You're listening to the running public.

From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.

Get to the finish line faster.

That's right.

This podcast is for you guys, the running public.

So what are we going to talk about? Well, I mean, this can go any, any number of directions.

However, we couldn't help but notice you put a new book out,

and I'm assuming you're going to want to get into that. But I feel like books in OCR right now

are a dime a dozen. Everyone just wants to turn a quick buck. But as you know, at any profession,

there are levels to things. And there's a difference between Joe Schmoe putting a book out on how to rock your next couch to OCR and Richard Diaz putting out a book.

And a vast majority of our audience are relatively new to running in general and some are new to OCR as well.

And we thought that it might be good to give people a reason why your book's going to be so much better than the masses by kind of starting back further in your career in showing who you are as a coach.

The things you've done as a coach, as an advisor, as you always like to say,

kind of build up from more of your roots to how you got here,

show the depth and wealth of what you have behind you,

and then get into talking about what you wrote and why.

Wow, that is deep.

Yeah.

You know, it's funny because I'm going to circle back,

but let me kind of give you the broad stroke of what we're talking about here, okay?

As you suggested, and I love that you knew that, I don't like to be referred to as a coach because honestly, to me, given what I do and where I've come from, it's almost kind of demeaning.

It's like when you have dinner with people you haven't met before, and they ask you what you do,

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