On this week's episode Bek holds the fort while Siri is away and is joined by a new member of Team Sirius Tri Club Maricarmen Farias to talk about how she discovered triathlon was her sport.  Maricarmen is coached by Siri at Team Sirius Tri Club. She tells the story of how she grew up in Mexico and the sports she played there, moving to to the U.S. and going to school and being intrigued by triathlon. Maricarmen has degrees in bilingual education and speech therapy and is also qualified as a nutritionist. 
"It was just something new to me. I was like it's amazing to see how so many people from different backgrounds and exactly like different ages, it didn't matter [because] they cross that finish line."
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