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Welcome to episode 110 of Coach Bennett's podcast. That's right. 110. Now, I would say something

like I remember when it was 110 degrees, but I don't remember

when it was 110 degrees Fahrenheit anywhere. I do remember when it was 116, though, here in

Portland, Oregon, which is bananas, because it shouldn't be 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon, ever.

And if I'm remembering correctly, because this was just a few summers ago,

the prior all-time high was 114.

And this was 116.

So you're not supposed to be breaking records like that by 2 degrees.

That's just crazy.

But anyway, I don't have anything other than

what I just told you about 110. So maybe I'll think of something down the road. I've never

run 110 miles in a week. So that's out. So we're just going to just head right into what this is

about. And this episode is entitled, Risk and Reward, entitled risk and reward not risk verse reward it's risk and reward we'll

talk about how they sometimes work together and sometimes they maybe work against each other and

whatever but the point is this is risk and reward and risk and reward is a part of your training.

It's a part of your running.

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