If you're watching this, if you're listening to this, you are an absolute real one.

I rarely do solo episodes, but wanted to do a super short one today.

It is Monday, September 15th.

I'm racing my second ever official marathon this Sunday, September 21st.

And I'm really excited.

Six days out, wanted to document some thoughts going into race day Sunday.

And I just have a platform to openly speak, dump some thoughts.

These conversations are always really fun to go back to in hindsight.

So I did my first ever official marathon in April, this past April, April 2025, and I ran the marathon with

a company called Goodies. For some context and background, I essentially took the entire winter

off, mainly just focused on the gym, as well as Midwest winters. If you live or grow up in

the Midwest, I'm sure you're familiar, are absolutely brutal.

And so I was kind of sick and tired of training through cold weather, was burnt out from the

sport of running, took six months off, really just focused on the gym, and then a company

goodies reached out, asked if I wanted to run the Knoxville Marathon.

I somewhat reluctantly said yes, knowing that I really

wasn't training for running. Train for two weeks, which was a 30 mile week, and then like,

I don't even know how many miles I ran going into race day, essentially no training whatsoever

and ran a 333 marathon off of two weeks of training, which the goal of the race was

literally to finish. I think there were doubts in my head at the time as to whether I would

even be able to finish the marathon. I've been running from the age of five. I ran really

competitively in high school and in middle school, cross-country and track and field.

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