Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. When I started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. So now I'm here to answer all your questions about running and running adjacent topics to help you become a better, smarter, more knowledgeable runner. Whether you're brand new or you've been doing this for a while,

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Hello, my running friends. This is not an episode of the running explained podcast. You may have

already figured that out from the episode title. You may have already suspected that something was up

when the episode length was much shorter than my episodes tend to be,

which, by the way, there's a reason that my episodes are the length that they are,

typically about an hour to an hour and ten minutes. Some episodes, a handful of episodes have

been about an hour and a half. They're long on purpose. And I get it like I'm not the longest podcast out there. There are obviously some very well-known podcasts that have episodes in the two to three hour range. But there's a reason that my episodes are the length that they are. It's because I want you to be able to listen to these episodes on your

run without having to continually switch between new episodes because the episodes are too short.

For most of us, you know, for many people, we're going out for a run. We're out there for,

you know, 45, 50, 60, you know, 75 minutes for long runs.

You know, I wanted episodes that would cover a chunk of your run because I know as a podcast

listener myself, and I listen to many fabulous shows that are on the shorter side, but I don't

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