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Welcome to another episode of Coach Bennett's podcast.

This is episode 87 metrics that matter. That's right. That is the title of episode 87 metrics that matter that's right that is the title of episode 87 metrics that matter

you heard me right nerds we're talking metrics and i know that's got a lot of runners out there

super happy and here's the thing you know i talk about measuring success as many ways as you can. And that

means that I'm asking you to measure success in ways that maybe are a little bit tough to put a

number on, right? You know, not everything you can say, well, that was a 32 last week and it's a 41

this week, which means I'm better.

Not everything can have a number associated to it. But metrics don't have to have numbers associated with them.

Oh, no. And just to make sure I wasn't saying something that, you know, wasn't true, I looked up the definition for metric and I'm going to tell

you what it is. It's a noun. It's a system or standard of measurement used to compare or track

performance. So that's all it is. It doesn't say you need to use a number to measure it. I think it helps sometimes. So many of the metrics I'm

going to be bringing up today involve numbers. But some of them don't. Anyway, the purpose of

this really is to go over some of the things that I think we all hear about, that we all kind of measure

either initially or eventually in our journey in running.

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