Paula races IRONMAN 70.3 BOISE, performance plateaus, 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

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week, we're recording from two continents. Eric and Paula are in Bend, OR, while Nick checks in from a DIY training camp in Croatia. We kick things off with an in-depth race recap from Paula’s 70.3 in Boise, Idaho, then roll into a Tour de France-themed TTL Spelling Bee, and finally dive into listener-submitted questions. Topics this week include: What Eric and Paula would still optimize in their own trainingThoughts on the aquabike categoryBreaking through performance plateaus, mentally...

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to that Traathlon Life podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstrom.
0:04.6	I'm Paula Findlay. I'm Nick Goldstein. Can you tell that was take two of the beginning of our podcast?
0:13.8	Paula is a little bit critical of how quickly I talk sometimes. And to be fair, yeah, I do sometimes when I'm starting in the podcast, but
0:22.4	I'm not a professional podcaster as of yet. I am a professional athlete. Paul is a professional
0:28.9	athlete. Nick is a professional musician. And you have stumbled into our triathlon themed podcast.
0:36.1	Welcome.
0:36.5	That we just do purely for fun. So we're not that good at it.
0:40.5	So give us a break.
0:41.6	That's part of our allure, I think.
0:44.0	If this is your first time tuning in here, we do live a little bit of a hectic life all over
0:49.7	the world. This week is a little bit more so even than usual.
0:56.8	Nick is on vacation in Italy.
0:59.0	Are you actually in Croatia right now?
1:00.2	I'm actually in Croatia right now.
1:02.5	Yeah, but we got a great show for you today.
1:05.2	Paula just finished up Boise 70.3.
1:09.0	I just finished up supporting Boise 70.3.
1:13.2	And like I said, Nick's over in Croatia. So we're going to go over that and then we're going to do podcast questions from all of you who've written in and give us something
1:18.2	to talk about. So thanks so much. Paul, are you alive? How do you feel? I'm pretty tired. Today is
1:23.8	Monday. I raced on Saturday and we drove home yesterday. So I think it's like the normal
1:30.6	post race. I feel physically fine, but I'm pretty, I feel a bit sleep deprived and hungover is
1:37.3	kind of the feeling. It's good for me to just keep some like regularity and momentum and I swam
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