What's going on guys and welcome back to another episode of the Bear Performance Podcast.

I am your host Nick Bear owner of Bear Performance Nutrition and we are officially 11 days out

from the first marathon of the season.

The Austin, Texas marathon.

This is my third time running the Austin marathon and as many of you guys know,

they've been following my journey, my process.

I am attempting to qualify for the Boston marathon this year.

That is a sub three hour marathon and it's roughly a six, 50 minute per mile pace the entire

way through to achieve that goal.

Now in today's episode, we're going to be talking about some of my training previously

throughout this prep, my taper that I am currently in right now and some things that

I experienced during this prep.

Now this is different from anything else I've done in the past.

You know what, when I trained for my last two marathon and let's talk about that quick,

my last two marathon I trained for.

My first one ever was in 2017 and it's funny looking back because it was shortly after

getting out of the military.

And the day I got out of the military, I said, I will never run a day in my life again.

I said my running days are over.

And that changed very quickly and a few months after I was running the Austin marathon,

26.2 miles.

Now when I trained for that first marathon, I really did not follow a plan.

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