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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kudos to you sir. That is quite an achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Declan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> music-bar <music-bar-bounces@lists.music-bar.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>ToAd<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 July 2019 09:18<br><b>To:</b> Music-bar <music-bar@lists.music-bar.org><br><b>Subject:</b> some non music related news<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This fell out of the sky yesterday:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Apparently I qualified myself for the European and world championship in 2020 standard distance triathlon.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How crazy is this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sunday I participated in the 1/4 triathlon of Kapelle op den Bos, which is a qualifier race. My goal was to reach the finish ;-) Apparently I did better and was top 3 in my age group. Good enough to earn a slot!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>SO EK is in estland and WK is in Canada next summer. Let's see if I can make it to one of the events.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As for last sunday:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>swimming: 1.5km; 25min, this is slow, but there was a rather persistent negative flow in the stream and wet suits were not allowed. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bike: 40km in 1h06min. Was OK, the small slopes where killing me.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Running: 10km in 44min, finally a decent run!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My transition times have improved massively. I still need some work on the first minutes of biking and running, I tend to start way to fast.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That's it for now, now recuperation for a couple of days, and than up to the next event (august 3th / 1/8 sprint for fun in wuustwezel!)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ToAd<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>----------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.thebigear.be">www.thebigear.be</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>