One of my favorite writers, Brian Doyle, has this essay about a friend on, I think it's

actually called on not beating cancer.

And he himself actually died of brain cancer a few years ago, but the whole thing, there's

a lie at the end, I'm going to butcher, but I go back to you time and again about this.

Look, we talk a lot about winning and losing in our society, and the real thing is to endure

and to stick around and to stay in the game.

And I think about that when it comes to running, it's like, that's my whole jam.

And I think there's so much to learn from people who are not winning sports journalism

or sports coverage as always, we always focus on the best and how are the people at the

top to who's going to win this race, and I love to find the lessons people have from

the middle of the pack or the back of the pack, just like the beauty of somebody finishing

with like a few seconds to go in the western states 100, you know, like that's the jam.

Hey, what's up everyone? I'm your host, Mario Freyoli, and you are listening to The Morning

Shake Out Podcast. Every week on this show, I try to glean unique insights and uncommon

inspiration from a wide range of personalities in an effort to help you see what's possible

through the lens of running. I am super pumped to share this episode with all of you.

It's with Brendan Leonard, who's an ultra runner, writer, award-winning filmmaker,

speaker, and creator of one of my favorite websites on the internet, semi-rad.com.

That's semi-rad.com if you want to visit it at home. On top of all of that, he's also a new

dad, which we talked quite a bit about in this conversation. Brendan is someone whose work I've

admired for quite a while now. He's got an unmatched ability to tell stories, use humor,

and share drawings that convey many of the things that we all feel in experience as runners

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