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Hey, what's up everybody?

Welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm my host Michael, and on today's episode, we have another Q&A episode. This week, the theme is gear and technology. Just as a quick reminder and a quick piece of housekeeping, I guess. If you're interested in asking

questions for future Q&As, then the best thing to do is to sign up for the Scientific Triathlon

newsletter on our website down in the footer of the website, to be specific, because I always put

any requests for questions in the weekly newsletter, which usually comes out on Thursday morning

European time. The other option is that you can follow us on Instagram and follow along in the

Instagram stories because I also put the request for questions there. However, of course,

it's quite easy to miss an Instagram story because they disappear. So that's why I'm saying that

the newsletter is probably the best option because

that one is easiest not to miss any requests for questions that I put out. But all right, before we get

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Now without any further ado, let's get into this week's Q&A.

The first question for today is from Bellam Tri-Team, and the question is simply carbon fiber versus barefoot running.

And I'm going to answer this question concisely. If you want to run fast, then carbon fiber shoes for sure.

I don't know that there are any real benefits of barefoot running. I do like the

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