As you’ve mentioned in the past the May one could normally be too cold, but we’ve had reasonable weather for the last 10 days & it looks settled over the weekend.
Hope to take it easy, no pressure & the gold standard would be a -ve bike split.
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@Doonhamer yes you will.
Very excited about racing to not be the last (v60) looking at the predicted weather. I’ll PM you 
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@funkin you really need to get down to Defi next year
I know it’s. Different sport, however, IM really need to look at Defiwind to learn how to put on a good show. The post race entertainment is simply awesome, 3 nights of partying with incredible bands and way too much (partly free). And it costs about £300 for 4 days racing and partying
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Some good tracker action in Mallorca at the minute. Chickenboy currently second M55 which is obviously no surprise, man’s been on it this year!
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Yesterday was the 5th and final race in the 2023/24 Qatar national triathlon series. I couldn’t do it because of injury, but it looked like a perfect morning to be out racing if a little on the warm side.
There hasn’t been a national series for a few years because of Covid, but in previous years they used to recognise a series winner for each age group. The standard here is not like UK & so I had been going well, taking 1st spot in the old man age group in each of the first 4 races. But the same guy came 2nd in each of those 4 races, plus he won yesterday.
Not quite sure how they calculate the series age group winners, but if it is total points across 5 races then I guess he has won the fossils category & deservedly so. That’ll larn me for getting on a snowboard in the sand dunes 
Sights now set on recovery and then next year- although who knows if there will be some 49 year old whipper snapper aging up.
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He’s not far off the lead with 4k of the run gone but the leader looks to be moving away by a few seconds/K
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C’mon 
How did he finish? He’s been beasting it this year again!
Second M55 
Some bloody fast times elsewhere, Paul Lunn 1:20 run 
he’s M50 and an M60 with 4:36 overall
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He was just under 3 minutes off the win. Cracker! 
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How did you get on @Doonhamer and @Clive?
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If it’s the same bike course as two years ago,
It’s solely for mentalists 
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Hasn’t uploaded yet to Strava yet
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5:12 for me at Mallorca, that netted 22nd M55-59
Most stacked AG field I’ve ever seen outside of World Champs.
Fun day out though, but I was a bit rusty especially on the bike, as trying to build to peak in late October.
Fabulous weather😎
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Not got great WiFi, but @Clive was 2nd in his AG & I was 3rd in mine…different AGs
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Sounds like he’d have been competing for first if it wasn’t for those problems.
Kept his head in the game though
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Well done Chris, the Europeans love Majorca 
Check out the top 2 in M60! 4:36 & 4:40
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Bloody hell. That’s great going under those circumstances. Great level head from the dentist.
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