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.

I did a little homework exercise this past week, Kirk, where I went through my athletes training,

but not their training, really, more of their

notes from meetings and such and their onboarding questionnaires.

Anyone I've worked with for the last two years, I just went through and I was looking for

trends because I'm working on a side project here and I'm looking for trends and what people struggle with as a runner.

And I'm sure this will be no surprise to you whatsoever because you work with people one-on-one in the gym all the time and you're dealing with personal weaknesses and things like that the entire time.

But what jumped out off the page at me,

such a stark contrast,

was the length of the column between things that are talents or skills or metrics

versus things that require no talent whatsoever.

It was like 95% of the things that people actually struggled with.

Like everyone wants to get faster.

Everyone wants more endurance.

Everyone had some sort of goal on that.

But the actual weaknesses they end up talking about or making a point of emphasis,

it was all things that require no talent.

I can't get my morning workout in.

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