Show Notes
Our graphics guru Gillian Cridge joins us this week as we start to lay the groundwork as we move into championship season. This week we chat about the 70.3 World Championship bib list that dropped, the T100 race in Vancouver coming up this weekend and the last pro series race before the big ones, IRONMAN Kalmar where we talk about the 3 in one race, those going for the podium, those going for the pro series, and those going for Kona Slots. Then we move into some hot takes to end the show.
🏁 Intro (0:00–8:00) 💂🏻 Last weeks Results (8:05-18:10) 🌎 Initial thoughts on 70.3 WC Start list (18:15-43:20) 🐋 Races this weekend (43:20-1:09:30) 🔥 Hot Takes (1:09:35-1:16:00)
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