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Welcome to part two of this week's podcast series. As mentioned in podcast number 163, which actually was just released a couple days ago,

I have a lot of questions in queue and so we're getting to them all this week.

We decided based on a tweet that I sent out and listener feedback to release these two

podcasts as two separate episodes just to make them a little bit more palatable.

So all of the special announcements were in the previous podcast for this week, podcast episode number 163,

as well as a lot of really good questions. So we are basically going to skip right over the special announcements

and move straight into this week's listener Q&A after a quick message.

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listener Q&A

Hi Ben, this is Dave Williams from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I've got a question for your podcast and I hope you can answer.

I'm planning on running the Twin Cities marathon on October 2nd and my goal is to go up 315.

My four previous marathon's long triathlon. I've experienced painful side stitches which have slowed me down significantly.

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