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That Triathlon Life Podcast

Paula races IM 70.3 Chattanooga, developing triathlon mental toughness, and more!

That Triathlon Life Podcast

That Triathlon Life

Triathlon, Sports, Ironman, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Q&a, Endurance Sports, Running, Swimming, Bicycle, Cycling

4.9611 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we hear all about Paula’s experience racing through the highs and lows of IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga, but not before hearing Nick’s trail running adventures in Maui, Hawaii, and getting an update from last week’s mysterious Mr. Smith. When we finally got to listener questions, we discussed: Washing your sweaty cycling helmetRiding with someone who’s always pushing the paceMaking parts of training intentionally harder to build mental toughnessA big thank you to our podcast supporters w...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Lachistram. I'm Paula Finley. I'm Nick

0:06.0

Goldstein. If things get a little wonky on this, it's because we have quite the delay. Nick is sitting on the side of a

0:11.7

highway somewhere in a rental car in between his trip to Hawaii and his trip to tell you ride. Nick lives a

0:19.2

rough life. Tough. But he is taking one for the team and his parents are like taking a hike in the woods or something right now while he does the podcast. So if there's a little bit of a delay or if you don't like this podcast, that's why. You're going to blame that. Yeah. If you're new here, Paul and I are both professional athletes. Nick is a amateur triathlet. and he's like our golden retriever.

0:39.2

He's just always in a good mood.

0:40.4

So welcome to the podcast.

0:41.7

We talk about triathlon and stuff.

0:43.8

I feel like I've turned into like, I don't know what you call this, a stage race ultra runner

0:48.0

in the last week, just running once or twice every day in the trails.

0:52.0

And let me tell you, it's pretty fun.

0:54.8

Runs every day.

0:55.8

I am now a trail run stage racer.

0:59.0

I'm into it.

1:00.0

You can join my sister

1:01.2

because she actually does that.

1:02.9

The only caveat to these trail stage races

1:05.2

is you have to carry all of your food

1:06.4

for the entire five days.

1:09.3

So you can be losing some weight, my guy.

1:11.9

And I think they also, they run quite the distances. It's quite the distance, but you know what? I think you can do it. I believe in you. And if you do, I will make the film. We're great. It was really fun. We had a great time. We just, I think we hit every major trail on Maui, got to run in the volcano,

1:29.6

ran in the woods, ran in what felt like rainforests along the coast. It was really fun.

1:35.1

I had a great time. Highly suggested trip option for people. If you can, go with a bunch of friends,

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