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.

I'm Coach Bennett.

Thank you for letting me be a part of your day.

Let's get started.

Welcome to episode 122 of Coach Bennett's podcast.

That's right.

Episode 1-22 and I'll tell you what this one is called on the starting

line. And I'm sure you can imagine who inspired this. It was all of you. It was all of you that

have inspired this episode. You have inspired almost all the episodes, seriously, which makes my life very easy because I'm like,

what should I talk about this week?

And then I just look and see what all of you are talking to me about.

And I go, let's just talk about that.

So we're going to talk about the starting line.

And this goes back a few weeks ago.

I was in Berlin for the Berlin Marathon. And then just a couple days ago. I was in Berlin for the Berlin Marathon.

And then just a couple days ago, I was in Portland for the Portland

marathon and the Portland Half Marathon and the Portland 10K and the Portland Kids Mile.

And now, yes, I'm recording this in a hotel room, so you know it's going to be a straight

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