Welcome to this week's episode of the running effect.

Today we are speaking with Robert Brandt, who runs for Georgetown. He used to run for UCLA, but he recently transferred to Georgetown.

If you did not know that.

So Robert recently ran 2739 at the track meet and kind of took over the internet.

But there's so much more to his story.

Everybody sees the glamorous results, but they don't see the hard work

before that led up to that result. And we certainly go through all of that with Robert. From his

beginnings in the sport in high school in California, being very accomplished at Loyola High School,

but also having his fair share of ups and downs.

And then going into college at UC Berkeley, I believe, hopefully I didn't mess that up,

where he struggled with injuries and struggled with burnout.

And it just goes to show you that success doesn't always come right away.

You have to work for it.

You have to work hard.

And Robert shares some really amazing wisdom and advice for that.

We ask him questions like,

how do you embrace the famous phrase process over outcomes?

Because you have to really do that in order to be at a level that he runs at.

And then we also ask questions like, why do you think consistency is so important in order to

succeed? And so many other very great questions that Robert answers. Robert takes us through

his whole 2739 10K and everything that led up to it, including a really

incredible block of training this past summer in Flagstaff, some of the amazing workouts,

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