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December 16, 2024 6 mins

Olympic silver medallist Hayden Wilde has managed to get second place in yet another race!

He put in a solid performance at the Taupo IronMan 70.3 - a longer distance than an Olympic triathlon - but he finished behind Belgian winner Jelle Geens.

Hayden Wilde spoke to Jason Pine on Sportstalk.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Duncy Wildergrave
from news Talk z'd be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Olympic Triathlon silver medallist Hayden Wild meantime second yesterday at
the top or seventeen point three iron Man World Championship event.
He was overtaken by Belgian winner Yellaheens with about three
k to go on the run yesterday, eventually finishing about
a minute and thirteen seconds behind, but a very credible,
a very very credible second place at the Taupo event.

(00:36):
Hayden Wild joins us on sports Talk. Hayden, thanks for
taking the time. How's the body and how do you
reflect on yesterday?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, body is tired, I can tell you that free,
but yeah, really happy how I raced and yeah, like
happy to raise on my own terms and go out
as I like to race and make it relatively entertaining
and yeah, not bad finishing second second overall with yeah

(01:04):
my kind of my yeah, my first so many point
three this year. Last one I raced was in Melbourne
in November last year, So you're pretty happy with kind
of how the body was able to hold up in
that sort of distance.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
How does it compare to completing the shorter Olympic distance events.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, it's pretty tough a obviously, you know, it's it's
purely on yeah, pacing, you know, it's it's really hard
hard to do and hard to kind of master that.
You know, I went out on the run and it
was just like for me, you know, and normally run
outs at sub three minute kilometers and you know, to
hold back and run, you know, trying to slow down

(01:46):
as was extremely hard to do. Just like bi mechanically,
my body likes to run fast and to hold it
back is really hard to do. And you know, with
learning that that will that will come in time. But yeah,
it's just like more of a patience game more than
a doual. You can to get the finish line first,
and you're obviously like the intensity is still extremely high

(02:08):
in this sort of distance, but it's at the same
time it's all about patients in waiting. But it's just
like more of like a muscle fatigue than just like
pure blowing up. You're just kind of grinding all that.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
You must take a huge degree of confidence, though, do
you given the fact that you don't race this distance
very often, haven't, as you've said, done it for over
a year. Do you take confidence of the fact you
competed so well yesterday despite that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, definitely. You know, like I was in the unknown
of what to expect, and you know, I raced. There
was guys in the start line that went to the Olympics,
and you know they were, you know, a good three
four minutes behind me, So like taking them to retrospect,
you know, pretty stoked of where I finished. And as
you said, like these guys have been racing this distance
for the last few years and all like the year round,

(02:55):
and you know, they've got their bodies kind of tailored
to the sort of race and the patients and the
and their own pacing, and you obviously I've still a
little bit to work on on the pacing side. I
know I'm capable of, you know, extremely fast runs off
the bike, but it's just like you know, tailoring your
body into the race, Like you can't you can't be

(03:16):
training for a half marathon and expect to do well
in a marathon, you know. So it's just one of
those those like little things that's kind of relatable to
some people. So yeah, obviously I'm normally normally running ten k,
not twenty one k, so it's you know, it's a
different killer fish. But I really enjoyed it out there.
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
So then as you look ahead, I understand you're keen
to do more of the longer distances, but still keep
your hand in and the shorter distances, and obviously with
a look ahead to the next Olympics. So in twenty
twenty five, how will you find that balance?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, that was the main The main goal was to
do do it, like, not be super focused on World Series.
You know, I'll still do one or two to keep
relevant and keep a small ranking, so maybe one or
two races, but like, I just want to change and
have a different kind of mindset to some racing and
the Sony point through racing and the T one hundred

(04:10):
series more or less around that three to three and
a half hours, and you know, it's the same kind
of intense, it's just below the intense that we're doing
for Olympic distance. It's just getting faster and faster. So yeah,
not too worried about that. I think it would just
more so make me a good base over the next
few years. And then for the supertry stuff is just
to kind of you know, keep that speed and that
aggression and that kind of you know, high octane race

(04:34):
kind of mentality as well. So yeah, it'll be it's
gonna be an interesting year next year and it's going
to be going to be fun and we will see
how we go.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So what is your next event?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, so my first race actually will be an ABERDBI,
so it's just like a World Series race. It's in
February for me, Yeah, I'll just be gone on that
race to to show face. Essentially, I won't be I
won't be super fit, but you know, I like turning
out to races, and I was going to be an
abberd B anyway for a training camp and then you
know a few months after that will be the first
the half distance in Singapore, so yeah, now looking forward

(05:07):
to that, and then yeah, the season will carry on
until December again. So our seasons are getting longer and longer,
which is as part of the body. But as long
as you kind of maintain it and keep you know,
sensible in training and racing, you know, you can kind
of make it. But it's pretty it's pretty rough.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
All right. And with twenty twenty four now then in
the books remarkable year for you hate them with what
you achieved Olympics yesterday in topoor, you know, World Series,
all of that stuff. How do you reflect on twenty
twenty four as a whole.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, like, it's been an incredible season. You know, my goals,
my ambitions were to win obviously the Olympics, the World Series,
the Super Try and the second point three and to
podium in it's three and to win one is not
is not bad at all. You know, I'm pretty happy
with that. And obviously, you know, the coming out at
the start of the year and having those as my

(06:00):
goals was going to be an extremely hard challenge. It's
three different, three different distances, three different kind of intensities.
So to kind of come away and be podium and
all those it was as a pretty awesome It's a
pretty awesome year. So real stoked of how I finished up,
and yeah, it's been an awesome Now I can reflect

(06:20):
a little bit personally and then see what we can
do for next year to try and you know, up
those results and you know, get get some even even
more wins over that.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
That good stuff. Thanks Hadan. I appreciate you taking the
time for a chat. The day after Hayden Wild there
second in the seventy point three event in Topor yesterday,
a terrific result at the end of a sensational year
for Han Wild.

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