building the engine that carried her career • Learning to ride a bike in cotton T shirts and hand me down shorts and getting dropped on every climb • Joining the British talent squad with no triathlon experience • The moment she finally felt she belonged in WTCS racing • Tokyo 2021 from injury to puncture to an Olympic silver medal • How gravel racing and park runs brought joy back into her training • Why 2024 was the year she needed to reset mentally • Her first impressions of the T100 series and what she learned the hard way about nutrition • Training alone, self coaching, and trying to fit intensity around twenty two races • Plans for 2025 including World Series racing, qualifying for Nice, potential T100 starts, and the long road back to LA 2028 • Advice she lives by: don’t look sideways, focus on your own path • Life after triathlon and her dream of working in gravel or trail event organisationQuickfire Q and A • The strangest thing she has eaten mid ride • The pro she would choose as a relay partner and why it is Jess Learmonth • The fourth discipline she would add to triathlon and why she would be world champion at faffing • Her pump up playlist from Whitney Houston to Nicki Minaj • The best advice she has ever been givenFollow the show: @anothertriathlonpodcast Jenna Caer: @jennacaer Josh: @joshmvernon Fede: @fedemultisportGuest: Georgia Taylor-Brown Instagram: @georgiatbSupport the showStay connected with us! Follow us on social media - @anothertriathlonpodcast with hosts Jenna-Caer, Fede and Josh to keep up with the latest. And if you have any burning questions for the coaches, feel free to shoot them over to [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/anothertriathlonpodcast/

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