Nandini Sharma is a doctor by profession and rider who represented Tamilnadu at Indian Cycling Nationals. Her journey in endurance sports started with using running and cycling as stress busters while in medical college. She pursued triathlon for a few years and has completed half iron and full iron distance triathlons. Now while pursuing a demanding career as a doctor, she is focusing on just cycling with aspirations of winning a medal at the nationals. In this episode, we talked about her endurance journey and how she manages training towards Nationals while working as a full-time doctor. 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:15 How does her typical work day look 0:04:20 Sports in school at Kendriya Vidyalaya 0:05:45 Starting to run with her dad, getting into triathlon/Duathlon 0:11:30 How becoming physically active helped her at medical college 0:15:05 Signing up for Iron distance triathlon and completing it 0:22:45 Transitioning into racing shorter distances 0:33:30 Seesawing between career and cycling 0:42:00 Giving up fitness and trying to work to make it back, weight loss, TFN discussion, off season weight etc 0:55:25 Nationals experience 1:03:50 What next, future goals and aspirations, saying yes to one thing and no to a lot 1:11:30 Managing recovery while at work, eating clean and her nutritional routine on and off the bike 1:20:15 Tips for working athletes 1:25:05 Closing remarks! Some Links Below: Working Athlete Community on FB. Link to Anchor Voice messages About the Podcast The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future. If you like this, share with friends who could be interested. For the visually inclined, a video version of the podcast can be found here: YouTube Other Places you'll find the podcast on: Anchor | RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | Breaker

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