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Welcome to Coach Bennett's podcast. We are here for yet another episode. This one is episode

139 entitled Stress Less and once again inspired by all of you,

but I will say also inspired by me. This one is also inspired by yours truly because I am in a

consistent attempt to deal with stress better.

And it's fascinating to me that I see so much focus on running in terms of how to get better at running.

It's like, well, this is what you need to do and this is how many miles you need to run or meters you need to run or minutes you need to run and these are the type of workouts you need to do and then there's talks about like zones and all this

stuff and I don't even understand and you know I don't see enough about the 95% of the day that

you're not spent running sure you'll see things about like nutrition, super,

super important. You'll see things about gear and apparel, super, super important. But how about

stress? How about how you handle, deal with, process, and healthily get rid of stress. I'll tell you what from a coaching point of

of view I mean you want to know about a performance killer it's stress okay and that's

why I want to talk about that today because I mean I know you know you're kind of biased

to obviously the time period that you live in. It's very easy to think, you know, it's never been this good. It's never been this bad. It's never been this cold. It's never been this warm. I mean, some of that actually is science-based. So I would rely on the scientists on that one. But you know what I'm saying?

Another thing that comes up is, you know, it just seems like it's always stressful. And I will say this, at least in my small amount of time where I have been awake on this timeline that extends really far back.

I would say this has been the most stressful couple of years of my life, the last 10.

So I think it's really important to learn how to deal with stress in a healthy and positive way, not just for your running,

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