Woohoo! Welcome to the Summer Ball Play podcast. We are so happy to be with you today.

And honestly, kind of mind-boggled. It's Tuesday already. I feel like these

podcasts serve as a guidepost for Time Passing By, and I feel like we lived four

weeks since the last podcast. I'm pretty sure. Mind-boggled. I love it. Yeah,

coaching is such an interesting thing because you're always zoomed out looking at

each day is like a line and a spreadsheet, which is a really weird way to look at

time when you think about it. It's a great perspective, though, because you see

people go through absolutely everything, and it gives you this kind of

equanimity, a piece, a zen. I think of almost all coaches that see it that way,

but it's also a little bit strange or thinking about our own mind. It's really strange. Well,

it's funny because I used to, I do a lot of my coaching on weekends, like playing for the next

couple of weeks. And so Saturday and Sunday used to be that guidepost for me of like,

what a mind-time has passed? It's like done the last coaching job. But it's really funny, too.

I think we both give pretty epic birthday workouts when athletes tell us it's their birthdays.

And that also, I think like the goal with those birthday workouts is to remind athletes it's like

to give them like a guidepost on the year, just kind of a fun way. Yeah, I think when you're zoomed

out, time can pass really fast. But time only passes fast in retrospect, and that's what

birthday workouts are all about for us. So my favorite example is something like someone's

turning 45. They'll do a 45 minute tempo followed by 45 by one minute, or something like that.

Yeah, wild like that in the context. Okay, I've never given a birthday workout quite like that.

I will kind of run birthday workouts. I'm like, I still want to be able to go out for like,

you know, a fun dinner and have a beer and celebrate and not be like on the side of the road.

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