How long should you train for a 70.3 triathlon, picking the right wetsuit, and more!

That Triathlon Life Podcast

That Triathlon Life

Triathlon, Sports, Ironman, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Q&a, Endurance Sports, Running, Swimming, Bicycle, Cycling

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week, we dive headfirst into listener-submitted questions, starting with some Bike Tech with Eric on tire widths for older carbon rims. From there, it’s full throttle into all things triathlon. We discussed: How to seed yourself in a swim when your strength is the bikeAre pro triathletes vomiting more these days?How much training time you really need for a 70.3Choosing the right wetsuit for your goalsCrafting the ultimate indoor pain caveTips for surviving a 5x supertriIs it worth shavin...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstrom.
0:04.2	I'm Paula Findlay. I'm Nick Goldstone. And we're back to the normal format. Paul and I are at home and bend. Nick is in L.A. Everything feels right. And as it should, chocked full of questions from everybody who wrote in. So thanks so much for doing that. Nick did a race last weekend. He'll give us a brief recap with the vibes
0:22.4	from that. But then I think we'll launch right into questions. Paul and I are both professional
0:26.6	trathletes. Nick is a professional musician, amateur triathlet, and we just like talking about
0:32.3	multi-sport stuff. Eric, what am I holding up right here? Well, that's some special edition
0:36.6	gear right there.
0:43.1	That's a little bit of the TTL Nation order from last December.
0:50.7	But when we went to Oceanside, 70.3, Kestelli, did a limited rerun of some tech teas and some adventure hoodies.
0:52.2	And we got some left over.
0:53.9	It's very form fitting.
0:55.6	It makes you look like a real athlete.
1:01.4	Yeah, we, uh, Castelli had some left over and they sent them to us and they're up on the website. So if you have seen that really cool gray and teal kit walking around, we got
1:06.7	that Nick's wears, that Nick wears. Yeah. You want to look like Nick? We got it for you right now in a very limited quantity.
1:12.7	I did get a lot of compliments on that from St. George. It looks good. It's probably the most feedback I got. No one cared about the race, but they're like, the kit looks great. Yeah. Head over the website and snag those if you are so inclined. Okay, so what's your guy's deal? You're back and bend, lots of travel.
1:27.9	You were gone for a long time.
1:29.6	What are you doing now?
1:30.7	What are you focusing on now?
1:32.9	Wow, that's a good question.
1:35.4	We don't know.
1:36.7	We're lost.
1:37.5	Well, there's a secret thing that you can't talk about, apparently, that you did yesterday.
1:41.2	Yeah, we did a secret thing involving a sponsor and Paula and a camera, top secret,
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