Kailua-Kona

Hold on.

But yeah, so Kona in particular is where we're going on the Big Island, and that would be on the southern tip of it.

But I'm not sure.

We will be going to volcano-

I mean, he did win the 70.3 World Champs in St. George, and then the other Ironman World Champs, which we don't kinda count.

After Kona, it will be a reputation.

Yeah.

If he does not get it done at Kona, then it's like, okay, Kristian, this is the second year.

He came into this year, he's like, "I don't really care about the year.

I wanna win the titles." He said that.

So if he doesn't get it done until Kona, and look, the man's probably got more pressure on himself than we could ever put on him, then he probably starts questioning it himself too, and then it's a mental thing for him moving forward to get over this hurdle to, to win a title, even if he's physically capable.

So that's really the...

But the Big Island, it's big.

I've been to Kona.

The one time I've been to Hawaii, I went to Kona.

And it was really

cool.

However, the way Uncle Charlie works, we work like a jazz band from the Grateful Dead thing.

Every song we play has a potential to be jammed in.

So with the clip that I sent you, That was from a gig from about a year ago in Kona, and we played Things We Said Today by the Beatles.

But, and even in the poster, it just, like, she's one of those ones.

Again, I have all the respect in the world for the Kat Matthews, the Sylvie Lasas, and the top-tier Kona contenders.

participants that we're all expecting to show up and be there and Taylor Nibb, who showed up here.

And it's like, I get Lucy's going in and there's others that are just going after Kona and respect that too.

But I have the utmost respect for the athletes that showed the respect to the 70.3 World Championships, came here, raced, and Solveig could have easily backed out given the fact that she didn't have the full training block that you would like to have before a world championship.

Yes, I don't think she expected a top five or a top four.

And I think for her...

She put a gap a little bit, like 40, 50 seconds into Laura Phillips.

... area

... girl, Kona, hey.

Julie in Kona.

Yeah, for, for sure.

If she handles the heat and she runs really quick, then she probably finishes on the podium in her first year potentially, and we know we've-

Mm-hmm

... is to try and get on the podium.

And look, and we'll go a little bit more into this is, but, you know, with potentially Taylor and Lucy up the road, I think Julie's gonna have to be semi-conservative and to try and for your first Kona and get a good one under the belt, but I can easily see her-

I'll use an example of that.

We don't have a custodian in Kona.

And it was a whole issue going back and forth, filing grievances.

And so I just went to the newspaper as a branch president.

And I relate this always to one of my, one of my friends who's a member of mine.

Um, he's been a member for 30 years.

Um, he transferred from San Francisco to Kona.

So he knows, uh, you know, he knows what I'm talking about.

I think we stopped in...

it called kona kailua kona for because lincoln always wanted to get something panda i don't know i don't know what that says and muds i don't know i don't know anyways then we went back to our condo and then so gid and i were like okay Let's walk over to the art.

No, we drove over to the place where we had done the boat tour.

Cause it was literally right down the road from us and to the outrigger, I think it's called the outrigger and yeah, the Kona outrigger.

And UTMB have kind of adopted what the Ironman triathlon structure was, which is create a world championship.

So in triathlon, it was, well, it is Kona in Hawaii, and that's coming up soon as the pinnacle.

And to qualify for it, you have to do one of these other races.

Okay.