Hello, welcome to another episode of Papa Bear Heights.

Today I have special guests with us.

We have John Corral.

John's a Catskill 36er, former Boy Scout leader,

avid golfer, and a running enthusiast.

And also a really great guy to hike with one of my best friends and

we're anxiously waiting to get out there and start doing our winter hikes.

John, welcome to the podcast.

Well, thanks for having me, Papa.

Let's start with asking, when did your interest in running for fitness purposes begin?

Well, when I was in college, my junior year. I got in with a group of guys up at Clarkson. We were

living at off-campus school-run housing and we are so far off campus we're

actually about 500 yards from the Sunni Ptsdam gym.

So back in those days, there were no student IDs,

badge yourself into the building. So we used to go over to the Sunni pot stand

gym and work out every night. It was predominantly weightlifting, but we would always start with like a 500 yard jog from our

apartment over to the gym and then we jog back.

And that was really when I started running for fitness purposes.

Okay, well I'm glad to hear it was for fitness purposes not running from the

campus police for sneaking on sneaking into another gym. No I've not I didn't have any

incidents like that fortunately. Okay I wish I could say the same. So you're off to give ages away here but you are over 50 and a good

number of our listeners were already age of 50. You're continuing to do this. You're continuing to run, which is I find inspiration.

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