Next week, our board is meeting in Colorado Springs to finalize our strategic plan for the next couple of years.

And it's very, very, very focused on youth, women and short course racing.

That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Triathlon.com. As always, I'm your host, Michael, and on today's show, the podcast presented by scientific triathlon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and on today's show, I have an interview with the president

of the USA Triathlon, the national governing body for triathlon in the United States,

Barry Siff.

Just a quick note before we get into that, I got a very good email from

a listener of the show Chris from Texas, and he has a topic suggestion, and he writes,

one other topic I thought of which I have never heard anyone speak about is hosting professional

triathletes if there is a race near your home.

I live in the Woodlands, Texas.

There is a full Iron Man event each year and the Texas 70.3, Galveston, is not that far away either.

I always thought it would be nice to reach out to a pro to stay in our house,

and I was wondering if you ever do that

or if you know a way to connect people even amateurs from other countries would be fun

although my wife would probably not allow a stranger in our house but i would still try thanks

again chris so chris thank you so much for your feedback and your topic request.

I know that you have another question as well about transitions and we will get to that in a future episode.

Today's interview is so long that I want to spend a bit more time talking transitions.

And also I want to return to this topic a bit later down the road but I

want to just plant a seed in the heads of the listeners that maybe we can do something together

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