When “Jurassic World Live” began touring, Talbot would find gyms, pools and trails in each city to ensure she could continue training.

“It truly is like a sport in and of itself… balancing all of that,” said Kori Kirschner, the tour’s former head athletic trainer.

While maintaining her triathlon training during the tour was, in Kirschner’s words, “a massive feat,” Talbot saw the effort pay off.

“You fill yourself up before you can serve others. Triathlon fills me in that way so that when I go [work] I’m drawing on this sport that I love a lot,” Talbot said. “I don’t think I would be as strong of a full-suit puppeteer if I wasn’t a triathlete.”

Talbot estimates she’s competed in almost 100 triathlons. She’s qualified for Team USA every year since 2016 and most recently took third in her age group at the 2021 USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships and 12th in her age group at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in September. She also won the 2021 Legacy Triathlon in Long Beach, California. Click here to register for the 2023 Legacy Triathlon scheduled for July 16.

This fall, she’s coaching the club triathlon team at UCLA. In her sparse spare time, she teaches fitness classes at a local gym.

As performing arts productions remain in pandemic-related limbo across the country, Talbot said she’s been lucky to have triathlon as an outlet. With one major part of her life on hold, she was able to throw herself into the other.

And whenever large-scale live puppetry is ready for its return, Talbot will be, too — happy to have the world back at her fingertips.

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LEGACY TRIATHLON ATHLETE STORIES: THIS PUPPETEER TRIATHLETE HAS LIFE ON A STRING

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