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515 : The Ultra PodcastS8E3 -- Ultraman World Champion 2025 | Max KniazevSend us a textA champion’s story doesn’t start at the finish line. Fresh off winning Ultraman Hawaii, Max Kniazev opens up about rebuilding from a collarbone ligament rupture, balancing newborn-dad life, and crafting a pragmatic plan to race smarter in heat and wind. We get into the mechanics of durability: how a naturally low heart rate at high power shapes his ultra identity, why shorter cranks opened his hip and cut drag, and how a custom 3D-printed cockpit with rear-aligned bottles shaved the little costs that add up over 515 kilometers.Max...
2025-12-261h 16515 : The Ultra Podcast515 Special Edition -- UMAZ DAY 3 Race RecapSend us a textFrom Phoenix, Arizona this is your day three race recap of Ultraman Arizona 2023. Find the Day 1 & 2 Recap here. Unfortunately, Jen McVeay was busy with her duties as race director and was unable to contribute to this recap.What a day three it was. It lived up to the hype, producing a new World Record time for the 33 year old Max Kniazev.There will be one more Special Edition episode available in this series when I speak with Max...
2023-03-2211 min515 : The Ultra Podcast515 Special Edition -- UMAZ Champions (Cynthia Bartus & Max Kniazev) and Ultraman Record setter Shane DuffySend us a textThis is the final Special Edition from Ultraman Arizona for 2023. In this episode, I catch up with the two winners at the awards night to speak about how they felt about the race.Cynthia Bartus, age 45, from Pennsylvania, is the 2023 women's winner and Maxsim Kniazev is the NEW WORLD RECORD holder and winner on the men's side.I also speak with Shane Duffy from Australia who now has completed five of the six races in his quest to become th...
2023-03-2245 min515 : The Ultra PodcastS1E4 -- Kona Calling with Jane Bockus and Maxim KnyazevSend us a textIn this episode, I place a Zoom call to the birthplace of Ultraman, Kailua Kona for a conversation with UltraMama, Jane Bockus. Jane was the Race Director of the Ultraman World Championships from 1992 - 2017 and remains the brand owner of Ultraman. She shares stories of the early days and her volunteer work with the Ironman World Championships.In the Ultraman Canada 2021 athlete profile section, I speak with a Russian athlete--Maxim Knyazev. He is the current course record holder of S...
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