Welcome to Coach Bennett's podcast, where every run has a purpose, where kindness is

hardcore, where this is about running, and this is not about running, where every starting

line is a finish line in disguise, where rambling still gets you where you need to be, where

pineapple will never ruin your pizza, and the sodas, adult and not adult kind are always cold,

and where there is room on the starting line for everybody.

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Welcome to episode 138 of Coach Bennett's podcast. How emphatic is that? 138. Anyway, the point is not that there've been a whole

bunch of episodes prior to this. The point is welcome to this one. And this one is called

longer runs. And I called it longer runs instead of long runs because this is really just

about your longer runs, inclusive of your long runs.

All right?

So it's really just also because I also have a podcast called Long Runs already.

So I didn't want people to be confused.

Like is this Long Runs 2.0?

Is this like Long Runs, the 2026 remix? Now this is Longer Runs.0? Is this like long runs the 2026 remix? No, this is longer runs. It's a

different episode, my people, okay? And it's going to be a fun one. We're going to talk about so

much stuff. It's great. I'm fired up. I'm excited. And I'll tell you what, I wasn't planning

on doing this topic today, but I went for a run and guess what?

It was a longer run than the runs I've been doing, but only because the runs I've been doing

have been really, really short.

And this isn't me, you know, trying to diminish my runs.

They've just been very shortly because I'm trying to get back in the habit of running consistently,

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