This is the Marathon Training Academy Podcast Episode 389.

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Welcome to the Marathon Training Academy Podcast. In this episode, we speak with fellow

podcaster Thomas Bailey, who in 2017 decided to get sober and change his life. He found a love

for long distance running and he ran his second marathon in two hours and 48 minutes.

Plus, we'll give you a final recap of our 39-day road trip in Europe. And don't forget,

as a member of the Academy, you get access to all of our back podcast episodes,

training plans, courses, and more. Find out how to join when you visit marathontrainingacademy.com.

All right, we are back home from our long road trip in Europe. It ended up being a 39-days total

and we will tell you about some of our favorite sites from the 10 countries that we visited.

Some things that we would love to do again if we ever make it back and some things that we might skip,

if we, uh, so give you a little rundown about it at the end of the episode after the interview,

so stay tuned for that. Angie, there's a lot of cool stuff happening in the running world,

so let's do a quick news round up here. Yeah, some awesome things happening out there.

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