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the running public.com and check out our offerings. I was thinking about your comments about

Leadville, and you have no room to talk smack about Leadville when you run the Mid-State Mile. Like, truly nothing worse than that scenario. In what sense? Like,

monotonous mind-domied? Yes, loops and loops and loops. I've run enough Ultras to know that is an

unacceptable way to run them. I can't train like that very often.

I was doing that like a workout for that once per week in the buildup, and that was about

the most I could tolerate it.

But on a race day, having your table every 1.1 miles, it made it like a, I don't know, it was like an equation.

You just got to like keep taking in a small amount of fuel every time you passed.

It made it really easy to just like compartmentalize things.

So you're trying to make something that's supposed to be hard, easy.

Yeah. Okay, I feel like we're on the same wavelength here good i'm happy to play like boxing ring referee if i need to today

is that necessary i don't think so it's in person, so I think we'll be okay.

Would you hit a girl, Pracken?

I feel like out of respect for a woman,

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