Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. We are experimenting with a new type of content here. It is the first episode in a monthly series that I am tentatively calling, quote, the coaching call, unquote. For context, in April, I will be lining up for the Cany's 100K and Ryan Gelfi, who has been a former guest

of the show. He's also the head coach at Trails and Tarmac and he is going to help me prepare.

We have worked together at various points in the past five years, most notably in 2018 and 2019.

I've been feeling inspired to take the competitive side of the sport more seriously recently.

And so I reached back out to see if he would be interested in helping me with that goal.

He agreed and we decided to take it a step further by working in total transparency,

which in this case means that our monthly calls will be recorded here on this very podcast, and the

training log will be viewable 24-7 in the show notes of this episode, in future episodes,

as well as in the newsletter by all y'all. Here's how these episodes will work. At the end of

each month, we will hop on a call to recap and analyze the training from the

previous four weeks.

It will be like any normal check-in call of ours, except, of course, it will be recorded.

Nothing will be held back, I promise.

You will get total insight into my goals, how the workouts are going, what's working, what

isn't, what I'm concerned about, how I'm thinking about the race, stuff like that.

There will be four total episodes like this, plus we will do a pre-race and post-race call

in mid and late April.

Hopefully you can see yourself in these conversations and apply some of the topics that we

cover to your own training.

In this first episode, we kick off our coaching relationship that officially starts on January 3rd.

We look into how I'm feeling, how we've worked together in the past, how training will be structured this time around,

strategies to stay focused, how to think about goal setting, stuff like that.

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