Sam Long on The Slowtwitch Podcast: Personal Life and Identity 

All right. How's it going?

I'm Mark Goder here with ZooSports, and we're talking with Sam Long

in early June of 2025.

We're going to get a gage of where Sam's at.

We have some questions from the Slow Twitch audience that we want to ask and

see what his plans are, how his season is shaping up, and get a little

insight on the big unit.

Yes, I'm bringing that We're bringing it back, Sam.

We're bringing back the big unit. We're bringing it back.

Ask me anything, only of real life, ask me anything, instead of just typing it out.

Yes, for sure. This is pretty good.

All you people on the Slow Twitch forum, this is your chance.

I have the questions right here, which is pretty cool.

We came up with this idea in conjunction with

letting people know about your collection that you do with us every single

It's cool as a pro athlete, especially with the personality you have and

the ideas you have and how you want to represent yourself in training and on the

race course, you always come up with these really cool ideas that we could

bring to life in the form of training and racing apparel.

Then we offer that up to the public for sale and stuff

on our website, which is cool.

I sent you a message earlier.

If you guys don't have these swim jammers, you're missing out.

They're pretty fire. They're pretty slick.

Look, I grabbed a pair of these today because I'm in a big swim

session right now.

7,000. He just did 7,000.

That's right. Y It's large, not meters, though.

You got to share your burrito.

That's what I do on my Strava.

Whenever I do a big swim, I pretty well get a burrito, and then everyone loves it.

Yeah, but you're me, so I'm only sending you images after that,

which is I want you to know that I'm still on it, all right?

That I'm not getting up yet.

The next time we race for old fashions, I'm not going to owe you.

You're going to owe me. Yeah, he has a two-hour handicap.

That's what we give him.

It's one hour for every decade I'm older than you, so we're good on that.

All right, let's get some into these questions, Sam, a little bit.

There's a question, and I don't know who's in these questions.

They're just on the paper in front of me.

But this one says, Where would you be if you weren't a pro-triathlete?

He's looking into a crystal ball.

What would you hope for your post-triathlon career?

I've been able to reflect on this now, and I think I would want to be a

stay at home dad, honest to God.

I would love if it was a different world, like my wife was

the breadwinner or after triathlon, she's got ambition.

She wants to be a realtor and stuff.

I think it would be one of the greatest joys and greatest challenges to be a stay

at home dad and put all the effort I'm used to giving into how do I

be the best parent possible and run the house as organized as possible.

That's a good call, my friend.

I'll have you talk to my wife, too, because I still myself want to be

a stay at home dad, if possible.

I know it's so hard, but me now, okay, I'm out training and it's like,

when I'm out training, I'm like, man, I'm doing this for my family.

I'm doing this because I want to provide the best I can for my family.

And then I'm also like, well, maybe I should also just

try and be at home more and spend more time with them and give them more.

And obviously, I'm sure you're the same.

It's a hard dynamic because you have to provide the financial

means, but then you're also gone.

And what you really want to do is just be there.

That would be so rad if you were dropping your kids off at elementary

school and the school's at the top of the hill and everyone else is driving their

cars or their E-bikes, and then you're towing your kids, and then you got an

extra trailer in the back with sandbag.

Is it just for extra weight, no E-bike.

I'm just going there to drop off.

I've got a burley.

I take Leo out in a burley, and it is ridiculously hard riding a burley.

Yes, it is.

It's The quads just get so loaded up.

That'd be a cool...

That'd be for your next YouTube, put the burley on your TT bike.

You guys should do a time trial.

You could put, like you did that one video, just put a

baby doll, but add some weight into the burley, and then you and Lionel could

do Mount Lemon with burleys attached.

Then that's the real K-O-M right there.

That'd be pretty classic. All right.

This one, okay, Stay at home, dad.

That's a great answer, man.

I'm just going to ask this question.

I'm not going to say it's a dumb question, but we'll see why.

Why don't you grow a big mustache?

You'd look good with a big mustache is what this viewer wanted to ask.

I don't think I would, though, because I went through a brief...

You probably remember, I went through that brief phase at Oceanside.

When I first figured out that Leo was being born, I decided to go

the winter and I've been a shade.

First off, I don't grow very much facial hair, and my hair is...

It's not quite blonde, but it's definitely not dark.

I tried to grow this funny-looking mustache for a couple of months, and

I thought I was going through a phase because I was adjusted to

having a baby being born.

I thought it looked really cool, and I looked back on the photos and I got

to say it did not look really cool.

That's the answer.

He's no magnipi, ladies and gentlemen.

The reason I don't is because I can't. That's right.

All right.