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Here we are with another triathlon podcast

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brought to you by Mana Apparel . As always

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, I'm joined by my co-hosts , Sede and Josh

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, and we're going to dive into everything

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going on this past week in the triathlon

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world , including some fun in Canada

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, a

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few maple leaf flags waving after this weekend . We'll also jump into some Super Tri news and

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some updates on the Olympic picks for the triathlon . There's definitely been a lot of announcements

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the last little while , Some controversial

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, some less surprising , but we will dive

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into all of it . But let's

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start with what's going on in our world . First

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off , I was feeling a little left

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out . This weekend in New York City I

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saw you , Josh and Fede meeting up there without

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me . How did that weekend

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go , Josh ?

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Oh , it was awesome , it was uh . So

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, if you don't know

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, I was down in peloton for a

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big group event that I had organized to

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ride with matt wilpers , uh . So

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check out that wilpers episode and kind

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of see what that was all about . But uh , I

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had 39 bikes in the studio , so all

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of the bikes at the peloton studio brought people

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that never been . And then I saw

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that our buddy Fede was in

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New York trying to catch some Yankees games . So

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I asked him where he was staying and

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he was literally like a couple blocks from where

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the Peloton studios were and where I was

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. And I was in and out , because I had to get back to

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Boston for my race yesterday morning and

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we had a window where we could meet up

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. So I got to give Fede a quick

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tour of the Peloton studios and and

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got to meet his girlfriend and uh got

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to chat and hang out for a little bit

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and and finally meet each other in person

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. So it was uh really cool and

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uh we didn't want to break

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up . But he had to get to the uh to

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Yankee stadium and I had to get on the road

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because I had a four-hour drive back .

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Oh , sounds like fun . Fede , what brought you up

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there ?

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You said you're going to see some baseball

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. Yeah

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, so I decided to do a little trip to New York , do a few things over there . And also it just happened

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that the Yankees were playing and you

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know , grew up watching them , supporting them , so

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of course I needed to

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catch a game and , yeah

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, it was just amazing that Josh was in town

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and it was amazing

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. Got to meet him , his wife , and

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he seems like he runs the

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whole Peloton company . Everybody's

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high-fiving him saying hello . So

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, yeah , it was cool to watch and

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those guys of Peloton , they are doing

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an amazing job . Just

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incredible how big they

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have become . And this is not a sponsored

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ad or anything

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. Just I tip

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my hat to those guys because they're doing an amazing

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job and they are , you know , like

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Josh mentioned on that day day , they are creating

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triathletes out of nowhere , really

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, uh , out of just indoor training

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systems and group classes

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, and I think this is a very exciting

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avenue to explore for triathlon

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coaching and development that

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you don't need to be 24-7

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with a coach on site . You

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could have workouts recorded

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and , as long

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as a person is willing and knows the

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metrics that they're working with , they could become

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very good athletes . So , yeah

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, it was amazing and of

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course now we started talking

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on that day

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and somebody just signed

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up for 70.3 Maine .

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Yes , we did it .

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So we're going to see each other again in a couple of weeks . There

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we go .

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That's wicked . Sounds

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like lots of fun . But

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, Josh , what else happened on your weekend

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? Sounds like you had lots going on . Yeah , so it was actually lots of fun . But , josh , what else happened on your weekend ? Sounds like you had lots going on .

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Yeah , so it was actually the week

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started . I got to go into Boston for

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a kickoff event We'll talk a little bit more about it with

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Super Try and got to hang out with some

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cool athletes and meet Tim Don and

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some others involved in Super League and then had

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the big weekend Saturday at

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Peloton , did a ride and then I

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did a run and a

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hike and then met Fed

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and then hopped back in the

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car and hustled

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back up to Boston . I didn't want to

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bring my bike to New York and have it sitting in the car

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overnight , so I had to stop back at home

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. The race is about an hour

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hour and a half from my house , so we chose to

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get a hotel a little closer . Um

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, with uh I think we had to be in transition

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about six , six 30 in the morning , so we

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got uh , got to the hotel around 10 o'clock that

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night and felt good and

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it was a sprint try . So this was the first triathlon

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and there's a post I just put up Um , this was the first

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triathlon I ever did two years ago this weekend

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. This was the first triathlon I ever

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did two years ago this weekend . So I dropped my time nine

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minutes last year and then this

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year I dropped it another 4.33

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. And

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the A goal was podium and B goal

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was to PR and get sub 110

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.

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And I got 108.01 .

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And then , when I finally got on my phone and and had the guts to look at the results , I realized

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I was 17 seconds behind and

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had closed like a two minute gap on the run

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to the third place . Guy

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off the bike

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. And I

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didn't puke at the finish line , as my coach had asked

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me to do , so I probably had another

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17 or 18 seconds in

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my legs , so it's like ah

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.

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That's the worst when you're so close .

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And you know , if you had known

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you could have done it right , I

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think the difference in our T1 was

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like 18 seconds , like right there .

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Time to practice those transitions .

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I made up for it in T2 . I had a really

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fast T2 , which was awesome . I

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went no socks , baby powder in the

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shoes and it was a pouring rainy day . It started

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pouring when we were in the water . So

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stay away from me if you want to go to a dry race

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. This year . The only race

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I'm doing is pouring . But

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I'm getting pretty good at it and had

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a really good swim Again . That

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DeBoer mono wetsuit is phenomenal

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Night and day . I just knew . I

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had a good swim in Springfield and

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I got to the water just confident , feeling good

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and I looked at the pictures

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of the start shoot and

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I'm like in the back row two years ago

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and then I'm kind of in the middle last year

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and then this year I was like nudging people

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out of my way , like no dude , I'm

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getting to that buoy first . And sure

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enough I was like second or third to that first

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first buoy and got on

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some feet and came out of the water fourth

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or fifth in my age group , which

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that's huge for the three

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of us to be up there and and see

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the leaders , um , and and

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then I fumbled with the transition , getting

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the wetsuit off and um took

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a quick , quick ketone shot got on my bike

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and um just started

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running trains . We we were like the sixth

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wave , so there were five waves we had to work

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through some of them being novice , so that made it a little

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tight on the roadways and it's an open

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course . It's not fully closed , but some

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things I can clean up there . My bike computer didn't turn

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on um , so apparently I charged it for

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like a day and a half , but when I unplugged

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the charger it also turns the

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garmin on and

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it completely drained itself . I forgot to actually

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power it off um , so lesson

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learned there , um , but it was nice to go off of perceived

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exertion too , um , and

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even though we had some power targets , I think I got there

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and I definitely had to power up on a

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few moves to get by people

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going too slow or riding three wide , but

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felt good on the run

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and and negative split of the run

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and and finished with a really strong

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finish past like five or six people in the in the final

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shoot and there was one more

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I just didn't get . I guess Next

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year , next year is the podium , so it's

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, it feels good to be that close

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and do it all and just kind of do that

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recap post and think about where I've come in

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two years and being here and

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and all this stuff's just crazy

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and it was a

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good weekend for sure . And

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then Janine raced the relay

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and she did the 5K and set her

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new 5K PR post ACL

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. So it was a good day , good weekend

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for the family .

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That is wicked and it's so cool to have an event like that

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where you can just see , year after year , the time that goes

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in it's paying off . You're getting faster , you're feeling

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better , you're getting more confidence , you're pushing up to the

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front , which is huge . But man

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, I know that that few seconds is tough when

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you're that close . But you smashed your previous time

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new PR . It's wicked to see

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lots more PRs to come .

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I have a feeling over the next next . While it's nice to be in the running category now , like that

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was like yeah , I think I was fifth in every one of my age group , but the run has come

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so far and it's like and you can see where the people

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who are up at the top podium are

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in the top five . They're all good runners

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and I'm putting myself in that category

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. That was the one that was like I've gone from like an 844

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down to a . I think this one was like almost

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sub seven . So it was like we're getting there

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.

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Bike for show , run for dough that's what they always

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say .

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Yeah , that's what they say .

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How about you Fede ? What have you been up to ?

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Well , besides getting to know the

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mayor of Boston in New York

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, the

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holder of the keys of the city , the

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holder of

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the keys of the city I

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ran a 5K in Brooklyn just to test out the legs

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, see where I'm at , and I'm happy to report that

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I was pain-free , nothing hurt . I

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mean , I had a goal in mind

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and I just didn't want to run over

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the teens , so

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I was like , as long as I'm in the teens I'm

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good to go , and I

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think I ran up 1940-something

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, which is , yes

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, it's okay to be back , but

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a lot of work to do , a lot of work to do and

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gradually picking up the

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pace and the volume and everything . But

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yeah , it was amazing . I got

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to run it with my partner and then she's

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slowly getting into this running

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habit , so that was fun to share

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with her . But

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yeah , it was cool . It

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was also nice because it's like a 7 pm

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race , so that

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meant no , no , uh , alarm

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clocks in the morning . Um , yeah

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, yeah , it was fun , uh

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, and so the yankees win

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. So , josh , we missed you , of course

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. So we , we need to get a team

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reunion soon . But

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yeah , happy

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to share that . I'm back

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again . You know , running

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pain-free .

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That's so good , and he brought the heat to Mexico

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, from Mexico to New York too . So it was probably

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warmer in New York than it was in Mexico normally .

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Yeah , that's so true . I think right now here in Mexico

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city we are at I don't know , 85

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ish degrees , and New York was like

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95 .

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Oh geez , Not often you hear that

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reversal .

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Yeah Wild .

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That's awesome .

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How about you ? Jenna how was your weekend .

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Yeah , that's awesome . How about you , jenna ? How was your weekend ? Yeah , so this weekend was pretty quiet

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, but I had a pretty good weekend , the one before . We didn't get a chance to

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catch up last week , but , uh , got my first multi-sport

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race of the season in last weekend , and

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this one's fun . It's a kind of grassroots

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race here that I do every year . Um

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, so , one of the few races that

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I'll do more than once . Usually I like

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to find new locations , new courses , just

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keep it interesting . But went

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to the Shnook Multisport Festival

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and , yeah , came away with

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a win in the duathlon , so that's always

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fun . Um , yeah

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, it's just great to be out there in that race energy

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again , you kind of forget about

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it and how much fun it is to be around other people

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who are just as crazy as you . Go out and

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do something like this on a Sunday or Saturday

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morning and get after it . Although

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so , initially I was planning on racing

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the duathlon on Saturday , and then there was the gravel

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Canadian champs on the Sunday , I

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missed the registration deadline . I'm

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so used to like these races . Usually you can register

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up until like the last minute and stuff , but no , apparently

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it closed significantly earlier

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than that and I

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so would won the master's category

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and it was totally a day that I would love

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. It was cold , it was rainy , it was windy

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, it was just one of those gritty days like

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, oh , I think , one of the few

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people sitting inside where it's warm thing , I wish I'd

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rather be out there . Now

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here's the disclaimer everyone .

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Jenna's been doing this for a long time . You can't just

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show up and win races , like she does Most

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of us . It takes a little bit more work . This

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athlete can just show up and win . Oh

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wait , I could have won that race if I had registered

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in time .

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Yeah , I've been doing this for a little while . Actually , it was funny

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. I just got a Facebook reminder

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. My first triathlon

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was like what was it ? Now

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? It'd be 12

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years ago , yeah 12 years ago

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. My first race was

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Ironman , buffalo Springs 70.3

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. And I've got all the memories and

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pictures from that , along with some

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pictures of some pretty nasty blisters on

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my feet . But that was my first

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open water swim in a wetsuit and

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a first triathlon . So another

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case of do as I say , not

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as I do . But , after suffering

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in 95 degree heat in Texas

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, I was absolutely hooked on this sport

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. And then , apparently the same weekend was

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Ironman Ireland , where I was paddling in

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the rain and the wind , loving it .

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Something about that weekend rain , I guess .

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Apparently just everything is that weekend

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and weirdly I was

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funny because I was seeing the pictures back to back and it

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was my race number in the first one was 53

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. My race number at Ireland

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was 531

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it's kind of cool , yeah

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, so number this weekend was 25 .

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I was like everyone's like what did you do ? Are you like in

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the elite field ? I was like yeah . I

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was like no , I think I just hit registration because I'm not missing

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that there you go

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.

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I think my number this weekend was 135 . It

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was really just

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the same numbers over and over again . But no

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, it was a lot of fun just getting back in that race atmosphere

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. I I love it just being around people

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and seeing you know athletes of all ability

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levels from doing their first events to

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you know trying to compete from podiums

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and all that . It's just just fun to

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be back there . So it was really really good

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.

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It is . We talk about the community aspect

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of it all , like the vibe at races

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and it's I mean running races

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and mountain bike races , anything . A lot

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of these communities are so small . You see the same people

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over and over again , like you've been to this race every

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year and and and having that apples

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and apples . I have always talked about that . I love that

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aspect of triathlon because you don't

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get it going from 70.3 to 70.3

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. The courses are all different , but

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when you go to the same place and you see the same people

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, it was cool . I mean I got to race with

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Nick yesterday too , which

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was awesome , so that was the first time sharing a course with

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him . And then I saw he's done the

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race before and , like two years ago , like

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28 year old Nick Lamb , like stud . Nick

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Lamb had his

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his time two years ago . It

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was only 13 seconds faster than my time this year

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.

16:14

I was like oh , look at this old man

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yeah . Nick's

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another one of our teammates at the uh Mono

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endurance team , so check it out

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. We've got a pretty awesome group there .

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He did a road bike .

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This year though . So and he still finished

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like he finished fourth as well

16:38

, oh man , that's always brutal , yeah

16:40

, but yeah , and that

16:42

, nothing else too crazy going on training

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away . I have to . Sadly , I'm going

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to list my factor hands . Oh , this

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afternoon it's time to let

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it go . Now I've raced on my my

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new argon e119 . I

16:55

am absolutely obsessed with it . So I

16:57

have got like five bikes at the moment and

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need to get rid of a few because it's just starting

17:02

to get ridiculous at this

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point . But

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let's get into some

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racing that's a little bit faster than ours

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. There are a few pro races this weekend

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and , like you said , a bit of canadian

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domination , which I'm never upset

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to hear about . But that a

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why don't you tell us what was going on this

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weekend ?

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Yeah , so this weekend we have just

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won a pro race

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at 70.3 Mont-Tremblant and

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this is a very iconic race

17:33

on the

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calendar . However , it has

17:38

been struggling

17:40

the past few years . I don't know if you guys remember

17:42

, but uh , last year they had

17:44

a few issues with fires .

17:46

uh , I think I or like

17:49

moths or something like that

17:51

, that were yeah , there was a wildfire

17:53

, smokes and then you saw , like this

17:55

apocalyptic view of all these like bugs

17:57

and moths , just dead

17:59

, just weird yeah

18:02

, that was very weird and and this year

18:04

it wasn't like

18:07

no fire .

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Yeah , it wasn't fire , it wasn't smooth

18:12

sailing either . It was the complete opposite Just

18:14

downpouring rain 24-7

18:17

. They had to shorten the swim to I believe

18:19

it was just like a K or like

18:22

under a K , god

18:24

knows what was the exact distance

18:26

, because they just took out a couple of buoys

18:29

and they said just swim . And

18:31

they just , yeah . They

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rounded it up at like a K or a bit

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under a K . We

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had the likes of Lionel Sanders , ben

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Kanute , jackson Laundrie

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, chris Leiferman , ben Kanute , jackson Laundrie , chris Leiferman , matthew

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Marquardt , who has been doing

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amazing , amazing stuff coming from the age

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group ranks , as well as Justin

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Riley , and we saw

18:53

the Cornell Lionel taking the win with

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an impressive 113.47

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run and finishing in 335.11

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. Second place was

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Ben Kanute in 337.29

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, so two minutes behind Lionel

19:08

, and on third place , and very surprisingly

19:10

, matty Marquardt . Not to say that he's

19:12

not a good athlete , but

19:16

I mean he was faster than Jackson Laundrie

19:18

and Chris Leiferman . So for

19:20

somebody who came up the age group

19:22

ranks , he knows what he's doing on

19:25

the pro field . He

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looked very strong on the run .

19:33

He really did . It was great

19:35

to see everyone pushing and Ben

19:37

Canute passed him at one point . He tried to

19:39

hang on , he just didn't let

19:42

Ben go and ended up being seconds behind

19:44

him . That was really fun to see , cause that

19:46

is not easy to do near the end of a race , when you're

19:48

suffering , when you get past to try

19:50

to stick on them for a while . That

19:53

takes the mental grit for sure

19:55

. But it was great to see Ben Knute have a great

19:57

race out there and see Lionel

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be back , can

20:01

we say ?

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Yeah , I guess , yeah , I guess he's never away . Huh , lionel , he

20:09

says he's back , but yeah

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, he's good .

20:13

I think he's in a good place .

20:16

Yeah , with a very special

20:19

advisor . I told

20:21

you guys a couple of weeks ago that

20:23

Jan is the

20:25

only one that Lionel

20:27

was going to be able to listen to , so

20:30

maybe he's listening to Jan's

20:32

advice and taking it as Godspell

20:35

, because he definitely executed a

20:37

very well planned

20:39

out race .

20:41

Definitely Especially

20:44

race

20:50

, definitely , especially like no , it was . Uh , I mean , you said it too , gentlemen to

20:52

see ben like who struggled , like he's all right said this season

20:54

and to see him come out . I don't think anyone

20:56

would have picked him for the podium in this race based on

20:58

the year . He's had and and we probably

21:00

all would have had jackson up there

21:03

, matthew Marquardt's , more of the

21:05

longer full distance and

21:08

to have him in the two of them like that

21:10

was a crazy run that they had and

21:12

back and forth , and back and forth and pushing each other

21:14

. And then Justin man , that kid

21:16

throws down power on the bike for

21:18

a former age group . He was hanging

21:20

with Lionel on the bike , no problem for

21:22

the most part .

21:23

Even though Lionel was shaped legs , yeah

21:25

.

21:28

Lionel's , saving him 10 watts 10

21:33

watts .

21:34

Yeah , you know what , though , with the form

21:36

Lionel's in with this race and stuff , it

21:39

was a solid field out there , but I would have loved to

21:42

see how he would have gone at the T100 in

21:44

San Francisco , like

21:50

just kind of the way he's getting things dialed in , and with the same situation with the swim where

21:52

he would have been up there with like sam long and stuff . That would have been fun to

21:54

see how it would go down . Now the technical bike

21:56

he's definitely talked a lot about how he's indoors

21:58

all the time , but would have been fun to

22:01

see yeah

22:03

, I think him Like Oceanside .

22:05

We know he had a phenomenal swim and

22:07

there's no breaks in the Oceanside swim . He

22:10

got a break in the swim this time and

22:12

the one thing he hasn't been able to do was

22:15

maintain some of that swim training he had been doing

22:17

because of the injury too . So he's been biking

22:19

and running . He probably cut a little

22:21

bit of a break with the swim shortened

22:23

, but you never know

22:25

, I think he's just . He's just way

22:27

above and beyond anyone else on the bike

22:29

and his runs phenomenal right now .

22:33

That was really fun to watch . Definitely Good

22:35

race , except for the whole . I don't know if it

22:37

happened for you guys , but watching it on outside

22:40

, all of a sudden there's a bunch of guys on a

22:42

boat talking about fishing and I'm like what

22:44

is happening here ? They cut

22:46

the feed partway through and started playing

22:49

some other random fishing show

22:51

, so

22:55

it , yeah , missed a bit of the race with that , ended up having to get a VPN and go

22:58

see the Ironman stream Because we can't see that

23:00

in Canada and the US otherwise

23:02

. But that was random

23:05

.

23:08

I just kind of , like I saw people

23:10

commenting , I just kind of chucked it up to

23:12

. Maybe it was like weather problems or whatever , because it

23:14

was nasty there , I mean it poured

23:17

.

23:17

It turns out . So when I put the VPN

23:19

on , I could still see the race just through the Ironman

23:21

feed . It was yeah

23:23

, outside like screwed up the programming somewhere

23:27

. I guess they should really it

23:29

was nice and it was just on YouTube and Facebook

23:31

live and stuff . At least we got to see the race

23:33

sit . I feel like there's been a lot

23:35

of screw-ups with outside

23:38

, like it . Just it seems like it comes up pretty

23:41

regularly , it's not a one-off

23:43

.

23:45

Yeah , and I mean I do get

23:47

that . It's a free streaming service

23:49

that they offer for Iron man , but

23:51

that does not mean that they need to cram like

23:53

a gazillion ads in between

23:56

.

23:57

I thought Iron man was bad .

23:59

My God point

24:08

three , race . I mean , it's not . I mean , lionel did this in three and a half hours

24:11

, all right , so you've got four , and a half hours of legit coverage that we need in the

24:13

men's five hours in the women's right .

24:14

Come on , we don't need that many ads makes

24:17

me appreciate the t100 even more when

24:19

I'm like sitting there for a two

24:22

minute ad break every 10 minutes

24:24

yep anyways

24:28

. So , uh , what about the women's race

24:30

?

24:30

we had some fun over there as well we

24:33

had a lot of fun on the

24:35

women's race . We saw canadian

24:37

domination , like in the likes of paula

24:39

finley , who she's been on

24:41

a high roll , especially with her teaching

24:43

ability , winning the canadian national

24:46

championship and um , yeah

24:48

, she was just away from

24:50

everyone clocking a 4.01

24:53

, so just almost

24:55

cracked the four-hour barrier . I mean , yes

24:57

, it was a shortened swim but it was amazing

25:00

what Paula did on second

25:02

place . Yeah , I mean , you could . You

25:04

can see Paula's strength on

25:06

the bike because Tamara Jewett

25:09

is a very fast runner and she ran

25:11

a 1.16.13 and that

25:13

wasn't enough to catch Paula and

25:16

that was almost four minutes slower

25:19

than Paula's finishing time . So

25:21

you could see that Paula was riding on a

25:23

different level . And on

25:25

third place we had , from Australia , salthouse

25:28

, who's who . She's been very consistent

25:30

throughout this whole pro series

25:32

. I think she podium as well in

25:35

70.3 boulder . A

25:37

fourth place from australia as well

25:39

. We had grace tech and

25:42

yeah , it was a very exciting race . But I

25:45

mean kudos to tamra for run

25:47

1.16 and then the way

25:49

Paula is riding a bike right now

25:51

is very , very scary yeah

25:54

, it was wicked if anyone

25:56

didn't hear .

25:56

Paula had her fair share of

25:59

controversy going into the event . So

26:01

the plan was to do the Canadian National

26:03

Time Trial Championships on

26:06

the Friday it was Friday , yeah

26:08

. And then to go race 70.3 Mont-Tremblant Time trial championships on the Friday it was Friday , yeah , it was two months before , yeah

26:10

. And then to go race 70.3 Mont-Tremblant

26:13

and her bike got

26:15

lost in transit . She's like the day

26:17

before the race trying to hunt down anyone who can

26:19

find her bike for her and get it over there

26:21

. And they end up getting it the day

26:23

before the event and having to drive four

26:26

hours to the location to do the

26:28

time trial championships . She

26:30

gets up , does the time trial nationals

26:32

and wins that for the third time

26:34

in a row , which is crazy

26:37

impressive , and then goes on her merry

26:39

way to 70.3 triplot

26:41

and wins that as well . So

26:43

it's funny , I do . I

26:45

put out the press releases for Cycling Canada

26:47

and I so wanted to put in there Paul

26:50

Finley wins the TT and then

26:53

70.3

26:56

. But yeah , apparently

26:58

the cyclists aren't as interested in that .

27:00

I thought it was pretty badass one

27:04

of the other things I saw too , and she did all this without

27:06

Eric there with her , like usually , like a

27:08

lot of her good performances he's there and actually it seems like recently a lot of her good performances he's there and actually it

27:10

seems like recently a lot of her good performances he

27:12

hasn't been there . So

27:14

maybe change of guard there . But he

27:16

did send with her two

27:19

different chains , one for the TT and

27:21

one for the 70.3

27:23

race . Do you guys want to kind of explain

27:25

to the listeners , like why they might've

27:28

done that ?

27:31

That's a good question . Actually , I will say the bike tech

27:33

, to that degree I'm not as

27:35

informed on , unless she was changing

27:37

out uh gearing between the

27:39

two races . I'm not sure if she did anything there

27:42

yeah , I would .

27:43

I would imagine it was probably a different chain ring

27:45

as well too , with the flat

27:48

typically TT course . As opposed

27:50

to Mont-Tremblant , it's

27:52

got a little bit of elevation in it .

27:55

Definitely . Yeah , I'm guessing that would probably

27:57

be the reason , but yeah , I'm not too sure on that one . Otherwise

27:59

, Interesting . I

28:01

know it was great to see that

28:03

run with Tamara Jewett . Like she hasn't

28:07

been kind of in the ranks

28:09

for the last little while here , so great to see that run

28:11

coming back . I think she was over

28:13

eight minutes down on the bike so

28:16

she definitely ran her way up into the podium , which

28:18

is awesome to see .

28:23

And even Ellie tried to stay with her kind of like Matthew with Ben and you got Tamara and Ben both having

28:25

awful seasons in their books and

28:27

both of them having phenomenal runs and

28:30

second-place finishes out of

28:33

nowhere . Yeah , and Canada

28:35

won too on the women's side . And

28:37

yeah , like Fede said , ellie Salthouse has had a pretty

28:40

good season . I think that moved her up to ninth in

28:42

the overall standings .

28:44

There was one tough

28:47

.

28:47

I saw Aliceberts is having a hard time dealing

28:50

. She got a five minute drafting penalty

28:52

and she said it was was her fault and

28:54

so you take away five minutes . And

28:56

she was probably I don't know one of the

28:58

top two or three bike splits anyways

29:01

without that . And then that puts her in contention

29:03

and she still moved up to eighth in

29:05

the overall standings . But that's huge for

29:08

somebody who's just trying to drop in another 70.3

29:10

when they're again another full-distance-focused

29:14

athlete . So tough for

29:16

her . But I think she's trying to take the lessons learned

29:18

out of it .

29:20

Yeah , there was some talk too if Ellie could possibly

29:22

end up in the top 10 of the Ironman Pro

29:24

Series just to accept her 70.3s . So

29:27

we're really curious to see if

29:29

that works out there . If she's performing consistently

29:32

, it makes sense that she could .

29:35

She absolutely could If somebody misses

29:37

. I mean , look what happened to Kat

29:40

she did a full but had

29:42

to drop out right , so that could happen to

29:44

people that are maybe in the top 10 .

29:46

And then you get somebody like Ellie doing like 8,000

29:49

70.3s and having five

29:51

good results , she's good to go , yeah

29:54

it was fun to see some

29:56

good racing too was the front

29:58

runners were definitely off the front and running away

30:00

with it , but it was nice to see we got a little

30:02

bit of coverage of what was going on behind

30:04

so we can see some of those podium placings

30:06

and what actually happened back there . So kudos

30:09

them for showing a little bit more of that

30:11

, because , yeah , right now it

30:13

just seems like we have a few races

30:15

where there's someone just going off the front .

30:17

You never see them again , so it's

30:19

interesting if we got something else to watch in there yeah

30:24

absolutely definitely , definitely

30:26

a good weekend of what we

30:28

hadn't really expected to be that big of a

30:30

race . We knew lionel was coming back

30:32

, but uh , they made it entertaining

30:34

for sure they did

30:37

.

30:37

It was good to see . Well , let's

30:39

go into our social media and

30:41

what the f post of the week here ? Josh

30:43

, we'll start with you . What do you got ? What's

30:45

going on at socials ?

30:47

Well , mine's going to kind of preempt one

30:49

of the Olympic results

30:51

that are trial teams that we're

30:53

going to talk about . But I don't know if anyone saw

30:55

Taylor Reid's post from New

30:57

Zealand earlier

31:00

today and we've seen

31:02

some upset and disappointed

31:05

posts and results . He didn't

31:07

let anything hold back . He didn't hold

31:09

anything back on this post . He

31:11

literally has no clue how he didn't make the

31:13

New Zealand team and

31:15

I definitely recommend checking

31:18

out the post and giving it a read and

31:20

giving him some kudos or support

31:22

or your feedback . Let us know

31:24

how you guys all feel . But yeah , check that

31:26

post out , taylor Reed , nz and

31:28

a tough , tough way for him

31:30

. He's had a good go at it . But we'll talk a little bit

31:32

more about that on the Olympic

31:35

discussion of the pod .

31:37

Yeah , disappointing for sure . He did a lot of

31:39

work for the team

31:41

to get those spots , to make sure that they were up in the

31:43

rankings , to not get that

31:46

and have it be left down to discretionary

31:48

choices . It's got gotta be

31:50

hard , especially like he's had such . He mentions in his post

31:52

that he had some of the fastest

31:54

splits in the mixed relay which

31:56

you would have thought for sure he's a lock in there and

31:58

um , yeah , unfortunately they

32:00

have decided to go a different

32:03

way , which is really unfortunate

32:06

, but you know there's it's

32:08

a good bad problem when you got some talent and have to pick

32:11

between people , but it was

32:13

, yeah , would have been good to see him in there . Well

32:18

, let's move on to what the

32:20

f and this

32:22

has to do with someone that we talk about quite often

32:24

on the podcast . Uh , last year it

32:26

was mostly because he was on every start list

32:28

, everywhere , regardless of distance , but

32:31

this time it could be because we

32:34

might not see him on many more triathlon

32:36

start lists in the future . But Christian

32:39

Blumenfeld . There is a lot

32:41

of rumors going around that he is close to signing

32:43

a three-year

32:45

contract with the world

32:47

tour cycling team , jayko Alula . So

32:50

is Blumenfeld moving

32:52

out of triathlon after the Olympics ? Is

32:54

that why he's trying to get this last Kona

32:56

spot to see what he can do at the Ironman world

32:58

championships ? Will he go

33:01

entirely to cycling and be done

33:03

with triathlon , or will

33:05

he try to do a camp work where he kind of has

33:07

a foot in both camps

33:09

at the end of the day ? Really

33:11

curious to see where this goes . But what do you guys

33:13

think Is he going to go all-in on cycling or

33:15

try to do both ?

33:22

I don't know . I think it's

33:24

a case of let's see

33:26

how it goes and we'll decide

33:28

from there . Probably he's

33:30

going to enter a couple of one-day races

33:33

and see what happens . Maybe some TTing

33:35

, but

33:38

the way Christian's

33:41

physique is built

33:43

, he wouldn't have a

33:45

lot of chance when it comes with

33:47

the smaller , lighter guys , because

33:50

he's a very muscular guy and we

33:52

know in cycling , watts per kilo and going

33:54

uphill is where

33:56

they make their money . So maybe

33:59

it's a case of they're using

34:01

him as a domestique and maybe

34:04

he loves to push himself . Maybe

34:07

he loves to push himself

34:09

. Probably

34:13

the amount of races or victories he's going to have cycling is not going to be compared to

34:16

what he does in triathlon , but I believe this is

34:18

like a win-win because Christian loves

34:20

to push himself and cycling

34:22

teams are well . Now

34:25

Jacob is going to use that massive

34:27

, massive VO2 to pull their guys up

34:29

front and then have them fresh

34:31

for the big , big climbs

34:33

. So yeah , we'll see . Definitely

34:36

exciting , I you know . Personally

34:38

, I think Gustav more of a cyclist

34:41

than Christian , but yeah

34:44

, it's definitely going to be interesting to see what

34:46

happens . I don't know what Josh

34:48

and you think about it .

34:51

My initial reaction is there's a lot of ties

34:53

to

34:55

his current team , the technology

34:58

, with the Sentara technology

35:00

. The cycling team is already tied

35:02

in with them . They all train up in

35:04

Endor together . There

35:07

was a natural overlap there which

35:10

, at the level he's at

35:12

in triathlon , it would be weird

35:15

to see him just drop it and go

35:17

cycling full-time . And fede brought up a lot of good

35:19

points . But we also know that

35:21

when the norwegians

35:24

get specific for an

35:26

event or they get specific

35:28

for for one big race , they

35:30

they dial it in . So maybe they

35:32

want to see where they can take him and what can they

35:34

do with the human body and human performance and

35:36

and and he's certainly

35:39

been willing to learn it all . He's

35:41

a I mean he's , he's

35:43

a brainiac when it comes to this stuff , stuff

35:45

too . It's not like he's just the guinea pig

35:47

. He wants to know everything that's going

35:49

on and be involved and

35:51

help make a lot of the decisions that are being

35:53

made with Gustav

35:56

and Olaf and the whole

35:58

team . So I

36:00

wouldn't push it past him , but my guess

36:02

is he's still going to balance it and maybe

36:04

go the Cam War for it .

36:07

Yeah , that's what I'd assume in there too , and

36:09

while he's definitely not a world tour gc contender

36:12

for by any means , um

36:14

, you definitely see him on some of the classics and some of

36:16

those one day hard races where it's just

36:18

about running through and having that engine

36:21

that he does have , which is absolutely incredible

36:23

. But I could see him as the lead out for some

36:25

of those , um , some of those bigger

36:27

stage races , just pulling everyone

36:30

along but still has to make it around . I'm curious

36:32

to see , I guess

36:34

, basically what his bike handling skills are

36:36

, cause riding in a . Peloton is a whole

36:38

different beast than riding

36:41

on your own on a TT bike . Like

36:43

those guys are close

36:45

and I know he does ITU , but

36:48

that's like 40 guys all

36:50

together . You're talking like a

36:52

couple hundred together , all closely packed

36:54

and riding even tighter , with some technical

36:56

courses and stages , not some parking

37:00

lots and streets made technical

37:02

by cones . I'd be curious

37:04

to see how he does in some of those races . But you

37:07

know what you never know with Louis Veltin

37:09

, it's always an adventure just to watch and

37:11

see what happens .

37:14

Yeah , I mean , and like Josh

37:16

mentioned , like these guys are very scientific

37:18

, so maybe all I was

37:20

like wait a minute . Taylor Neve

37:22

is going to two disciplines

37:25

in the Olympics , why can't we ? So

37:28

maybe this is a way of saying

37:30

come on , we can do better than this

37:32

In 2028 , we're

37:34

going to do the triathlon and cycling

37:37

and maybe some other random events

37:39

. So maybe this is this way of

37:41

testing things out and

37:44

start , you know , mapping

37:46

the road for 2028 .

37:50

Yeah , you know he saw Taylor's doing four . He wants

37:52

five or six in the next Olympics . That's

37:55

what we had to talk about was Taylor Nivena

37:57

is saying she's going to be in the cycling

37:59

road race as well . So

38:02

she'll be starting the

38:05

time trial , the individual

38:07

Olympic triathlon , the

38:09

mixed team relay and the cycling

38:12

road race all

38:14

in one . Olympic go , just because

38:17

, why not ? Why not ? But I

38:19

think that's along the lines of the same reason why , even

38:22

with Paula Finley winning the time trial

38:24

in Canada , they've got two

38:26

spots for the time trial and for road . So

38:29

they're going to be taking athletes more tailored

38:31

towards the road race for the Canadian team

38:33

. So unfortunately that means Paula will not be

38:35

doing the time trial at the Olympics

38:37

, but it sounds like they're going for the time

38:39

trial with Taylor in the US and

38:42

then also having her maybe be as a domestique

38:44

or be involved in the road race . And again , it'll

38:47

be interesting to see , see how her bike

38:49

handling skills are in a massive peloton

38:52

like that and if she

38:54

even finishes it . Because I think

38:56

, josh , you're saying it's before the mixed team relay

38:59

. So is that the reason the

39:02

us chose the athletes they did ? So maybe

39:04

they keep her out of the mixed team relay ? I can't

39:06

. It's hard to imagine they're gonna let her do the road , the individual , the road race out of

39:08

the mixed team relay . I can't . It's hard to imagine they're going to let

39:10

her do the road , the individual , the

39:12

road race and then the mixed team relay right

39:15

afterwards , like you got to be cooked at that point

39:17

.

39:19

I guess it really comes down to her decision and

39:21

her team's decision and her coach's decision

39:23

on what they want to do . But

39:26

triathlon's her sport . We just I mean , we just

39:28

had this Christian conversation , so it's

39:30

kind of interesting to see how this plays out

39:33

. Doing all four is crazy

39:35

, and we had that conversation with Tommy

39:37

on a previous podcast . We

39:40

didn't expect it . And if she does throw

39:42

it in , does that mean that's

39:44

Kirsten Kasper's way into the mixed team

39:47

relay ? So

39:49

I don't know . I mean taylor

39:51

earned the automatic bid , so usa triathlon

39:54

had no option that she was on the team , which

39:56

we wanted anyways , but

39:58

it doesn't mean she's on the mixed team relay

40:00

yeah , exactly

40:03

, that'll still be up to usa triathlon

40:05

.

40:06

Yeah , it'd be interesting because she would be an asset

40:08

to have in the mixed team relay

40:10

. She can do some attacks in there and make up some

40:13

distance . So it'd be really a shame

40:15

if she's not doing the mixed team relay . Or is it a case

40:17

of with USA Cycling ? She

40:19

has to start because they brought her out

40:22

there ? Yeah , I'm not too sure

40:24

. Well

40:26

, we'll have to wait and see how it

40:28

all rolls out at the olympics

40:30

here . It is definitely going to be

40:32

an interesting one , just even

40:34

seeing who's going to be out there . But , um

40:37

, speaking of the olympics , we did have a few

40:39

more team announcements and there

40:42

have been some upsets . We'll

40:44

say one of the ones everyone was kind

40:46

of waiting for and we kind of alluded to some

40:49

of the issues was , uh , team

40:51

gb . We finally

40:53

got the list

40:56

of names and for the first time in four

40:59

olympics , there's no

41:01

brownlee on the start list this year . So

41:04

, team gb , they've got on the women's side Beth

41:06

Potter , georgia Taylor Brown

41:08

and Kate Woff . With

41:11

Kate Woff which that was another

41:13

bit of drama there too

41:15

, I think it was that Sophie Caldwell was

41:18

trying to get the spot in there- and

41:20

they decided to go for Kate

41:22

Woff , and there was some yeah

41:25

, they had to go to arbitration . Figure uh it

41:29

who they were going to pick the olympic team , and they ended

41:31

up sticking with kate wall . And then , on the

41:33

men's side , we have alexi , which is a

41:35

surprise to no one , and sam

41:37

dickinson instead of johnny brownlee

41:40

. What do you guys think about ? Uh , no

41:43

brownlees for the first time in so

41:45

long .

41:48

I think it was time . I mean , I think

41:50

we were all kind of expecting this would be

41:52

the year that it might not happen

41:54

and this is this

41:56

was going to be the end of the regime . Um

41:59

, now brother Brownlee still out there trying

42:01

to crush T 100 and he's trying to figure

42:03

out how to put one of those races fully

42:05

together . So they're not done

42:07

in triathlon , um , but

42:09

for the Olympic cycle it looks like that

42:11

is the end of it , unless

42:14

they need an alternate or

42:16

whatnot . But I'm not

42:18

surprised . I really wasn't surprised

42:20

. It didn't sound like he was too surprised either , and

42:23

at the end of the day they went with what

42:26

they thought was the best . It sounds like on the female side it

42:28

was a little tougher of a decision .

42:30

Although you know what ? I'm kind of surprised because you went

42:32

like alex , he doesn't really

42:34

need a domestique in there

42:36

. He's been able to hold on to these bikes and if you're gonna

42:38

have anyone who's gonna pull out

42:40

a surprise performance on one of the big days

42:43

, it's not gonna be sam

42:45

dickinson . It's kind of those things

42:47

where you have that olympic experience and kind

42:49

of have been there , there was the chance

42:51

of something cool happening

42:53

, and especially so strong in the mixed relay , I

42:56

was kind of surprised .

42:57

Yeah , we definitely have a

42:59

vibe on the podcast too , where you guys love the

43:02

veterans and the people with the nuclear

43:05

. It's like always pushing for the upset

43:08

.

43:10

I like how Josh says you guys so

43:12

all

43:15

right calling us the

43:17

veterans .

43:18

Um , yeah

43:24

, it's funny . Yeah , you always

43:26

seem to remember the people who are like when

43:28

you got into the sport and , honestly

43:31

, that was a problem for a long time with the uh , the Ironman

43:33

broadcast was it was uh , they

43:36

talked about all the people they knew from the days that they were

43:38

racing , pro with kind of thing , and we can

43:40

definitely be guilty of that as well , because those are

43:42

the people that , when you're in the thick of it and so

43:44

excited about training , you definitely

43:46

tend to root for , even though they're getting older

43:49

just as much as you are .

43:50

Yeah , I

43:52

definitely had a little bit of that imposter syndrome

43:54

when I was talking to tim don this week too . I

43:56

mean , that was just like speaking of the old guard

43:58

. It was like , and he was reminiscing about

44:01

his awful boston marathon experience

44:03

and it was , uh

44:05

, it was . It was a really neat conversation , but

44:07

again , like seeing some of the people that they're

44:09

talking about , and him specifically

44:12

, it's like it's just really cool to be around

44:14

that type of experience level in

44:16

this sport . Um the knowledge that

44:18

he has is is crazy . He

44:20

definitely got asked a lot about the short shoot , so

44:22

oh yeah , I can

44:24

imagine .

44:25

So , um

44:27

, did we talk about team usa ? I

44:29

can never remember . We spend so much time

44:31

chatting outside of this . I can't remember what we talked about on

44:33

the podcast and what we don't . I

44:36

think we did , didn't we ?

44:37

We did touch on it , yeah .

44:40

Let's see what else came out here . There's a ton of controversy

44:42

around . I think it was Team

44:44

Italy Seems

44:47

to be . There were some people resigning

44:49

from the Italian Federation and some drama

44:51

going around over a bunch of politics

44:54

for who was chosen for the team , even though

44:56

there were much higher ranked athletes

44:58

in the standings . So sounds

45:00

like there's some drama there as well

45:02

. Team Canada got

45:05

to give it a shout out there , but the

45:07

first time we are not going to have a mixed team

45:09

, really because we don't have enough female

45:11

athletes , which is very

45:14

disappointing to see . We

45:16

haven't had the best last few years here when it came

45:18

to racing after being on you

45:20

know , a hopeful high for a while , with tyler

45:23

mislichuk having some good results in

45:25

the race

45:27

ahead of the previous olymp . But

45:30

what else do we have going ?

45:31

on here .

45:32

Team Australia was also announced . I

45:36

don't think there is any drama there

45:38

. Did you guys hear of any ?

45:40

No , no , no drama there .

45:43

Team South Africa , we've got Vicky Vandermeer

45:45

and , on the men's side , henry Skuman

45:48

, jamie Riddle Nothing

45:50

too crazy there . And then Team New Zealand

45:52

I think is the last one that has been announced . On

45:54

the women's side , we have Ainsley Thorpe and Nicole

45:57

Vanderkay and on the men's side

45:59

, hayden Wilde and Dylan Mugello . So

46:01

, of course , no surprise with

46:03

Hayden Wilde being up there

46:05

. It'll be really interesting

46:07

to see how this goes down . Are we going to have another

46:10

Hayden and Alex

46:12

showdown for the medals ? Will

46:15

we have another Blumenfeld up there ?

46:17

Yeah , man , who

46:19

knows what they're going to lock in for this race ? We've

46:22

talked about it . I've listened

46:25

to his most recent episode too , where

46:27

things went wrong in

46:29

Yokohama . He didn't

46:31

have the race he won and then kaglari had the mechanicals

46:34

um , so I think he was in a better

46:36

spot already for kaglari , and now they

46:39

are so race olympic

46:41

specific now that who knows

46:43

what ? What christian's gonna show up , I mean

46:45

, I think I think we all expect the

46:47

best one and in that distance

46:49

specific ready to go . But Alex

46:52

and Hayden certainly are out there

46:55

. Christian talks a lot about . Don't

46:57

forget about Morgan too . I mean the

46:59

year he's been having .

47:02

He's been on fire for sure . And

47:04

have you guys heard about the latest controversy

47:06

with the Olympics that they're not

47:08

going to be providing air conditioners ? So

47:12

several countries are

47:14

bringing their own air conditioners

47:16

to the olympic village

47:18

. Oh

47:22

, it's a whole thing now . Yeah , apparently they're

47:24

just they're not going to include it . But like

47:26

europe hot . If it's like hot , hot

47:28

is it's different than the US . It's like everyone

47:30

has air conditioning in the US , so at least you get a reprieve

47:32

from it . If you get a heat

47:35

wave going through

47:37

France and there's no air conditioning and they're not

47:39

built to stay cool . That's

47:41

going to be unpleasant .

47:43

Sounds like a potential advertisement for

47:46

, like an ice bathtub or something like

47:48

that .

47:48

There we go yeah . Sponsor

47:51

the entire athlete's village yeah

47:54

, portable air conditioning coming

47:56

soon there we go get

47:59

it done , but you know it speaks to another thing

48:01

, though . Like that definitely put some of

48:03

the less well-funded countries

48:05

at a disadvantage . If you have the uh , the

48:08

big first world countries coming in

48:10

, they've all got their air conditioning , everything dialed in

48:12

, and then you know , some countries may not

48:14

be able to afford providing that for their

48:16

athletes . So yeah , it just

48:18

it seems like an odd choice

48:21

. I know France is feeling like they've spent a lot of

48:23

money on this , which is fair , but air

48:25

conditioning , that

48:27

seems like it should be a given .

48:30

Yeah , especially in the middle of

48:32

summer .

48:34

Yeah .

48:34

It gets warmer , kind of like tea time .

48:38

Well , we have had

48:40

some fun kind of talking about the Olympics

48:43

and we're definitely looking forward to see how those

48:45

races shake out . But , josh

48:47

, you had some fun going into an even

48:49

shorter distance with

48:52

Super Tri and some announcements going on there

48:54

. Do you want to tell us about it ?

48:57

Yeah , so Supertri officially

49:00

had their kickoff

49:02

for the upcoming season , which starts

49:04

here in Boston on August 18th

49:06

and then goes from here to Chicago

49:08

so it was Wednesday

49:10

night then

49:13

goes from here to Chicago , so I think it was Wednesday night . They had a kickoff party

49:15

in Boston , um , and we had the event organizer , which is called

49:17

Boston triathlon . It's a longstanding

49:19

sprint and Olympic distance

49:21

race here in just South

49:24

of Boston and you get to race off an awesome

49:26

Bay and then bike

49:28

through the city and some of the suburbs and

49:30

then an awesome little coastal run

49:32

and that event's been going on for years . He

49:35

was able to connect with the Supertribe

49:37

ownership and now

49:39

, with the new team partnership franchise

49:42

set up , which

49:45

I believe that fourth team is about to be announced

49:47

any day now and

49:49

they did announce that that that would

49:51

be coming , so it would have all four teams . But tim

49:54

don was there representing uh podium

49:56

racing team and was . They had

49:58

a nice q a panel with with the members

50:00

um , and he

50:03

was just really excited

50:05

about the opportunity to come to

50:07

these bigger cities like boston . The

50:09

, the , the athletes who are under

50:11

contract and all of these athletes are already

50:13

under contract they know who these teams are are

50:16

consists of Um . I did get

50:18

some information that was four

50:20

of the five U S athletes are under

50:22

contract for super league . Um

50:25

, what four ? We don't know yet and I believe

50:27

it's like over 85 , 90%

50:29

of the contracted athletes

50:32

are going to be coming from Paris to

50:34

Boston to do that first race . So you

50:36

want to talk about being in shape and being ready to go there

50:38

. They're going to be ready to go and

50:43

it's really cool because it's a sprint and Olympic already

50:45

existing and this is one of the things I think they're going to do

50:47

throughout the local

50:49

races is the sprint's going

50:51

to go , the Olympic's going to go and

50:54

use their normal courses and then they have

50:56

a little bit separate transition area

50:58

set up and the whole super try

51:00

look and feel is in a different

51:02

area . So that race will start

51:05

after the sprint in the Olympic . So

51:08

all of the age group athletes will actually

51:10

get to come out , participate

51:12

, have some post-race refreshments

51:14

and and watch and be at

51:16

uh , the super try event . And they've partnered

51:19

with some of the

51:21

local tourist boards and companies that are going to help promote it

51:23

. So

51:34

those campaigns are going to start to kick off and

51:37

some bibs will go to some local triathletes

51:40

. I'm going to be getting a bib to the

51:42

Olympic , which will be really cool . It'll

51:44

be my first Olympic distance on August 18th

51:46

and yeah , it's just , it was a really

51:49

well run event . They had some great food . It was

51:51

hosted at one of these new , uh

51:54

f1 arcade facilities

51:56

, so I don't know if you guys have ever seen that . So , jenny , it's

51:58

literally a facility of like maybe

52:01

a thousand f1 simulators that . So

52:03

the whole place is packed with just people from

52:05

boston being there as an activity

52:08

to do on a wednesday night . And then we had

52:10

a little private room in the back that maybe had like

52:12

10 simulators and a bar

52:14

and stuff for private events . So really

52:16

cool facility . I guess they're popping up all over the place . This one

52:18

just opened a couple of weeks ago .

52:20

That is my kind of bar to go to .

52:22

That'd be so much fun .

52:25

Oh , that sounds wicked . Yeah , it'll be fun to see the

52:28

next team announced in there and get

52:30

them rolling Really . Yeah

52:32

, Super League seems to change things up every

52:34

year , and this thing's no different . Did

52:37

they happen to mention if they'll continue to have

52:39

the short shoot ?

52:40

So it is going to be the Enduro style . So

52:43

swim , bike run , swim , bike run , swim , bike run

52:45

. We will have the cutoffs

52:48

, and then obviously there's no cutoff if somebody that

52:50

far ahead of somebody else that

52:53

rule has been put in place . But

52:55

they will have the short shoot and

52:57

it doesn't necessarily go to

53:00

the swimmer that gets it , or or

53:02

so we know there was some controversy

53:04

around Hayden wild last year and and

53:07

and Tim was certainly asked those questions

53:09

and it just comes down to strategy and on

53:11

the fly-fly decision-making . But

53:14

the sports media didn't play .

53:16

Yeah , no , he's awesome . He just

53:18

loves the sport , so into it

53:20

, has so much experience with it . He's always

53:23

been a fun person to chat to and definitely knows

53:26

his stuff . So be curious to see

53:28

how this next Super League season goes down . It'll

53:30

be fun to watch and see how the

53:32

changes actually mix up the racing . I don't know if

53:34

it's going to have too much effect on the

53:36

actual races , just more so how the teams

53:38

are structured and the athletes in

53:40

there . But you know what ? They do

53:42

such a good job at getting this

53:44

fast , furious , short racing that people who

53:47

aren't into triathlon are more

53:49

likely to watch , let's be honest , than

53:51

three hours of a T100

53:53

or eight hours of Ironman . Hopefully

53:56

they have all the technical stuff worked out too so

53:58

you can see a lot more splits and information on screen

54:01

and really make it something fun to watch

54:03

.

54:04

I mean there's the whole individual race , there's the team

54:06

race , as we all know . There's the season-long

54:08

individual bonuses , there's the

54:10

swim bonus , there's the swim bonus , there's the run bonus

54:12

, so there's a whole bunch of different incentives

54:15

for the athletes and for the fans

54:17

to keep track of . It's definitely fan-friendly

54:20

because it is quick and

54:22

fun and exciting . So they're

54:24

hoping that this new format

54:27

and franchise kind of holds

54:29

and it becomes more of that F1

54:31

type of mentality and and

54:33

takes off . So we'll see how it goes

54:36

. I think they're all excited about it . Um

54:38

, if you're in the boston area , want to be part

54:40

of one of these ? I know the boston triathlon still has

54:42

registration spots open , so same

54:44

with chicago . It's an opportunity to get

54:46

your own racing done and and then be

54:48

there for these literally olympic

54:51

athletes coming right out of the olympics and in

54:53

top-notch form , running as individuals

54:56

and teammates .

54:57

so excited about that yeah

54:59

, I've been to a bunch of the super bowl , previously

55:01

super league events and if you can go to

55:03

one to spectate they make it a whole party , a

55:06

whole event . It's some really cool

55:08

energy and because they do such short

55:10

races with laps all around and stuff , you're seeing the

55:12

athletes constantly and you're seeing what's going down

55:14

. They're good with having big screens and announcer

55:17

on site so you know what's happening even if you're

55:19

not watching the feed . So check it

55:21

out if you can . Those are always a blast

55:23

to go see . Well

55:25

, I think the last thing we have going on here

55:28

is another Ironman Pro Series 70.3

55:30

going on this weekend , and we debated

55:33

how to pronounce this prior to

55:35

the podcast and I still have no idea . So

55:37

it is Ironman

55:39

70.3 Les Sables d'Alon

55:42

, vendee , maybe

55:44

. Oui , oui , oui oui

55:47

, oui , oui , yeah

55:50

, canadian , but definitely do

55:52

not speak French , so that

55:54

is my best guess at it . But we will start

55:56

with the women's side . Uh , some

55:58

of the top names we got in there emily moria

56:01

, marjolaine pierre , katie curran

56:03

, mayesta h nielsen , chelene

56:05

bell , katie coley , pamela

56:07

olivera , danielle blamel , bolle , pamela Oliveira , danielle

56:11

Blamel , nick Bartlett , a

56:14

few other names along there , and

56:16

then on the men's

56:18

side . Well , actually let's go into the women's first . Not

56:21

the most packed start list , we'll

56:24

say . We're definitely getting into the thick

56:26

of Ironman racing and a lot of the Ironman

56:28

pro series . Athletes are obviously

56:31

prioritizing those three ironmans

56:33

that they can have included . So it seems like

56:35

some of these 70.3s are a little softer

56:37

in between . But let's start

56:39

with you , betty . Who do you think is gonna take

56:41

the race this weekend ?

56:44

um , I am gonna take a

56:46

local french with , uh , marjorie

56:49

pierre . I think . She has her own legs

56:51

to back and she knows the course like the back of

56:53

her hand , so I think it's an easy pick . So

56:56

, yeah , choosing her .

56:58

Sounds good . How about you , Josh ? What have you got this

57:00

weekend ?

57:03

Jenny , you can go next . Okay

57:05

, you need to go first one of these days too . You

57:07

haven't gone first in a while .

57:08

Oh true , maybe I'll save it for the races where

57:10

I've got it here . I know

57:15

we definitely we should do the uh , the daily try

57:17

, uh picks in there too and post

57:19

those up . Those are a lot of fun . Um

57:22

, you know what I'm gonna go ? Pamela olivera

57:24

, I think she's gonna go turn it up . Have a

57:26

great result over there this weekend

57:28

. How about you , josh

57:30

?

57:30

I'll go with f1 , emily I , I

57:32

, I believe what fed a . I was actually

57:35

going to go marjolaine as well too , because

57:37

I think that whole french aspect

57:39

home territory and understanding

57:41

that the lay of the land is going to be a big factor

57:43

here with not as deep of a field

57:45

. So I'll go with emily more sounds

57:49

good .

57:51

On the men's side we have

57:53

Rico Bogan , Gustav Bieden , Clement

57:55

Mignon , Arnaud Guillaume

57:57

, Nicholas Knet , Nicholas Mann

57:59

, Mattia Cicerelli

58:01

let's see

58:04

, oh , Michael Raylert , Cam

58:06

Wurf , Rasmus Svensson

58:09

, George Goodwin

58:11

, Vincent

58:13

Amell yeah , Rasmus Svensson . George Goodwin , Vincent Kamel yeah , a

58:15

few decent names on here , so

58:18

we'll start again with you . Fede , who do you think is going

58:20

to take it this weekend ?

58:23

well , I know you guys

58:25

know who I'm going to pick . Yeah

58:29

, I cannot choose other

58:31

than Gustav for this race , so

58:33

thank you for picking me first .

58:36

Um , yeah , gustav he's

58:38

gonna take it . I don't know . His run

58:40

doesn't seem like it's quite back where I was

58:43

. I was looking at that , but I don't know if his run is quite

58:45

back where he needs it to be , to be up

58:47

in that I listen to some of the some of the Norwegian

58:49

Method podcast .

58:50

He's not running fully yet .

58:52

Yeah , no , fair enough , I'm

58:54

gonna go . Clement

58:58

Mignon , I think he's gonna pull it out here . Same

59:01

deal . Josh was saying there French

59:03

, got the atmosphere , got the crowds cheering for you

59:05

, ready to get it out there . How about you

59:07

, josh ?

59:08

I'm gonna go with our buddy who was not

59:10

able to be a part of the photo

59:12

. Finish at T100 San Francisco Enrico

59:15

Bogan , coming wire to

59:17

wire on this one .

59:19

That's a good shout . That

59:21

would not be a surprise , awesome

59:24

. Well , we'll look forward to watching that , hopefully with a few

59:26

less issues and getting to see

59:28

the broadcast , but it should

59:30

be some more fun racing this weekend

59:32

. Anything else you guys wanted to chat

59:34

about before we close it out today ?

59:36

I forgot . I did get some good news today . Um

59:39

, what's that unexpected ? I totally

59:41

forgot . I even registered . But new york city

59:44

has all these marathons have major

59:46

uh ways of getting

59:49

in and they've been asking for

59:51

people to like do a sweepstakes or whatever . And then they

59:53

threw one out there last week or two

59:55

weeks ago about a virtual registration

59:57

for New York and you

59:59

could do . You have to do a virtual marathon

1:00:02

this year

1:00:04

within the week of the New York city marathon , so

1:00:06

October 28th to November 3rd

1:00:08

you have to do a virtual . Well , it

1:00:10

was a lottery again and I have friends

1:00:12

who didn't get it . And then , all of a sudden , I saw the email come through

1:00:14

that I got in . So

1:00:18

with that comes a guaranteed entry

1:00:20

to next year's New York City Marathon

1:00:23

. Congratulations , that's

1:00:25

wicked . I'll be running New York in 2025

1:00:27

.

1:00:28

That'll be a very very cool experience

1:00:30

.

1:00:31

So Chicago , new York checked and if

1:00:33

Chicago goes well , boston will be 2026

1:00:36

.

1:00:36

There we go . I tried to find a

1:00:39

charity one for Chicago . Couldn't find anything that

1:00:41

had any spots left in there , so if anyone hears of anyone

1:00:44

who can get into Chicago there , let

1:00:46

me know .

1:00:47

We actually had another friend that was with us at Peloton

1:00:49

this weekend from Boston she's

1:00:51

looking for one too . So Janine and I said we

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would be doing some research and seeing if we

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can reach out to our foundation to see if

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they know of anyone .

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I'll let you know . Let me know if you find any

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, because that'd be a lot of fun . I know there's one to the Phoenix

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Foundation , but that is very

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, very pricey .

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Ours is under $2,000 . That's Chicago's

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in New York . That is magical .

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Yeah , awesome

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. Well , congratulations , that's exciting . That'll

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be a very cool experience to go run the New York

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City Marathon Definitely something

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on the bucket list to attempt one of these days

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in Boston . Yeah , one

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of these days going to try Boston . I

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mean , these are all stepping stones to get to boston for me , but I'll take them along the way . There

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we go wicked well as always . Thanks for joining me , guys , and we are gonna follow along with all the racing

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this weekend and be back next week to chat all about it .

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But have a great night have a good one

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, ever have a good one , guys .