Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is the third

episode in our mini series titled The Coaching Call. If this is your first time tuning in, I am getting ready for

the Canyons 100K in late April and have been publishing monthly conversations with my coach, Ryan Gelfy from

Trails and Tarmac, about the training.

In this particular episode, we recap training for the month of February, but mostly focused

on the response to a non-running injury I suffered three weeks into the month that put me on the

shelf for about two weeks. We try to structure all of these conversations in a way that you,

the listener, can gain value from. So yeah, with that, let's get started. Okay, we are back.

Myself, Ryan Gelfi, coaching call number three. a lot to talk about. And how do I put it?

There's always surprises that come up in training blocks. I don't think there's ever been a

perfect training block in my life and probably a lot of other athletes will feel the same.

And that'll probably be a large topic of conversation in this episode.

So what's up?

How's it going, Ryan?

Man, it's going pretty good.

No, there is no such thing as perfect.

I got super sick this week myself.

And it's like, you know, all my best laid plans for what I was going to do.

You know, you're like, oh, I guess I got to rethink about, you know,

how that next couple weeks is going to, anyways, no one ever has a perfect training block

unless perhaps, you know, they live in a very controlled world, a very controlled environment

where like they don't really do anything else or think about anything else or, you know,

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