Mental health among athletes, an interview with TTL Devo Team athlete Zack Cooper, 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

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week we packed in a full-length episode plus an interview with TTL Development Team athlete Zack Cooper at the end. We discussed: How personal safety has shaped race choices for Eric and PaulaHow often you actually need to replace a helmetWhat to do when your smart trainer starts reading way offThe minimum training load for a 70.3How Paula finds inspiration for her race kit designsSRAM blipsWhat feels worse: a DNF from your body or a mechanical?Mental health as athletesA big thank you to...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Loggersome. I'm Paula Finley. I'm Nick Goldston.
0:06.9	Welcome to our triathlon podcast. Paul and I are both professional athletes, Nick's the professional
0:11.6	musician, amateur triathlet. And most of the show is carried by the questions that those listeners,
0:19.9	those of you who send in questions,
0:22.0	we answer them. That's how we keep it going. So if you do that, thank you so much.
0:26.5	At the beginning here, we tend to talk about stuff that's going on in the triathlon world,
0:30.3	stuff that's going on in our trathlon world. Welcome to the show.
0:34.6	Paula, are you wearing a quarter zip right now?
0:38.3	Nick, you already asked me this earlier. And he said, oh, I'll save it for the show. Paula, are you wearing a quarter zip right now? Nick, you already asked me this earlier.
0:40.3	And he said, oh, I'll save it for the pod.
0:42.0	Well, because I kind of want to ask how much are you aware of the invokedness of quarter zips right now?
0:49.9	Are they cool?
0:51.5	They're very invoked right now.
0:54.3	Yeah, well, they're the subject of a lot of social media stuff.
0:58.8	Oh, making fun of it?
0:59.9	People are like skating in them, and there's like a whole aura around quarter zips right now.
1:05.0	This is a vintage quarter zip from 19, no, 2013.
1:09.8	It's a race in 2013 called Around the Late, Give or Take 30.
1:14.5	Give or take 30. It's like a race sweater. I got it at my sister's store. So you're saying
1:19.1	you had it before it was cool? I'm saying it's from 1993 and it's still cool. Got it.
1:26.6	Back baby. No, I mean, I get so much on stuff and it's all, I have, there's a lot of quarter zip. So I'm like, okay, this is cool. I'm right because it's on. Oh, I see. So on's making quarter zip stuff too. So many people are. I don't understand why this is such a revelation. Because like a year ago, you would have looked at a quarters of him were like, oh, what is that?
1:47.4	I certainly did. This is such a revelation. Because like a year ago, you would have looked at a quarter of him and were like, oh, what is that?
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