I'm really curious to know how many pros exist that feel comfortable competing at the highest level in both road and mountain bike triathlons. I feel like it's super impressive that you do both and you shouldn't take it for granted that you're competing for the podium in both sports
You would be surprised. A lot of pros start doing either MTB or CrossTriathlon and then transition. That's in my opinion the best way to go when you are a kind with pro ambitions. The bike handling skills they have are insane!
I live on Maui and, probably this was the first and only powerful Kona storm for our winter season and it just happened on that race day weekend! I feel so bad and sorry for all those ones flying over and had to go home with an empty experience! Stay healthy and time for enjoy life !
Regardless of placement that sure looks like an awesome vacation!! Perfect place to end the season relax and make some plans with a clear mind!! Awesome watching your adventures!
atta boy eric! it's been a weird year (or two?) for racing, and my wife and i felt the same you did as we tried to drag our season out, perhaps one or two races too long. still, you toed the line and put it all out there, which is the main thing! hope you're ready for a great off-season.
What a shame you had such lousy weather...Maui is one of my favorite places on the planet! I hope the rest of your vacation went well with better weather.
Thank you both for sharing all the ups and downs of this season. Enjoy some well deserved down time and have a safe and happy holiday! Look forward to watching 2022 and will be pulling for you both again! Peace
Eric & Paula, thanks for the entertaining vid. Chalk it up to experience and hopefully there will be a swim next year. Congrats for getting through the race where your ace in the hole (swim) was taken away!
Loved this video, great footage! Thanks for taking us along for the race. I like that you were able to show us a little of the days leading up to race day as well. Great season to both of you. You’ve accomplished a lot this year! Keep smiling and working hard (after a nice break of course!).
This is ANOTHER AWESOME video! Thanks such much for the hard work done in getting the footage and putting it together. Eric, you did so well under such terrible conditions!!!
Such an amazing video! The real side of racing with condition ever changing, going to a duathlon and having a long season . . . proud to be a watcher of you and Paula and seeing how professionally you handled exterra worlds despite it changing to a duathlon (seeing how to recalibrate the mental preparation quickly) to do your best was inspiring! Also, to see the joy you have for mountain biking and doing these exterra races mixed in with triathlon racing was fantastic! Career longevity is crucial and doing these types of events will only make you better!👍💯🤗🙌👊💪🤙
Wonderful seeing you both there and getting to race near (read: several hours behind you haha) hope y’all enjoyed Maui and hope to cross paths again in 2022.
Thanks for the video, and enjoy your off season. It seems like with another season of Xterra und your belt and an actual triathlon, you could do really well.
Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your experiences! Gets me excited for future training and racing opportunities! On a side note…y’all were on my dream last night. We were meeting a friend and then a giant alligator chased us so we hopped on these mt bikes, took a sweet jump and they transformed into flying bikes. It was pretty rad…and we didn’t get eaten 🤣
Great video! The music and b roll shots to open and close are perfect. So inspirational even when you had a tough race you leave it on a great note. Enjoy your off season! You guys deserve a break! And I’m saf to see that you guys get hate mail. You’ve inspired me to get into the sport, I can’t imagine what ppl have to complain about. But their opinion says more about them than it does about you. Keep moving forward and know that your videos mean a lot to also many ppl. Even though the negative ppl are sometimes the loud ones the rest of us are out here rooting for you! 💜
So much incredible footage in this one! Congrats on a great season, now is the time to recharge so you can crush it next year! Looking forward to following along with next season’s content 🤘🏼
I sense a bit of defeat. Which is normal but don’t forget your still a new player in the Xterra and a fantastic CZcams creator. You’ll find your stride in these new endeavors. Enjoy your R&R. Now it’s time to put your business hat on and continue with TTL growth 🙏
But will add, rainy day here, makes me want to go ride in the rain, perfect thanks, and as always, you video so good, and value, and drum beats, I will say, there might be like a good idea there, lol as most race coverages are not good, and if like someone could do good videos of races, lots of us will watch, now when lots of us watch, it like provides you a way to go to like every product that tri people would use, and advertise with you,,,there you go buddy:) million dollar idea, then they pay you to travel to the races, you don't have to race, only the races you want to and win:) by the way, I like the back and white tank top, going to try and order one:)
Hey Eric, little off topic from the race, but I was thinking about getting a brevelle barista coffee maker I saw you guys get a while back, but looks like you were using something else more recently. You get a new or better machine?
Eric, I’m sure you have thought of these things and I can’t remember of you did or not, but do you think a mid season break may have helped? Like a week totally off and another week of light training? Would you have been able to have fit in a 6-8 week block of just high volume low intensity somewhere in the middle of the race season to rebuild that aerobic base? How much of the season was planned on the fly versus laid out at the beginning of the season? Just some ideas as to how to manage a long season in the future? As always, great video.
Unfortunate the the swim had to be canceled. The swim would have brought back some of the stronger runners who were weaker swimmers to the rest of the field. Eric could have possibly got a top ten then. Are you allowed to run in cleats on a muddy course?
So excited to watch, anticipation is growing, why??? Someone is blowing leaves on a rainy day, lol so the old me, would have watched a ruined the music and whole video? New me, well one. Be gald I am not out there blowing leaves, 2 going to start a bussiness, called the shhh gardeners, if you want it, or want to help, find me, lol as you missed the 420 coffee shop, actully still in the works, just over head and is a ton, and then cant find anyone who wants to do the works, so much better for me to just trade star bucks, coffee,,,and jva, jo, those arw my three coffee stocks, he is still blowing, next is to relize, this is just bad energy tring to mess my day up, like side track me, but I am way to smart of it, I see it coming a mile a way, lol really liking the pour over coffee, its the only way I have coffee now, and guess what, I can hear birds again, leaf blower is gone, now to watch the tough race:) as i sit in bed with a cup of perfectly poured coffee:)
Hey Eric and Paula, what do you think of the props Vincent Luis gave you for the couples race? The interviewer (Will McCloy) said "there aren't many couples as good as Vincent and Taylor" but Vincent mentioned both of you first in his reply. Are you entered for the couples race? If so good Luck Link to interview czcams.com/video/qasCo0voyuo/video.html
Hmmm, it's raining, so this will be perfect way to start my morning, excited to see how you did, cover picture looks like you cooked yourself, pray not, but if you did, its ok, I hate that hawii, lol like greg from the brandybunch, a shoe from when I was I kid, its like there is curse on me over there,,hence why I am praying hard, the campionships hawii ironman, starts to move around, like the super bowl, now when it moves to santa Cruz, I win:) so dont even try, lol no I want everyone at there best, even thinking building a double tri race for santa cruz, as I heard loinal talking about a double tri, now I think when I can finish a double tri, I will be able to race a regular ironman, kinda like now, when I can finish a ironman, lol, then I will race the 70.3, happy to say, had two best runs last weekend, I kept up with a mountain biker going down hill,,,lol he gave me a funny look, now funny thing is, I gave him the look right back, as I was in disbelief, but then said, no one believes more then me, as I am youtube man, now just so you kinda understand who and what I am up against, have you ever watched cris brown playing basketball, its on youtube,,,see some are not playing fair,,,right??? Now youtube man me will defeat them all:) one step at a time, and when they huff puff their breath away, I laugh and hold my breath , like a surfer, and they see to drown, and I see to swim,
What a great race!!! And conditions should have like played in your favor??? It's like it was a power race, gravel ride, but what takes mountain bikes like years and years, and really I am 50, and every year, I say, wow, I think I am bettet then last year, balance wise, which make me always think, how much better some are then me, nkw swim canceled, that was not in your favor, Alcatraz camp, lol but swim should be viewed as warm up, nothing eles and you should be on there feet, and grab them if they get in your way, lol, well that is a water polo trick, wonder if I get caught, lol never did while playing water polo, but did get punched in the face, once, lol, taught me I can really get into peoples heads, lol,,,one thing very different from mountain bike and like ironmans, hint its in the name, mountains, lol and where you claim to have been beat, but all in all, great race, recommendations, down hill bars, and if you want to get good at hills, train with weights, like I ride a 45 pound bike, I race one under 20,,,and I only bring the light one out for races,,,so you feel like superman on the bike that day, see one power youtube man has, is to always switch sports, like when i daytrade, I am surfing, or crab fishing works really good, since I get sea sick, and dont like kill life, this virtual crab fishing so much better, but when hill climbing, I pretend I am a weight lifter, now most keep making there bikes weightless, do the opposite, keep make your bike weigh more, very little, like a weight lifter increase, then one race day,,,you bring out super light bike, I like to put the weight in the rims, like I keep adding thorn resitant plastic liner, think each one about half pound, have 3 in the front and back, will be making it 4 soon, now this one makes it a very hard ride, I mean you role super good, two you never get a flat, and three, when all the weight is gone, you just fly up the hills,,,just some tips, see why I am not scared of loinal, lol
I'm really curious to know how many pros exist that feel comfortable competing at the highest level in both road and mountain bike triathlons. I feel like it's super impressive that you do both and you shouldn't take it for granted that you're competing for the podium in both sports
You would be surprised. A lot of pros start doing either MTB or CrossTriathlon and then transition. That's in my opinion the best way to go when you are a kind with pro ambitions. The bike handling skills they have are insane!
I live on Maui and, probably this was the first and only powerful Kona storm for our winter season and it just happened on that race day weekend! I feel so bad and sorry for all those ones flying over and had to go home with an empty experience! Stay healthy and time for enjoy life !
I love episodes like this with such a good story. Felt like I was watching a short film.
Off topic, just wanted to let you know we made your avocado salsa recipe from one of your “what we eat” episodes months back, and it was awesome!🤙🏻
This supercut was so rad. That drone footage and the bike POV were 🔥
Eric and Paula, y’all really killed it with this one . Well worth the wait!
Probably my favorite TTL video! Enjoy some off-season!
What a season 🔥... Thanks for letting us watch the journey!
Damn, incredible video. Music, footage, content… love your channel.
Regardless of placement that sure looks like an awesome vacation!! Perfect place to end the season relax and make some plans with a clear mind!! Awesome watching your adventures!
What a better place to end the season and TTL for the year! 2022, Bring the noise!
atta boy eric! it's been a weird year (or two?) for racing, and my wife and i felt the same you did as we tried to drag our season out, perhaps one or two races too long. still, you toed the line and put it all out there, which is the main thing! hope you're ready for a great off-season.
It's very inspirational see your ups and downs. Just to witness you and Paula always moving forward, always a bit stronger!!! 🤘🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽
Thanks for letting us follow along all season! You and Paula are so inspiring. Have a great off season and hope you get refreshed!
That was a great video... enjoy your vacation now!!
Thanks! Will do :)
What a shame you had such lousy weather...Maui is one of my favorite places on the planet! I hope the rest of your vacation went well with better weather.
Another awesome sound track! Enjoy the off season. Recharge and refocus!
Thanks for bringing Us along for the ride! Kudos on using the xterra clip. It’s much better in context. Hmmmm. I smell collab. Happy holidays.
Thank you both for sharing all the ups and downs of this season. Enjoy some well deserved down time and have a safe and happy holiday! Look forward to watching 2022 and will be pulling for you both again! Peace
congrats for this year guys, you have helped me here in AUS, always look forward to the videos and seeing you guys racing
Great to hear, thanks for letting us know. Have a great holidays
The quality of your videos are amazing! Love the stories, shots, drone footages, the music, EVERYTHING!
Eric & Paula, thanks for the entertaining vid. Chalk it up to experience and hopefully there will be a swim next year. Congrats for getting through the race where your ace in the hole (swim) was taken away!
How come Eric doesn't show up in the results list? It says no data for him
Loved this video, great footage! Thanks for taking us along for the race. I like that you were able to show us a little of the days leading up to race day as well. Great season to both of you. You’ve accomplished a lot this year! Keep smiling and working hard (after a nice break of course!).
This is ANOTHER AWESOME video! Thanks such much for the hard work done in getting the footage and putting it together. Eric, you did so well under such terrible conditions!!!
Such an amazing video! The real side of racing with condition ever changing, going to a duathlon and having a long season . . . proud to be a watcher of you and Paula and seeing how professionally you handled exterra worlds despite it changing to a duathlon (seeing how to recalibrate the mental preparation quickly) to do your best was inspiring! Also, to see the joy you have for mountain biking and doing these exterra races mixed in with triathlon racing was fantastic! Career longevity is crucial and doing these types of events will only make you better!👍💯🤗🙌👊💪🤙
That race course looks brutal!!!!--- keep positive Eric, you had an amazing season and Im sure next year will be even better!!!!!
Wonderful seeing you both there and getting to race near (read: several hours behind you haha) hope y’all enjoyed Maui and hope to cross paths again in 2022.
Thanks for the video, and enjoy your off season. It seems like with another season of Xterra und your belt and an actual triathlon, you could do really well.
As always, something I look forward to every week. Thanks for keeping us entertained Eric;)
Youre becoming quite the duathlete. ;) You should make the trip to sunny Scottsdale in Feb and do Powerman Arizona! 10k run/ 60k bike/ 10k run. :)
It's not something I'd really choose to do, but I'll think about it 😂
Crazy event. Fantastic video! Enjoy your off season.
Another awesome video. You are a truly talented film maker + athlete Eric.
Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your experiences! Gets me excited for future training and racing opportunities!
On a side note…y’all were on my dream last night. We were meeting a friend and then a giant alligator chased us so we hopped on these mt bikes, took a sweet jump and they transformed into flying bikes. It was pretty rad…and we didn’t get eaten 🤣
Great video! The music and b roll shots to open and close are perfect. So inspirational even when you had a tough race you leave it on a great note. Enjoy your off season! You guys deserve a break!
And I’m saf to see that you guys get hate mail. You’ve inspired me to get into the sport, I can’t imagine what ppl have to complain about. But their opinion says more about them than it does about you. Keep moving forward and know that your videos mean a lot to also many ppl. Even though the negative ppl are sometimes the loud ones the rest of us are out here rooting for you! 💜
Great season - congrats! Enjoy your hard earned vacation!
So much incredible footage in this one! Congrats on a great season, now is the time to recharge so you can crush it next year! Looking forward to following along with next season’s content 🤘🏼
Great video as always
Great edit; great season! Where did you stay on Maui? Those bungalows look perfect for a visit.
The bungalow situation was called "International Colony Club". We found it on Vrbo
Aerial shots were so cool. How do I get a drone to follow me everywhere I go?? :)
Have some ice cream.
Good morning from Toronto!
I sense a bit of defeat. Which is normal but don’t forget your still a new player in the Xterra and a fantastic CZcams creator. You’ll find your stride in these new endeavors. Enjoy your R&R. Now it’s time to put your business hat on and continue with TTL growth 🙏
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But will add, rainy day here, makes me want to go ride in the rain, perfect thanks, and as always, you video so good, and value, and drum beats, I will say, there might be like a good idea there, lol as most race coverages are not good, and if like someone could do good videos of races, lots of us will watch, now when lots of us watch, it like provides you a way to go to like every product that tri people would use, and advertise with you,,,there you go buddy:) million dollar idea, then they pay you to travel to the races, you don't have to race, only the races you want to and win:) by the way, I like the back and white tank top, going to try and order one:)
What up with the cameraman at 17:15 walking in front of the runners?!
Yeah they were really cutting it close..
Where is that latte art? I feel robbed of that feeling knowing they do latte art every upload
Hey Eric, little off topic from the race, but I was thinking about getting a brevelle barista coffee maker I saw you guys get a while back, but looks like you were using something else more recently. You get a new or better machine?
If your big problem is you got 12th at Worlds. in Maui...Thats not a bad bad.
Wait whos bike is that o:?
both of you congrats on a big year from TTL to races....enjoy time off.....Eric looks wasted..lol
Eric, I’m sure you have thought of these things and I can’t remember of you did or not, but do you think a mid season break may have helped? Like a week totally off and another week of light training? Would you have been able to have fit in a 6-8 week block of just high volume low intensity somewhere in the middle of the race season to rebuild that aerobic base? How much of the season was planned on the fly versus laid out at the beginning of the season? Just some ideas as to how to manage a long season in the future? As always, great video.
Unfortunate the the swim had to be canceled. The swim would have brought back some of the stronger runners who were weaker swimmers to the rest of the field. Eric could have possibly got a top ten then. Are you allowed to run in cleats on a muddy course?
De donde sacais el dinero para vivir? Un saludo!!
So excited to watch, anticipation is growing, why??? Someone is blowing leaves on a rainy day, lol so the old me, would have watched a ruined the music and whole video? New me, well one. Be gald I am not out there blowing leaves, 2 going to start a bussiness, called the shhh gardeners, if you want it, or want to help, find me, lol as you missed the 420 coffee shop, actully still in the works, just over head and is a ton, and then cant find anyone who wants to do the works, so much better for me to just trade star bucks, coffee,,,and jva, jo, those arw my three coffee stocks, he is still blowing, next is to relize, this is just bad energy tring to mess my day up, like side track me, but I am way to smart of it, I see it coming a mile a way, lol really liking the pour over coffee, its the only way I have coffee now, and guess what, I can hear birds again, leaf blower is gone, now to watch the tough race:) as i sit in bed with a cup of perfectly poured coffee:)
Music transitions too loud! Great videos otherwise as always.
Hey Eric and Paula, what do you think of the props Vincent Luis gave you for the couples race? The interviewer (Will McCloy) said "there aren't many couples as good as Vincent and Taylor" but Vincent mentioned both of you first in his reply. Are you entered for the couples race? If so good Luck
Link to interview czcams.com/video/qasCo0voyuo/video.html
Is that Wattie helping filming?
nope, my Dad came with us and helped with some filming and flew the drone 👍
Hmmm, it's raining, so this will be perfect way to start my morning, excited to see how you did, cover picture looks like you cooked yourself, pray not, but if you did, its ok, I hate that hawii, lol like greg from the brandybunch, a shoe from when I was I kid, its like there is curse on me over there,,hence why I am praying hard, the campionships hawii ironman, starts to move around, like the super bowl, now when it moves to santa Cruz, I win:) so dont even try, lol no I want everyone at there best, even thinking building a double tri race for santa cruz, as I heard loinal talking about a double tri, now I think when I can finish a double tri, I will be able to race a regular ironman, kinda like now, when I can finish a ironman, lol, then I will race the 70.3, happy to say, had two best runs last weekend, I kept up with a mountain biker going down hill,,,lol he gave me a funny look, now funny thing is, I gave him the look right back, as I was in disbelief, but then said, no one believes more then me, as I am youtube man, now just so you kinda understand who and what I am up against, have you ever watched cris brown playing basketball, its on youtube,,,see some are not playing fair,,,right??? Now youtube man me will defeat them all:) one step at a time, and when they huff puff their breath away, I laugh and hold my breath , like a surfer, and they see to drown, and I see to swim,
What a great race!!! And conditions should have like played in your favor??? It's like it was a power race, gravel ride, but what takes mountain bikes like years and years, and really I am 50, and every year, I say, wow, I think I am bettet then last year, balance wise, which make me always think, how much better some are then me, nkw swim canceled, that was not in your favor, Alcatraz camp, lol but swim should be viewed as warm up, nothing eles and you should be on there feet, and grab them if they get in your way, lol, well that is a water polo trick, wonder if I get caught, lol never did while playing water polo, but did get punched in the face, once, lol, taught me I can really get into peoples heads, lol,,,one thing very different from mountain bike and like ironmans, hint its in the name, mountains, lol and where you claim to have been beat, but all in all, great race, recommendations, down hill bars, and if you want to get good at hills, train with weights, like I ride a 45 pound bike, I race one under 20,,,and I only bring the light one out for races,,,so you feel like superman on the bike that day, see one power youtube man has, is to always switch sports, like when i daytrade, I am surfing, or crab fishing works really good, since I get sea sick, and dont like kill life, this virtual crab fishing so much better, but when hill climbing, I pretend I am a weight lifter, now most keep making there bikes weightless, do the opposite, keep make your bike weigh more, very little, like a weight lifter increase, then one race day,,,you bring out super light bike, I like to put the weight in the rims, like I keep adding thorn resitant plastic liner, think each one about half pound, have 3 in the front and back, will be making it 4 soon, now this one makes it a very hard ride, I mean you role super good, two you never get a flat, and three, when all the weight is gone, you just fly up the hills,,,just some tips, see why I am not scared of loinal, lol
Dude you are made for hills. What 5’8” - 135 lbs. Nice story. Enjoy the downtime.
Great video, enjoy the off-season!