all right good morning welcome to the podcast welcome welcome it's a uh dude it's a beautiful

july week and it's a fantastic tuesday it's july 23 year yeah we're still kicking in in

2024 welcome board everybody listen to the crushing iron podcast and This is episode 700 and 84. Yes, it is.

And it's a beautiful morning here. You'll be happy to know. I already got in a subboard.

Yeah. And threw in a nice little dig. This is, uh, it wasn't quite the power bar dig you made six years ago on the trace at that infamous rest stop.

But it was somewhat close as we were finishing up our very serious in-depth and strategic pre-show meeting.

Mike says, all right, before we get started, I got to take off my sweatshirt and just lobbed it in there as if I didn't know.

It was perfect weather up there as it always is on the water up in Wisconsin.

It'll be a beautiful weekend too in Madison.

We've got our C-26 camp in Madison.

Looks like a typical Madison weekend.

Beautiful weather, sunshine, cool cool mornings perfectly warm midday and

afternoons a lot of time on the water and great time with friends so looking forward to

hearing how that camp goes and one of our favorite if not one in not my it's my one of top

three favorite cities in Madison and to go and spectate races.

And speaking to races, good God, was it a busy weekend.

It was a jam-packed weekend.

You had like Placid, which was, I think we say this every year.

And then I think I know that I specifically forget just how relentless that course is and how much of a beast the bike courses.

And more importantly, how much of a beast the run courses.

Just such a hard course.

And you had Ohio, which was, I heard just was spectacular weather.

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