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Talbot Cox

@talbotcox

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Photographer. Videographer. Husband.
Cohost of the #1 triathlon podcast. @protrinews
🎥 + 👶 + 🎙 = My life.

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POV watching @ironmantri World Championship with @kaidenlieto taken in IRONMAN World Championship by @talbotcox

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8 days ago

Want to hear from your 2026 IRONMAN World Championship podiums? Come to Laverne’s at 10AM tomorrow.

Final Race Week live show featuring @taylorknibb @laura_philipp_tri @juliederron @vincentluistri @gustav_iden and @matthewdmarquardt 🏆

🚹 Men start at 10AM.
🚺 Women start at 11AM.

📍75-5819 Ali‘i Dr, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 taken in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii by @talbotcox

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11 days ago

🚨 THE FEED SCAVENGER HUNT IS ON! 🚨

We’ve got a Feed musette packed with a bunch of nutrition goodies, and the first person to come find us at Laverne’s gets to take it home!

Come on down and see if you can snag it! 👀

And if you’re here in Kona, don’t forget to stop by Laverne’s today between 10 AM and 5 PM to grab a FREE Feed Elite water bottle and a hydration slushy!

Good luck! 🤙🌺 taken in Laverne's Sports Bar by @talbotcox

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COME GET A FREE FEED WATER BOTTLE! 🤙🌺

If you’re here in Kona, make sure you stop by Laverne’s and check out what The Feed has going on!

They’re handing out FREE Feed Elite water bottles, hydration slushies, and some pretty awesome ice bandanas!

The ice bandanas are actually really cool. The Feed worked with some of their top athletes to develop these specifically for hot races like Kona and long endurance events.

So if you’re in Kailua-Kona, come grab a couple of bottles, try out a hydration slushy, get an ice bandana, and say hello!

📍 Laverne’s in Kailua-Kona
⏰ 10 AM – 5 PM

Come hang out! 🤙 taken in IRONMAN World Championship by @talbotcox

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12 days ago

This is going to be the greatest week on earth! If you are in Kona, 10 AM every day! ProTriNews.com by @talbotcox

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15 days ago

Growing up, my dad always taught us that every man should have vision for his life. For as long as I can remember, I’ve written my New Year’s goals in my notes app. As the year goes on, I usually end up checking off about half of them 😂 I’ve always told myself that checking off some is better than none.

This year I wanted to do something different.

Instead of keeping my goals private, I decided to post them publicly. Not for attention but for accountability. Putting them out there forces me to be more intentional, more honest, and more committed.

As I’ve gotten older and started a family, I’ve cared less and less about posting the perfect triathlon photo and more about sharing who I actually am. Triathlon will always be one of my passions, and I’ll continue to post about it but I also want to share more of my life, my values, and what I’m building behind the scenes.

That starts with sharing my goals for 2026.

Some of these will be really hard. Some of them are simply what I believe should come with being a good husband and father. My hope is that at the end of this year, I can look back and say I followed through on most if not all of them 🔥

Here’s to an incredible year ahead!

Also I’ve been off Instagram for the past month as part of one of these goals (desktop only). It’s been eye-opening how much time I was losing to scrolling and getting brain rot and how much more present I’ve been with my family because of it. taken in Oklahoma by @talbotcox

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8 months ago

Day in the life of IMTX boots on the ground edition

🎥 @sydkibb taken in The Woodlands, Texas by @talbotcox

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6 months ago

Today marks two months since the IRONMAN World Championship… and I still get chills thinking about this moment.

There’s nothing in sport quite like these drums.
That sound. That echo. That feeling in your chest.
It’s one of the most powerful few moments in all of triathlon.

This year at Kona, getting clean audio of this moment was a priority.
We posted @itskennywithrow on the pier and I sat beside the drummers because we wanted to capture it exactly as the athletes feel it raw, intense, and impossible to forget.

These drums make your heart sink and settle at the same time.
It’s nerves.
It’s calm.
It’s anticipation.
It’s everything an athlete dreams of hearing on the start line in Kona.

I’d love to hear from the everyone who has raced in Kona
What goes through your mind in those final silent seconds… right after the drums stop, and just before the cannon fires?

Would love to hear your thoughts below! taken in IRONMAN World Championship by @talbotcox

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10 months ago

Since I was a kid, I’ve loved this race… probably in the same way Taylor does. Kona has always meant something to me. It’s the race that made me fall in love with this sport, and it’s the race that made me want to pick up a camera in the first place.

Every time I make a video, my hope is simple: I want someone to smile, or laugh, or cry, or feel something. I want people to see the heart inside this sport. And this episode… this one pulled all of that out of me.

I was standing in the bleachers that day, waiting to film Taylor’s finish, and in one instant everything changed. Your stomach drops, your brain shifts, and suddenly you’re trying to figure out how to honor an athlete in a moment that didn’t go the way anyone dreamed it would. You feel their heartbreak, and you carry some of it with you as a storyteller.

I’ve sat with this episode for a long time. I wrote this massive brief to Sam, our editor, trying to put into words what I hoped the story would feel like. And when the first cut finally came through this week… at the closing segment tears started rolling. It reminded me exactly why I love this sport, and why I love doing what I do.

I get to tell the stories of this crazy, beautiful thing we call triathlon. I get to capture IRONMAN in all its glory and all its heartbreak. And I get to share it with you.

Episode 10 — TRIATHLON — is now live.
Bring a box of Kleenex.
Link in my bio. ❤️‍🔥

Massive thank you to @taylorknibb for speaking her heart! taken in IRONMAN World Championship by @talbotcox

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10 months ago

Every freaking thing now is an annoying-as-crap subscription. 🤣🤣
My phone was basically turning into a brick from hitting my iCloud limit, so I finally caved and went digging through my storage… instead of doing what Apple wants you to do and buy a new phone! 🤣

Apparently I’ve never deleted a text in my entire life, because I ended up deleting over 250,000 messages today. Most of them were from family group chats and the triathlon gossip in ProTriNews. Before that, I had almost 700GB just in text messages. Who even has that!?

And my photos?
Yeah… almost 900GB. And at least 75% of them are triathlon-related and that doesn’t even include the ones I don’t upload to my phone. 😂

So after my phone nearly dying from storage overload, I finally cleaned house.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who hoards messages and photos like this. 😅

Curse you Apple! I will not fall into the trap of paying $30 a month for 6tb! 🤣 taken in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by @talbotcox

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a year ago

Absolutely crazy moment yesterday.

We were driving home from my parents’ house and, like always lately, I had Tesla’s full self-driving turned on. We bought the car a few years ago and I genuinely use FSD everywhere now. The tech is insane and in a lot more than I trust myself.

My daughter in the back was begging for Frosty the Snowman, so instead of just playing it before we pulled out of the driveway (mistake #1), I was distracted scrolling through the screen trying to get the song going for her.

While I was looking up and down between the screen and the road, we rounded a corner. At the time, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. My car just gradually started slowing down. Not a sudden brake. Not a panic stop. Just a smooth, intentional slowdown — like it “knew” something was ahead long before I did.

I looked up, confused why we were decelerating.

It wasn’t until I reviewed the footage later that I saw what had actually happened: a soccer ball shot into the street and a little kid sprinted after it.

I never even saw it in real time.

And that honestly made my stomach drop. A mix of “thank God” and “wow, I should’ve been paying attention.” The kid stopped and looked both ways huge credit to his parents but my car saw all of it before I did.

Moments like this make you think. In the U.S. we lose nearly 40,000 people a year to car accidents. Human error, distraction, reaction time… all the things I was guilty of in that moment. If autonomous systems can reduce that, even a little, that’s life-changing.

I’m disappointed in myself for getting distracted. But I’m also incredibly grateful this technology exists and that it worked exactly how it was supposed to.

Sharing this because it shook me up, and I think it’s a reminder of how quickly things happen and how far this tech has come.

Do you trust self-driving yet? If not have you drove in a self driving car?
And in 20–30 years… will manually driving a car feel like riding a horse and buggy? taken in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by @talbotcox

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