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 148 of Coach Bennett's podcast and this one is being recorded in a hotel room.

So if you're a longtime listener of the show,

then you know this one's probably going to be a straight banger,

because for whatever reason,

whenever I'm recording in a hotel room,

the episodes just tend to be fantastic.

My words, not yours, but anyway, I think they're great. And I think this episode's going to be great. It's called Running isn't complicated. Runners are. And this one

is going to be a fun one. And it's probably going to be an enlightening one.

It may get uncomfortable at times, but that's okay.

Because as you know, if you want to get better at running or pretty much anything else in life,

sometimes you're going to have to get a little uncomfortable.

Now, me right now, well, I'm not uncomfortable. I am sitting up in bed. I've got my laptop in my lap, and I'm pretty comfortable. I'm in Copenhagen for the Copenhagen

marathon. I got in about a day and a half ago, I think. I'm not really quite sure. I am

overwhelmingly sleep deprived. I cannot sleep on planes, so I obviously did not sleep on the journey

over here. And I got in, I want to say like 11.30 a.m. local time. And I thought, you know what? I'll go back to the hotel and I will pass

out. Well, I got back to the hotel. I just didn't pass out. And then I went to the expo and had a

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