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Peel, sip, collect. Welcome to this edition of Kennedy Save the World, and I am going to, with the help of a legendary person in the sport, hopefully save your love of running.

Running is something that I've had a very interesting and emotional relationship over the

course of my life. And I have, once again, in the wake of COVID and having very few gym options,

discovered a new love of running and I'm happy

to say that at this point we have patched things up. Things started back in Oregon, which is a

rainy place and it's an interesting place for people to have a singular cultural obsession with running,

but with the University of Oregon and Steve Prefontein and the genesis of Nike in Oregon,

it's something that you didn't escape as a child.

So a lot of kids run cross country.

They run track.

And they're really driven by something around them that they don't know that in other parts

of the country, other parts of the world, people don't run so damn much. My dad started running

in the late 70s and early 80s and became a marathon runner. And it turns out, I've talked about it

a little bit on the podcast. He was really, really fast. He was driven and he would train and he had legs like tree trunks and he would run through shoes and wear him down and get black toenails. And he really found a spiritual side of himself running. And he felt a great sense of completion and he brought my

brother's night into the sport and when in 1983 when I was nine years old I completed the cascade

runoff which is a 15 kilometer race they they don't have it anymore they had it for a long time it was

one of those seminal kind of legendary races in Portland, Oregon. And I ran it at nine, and it was really

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