Nick's Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon Race Recap, chasing validation vs. personal excellence, and more!

Nick's Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon Race Recap, chasing validation vs. personal excellence, and more!

June 11, 2026 · 1h 8m · Episode 221

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Nick shares his experience racing the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon for the first time, including a race recap and listener questions.

This week Nick races the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon for the first time. We do a full race recap, answer Instagram questions from listeners who followed along, and discuss whether the steep price tag is actually worth it. Eventually we also got to our classic listener submitted questions. This week we discussed: Nick's Escape from Alcatraz race recap: the jump off the ferry, 57° Bay swim, iconic bike course, and sand ladderInstagram Q&A: thermal cap vs. booties, TT bike vs. road bike, ...

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Places: Alcatraz, Bay

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