Welcome to episode 446 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael, and on today's episode I interview Nikki Bartlett, who is fresh of a fantastic fifth place finish in the Iron Man World Championships in Nice.

She joins us together with her wife and coach, Beck's Mills, who has been on the podcast

a couple of times before. And they will talk us through the race, the strategy, how it all

played out on the race day. And of course, we go into detail of the training leading up to

the race. And we got a bunch of very

interesting insights into what it takes to achieve this kind of performance that a breakthrough

performance for Nikki and a fantastic world class result really but before we get into the interview

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