Hello, everyone. Welcome to That Triathlon Life Podcast.

St. George Edition.

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I'm Paula Finley. I'm Eric Loggerstrom. I'm Nick Goldston. We are all triathletes. Eric and I are professional triathletes. Nick is an amateur triathlet and a professional musician. And every week, we take questions from listeners. We go over a little bit of what's going on in triathlon and talk about what's going on with

that triathlon life, which is our brand where we have a podcast, we have a YouTube channel,

we have a community, we have stuff for sale.

These two make films.

So there's a lot going on.

But this week we're really excited because we're coming to you from a race, 70.3, St. George, the final edition before it goes away forever. The last dance, last one, best one, all the catchy phrases. And Nick, would you like to break the news to the listeners? Sure, because I actually haven't put this, no one knows this. I'm racing St. George this weekend, which I feel very lucky. And it was kind of an up and down situation. There was some confusion as if I were racing or not, but I will be racing. Paul and I were going to be racing at the same time. And I was before the podcast, I was thinking, what's the over under for how much Paula is going to be faster than me by? And I was also thinking like, Paula, I don't think, I think you have no frame of reference.

Like, I could say 10 minutes or an hour. And I think, you don't really think in those terms. Should we try to math it out, like step by step? How much slower in the swim do we think Nick will be than Paula? Right. 12 minutes? 12 minutes? Okay. Because, Paula, do you have any idea of what you normally even swim in a 70.3?

No, that's the problem with this game.

Right. 12 minutes. 12 minutes? Okay. Because Paula, do you have any idea of what you normally even swim in a 70.3? No, that's the problem with this game. Right, right. And also every course is so different. This is actually kind of a slow bike course, I'd say. I mean, it's fast when you're out there rolling, but the times are never super quick because it has quite a lot of elevation gain. So I really have no clue. But Nick, I would assume that maybe he'll be like 38 minutes behind me. I think that's right. I was going to say 35. I think that's very. Okay. What are you going to say, Eric? That close. Yeah, I think, I mean, next a fast point. That's a lot of time. Well, I was a lot of times. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, I was going to go with something like 12 minutes or 10 minutes on the swim. And then on the bike, man, I would I would guess like another 20 minutes. Yeah, maybe not 20. I think each discipline will, you'll be about 10 minutes slower. That's my prediction.

Each discipline about 10 minutes.

I'm just saying that because there's a lot of climbing.

I'm just saying 20. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. But Nick has a lot of age groupers to draft on and I don't. That's also true. But he doesn't do that. so it's a non-issue.

Yeah, it's just, it's unavoidable, though.

There is an advantage in being in a big group for us, for sure.

And then if Paula runs 120, I figure Nick's like 15 minutes behind that. That would be a real bad run for me. Really? Yeah, I could be under 130. I've done it. I've done it before. Yeah, Nick, I got bad news for you. it's going to be hotter than the surface of the sun. I know. And this run is so slow.

It's going to be hotter than the surface of the sun. I know. And this run is so slow. It's like over 200 meters of elevation gain. So I don't know if you're going to get any PRs here. Is it no? Is it all on diagonal there the climbing? Well, it goes up diagonal. And then it does a little loop of this church, which is quite hilly.

And then it kind of dog legs back up into the golf course, which is really rolling.

And I actually love it because it's a little bit cross-country style where you can't really get into a rhythm.

Like you do these sharp hairpins and then you climb a steep thing and then you bomb down on the grass.

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