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Episode 284: Creating the Perfect IRONMAN Pro Series Calendar

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Show Notes

The boys rip through the latest race results and start lists. Then move on to the topic of the week, the IRONMAN for series. What races would we add, take away, bring back, or move around. We also play around with some scoring and calculating of how to make up the series if we were in charge! Then onto the hot takes where we had a lot submitted this week to get through.

🏁 Intro (0:00–4:25) 💂🏻 Last weeks Results (4:30-14:55) 🌎 Create your own iRONMAN pro series schedule (15:00-54:20) 🔥 Hot Takes (54:30-1:16:15)

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