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We hope to see you there. All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

That is the post-race podcast here on The Athletic.

My name is Jeff Gluck.

I'm along with Jordan Bianchi, my coworker. This week, I have shifted locations from Denver,

Colorado to all these last months to now Indianapolis, where I'm camped out here for the next month.

So Jordan, I've actually joined you in the Eastern Time Zone this week. And I tell you what, I did not like that the race.

I was enjoying like, hey, you know, I wake up.

And, you know, I watch the race.

And I've got all this extra time to do my work and all this stuff afterwards.

And I was like sweating the 3 15 p.m. start, you know, and I was like, man, this is, you guys work

late here on the East Coast.

And then it rained too.

We had that splashdown for a little bit.

So it looked like the race might run later too.

And it was like, oh boy.

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