Welcome to Coach Bennett's podcast, where every run has a purpose, where kindness is

hardcore, where this is about running, and this is not about running, where every starting

line is a finish line in disguise, where rambling still gets you where you need to be, where

pineapple will never ruin your pizza, and the sodas, adult and not adult kind are always cold,

and where there is room on the starting line for everybody.

I'm Coach Bennett. Thank you for letting me be a part of your day. Let's get started.

Welcome to episode 93 of Coach Bennett's podcast. That's right. We are only a few episodes away

from the century mark, which is bonkers to me. I can't

believe that we are that close to the 100th episode. So I'm going to ask you right off the bat.

If you have ideas for what a special 100th episode could be, send them my way. All right? Let me know what you think, the 100th episode could be, send them my way. All right, let me know what you think the 100th episode

should be. And maybe, who knows, maybe it will be your idea that makes episode 100 so special.

But this one, this one, I think, is really special too, this episode 93, and I'll tell

you where it came from. Well, I was a senior in high school. I didn't know if I wanted to actually

give you the details. You can do the math on this in 1993. And at that point, I think I finally just admitted that I love this sport, that I wanted to be a part of this sport.

I was still a lazy dude, but I had this struggle for a long time admitting how much this sport meant to me.

And there was a lot that went into it,

and maybe there'll be a podcast about my story

and how I got into the sport.

But for now, suffice to say,

I was not comfortable admitting that I loved the sport.

But by the fall of 93,

I think it had become pretty obvious. And I was at least able to admit that it was very, very important to me. And as I thought about that, I started to think

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