Triathlete Running Thoughts

Triathlete Running Thoughts

From The Lonely Triathlete - triathlon training and motivation for the masses by Todd Sauder

May 4, 2026 · 24 min · Season 27 · Episode 5

About this episode

Todd Sauder shares his thoughts on the love of workouts during a Sunday morning run.

In this episode I muse about all sorts of subjects while I take you along for an easy Sunday morning run. If you want to comment on today's episode, consider signing up on Patreon and join the Lonely Triathlete community! Join our community at www.patreon.com/TheLonelyTriathlete Transcript All right. Well, this is my first run of the year. in shorts and a t-shirt. And I am stoked. Absolutely love it. Now, I was thinking, how often do we really love our workouts? It's a great question, because I'm on an indoor bike, most of the year, and I like my workouts, but do I love them? No? I'm more interested in maybe the podcast I'm listening to or the movie I'm watching. But for the actual workout, curious about it, kind of like the feeling of sweat. But do I love it? No. Swimming in the winter. When you go to the pool at 6 in the morning, 6:30 in the morning, and it's dark and cold outside, it's fun to swim. But do you love it? Most of the time, I don't love it, but when you swim outside in a lake or the ocean with your wetsuit, that, that stuff that I love. And running in the dark and the cold, and sometimes the snow and the rain, don't love it. Don't even... don't even like it half…

People in this episode

Host: Todd Sauder

Topics covered

  • running
  • triathlon training
  • motivation
  • outdoor workouts
  • personal reflections

Keywords

  • triathlon
  • running
  • outdoor exercise
  • motivation
  • Patreon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon

Places: lake, ocean

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