but you have to set your body up for success and you have to take care of it after it does the

thing that you asked it to. We're going to drink so much water after we run. We're going to make

sure we get electrolytes in. My personal favorite is a brand called Element, and my favorite

flavor is watermelon salt. Not everybody loves that because it's super salty.

My kids think it tastes disgusting. I love it. When you're doing endurance races, they always say

when salt starts to taste good, it's because you are really needing it. So always, always,

always an electrolyte. And I take it afterwards. I know some people take it before, that's my jam. If you're running super long distance, that's where you want to look at things like goo. You want to look at chewies. You want to look at things that you can take as you're running. But I don't think we're here yet. You're at the beginning. So you don't need to worry about after three miles, I need to take something to replenish. I think for right now we're here yet. You're at the beginning so you don't need to worry about after three miles,

I need to take something to replenish. I think for right now, we're just focusing on getting you

going. So that looks like what happens before and what happens afterwards.

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you're in the right place. I am recording today's episode for you before I go and run.

It felt really appropriate because it's Saturday morning and my daughter's in

there watching cartoons. The teenagers are still asleep. And I'm preparing for a Saturday morning run,

which is typically one of my longer runs of the week. And as I was sipping my coffee this morning,

and I thought, you know, I have

run a lot of miles over the years. I was sort of thinking about having run three full marathons,

at least 16 halves that I can think of. And this isn't counting like the walks that I've done in Spain or climbing

mountains or anything, just like straight up running. And then I started doing the math. Like if I'm

running on average this many miles and I'm not going to say I run every single week because I don't,

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