I write you guys. This is going to be a long run episode of me and author Christopher McDougal, who wrote the famous book Born to Run.

I met Chris once and ran with him. We talked about it a little bit on the show. He doesn't really remember it, but it wasn't remarkable.

So he's not someone that I really know and he's someone that I know some things about, but there's other things I didn't know.

He's doing a lot of interviews because the book is coming out, so I've been learning a little bit more about him, and I think we had a really nice chat.

And I think that the new book is a great idea. I'm looking forward to reading it, ordering it on the pre-sale, as we talk about in the show.

Also, the podcast is going to reread Born to Run, now that it's been about 10 years since I read it.

It'll be interesting to see what I think of that now looking back and reading it again as someone that's been in the sport for a while, and who's met a lot of the people that are in the book.

So it's going to be cool, and you're going to like it, but before we rip into that, this episode is brought to you by our friends at Dry Seats.

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