all right you guys this is going to be a long run episode of me and sophy spidel i didn't know whether

i wanted to call it a long run or a from uh the the injury to the finish line it's kind of like

in between like so sophy is someone that was introduced to me by uh the great sarah lavendar Smith, who wrote a really good coaching book and has a great blog.

I'll put her blog and coaching book in the show notes if you're interested.

But she's been around the sport for a really long time, really nice lady.

And she told me about Sophie.

And Sophie had a root tear and she's recovering from it but at the same time she's

been around the sport for a very very long time and had a lot of interesting you know she's got a lot

of history she knows a lot of things about the sport so we kind of went a little bit deeper than just

like a like a half an hour you know one of those in that other series so I'm going to put it out

as a long run but it kind of a hybrid both We talk a lot about my root tear injury, her root tear injury. That's kind of like the common ground we start with. And then we kind of expand a little bit later on into, you know, just life generally. And we talk about being, you know, runners that are getting older and stuff like that, uh, injuries,

recovery, you know, a lot of, uh, mental things, you know, in terms of like approaches to recovery. I think you're going to like it. Uh, it was, it was a really good discussion. I think

Sarah Lavender Smith for sending her my way. And I hope to follow along and see, you know,

what happens next with her. Um, the races are filling up. I've been saying this for a while. We've got about 40 spots left in each race. Sometimes those things fill up really fast. But, and there's also people deferring. So, I mean, there's a little bit of both. But make sure that you sign up if you want to, Sugar Bad and badger both of them and uh that's it really

uh let's uh rip into me and sophie here's some good stuff

good stuff i'm putting this out early because i'll be a pot of water me this weekend i got

some good stuff coming though.

Alex Ramsey, the Sri Chimnoi 3100.

We're going to check back in with our old friend Matt Haudley. He hasn't been on the show for about five years.

It's going to be fun.

So, we have Sophie.

Now am I going to pronounce this right, Spidell?

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