Hey everyone, welcome to that triathlon life podcast.

I'm Eric Loggerstrom.

I'm Paula Finley.

I'm Nick Goldstone.

And this is our triathlon podcast.

We are going to be debriefing 70.3 worlds a little bit today.

Our experience there, Paula's experience there, Nick's experience there.

I guess I can chime in a little bit, but I was mostly in a support role. Paul and I are both professional triathletes. Nick's a professional musician. What do we, what do we say? Upper middle packer. Did qualify for 70.3 worlds. I like upper middle class, but sure. Yeah, you know, it's just there is, upper middle class is a thing and back of the pack is a thing.

So I don't know.

I'm trying that on for size. Right, right, right, right. Got it. You're listening to that Triathlon Life podcast. This is just one part of all the things that we do here at TTL and we're stoked to have you listening. Wow, we just did that into pretending that there's nothing wrong, nothing going on. set the stage for you perfectly.

There's so much going on.

First of all, why do you sound a little bit muffled, Eric and Paula? I have COVID, guys. After four years of not getting COVID, I got COVID. Man. It's insane that we're recording the podcast. But Eric and I both throwing masks. Well, in the middle of the day, you were like up and around and you took Flynn for a walk and you were cleaning the house, like nothing, like there's no big deal. And then it's a big deal. I think you hit the wall in the last 45 minutes to an hour from my perspective. Well, we are jet-legged and sick. Oh, that's true. This is rough.

But anyway, Nick's in New Zealand still.

So every time we talk to him on this call so far, there's like a 10-second delay.

Yeah, it's a bit delayed. But I have a view of a lifetime because you guys came here the night before you were leaving New Zealand. You came to this crazy

beachside resort in the middle of nowhere. And you said that we had to come here and do it. So I'm

here with my parents as well. And I'm looking out at the Pacific Ocean. There's nothing but ocean.

Somewhere out there is Australia, I suppose. But it's incredible here. And funny story, you guys are here, and this is way out of the way.

Like, you have to drive through 30 minutes of farmland to get out here.

And once you're here, this is the only thing that's here.

And then you ran into someone while you were here.

Yeah, we got in, like, pretty late in the evening because we started the morning off with the run doing the Tongarero crossing.

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