Robbie Deckard is a pro triathlete and longtime coach who has spent years chasing aero gains, first to keep up with Rudy von Berg on training rides and now through his company, Freaky Fast. But this conversation isn’t really about watts. It’s about what happens when a garage obsession turns into a real business, and the person behind it has to grow up with it.

We talk about molding his first monobar from heat-moldable plastic and watching Canyon release almost the same design a week later, teaching himself CAD from a $16 online course at 3 a.m., the 50-plus prototypes behind his first product, reinvesting every dollar while racing toward break-even, why a single broken part makes him want to “punch a wall and cry,” giving away aero advice he probably should charge for, and still chasing Kona and a sub-8 Ironman after a four-month Achilles injury.

This is a conversation about building something you’d want to buy yourself, and learning to care deeply without letting every setback become a verdict on who you are.

Robbie’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/robbie_deckard/

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Parker Spencer is a USA Triathlon coach who leads Project Podium, the federation's donor-funded men's elite program, while finishing a PhD in exercise science and coaching pros like Sam Long. But his real story isn't the World Cup podiums. It's about a coach who once told his wife he was done, and who has come to believe that faith in his athletes matters more than any number on a lab report.

We talk about rewriting 120 pages of his dissertation when he thought he was at the finish line, why he wants his athletes to see him as a friend and still know when "Coach Parker" shows up, the busyness he calls his biggest weakness and the 16-mile mountain run that resets him, being two years into the USAT job, buried in critics and ready to quit, why he believes success is winning and wants his athletes to carry an ego, and a practical breakdown of VO2 max, VLA max, and why he's moved away from traditional periodization.

This is a conversation about leading people toward something hard, and why the most powerful thing a coach can say might be "I believe in you."

Parket’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/coachparkerspencer_/

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Luke Tasker is a full-time Vancouver firefighter, a former Team GB modern pentathlete, and one of the newest names in pro triathlon. He won Ironman Victoria in his debut and took fifth at IRONMAN 70.3 NorCal against a stacked field. But his real story isn't about how fast he's climbed. It's about a man who knows exactly what he's living for, and isn't shy about saying it.

We talk about leaving the UK for one ski season and never going back, and the 59 days he spent on a four-man rowing boat around Britain. He shares the psychologist's exercise that kept that crew from falling apart. He opens up about a father he's no longer close to but refuses to resent, and about why he tells his best friend he loves him. We also get into the 12 seconds that cost him a Worlds slot, and his unapologetic atheism, which leads to a candid, respectful back-and-forth on faith, meaning, and what happens when it's all over.

This is a conversation about conviction: what it looks like to build a life around love and family when you believe this one is all you get, and what two people who see the world very differently can learn just by listening.

Luke’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/taskertri/

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