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Thanks again for taking some time to come and chat.

Yeah, I've been following you for a long time, like a regular listen to your podcast.

And when you were mentioning that you're about your hamstring injury during that attempt,

I was like, man, that is so unfortunate.

So I thought whatever I could do to help out.

Yeah, yeah.

I think it'll be a fun chat because I think it's, uh, it's something where like, I mean, historically I've been, I had been very injury resistant in general through like the majority of my running career. I had some ankle issues a few years back that sort of spiraled into a few other issues. And then, um, I actually had like, I think 18 months of running like perfectly healthy,

no issues or anything like that.

Although I did have like a small case of like hamstring tendonopathy earlier last year.

And it was like super manageable.

And I did kind of a lot of the basic thing.

You can maybe correct me if I did the right things or not, but I kind of focused on strengthening versus doing too much stretching and things like that because it seemed like it was more of a stretching issue versus a like, I hurt this by doing too much hamstring strength or something like that. So that seemed to work really well, and it wasn't something that really interfered with training at all.

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