This week we'll be talking with Heather Goldnick, who comes from Colorado Springs.

She's going to be talking to us about staying fit at a later age and avoiding injury.

Hey Spartans, this is Kevin Gilotti and welcome to the Spartan athlete.

Now there, you and I have a pretty long history with multi-sports.

We both switched over to OCR racing.

We're both in our 40s.

Tell me, what do you have to go through?

What kind of strategies do you use at your age

to stay this fit, this awesome, and keep going

after 30 plus years of racing?

I, like you, just addicted to working out and sport and just love the

competition and I think when you love competition it drives you to train. Yes. How are you at this age keeping from getting injured?

Well I definitely think as you get older, we're both 48th, as you get older you also get

smarter and so sometimes I have aches and pains and I just I listen more and I think when I was

younger I never would stop. Yeah. And I think I'm just very very fortunate too. I do a lot of

cross training. The Trothlon background helps with that. I do a lot of strength training the trathlon background helps with that I do a lot of strength

training I do a lot of recovery modalities do you think there's a genetic

component there to us probably some of that for sure you know I think obviously just the consistent training you know it's consistent over years and years and years

Plays a part in it. I think sometimes people come into the sport new and they try to do that same amount of training and

their body is not ready for it.

Give me some idea about what you do for nutrition

especially at our age.

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