Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.

It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.

We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.

This is Training Tuesday.

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It's just me today, to ladies and gentlemen. Kirk and Jess are off doing their bow hunting

and scouting thing off in the great woods. And so it's just myself, just me here. And I have

something I want to talk to you about today. And that's something as talent. I was watching a

marathon the other day. And I'm not going to see the marathon and I'm not going to see the person

because I'm going to critique the person. And it's not fair. I don't know that person and they don't know me.

And I don't know their full reasoning behind what they said. All I know is how it hit me. But I'm

going to critique it. And so as such, I'm going to keep it a little bit anonymous. But the runner

basically said, I am not a talented runner.

I don't have much talent, but I outworked everyone.

And I got to this point.

And this point was a 212 marathon.

This point was being an Olympic trials qualifier, almost making the Olympics, being a national caliber marathon, or being able to hold

five-minute miles for 26 miles.

And it didn't really sit well with me, but it highlighted the way we think about talent as

athletes.

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