Welcome to Episode 467 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erikson, and today I interview Coach Russ Cox.

Ross is well known among a niche audience of athletes and coaches who are trying to optimize

chances for Kona qualification and 73 World's qualification.

He was first on that Trafflon show already back in late 2017 and returns today almost

eight years later to discuss the newly updated Kona and 703 World's qualification systems

that were announced by Iron Man in early July.

So we'll cover exactly how this system works.

The pros and cons.

We'll speculate a bit on what things might look like.

But most importantly, we'll discuss what it means for athletes who are looking to qualify.

What should you do in terms of race selection,

can you make any kind of predictions regarding times needed to qualify, etc.

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