Welcome to That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by scientific triathlon and hosted by me, Michael

Erikson. And I'm joined once again by Jack Hutchens for today's episode, which is the final episode in our triathlon-based

training series. And the topics for today's episode will be strength training, nutrition

slash diet and testing, and we will finish off with a listener Q&A. So welcome back to the show,

Jack. How are you doing? Thanks for having me, Michael.

Yeah, no, I'm okay. I'm not, well, I've been better. I unfortunately had a bit of a collision

since I last podcast with a car where I was just down an easy ride, a car pulled out last

second from a side road and yeah, kind of stopped dead on the side of the road so i'm suffering

a bit of an injury there but yeah other than that it's it's it's it's yeah i'm happy to be back

into a routine post-christmas and so it's a chat today how are you doing yeah i'm good

we actually meant to to record this episode i think you doing? Yeah, I'm good. We actually meant to record this episode. I think

it must have been almost three weeks ago, perhaps, but I was just sick like a dog for three weeks,

and I literally lost my voice there, which is why we had to postpone, and then Christmas and New Year's

came and the York crash.

So this has been a bit postponed. I'm good now. I definitely had a difficult period there with the illness before Christmas.

But however, I would still take that ahead of a bike trash even though it could be worse, of course, no broken bones, so that's good.

How do you deal with a crash like that where you're physically suffering a bit,

even though, again, it could have been more serious, but it does affect your training.

And I guess mentally, or that's what I feel in a situation like that, at least, like you mentally,

you just want to get out there, but you can't quite train. Well, you definitely can't train

normally yet. Well, how do you try to manage that? Yeah, I mean, I've been trying to think,

you know, how can I draw a positive from it and maybe shift focus and, know but ultimately it just sucks really to a certain

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