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Well, hello everybody and welcome to episode 129 of Coach Bennett's podcast. That's right.

129, which means there have been 128 episodes prior to this.

And actually, that's not totally honest advertising because I believe there were like two special bonus episodes.

So I think I've recorded maybe like 130, 131 of these bad boys.

But this is, for all intents and purposes, going to be known now and forever as episode

129.

The title is Maybe, or the power of maybe, or the strength of maybe, or maybe is awesome.

I don't know.

It's going to be about just the word maybe and what that word means and how powerful and awesome and epic

that word is and how if you can incorporate it into your training into your running into your life

oh baby we got something awesome i almost said ooh may baby like maybe, may baby. But then I was like,

that's, that's not going to land. And then I told you that I was going to do it and I did it.

Ooh, wow. Hopefully that's the low point in terms of the, you know, hilarity of the episode. I hope there is some laughter. I hope there's

some joy. I hope there's some learnings. And you find this interesting because this is what I want

to talk about today. And that's what you're going to get. And I'll tell you where it was inspired

from. It was inspired from my run this morning, where I was getting ready. and it's like drizzly, not cold, but drizzly here at the Jersey shore. I'm on the East Coast for a little bit. And I was like, oh, you know what am I going to do? How far am I going to run? I'm trying to get back into the swing of things, especially with my running, because once my streak broke, which again,

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