All right, you guys, I'm back.

The rumors of my demise were overstated.

I was just on vacation.

I needed a week off, and I took one.

Sorry that I didn't do Meet the Nation Monday, but there'll be more.

They're coming.

This is a long run interview of me and Mark Dowdle.

If you don't know who Mark Dowell is, you're probably not alone.

I met him on the world's longest turkey trot, and I learned that he had did.

I don't know if you know about the calendar club, what the calendar club is is you run like one

mile on the first day of the month, two days on the second day of the month, three miles on the

third day of the month, two days on the second day of the month, three miles on the third day of the month. And then by the end of the month, you're running like 27 miles on the 27, 28th,

so you can imagine what kind of, you know, craziness that ensues at the end of the month.

He did it for a year, like a whole year, every day. So now and not, wasn't one through 365,

but every day he ran the number of days of

the calendar. It's just nuts. Just nuts. So we did Gina and now we're doing this craziness. Just in case

anybody goes and does something stupid, don't blame me. Anyway, his story is really interesting. He's a

really fun guy. And I think you're really, really going to like him a lot. If you're going to do something stupid, one thing that you could do it in is the

Montecos shoes. We've been trying them. They've been a sponsor of the podcast. They have

really, really great shoes for long, stupid things. Like, for example, Meg Eckert wore them in her 600 plus mile six day.

And I know many, many people that have done other stupid things in them.

They kind of say they're for the road, but they also have a trail shoe too now.

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