All right, you guys. This is going to be a long run episode of me and Sophie Spidell. I didn't know whether I wanted to call it a long run or a from the injury to the finish line. It's kind of like in between. So Sophie is someone that was introduced to me by the great Sarah Lavender 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 as a long run, but it kind of

a hybrid bolt. 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, injuries, recovery, you know, a lot of mental things, you know, in terms of like approaches to recovery. I think you're going to like it. It was a really good discussion. I thank Sarah Lavender Smith for sending her my way. And I hope to follow along and see, you know, what happens next with her. 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 Badger and Badger, both of them. And that's it, really.

Let's rip into me and Sophie.

Here's some good stuff.

I'm putting this out early because I'll be a pot of water 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.

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