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Craig Alexander: Confidence Is Learned

Monday, November 9, 2026 • Duration 01:06:13

In 2010, the verdict on Craig Alexander was that he was too slow on the bike to win the Ironman World Championship in Kona again. A year later, at 38, he rode 13.5 minutes faster with lower power and a lower heart rate, broke a course record that had stood for 15 years and won his third world title. He's honest about why: "As much as I'd like to sit here and tell you that that was all me, it was technology."

In this episode of FRODENO GOING MENTAL, Jan sits down with Craig "Crowie" Alexander. They talk about the soccer career that didn't work out and the TV pictures of Kona that pulled him into triathlon, the mentors who showed him the way, the "crazy" sessions he did for confidence rather than fitness, how he handled fierce rivalries without taking them personally, and why becoming a dad made him faster. Jan was standing at the side of the road in Kona the day Crowie set that record, and it changed how he thought about Ironman.

A conversation about where confidence comes from, and being honest about what actually made you fast.

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Flora Duffy: Calm Outside, Freaking Out Inside

Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 58:33

Two days before the Tokyo Olympic triathlon, a typhoon threatened to push the race back, and the briefing room started to crack. Flora Duffy kept her face still. Even freaking out inside, she wasn't going to show it. In this episode of FRODENO GOING MENTAL, recorded in Kona, Jan Frodeno sits down his wife Emma Frodeno (Snowsill) and Dame Flora Duffy, Bermuda's first Olympic gold medallist. They talk about turning down Great Britain to race for an island of 65,000, the early years she calls destructive, the 13 years from a DNF in the Beijing Olympics to gold in Tokyo, a letter listing everything she had to change, and the Paris swim where she didn't turn left. Jan and Emma both won gold in Beijing, the Games Flora didn't finish.
A conversation about the face you show on the start line, and who you are once you stop needing it.
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Courtney Dauwalter: No Coach, No Plan

Monday, October 26, 2026 • Duration 46:38

Courtney Dauwalter won Western States, Hardrock and UTMB in a single summer in 2023, and this July she won Hardrock again. Seven weeks later she stopped at UTMB: the batteries, as she puts it, weren't ready to go again. She does all of it with no coach and no training plan, and she says that's part of what keeps her healthy. Hand her a written workout and she'd chase an A-plus in it, regardless of the day.
In this episode of FRODENO GOING MENTAL, Jan sits down with Courtney in Kona. They talk about the pain cave she chisels a little bigger with every race, the mantra she falls back on when nothing is fine, how she tells a real warning flag from ordinary suffering, and the leopard in a hammock she saw beside a trail while sleep-deprived.
A conversation about choosing the hard thing, and keeping joy in the driver's seat while you do it.
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Olivier Bernhard: Impossible Means They Don't Know How

Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 54:00

Olivier Bernhard's Achilles wouldn't heal. So he and a friend who was an engineer glued pieces of garden hose to a running shoe. He waited until dark to try it, and ten steps in, he knew. Every brand he pitched it to said no. In this episode of Frodeno Going Mental, Jan sits down with the co-founder of On Running in Kona, an island Olivier loves and says he was never made for. They talk about finding triathlon at 13 in a village with no club, eight wins at Powerman Zofingen, the long mountain hike that turned three friends into business partners, why he goes looking for the problems people call impossible, and why he calls the money "only paper." Jan, who fought his own Achilles problems, knows exactly where this story starts. A conversation about letting go of control and trusting what you feel before anyone else agrees.

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Mark Allen: Peaceful Yet Powerful

Monday, October 12, 2026 • Duration 46:24

For six years, Mark Allen was often in the lead late at the IRONMAN Hawaii, and he fell apart every time. He came to believe the island had it out for him. Then he won it six times. In this episode of FRODENO GOING MENTAL, Jan sits down with Mark Allen in Kona. They talk about the pickup truck that hit him on a ride and took away his reason to race, the 1989 moment his mind went quiet, the shaman whose image returned to him then, and why, at 68, he takes his coffee outside before he picks up his phone. Both came to triathlon from surf lifesaving, and Jan asks how a swimmer who calls himself very average built the engine to win. They talk about what the island tried to teach him: give everything you have, even on the days you only have 60% of it. Enjoy this episode!

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Kat Matthews: Mindset Isn't Enough

Monday, October 5, 2026 • Duration 53:59

For Kat Matthews, the mindset is just about removing the barriers. What's left, in her words, is to get a bit fitter. In this episode of Going Mental, Jan Frodeno sits down with Kat three weeks out from Kona to find out how she got there. She explains the load bucket she uses to decide when to back off a session, why she started calling consistency boring, and what changed when she handed her coaching to her husband. They get into Cautious Carol, the part of her she would have to let go of to race past her limit, and why going mental, for her, means waking up in the night six weeks before a race, wondering if she should have tied her shoelaces differently. A conversation about what's left once the mindset work is done. Enjoy this episode!

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A medal doesn't fix anything in your life - Molly Seidel

Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 52:32

Molly Seidel calls her Olympic medal the coolest experience of her life. She also says it didn't fix anything. She poured everything she was into it and came out the other side the same person. In this episode of Frodeno Going Mental, Jan Frodeno sits down with Molly Seidel— in town for UTMB and to talk about blowing up at mile 55 of Western States and finishing anyway, why she left the marathon before it broke her again, the coach whose real job is to pull the reins rather than push, why she gaslights herself on every descent, and what a year of pretending to be retired taught her. A conversation about why she keeps going back out when she already knows the medal won't be the answer.

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500 Tries for One Trick – Fabio Wibmer

Monday, September 21, 2026 • Duration 01:06:03

What does it take to try the same trick 500 times — knowing that the next one could still go wrong?

Fabio Wibmer has built a career doing things on a bike that most of us wouldn't even attempt on two feet. His videos have reached hundreds of millions of people, but behind the viral clips is an obsessive process of repetition, visualization and calculated risk.

In this episode of Going Mental, Jan Frodeno sits down with Fabio to understand what actually happens before he commits to a trick where there is no room for error.

Fabio talks about fear, why visualization can make a stunt feel like he's already done it and the moment when he has to switch off doubt and go all in.

They also get into his "trial and error" philosophy, growing up in a tiny Austrian village, being inspired by Danny MacAskill, dealing with perfectionism and the pressure of creating for an algorithm that constantly demands more.

And Fabio explains why, despite more than a billion views and increasingly ambitious projects, the feeling he's chasing is still the same one he had as a kid jumping his first homemade ramp.

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Memory Loss on Everest and Three Years of Pain – Kilian Jornet

Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 01:00:13

Kilian Jornet has spent decades pushing the limits of human endurance. But what happens when you actually reach them?

In this episode of Going Mental, Jan Frodeno sits down with Kilian Jornet for a rare deep dive into the mind behind some of the most extreme performances in endurance sport.

Kilian explains what happened when he pushed himself so far on Everest that his brain stopped forming memories and why he believes the ultimate limit of human performance is one we never actually want to reach.

They talk about fear, pain, risk, ego and the psychology of pushing beyond what your brain tells you is possible. Kilian also opens up about the times he knew he had gone too far in the mountains, his current battle with injury, and how his approach to training has changed as he gets older.

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Jan Frodeno on What He Learned From Going Mental

Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 21:04

For the first time on Frodeno Going Mental, there’s no guest. Just Jan Frodeno, a camera and 19 conversations worth looking back on.

In this first solo episode, Jan revisits some of the moments from Season One that stayed with him long after the cameras stopped rolling.

He reflects on how Alistair Brownlee once shattered his confidence and ultimately forced him to rebuild himself as an athlete. He explores what Demi Vollering taught him about daring to lose, why letting go of embarrassment can make you a better competitor and why his conversation about the Enhanced Games challenged some of his deepest beliefs about performance, shortcuts and what makes achievement meaningful.

Jan also returns to Brad Stulberg’s idea of the “identity house” and why building a life beyond one single pursuit might actually help you go further in the thing that matters most.

From Olympic medals and sports psychology to failure, resilience, identity and the uncomfortable question of whether winning is ever really enough, this is Jan looking back at Season One and at what changed his own thinking along the way.

No guest. No interview. Just Jan, going mental.

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