Welcome to Coach Bennett's podcast, where every run has a purpose, where kindness is

hardcore, where this is about running, and this is not about running, where every starting

line is a finish line in disguise, where rambling still gets you where you need to be, where

pineapple will never ruin your pizza, and the sodas, adult and not adult kind are always cold,

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

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

All right, welcome to episode 98 of Coach Bennett's podcast, and I'll tell you what, we're going

a little rogue today. Yeah, yeah we are because this is the

thing I had an entire episode planned I had it mapped out I even bullet pointed a whole bunch of

things or I was like all right this is what we're going to talk about and again it was inspired by

so many of you because there's there's some big time spring races coming up

and, you know, it's not just marathons, it's 5Ks, it's 8Ks, it's 15Ks, it's half marathons.

And there was some questions that, you know, I could kind of consolidate into an episode

where I thought, you know what, I'm going to be

able to answer this in one episode and people are going to be so excited. But then, you know what,

this is what happened. I started to realize that over the last, not just weeks, months,

I've been getting a consistent amount of feedback from so many of you,

not asking about how to do a certain workout, how to prepare for a certain race.

You know, it wasn't about that.

It wasn't questions about speed runs or easy runs or long runs or cadence or heart rate or zones or any of that. It wasn't questions about speed runs or easy runs or long runs or cadence or heart rate or zones

or any of that stuff. It wasn't about running economy being efficient with your running. It wasn't about

form. It was it was about something else. And as you know, this this podcast is about running,

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