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Mailbag is when you follow our show gets me on Twitter David P. Samson or get a review on Apple and write a question in the review. I just want to start because we have an interesting topic today.

He puts them into themes. If you notice that with the mailbags that have been released while I've been away. Their themes. I don't really know what they are. He just shows me the questions and says think about it and start talking.

Hi David. Hi. I greatly admire how marathon runners can get in his zone and train themselves to perform above and beyond what a great majority of humans will ever be able to do.

I basically don't run unless I'm chasing something like a tennis ball or a hockey puck or if something's chasing me like a dog.

I've heard that marathon runners sometimes need to expel waste while running because you really can't stop. Let me stop you there.

If you're not paid to run marathons, you can stop. Okay, let me keep going. I'm wondering if you share the most dramatic thing you've ever seen while running or more interesting.

The most dramatic thing that you had to endure while running. I want to talk a little bit about the mentality of marathon running one of the things that I'm trying to do in Africa after climbing and somebody in Mount Kilimanjaro trying to run a marathon from the summit.

It's the world's highest marathon and the winner of the race that I'm entering into actually will set a record and will be in the Guinness Book of World records for the fastest marathon from the highest point because this race starts over 19,000 feet.

I have no idea how I'm going to be doing this. So I want to talk about the mentality of why I do things much to the chagrin of my family and friends who point out your hamstrings torn because you're old.

What are you doing? Why do you keep having to prove yourself? And that's a whole nother subject that we're going to talk about later in this show. I hope when we talk about therapy.

My marathon career started in 1996 on a wager. Someone bet me and my best friend Brett that we couldn't run a marathon, the New York marathon, which is the first Sunday in November and it was March of 1996.

I was 28 years old and I was out of shape. I was working and I had not I was at Morgan Stanley at the time. And actually I likely was at news travels fast.

I was likely delivering newspapers in Europe when this wager happened. We went to the reservoir in New York City, which is 1.4 miles around and we could not run a mile.

We could not make it around the reservoir and we looked at each other and said, well, wait a minute. This makes no sense. Right. We've got to be able to do better.

And we went online and we got a marathon training program from Hal Higdon. And it's Hal Higdon.com. This is free advertising for you. How about you deserve it? You've been helping me for God. It's now 26 years.

And we did not miss a training workout. Do you know that you can run a marathon if you've got the discipline to train for it? It's not as though you have to train yourself to dunk a basketball or train yourself to hit a baseball or train yourself to hit a golf ball.

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