Okay, happy New Year, everybody.

This is going to be a long run episode of me in Lavinia Kava.

Lavinia, I met her at further, and she was supporting another runner, Montana, and got to know her.

Really nice person and not a ultra runner at the time.

And since then, she's gone on, you know, kind of

sparked the bug, went on and started her ultra running life and just finished her first 50K.

And she let me know that she finished her first 50K. And I said, well, that sounds like a great

story that I'd like to tell because there's a lot of people out there that they're hesitant

about moving to the 50K

distance or trying an ultra distance.

So I thought, let's talk to somebody who, you know, not, you know, a little bit later in life,

found ultra running, fell in love with it and did their first ultra.

So this is going to be me in Lavinia.

Also, just as a status update, the doctor has kind of released me to try to start

hiking and jogging a little. I don't know what that means in terms of like, I don't think,

I'm not going to obviously go run five miles tomorrow, but that means that I'm going to work

with my physical therapist to try to incorporate back in running. And so pretty soon the coaching

calls will start.

And I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with you guys.

Like I said, I don't know if this is going to result in me busting my knee and never running again or if this is going to result in me running across the country or something.

But we're going to go from zero to question mark.

And we're going to talk to Liza.

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