Passion For Performance
Passion for Performance is a podcast hosted by Coach Peter Clifford from High Performance Tri about high performance sport. The show will give you advice, tips and thoughts around improving your performance to world class levels.
- Update frequency
- every 39 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Chris Visvis
Chris Visvis is an athlete with a rich sporting background at quite an early age. His experience includes gymnastics, cycling and now triathlon. Chris is also a talented content creator with a vibran…
Jon Odams
Jon Odams is a veteran Australian mountain biker known for his versatility across XC, enduro, downhill, and e-MTB. Jon is a recently crowned Masters World Champion and multiple-time national champion…
Chasing Kona Episode 9 : Testing & Race Execution
In this episode Jeff and Pete are joined by Jarrod Crump, coach and performance analyst at HPT. Pete, Jeff and Jarrod discussed testing and race performance analysis, emphasizing the importance of pr…
Coach's Corner Episode 1 : The Art of Coaching
In this special sub-series, the roles are reversed—Thomas Leuchten takes over as host, while the Coach steps into the guest seat.
In this episode, you’ll get a deeper look at the coach’s journey as w…
Chasing Kona - Ep.8 - The Aero Trilogy Parts 2 & 3
In this episide the team discusses the importance of aerodynamics in triathlon, with a focus on testing and repeatability, and shared their learnings from recent testing sessions. They also discussed…
Chasing Kona - Ep.7 - T -2 Years
In this episode, Jeff and Pete pull apart what has been a solid year in the quest for chasing what for some is the Holy Grail - racing the Ironman World Championships on the big island of Hawaii in K…
Harry Wiles
In this episode we speak with Harry Wiles who has just returned from his second European racing block. We chat about the journey of getting around Europe, finding races and chasing prizemoney. This y…
Chasing Kona Ep. 6 - The Victory Lap
Chasing Kona is back and in a big way ! In this latest episode Jeff grills HPT's 5 Kona qualifiers, Darren Alchin, Paul Linton, James Knight, Edward Quartly and James Martin on what their secret sauc…
Sammy Taylor & Josh Revell
There are no more passionate athletes in our squad than Sammy and Josh. We sat down and had a chat across a broad range of topics including what their original sporting history was, doing their first…
Thomas Leuchten
Welcome to a chat with long time HPT athlete Thomas Leuchten.
Tom is a passionate endurance athlete and has a rich history cramming a lot of change into his life. He grew up in Germany and Turkey th…
Ben Bourke and Jarrod Denny on the Coast to Coast
This chat starts as we go back to where it all started for Ben and JD. We then take the adventure racing journey with them that lead to them toeing the line side by side and successfully racing the C…
Chasing Kona - Ep.5 - Taking Stock
Jeff and Pete start our 2024 series by taking stock, answering the following questions.
- What is Chasing Kona
- What has happened since we last spoke?
- What's coming up
Topics include Whoop bands, …
A Chat with Harry Wiles
This episode we sit down with Harry Wiles and have a coach / athlete chat discussing how 2023 went and what were the main challenges of his first year competing in the Pro ranks.
Harry has an intere…
Dan Atkins on High Performance Coaching, Balance and Personal Wellness
Dan Atkins is the Head Coach of the AusTriathlon Performance Centre on the Gold Coast of Australia. Dan has done it all....from development squads to the Olympics. he has taken his career from being …
Chasing Kona Ep.4 - Steve Mackay - The Aerodynamics Trilogy : Part 1
Steve Mackay is back to talk about Aerodynamics. He covers the theory and its surprising history in cycling and triathlon. With such highly individual and unusual outcomes, Steve concludes that the o…
Chasing Kona - Ep.3 - James Martin
It's interview time and in this episode we are joined by James Martin. James has been in the sport only 5 years and has racked up an impressive list of achievements already.
- 3rd AG IM Cairns (IM de…
The Performance Show - Fear, Motivation and Communication
Fear, Motivation and Communication are my big 3 topics on this episode of The Performance Show. I delve into some pretty big examples of how the best performers in the world use every day skills to b…
Chasing Kona - Ep. 2 - Nice Observations and Season Planning
In this episode we get Pete to give us his review of what he saw in the first Ironman World Champs to be held in Nice where we had 2 HPT athletes in Darren Alchin and Paul Linton.
We also go deep on…
The Performance Show Refreshed - The New HP Program & Some New Segments
With the addition of Chasing Kona to the Pod, the OG Performance Podcast gets a freshen up. I speak about my thoughts on what the new high performance program looks like and I have added some new seg…
Chasing Kona - Ep.1 - Darren Alchin
In his 50th year and his 8th Ironman, Darren Alchin recorded a 51 minute PB to go 9:46, 3rd in his AG, and securing a slot to the Ironman World Championship in Nice France. In this episode Darren unp…