Hello everyone and welcome back to up-tempo talks this is Coach Dylan Bellis and I'm sitting here today with Coach Roy Moynihan. This is Today in our time is currently St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. By the time you're listening to it, a lot of specific things are still going on in the world. Obviously there's a lot of issues with

health and the coronavirus and the surrounding of the infrastructure of you know our livelihood is being challenged.

And so it's a tough time for a lot of us and I don't want to really harp too much on that topic.

I'm sure we've heard way too much about it already. But I really want to take a time to really

focus on some of the effects of it and that is the big thing is just race cancellations.

I've spoken with so many people over the last couple

weeks who have just been so completely drawn back by having these things taken

away and it really, you know, for myself, you know, as an athlete and someone who continues to train, I still, it still brings a fire in me to realize that, you know, to the majority of us, these are so,

these are big things that are happening, these cancellations.

It's a lot of sweat hours, a lot of hard work, a lot of early mornings, a lot of dedication that we've put to this craft and it feels as though it's been taken away.

And I'm really here to help address this and you know

Coach Roy and I are going to have a conversation based on on this topic and

really provide some insight of what are the things that we are seeing

the elite community do, what are we doing ourselves and what do we recommend to those who were, you know, unfortunately not able to participate in the races this

spring and potentially throughout the early summer.

And what are the things that we can do to help combat this, stay focused, and ultimately be clear-headed, heading into the next point of training.

So if you're listening to this right now,

you know, before we dive into things,

I just want to tell you that it's not all lost.

Everything you've done is not for nothing.

You know, there are always going to be races. there's always going to be opportunities to come and we have to use this time to focus on our health and the health of our communities, but this is also a good time to really focus

on ourselves and really determine how we can be better through all of this.

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