I just made my thing that I was going to outwork everyone else and have a higher pain tolerance,

like a pre-fontaine kind of mindset.

So when I graduated college, I just went and did a solo 100-mile run in my backyard, basically.

I did a 10-mile loop 10 times.

That was like by far the hardest thing I'd ever done. I said I'm never freaking

doing that again and then a week later I'm finding the next race. I couldn't quite push myself to go

corporate just because I knew it would kill my soul and I know what that kind of trajectory looks

like nothing wrong with that but I would rather make less money and coach high schoolers and

cross-country.

I don't think long distance running, we were talking about health and longevity this morning.

I actually don't think it's the healthiest thing at all.

I think taking anything to its performance conclusion is going to come at health tradeoffs.

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