Welcome to The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast! This is our very first episode and in this episode we discuss why we started the podcast and what the podcast is all about. We also discuss ourselves and our personal journeys both as endurance athletes and as professionals. Coach Justin is an experienced triathlon coach and coach Katie is a sports dietitian.

Here are some key points from our discussion:

• Both Justin and Katie have unique experiences as athletes and as professionals and we discuss how we can provide useful information and a unique perspective for individuals engaging in endurance sports.
• With our experience we combine both a coaches perspective with a sports dietitian perspective
• For future episodes we plan to discuss topics in endurance sports including nutrition, training, and beyond in a way that brings our own experience and expertise as well as our own curiosities and stories to help provide context that helps our audience better understand these concepts/topics.
• We discuss Katie's life long journey as an athlete starting at the age of 12 in middle school as well as how and why she became a dietitian.
• We discuss Justin's history with bariatric surgery and how he transformed himself into an endurance athlete and coach
• We want to encourage discussion and questions. We know that we each have a different perspective and we encourage others to share their perspectives on different topics with us.

We hope you enjoy our very first episode! Feel free to send us feedback or questions via facebook at The Endurance Athlete Podcast Facebook group or email us at theenduranceathletejourney@gmail.com

If you want to follow us for more content you can follow the podcast @enduranceathletejourney or you can follow Katie @the.running.dietitian or Justin @tabularasaracing.

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