Hey Runners Connect fans welcome back to the Run to the Top Team RC Update

Michael Hammond here, CEO of Runners Connect.

Hope you guys are having a tremendous week.

I want to talk to you guys about something a little bit controversial today, a little bit,

a little bit testy. You know, gonna press some buttons with this one because that's kind of what we've been doing all week

Apparently we didn't really expect this necessarily to blow up the way it has but it most certainly has so So two things to go over. One is that if you listen to this

podcast you probably saw that on Wednesday, this is going to air on Friday, on

Wednesday we had an interview with a gentleman

named Matthew Hammersmith. Matthew lives in Greenville, South Carolina and

he's a race director. He puts on bunch of different types of races as as simple as like basic 5k's but up to like

very long trail races, ultras, etcetera so he puts on a ton of races every year.

He stopped putting on races back in like March and April,

and I believe it was in maybe June

that he finally started just started putting him back on and he

Claire Bartholik our host of our run to the top decided to have him on to the

podcast to just kind of to hear what he had to say to let him explain his

argument and see you know why it is that he feels

that doing races is appropriate how how he's going about doing that and I thought it was a

very interesting conversation it was he made his points.

You know, he didn't get too angry about it.

He made his points.

He told us what he had to say.

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