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Thank you. Welcome to Rates and barrels, episode number 89. It's April 23rd derrick van reiper here with eno saris

you know how's it going for you on this thursday it is going good i'm sore sore sore sore

sore sore sore i ran my new max eight and a half miles yesterday and uh took me an hour and

20 minutes.

And, you know, actually, at the end, I felt like, you know, what?

Like, why don't I just go for 13 and get this whole thing over with?

So, it's good and bad news.

The bad news is I'm sore today.

The good news is I feel like I could run 13 next week if I needed to.

So I would just have to stop running for a week, I think.

Yeah, yeah, after 13, a little breather would probably go a long way.

But it's cool that you're making that progress. I've been way too lazy for the circumstances. I need to really find something to motivate

me. Even a future race would do anything. I need a goal of some kind. It's someone to say,

you have to be able to do this by then, and it could be anything, could be push-ups, sit-ups and

I think I actually have a little bit of friendly competition to my wife.

Ah, okay.

So usually on the weekend, she'll go for a long run, and she's been pushing to seven and a half.

And so that's all I've got is staying out in front of her. And eventually we were talking

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