What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science,

and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

and your finish lines strong.

And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep this show fun and accessible for everybody.

Let's do it.

Today's podcast guest is Tom Osterdeck.

Tom the Mozilla Man, Osterdeck.

You'll understand what that means later on in the podcast.

Now, fun thing about Tom,

I put out on my Instagram, which you should go follow at Triathlon Taryn, basically like, who are

the age group triathletes out there on Instagram that are inspiring people? And I heard from

probably half a dozen of the followers that Tom is the person that they follow.

And the reason for that is it was just three years ago that Tom was overweight, out of shape,

couldn't swim, couldn't bike.

His longest run was a three kilometer run.

And here he is three years later without any experience in triathlon whatsoever

winning overall races and setting himself up to be pro. And I've actually known of him for

quite a number of months. So we had to get him on the podcast because A, he's hilarious. Oh, he is.

It's very funny. B, people love him. C? I don't know. What's C, Kim? Oh, what is C? You put me on the spot. I don't know. He's just, I didn't know much about him either, but he was really engaging, has some really interesting thoughts about training and a couple of quite funny stories. I really enjoyed him. I'm going to look really forward to watching him race as we go forward.

If he does indeed become pro as he's planning to,

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