Fighting For A Kona Podium

I first met Skye Moench during COVID lockdown!  It was a church fireside devotional that our neighborhood put on and she was on it. She told her story and I was like, "Wait, this lady is in our neighborhood?" Turns out she wasn't just in our Holladay neighborhood, we are like neighbors. You've seen her in Emigration and Big Cottonwood training on her Trek. I have loved watching your journey on social media the past few years … so many insights into the difficult and rewarding world of a professional triathlete. 

She is ranked 9th overall triathlete in the world. In October 2022, Skye competed in Kona at the Ironman World Championships, finishing ninth. In 2021, Skye won Ironman Chattoonooga by 26 minutes, setting the course record as well as a new American record Ironman time of 8:34.

Skye Moench hails from Lethbridge, Alberta, a province in Canada. At 12 years old, she moved with her mother and sisters to Washington State, eventually landing in Utah, where she graduated from Lehi High School.

Being a pro athlete is a full-time job. Skye Moench trains three times a day, 25-30 hours a week. She swims first thing in the morning, followed by a bike session and a run session later in the day.

If you read anything online about Skye it is that she is mentally and physically tough. In one of the articles I read about she was quoted as saying, “Hard work is more important that raw talent, talent can be outworked. So I just know personally, if I’m willing to put that hard work output, I will do what I wanna do, accomplish what I want to accomplish.  I feel that everything that I’ve done in my life has been a result of hard work and it hasn’t been easy, and it hasn’t been handed to me at all. You can’t dwell on bad things, things you can’t control.”

We are so honored to have her on the show today and to dig in to her story and share with the team the things that make her who she is today.