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and where there is room on the starting line for everybody.

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Welcome to another episode of Coach Bennett's podcast.

This is episode 141 if you're counting.

I'm not sure anyone's counting other than me, but guess what?

Since I'm counting, I'm going to show off. It's episode 141. And this is eight ways to get better.

Just eight ways to get better. It's not nine. It's not ten. But it's also not like five or six or seven. It's eight ways to get better.

Now, before we jump in to one of those ways, I just want to talk to you about the weekend.

I just had.

I had a great weekend.

It was my birthday weekend.

And I was in New York City.

I got to go there for work for Nike Indoor Nationals, which is the high school indoor track and field

national championships, which is held at the world famous Armory, the Nike Armory Track and

Field in Washington Heights. And I got to do a couple of events. Some of them were like coffee

talks with coaches. I got to hang out with some of the

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