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Good morning. Good morning, Kirk. How you feeling? Oh, I'm a little under the weather,

Brackenstein. How you feeling? I'm riding high. You're riding high. Why? Kirk, I feel like every episode,

I tell you I'm all fired up, but there is nothing like being in a in a groove locked in a

training cycle that you're pumped about. And had a good workout yesterday. Yeah? Well, why don't you break?

Well, we had talked about that I was going to switch to some threshold work for a couple of weeks here

to avoid burning out or peeking too soon before Jacksonville.

And so I went and did a four mile tempo, which is one of my standard workouts.

And I would say I run it harder than threshold generally.

I'm the same way.

Even though that's not always scientifically advisable, at times like this, I need to be gritty more than I need to have the best adaptation because I just don't have much time.

Little backstory, last fall when I was prepping for high rocks, I just wasn't taking care of the running the way I should be.

And I went out for a four mile and then a five mile tempo on consecutive weeks on a pancake flat paved bike path.

And the first mile was like 620 and was already hurting kind of like starting to gasp.

And I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm out of shape.

But I was in decent like compromised run shape.

But I just didn't have any regular running efficiency.

And I'd bring it down to like 617, 615, 610 and then I'd start to feel like

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