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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

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, somehow, all three of the crew are together in Spain. Nick hopped on a last-minute flight and made it just in time for a Wednesday night podcast recording. Paula was deep in Ironman 70.3 World Championship race prep, so it was just Eric and Nick on the mics this week, covering: SRAM AXS front derailleur issuesStoring a TT bike for the winterRacing when racing has lost its lusterTraining outdoors after an accidentGaining confidence riding in aeroStaying entertained on long indoor ri...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstrom. And I'm Nick Goldstone. And that is it. That's what we got today. That's all we got today. Paula is the third leg to our tripod, as we call it. She's racing 70.3 world championships here in Marbeas, Spain. Nick is... Are we going to get into that story? Unbelievably, I'm looking into your beautiful eyes, Eric.
0:23.6	Looking deep into your eyes.
0:25.8	But Paula's not joining us.
0:27.3	She is taking care of race business.
0:29.3	We're up quite late to do this as Nick just got in off of his flight.
0:33.2	But we're going to try to do our best to keep you entertained.
0:35.9	Apologies for Paula not being here.
1:11.0	If you're new to the show, Paul and I are both professional athletes. Paula is admittedly the more, the better professional athlete in the family, raising world championships. What's better? I don't know. It's all subjective, but she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, we're all on her team for this weekend. That's right. Uh, Nick's professional musician, amateur triathlet, and, uh, keeps this podcast on the rails. Welcome. Sometimes. I feel like this is about to be off the rails, especially since it's just the two of us. You're sipping on, what are you sipping on? This is some white wine. Is it bubbly?
1:12.2	It's not bubbly at all. Okay.
1:12.4	Which I'm not upset about it.
1:15.8	Yeah, we've been here in Marbea for like three or four days now.
1:20.4	Paul and I got in pretty early.
1:21.8	Just make sure that we could get the jet lag out of the legs in the body and see the bike course which is i think going to be
1:29.2	talked the talk of the week talk of the weekend it's uh your typical 70.3 length bike course
1:35.6	but it's got i think 1700 meters 16 17700 meters of elevation gain in it you ride along
1:42.5	the coast for i don't know know, like 5, 6K,
1:45.9	and then you just go straight uphill. So people for months have been riding in about,
1:51.1	oh, what bike should I bring? What kind of gearing should I do? Now that you have done some of it,
1:58.2	what do you, I mean, we've said, we've long said, a triathlon bike is always going to be
2:02.1	faster. Yes, you can be more comfortable on a road bike, blah, blah, blah, but the triathlon
2:06.3	bike is faster. Do you stand by that? Yeah, 100%. The opening climb of this is extremely steep.
2:13.7	You will not be in the TT. No one will be in the TT bars for this climb. But after that,
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