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I'm Coach Bennett. Thank you for letting me be a part of your day. Let's get started.

Welcome to episode 140 of Coach Bennett's podcast. This one is entitled Five Ways to Make

Your Easy Runs Easier.

And if you listen to me, if you've run with me, if you read some of the stuff I write,

then you know what I'm going to tell you.

Your easy runs are the most important runs of not just your week, just your running, period.

Now, I will say, you know, there's a caveat here.

If you're training for like a half marathon or a marathon, you've got to get them long runs in.

There's no two ways around it.

You got to get those in.

But what I'm trying to tell you is if you don't know how to do your easy runs, if you don't do your easy runs, we're not even going to be talking about long runs.

We're not even going to be talking about speed runs.

That's why they're the most important part.

Without those easy runs, those recovery runs, because I use those two terms interchangeably, without them, the other runs, like we can't do anything with them because it's those easy runs,

those recovery runs.

They're the overwhelming majority of minutes, meters, and miles.

You will run week in and week out forever.

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