Hey everyone, welcome to that triathlon life podcast. I'm Eric Loggerstrom. I'm Paula Finley. I'm Nick Goldstone. I think we got a lot to cover today. There's a lot going on in the world. And Nick and Paul have told me that there are some fantastic questions that have been sent in. So if you're new here, Paul and I are both professional athletes. Nick is an amateur triathlete lover of the sport and this is a podcast. We talk

about triathlon and a little bit of swimming, biking and running individual sports just because

we're fans of all the endurance. This might be the greatest batch of questions we've ever received,

I think. No. I think so. As I was reading through them, I just made, because we're doing a morning pod today. I don't know. Each one of them, maybe it's just my mindset, but each one of these, I'm like, oh, there's a good tangent here, which is how I qualify how good the questions are. No matter what it is, if that's how you feel, I'm psyched. I'm ready. Optimism, baby. Okay, Eric, let's start

at the important part here. You left us on a cliffhanger. And for the people who are

binging through the podcast, they're getting an immediate satisfaction here. But for the

people who had to wait a week, how did your doctor's appointment go in Portland? Yeah, no doubt

there's been thousands of people just walking around all week wondering what the surgeon told me last week.

No, it was great news.

This was my eight week follow-up.

So it's been eight weeks since I had surgery.

And this is the first time I saw the surgeon and actually went in and she felt my knee, my hip and moved it all around

and everything. And got like a two thumbs up basically. What she does is, you know, like kind of

puts your knee into like all the end ranges of motion and feels to see if there's any like

sticking, clicking, grindy sort of stuff. And like do you have 30 degrees or 35 degrees when you do this and that?

And it was great.

So the takeaway from that was that surgery was a success.

That's great.

I'm progressing very well in terms of range of motion.

And I pretty much have the green light to do anything except for running. But bearing in mind that,

you know, if you took six months off of anything, you can only build back so fast. So anything

does not equal. Go do intervals tomorrow and sprints and do 20 hours of work on the bike,

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