Welcome back or welcome to the Single Trek podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and in this episode,

we are joined by Scott Frey, who has a PhD in experimental psychology from Cornell University.

He's led brain imaging research centers for multiple decades and has since left academia to start coaching endurance athletes.

Scott is convinced that the greatest breakthroughs

in athletic performance over the next few decades will come from the brain and psychological sciences,

and that's where we base this conversation. Please note, Scott has made numerous podcast appearances

across our media landscape. For example, he has recorded a few excellent ones with Jason Koop on his show,

the Koop cast.

We hoped to be additive with this one.

So if you're wondering why we didn't talk about this or that,

well, it was probably covered thoroughly on Koop's episodes or somewhere else.

So yeah, other thing I'll say beforehand,

I typically don't do episodes related to the X's and O's of training and racing theory.

It's not really my lane, but this topic just fascinated me, and I felt compelled to chat with Scott and share this conversation.

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Okay, so I have a fairly limited understanding of this space in our sport.

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