Hey everyone, welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstrom. I'm Paula Finland. I'm Nick Goldstein.

And we're coming to you, Elise Paul and I, are from my parents' house just outside of Portland, Oregon.

We spent the last three days driving home from Tucson where we had an awesome camp with Heather Jackson, John Watkins,

and also Paige Onweller, the gravel athlete that was staying with Heather and Wadi,

the usual, like great vibes, fun time in the sun, and a lot of bike volume.

So this episode is going to be a little bit different.

Got a significant life thing going on.

But if you are new here listening for the first time, Paul and I are both professional

athletes, Nick's professional musician, lover of endurance sport.

Amateur.

Some might say.

And we like talking about triathlon primarily.

So welcome to the show.

I think, Eric, you're talking a little bit like it's the morning. You might need to increase the volume of your voice. Well, he sounds very, he sounds very epic. He could do a movie trailer. It is the morning. Yeah, it's the morning, but you can talk a little louder for the sake of the audio. Well, he's also, he hasn't had any calories in a long time.

Eric, how long has it been now? Let's see, it's been seven hours, 48 minutes.

Wow, great. But who's counting? Fasting. Yeah. No, he's, Eric's getting surgery on his labrum.

Today, the check-in is in three hours. So he's been fasting since midnight, but he did wake up at like 1130 to pound some Ensure, like the high-calorie drinks, just to have like, you know, a little bit of something in his stomach. Because we're such creatures of habit that we wake up hungry every day.

N-share is high-calorie?

They have high-calorie options.

I'm confused.

I thought he wasn't.

So you can have calorie liquids.

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