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

Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm our host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 55. And this episode

will be a little bit late because for once I wasn't able to pre-record the episode well

ahead of schedule and I'm actually recording this on

Thursday morning the day when it should already have gone out early on in the morning

because I've been sick and lost my voice completely and you can probably hear that I'm still

recovering a bit from that so my voice isn't exactly back to normal but it's good enough

I think that i will give this

podcasting thing an attempt again and hopefully i can get this episode out and uh my voice will remain

intact throughout we will see about that but we have a couple of great questions today so i do

want to do my best to get them out on Thursday as usual even though it will be a few hours later than you're used to.

Before we get to the questions, a big thanks to our sponsors, precision hydration that you can find on precision hydration.com.

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