Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tolifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. Today we welcome

back to the show, Kira DiMato. Kira has done so much in her career. And now she has added

another title of author. She recently released her new book, Don't Call It a Comeback,

and it is awesome. Kira doesn't seem to slow down. She's a mother of two. She's a professional

runner, a motivational speaker, a race analyst with me. She's a realtor and is getting ready

to race the Valencia Marathon in just over a week. We catch up on a whole bunch of

things, and in honor of Thanksgiving, we hear all that she is thankful for. So let's get after it.

All right, Kira, welcome back. Thanks. I'm happy to be here. I do get surprised every time I am

like welcomed back. That is surprising to me that I didn't ruin it the first time with you, Carrie. But oh, my gosh, are you kidding me? Oh, I love it. Every week. I can do it. I mean, there's so much we could talk about. I mean, anyone who could have a different joke on their Strava every single day just has, you know, the capacity to just chat and be quick

on their feet. So, you know, and by the way, like, do you have to look them up? So sometimes I do.

Right now, it's like a self-propelling machine that people know me for like the Strava joke person. So I get

jokes like multiple jokes a day. And then like and then I sort through and some I've used

before and some maybe on Strava appropriate. And then some are great. And I use them. And I try to tag it

when I remember. So it's a self-propelling machine and I really appreciate the help.

I just always wonder like, when are they going to start? Like, when are you going to have to

double up on it? But it's not going to happen, I don't think. I have doubled up. And some people have

caught me. And I'm like, okay, so I can't double up anymore. But it's funny because I doubled up

actually, maybe this was like two months ago. And someone was like, okay, so I can't double up anymore. But it's funny because I doubled up actually,

maybe this was like two months ago. And someone was like, that's a funny joke, but you used it.

And I looked up when I'd used it. And it was like in June of 2021 or something or 2020. It was like years ago.

And so I give that person a lot of credit for like, being like that much of a daily joke

enthusiast, but then also having the storage capacity to remember that.

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