Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by

Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and I am very congested, as you can probably hear.

I've been sick for the last five or six days and haven't been training at all. And as late as

this morning, I'm recording this on Thursday, I still had a headache that

felt like a thousand bombs going off in my head, and I've never had headaches in my life,

so that was a horrible experience. But now I'm finally feeling better, still very much congested,

so bear with my voice. But this is the reason that you'll be hearing this episode a day later than usual. There was just no way yesterday that I could have recorded an episode. I had absolutely no voice. And it's just coming back to me today as we speak. So it's a day late, but at least it's getting out there. So apologies for keeping you waiting, but I really couldn't have recorded an episode

any of the last few days with the sickness, having been pretty serious. So we have Q&A number 22 today, and remember that you can send in questions on email or through

Facebook. If you have questions that you want to answer, we'll get right into today's questions

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As we are now in late February, we are actually not very far away

from the open water swim season getting started in various parts of the world, including my lovely

Portugal here. I expect that in late March, we will be swimming in the open water even here

in the perhaps in the Lisbon region, but definitely in the southern Portugal, we will be swimming in the open water even here in the, perhaps in the Lisbon region,

but definitely in the southern Portugal.

We will have races in mid to late March that I'll be going to as well.

So it's getting, it's heating up, it's heating up.

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