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good for all of us. So, you know, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? It's good. Good. I'm up to

320 miles on the year, so I'm on pace when it comes to running.

And I feel like I'm in the plateau part of my training where I'm not like advancing on my goals as much.

But I'm consolidating and I'm getting used to kind of trying to set my baseline at like 18 to 20 instead of 15 miles a week. And, you know, there's

certain, certain advancements I'm making. But it is kind of frustrating because at the beginning,

you're like, when you start off, you're like, oh, I went from three to five in a run very easily. And, you know, oh my gosh, I, you know,

I just ran eight, nine miles and one go. That was easy. And then there's some point in the,

in the process where you're like, oh, it's like harder to get these gains. Something that I've

actually seen Cal Bodie talk about a little bit with

driveline and velocity training is that like you'll have a large gain at the beginning.

There will be kind of a plateau regression period.

And then if you follow the protocols, supposedly you break through again in the end.

Yeah, you've got to break through those walls to get up to those next levels.

And maybe you've got to train with one of those oxygen mask things, you know,

that makes it seem like you're at altitude even though you're not.

Maybe that's step two for you because if you start using that for a while and then take that

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