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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

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week we’re gearing up for Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga as Paula Findlay prepares to race this weekend. She also brought us a challenging Swim Sets With Paula before we dove into listener questions. This week we covered: Sherpa-ing Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga for a pro triathleteTraining alone vs. training with friendsAdjusting swim sets from short course to long courseForbidden love between triathlon club membersHow strictly athletes should follow coach-made plansSunscreen during racesERG mode ...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to that triathlon live podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstone. I'm Paula Finley. I'm Nick Goldston. This is exciting week. It's race week, everyone. Paula is doing Chattanooga 70.3 this weekend. She's got her whiteboard. If you just heard that unclicking, so we got swimsets of Paula coming up. It's going to be a good one. Race week. You guys, we're not calling at that, okay?
0:22.5	Okay, so we're weekend at the end of it.
0:24.3	Some raising my head. coming up. It's going to be a good one. Race week. You guys, we're not calling at that, okay?
0:22.5	Okay, so we're weekend at the end of it. Some racing might happen.
0:25.4	Race week, let's go. So excited. I can't wait to race. I can't wait to pack. Everyone hates
0:30.7	race week, you guys. Don't even pretend.
0:32.0	Not a statement of fact that that's happening this weekend.
0:44.3	Also, yeah, I guess if you're new here to back up a second, Paul and I are both professional athletes. Nick is a professional, no, we're cancel that. Yeah. I'm a professional podcaster.
0:51.1	Yeah, professional podcaster, amateur, triathlete, lover of the sport. It all are. Even Paula, she hides it well, but she does also love the sport. We talk about a little swimming, a little biking, a little running, a little swim running, a little X-Dara, a little just running. We talk about all the things because we love it all. This weekend, I was supposed to be like a recovery week for me and for the most part I did it, but then this weekend there was a really fun ride that started from the beach. Didn't look very recovery to me. You know, it mentally felt like recovery, you know? That is a thing. Maybe that's what I needed. But yeah, we rode to the top of Mount Wilson and back, and it was so fun.
1:27.9	It's so cool to, this is one of the things about biking that I love so much.
1:31.3	Maybe it's like the main thing is we left at the beach and then with just our bodies,
1:37.0	we got to a completely different like ecosystem, you know?
1:42.0	Like visually smells, altitude. Bodies, $10, like visually smells altitude.
1:45.0	Bodies, $10,000 bike.
1:48.8	10.
1:49.5	I think mine might be worth more than that.
1:53.3	What are the stats on that, right?
1:55.1	I didn't actually like fully dive into Strava on it because you go from sea level.
1:58.8	Yeah, sea level to, uh, man, I don't know what it is, but I ended up doing 8,400 feet of climbing
2:04.7	on the day.
2:06.1	Is that in one shot?
2:07.7	Kind of, well, I would say about 6,500 in one shot.
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