Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I am your host, Finn Melanson,

and this is the second episode of our coaching call series. For those that did not listen to the first

episode, I have partnered with Ryan Gelfy, who is the head coach at Trails and Tarmac,

to train together for the Canyans 100K in late April.

We're doing all of the training in public, which means that the training log and our monthly coaching conversations will be publicly available.

In this particular episode, we recap the first month of training together and talk

specifically about goal setting, training partners, what we are doing to prepare for the

demands of the course. And towards the end of the show, we also dive into some industry-specific

topics like recommended athlete load and what it would look like to coach a co-located trail team.

I hope you enjoy.

It's good to have you back.

I thought the first one was good,

except the table for our plans.

And now that we have a month of training under our belt,

maybe we can start there.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk about this past month.

I think that some of the ideas that you came up with,

as we formulated this podcast series and how it can affect your own training. I think it's been really good. This might be one of the best months of training

that you've put in in a lot of respects. Like the consistency and the workouts have been so good.

I'm excited to talk about them. Me too. There's a part of me that wishes I was internally motivated,

and I think to some extent I am, but there's no question that a lot of the work that I've put in

has been greatly aided by the fact that at least one or two people are watching this, and I don't

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