06: "The Sky is Made of PB&J" (a.k.a. Get your head right for race day, parenting issues, nutrition, and bucket lists)

Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas

Health & Fitness, Fitness & Nutrition, Sports & Recreation

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s a big week in the Flomas household, as both Lauren and Jesse prepare for the “Bend Olympics” - Pole, Pedal, Paddle! This multi, multi-sport event is the ultimate PNW challenge and a town treasure. Lauren’s holding down the run leg for her mom friend team, “Play Date,” and Jesse’s tackling the ski, ski, bike, run, kayak, sprint course solo looking for his first non-asterisk win. After some LOLs over their differing race preps, they jump into listener questions. Topics include:

Getting into a good pre-race headspace (as the athlete and how to help as a supporter)
Talking (or not) through parenting issues
Nutrition
- Differences between fueling as an elite athlete vs regularly active person
- Trends, fads, extreme diets, and body shaming
Life goals/road-mapping

“That’s a great question!” is this episode’s most uttered phrase, and for good reason. Conversation floats from serious and tactical to light and laughable and back again while Lauren and Jesse discuss the neurosis of race prep (triathletes are notorious tinkerers, while Lauren’s got a thing for worst-case scenarios), how they’ve learned to communicate as co-parents, the struggle of society’s obsession with diet trends both as athletes and food business owners, and how well they’ve stayed the path on their younger selves’ life plan. Spoiler: Jesse has a spreadsheet for that. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Work Play Love Podcast with your host Jesse Thomas, Lauren Fleshman.
0:10.0	And this is the podcast where we answer your questions about balancing family, sports, and business and all that lies in between.
0:21.0	Today we are going to talk about how you get into the right head space to perform well in an upcoming race and what kind of support you would get that is most helpful from your partner.
0:31.0	How you talk through disagreements on parenting issues, or how you don't talk through those.
0:38.0	We're also going to talk a lot about nutrition and our kind of nutrition philosophies and lastly we're going to talk
0:46.0	about how much of our life today exists as part of an original plan versus
0:51.6	just kind of happened.
0:52.6	So we've got a big weekend coming up.
1:01.6	Yeah, it's going,. We are going to do, well actually both of us are going to do this, there's an
1:08.7	event in Bend called the Pole Petal Paddle, the PPP for short.
1:13.4	And it's like the Bend, they call it the Bend Olympics or the Bend World Championships
1:17.8	because it's the biggest event in Bend in a town that is littered with lots of kind of fun endurance events.
1:30.0	And the event can be quickly described as an alpine ski down about maybe a third or half the mountain,
1:37.0	Mount Bachelor, then about a four mile Nordic ski, then a 20-ish mile bike ride into town that's down primarily
1:48.7	downhill, a five mile trail run, and then like a two mile is
1:55.5	Kayak and then like a half mile run across the grass into the finish line and you can do it as an individual
2:07.0	Or you could do it as a team, which I think most people do it as a team. Yeah, probably.
2:08.0	There's really high participation numbers there.
2:10.0	There's costumes, there's all kinds of fun stuff.
2:11.0	And it's a Ben tradition.
2:12.0	You know how long it's been going on? I want to say they're like 35 40 years. I don't know it's somewhere in that range
2:18.1	The first 10 years I heard about this event. I thought it was the pull pedal paddle.
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