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.

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I have something which I found amusing to share with you. I like funny things.

You've set the bar high now. I didn't say funny. I said amusing. It's not like I'm going to...

I like to be amused. Tell you a joke right now. Okay. Go. Tell a joke.

So I had an athlete, Joel, run the Paris Marathon this past weekend.

And he had time to take selfies and videos and enjoy the experience and still pulled off like a seven minute PR, which is just awesome.

Kind of a novel race for him to go out and do, but he still ran his best race after jet lag and time zone changes and getting there, you know, a day or two before the race. But that's not what I'm getting at.

What I'm getting at is for whatever reason, Joel decided to, you got a lot of time on course

running a marathon, right? And so he was just creeping on people's shoes. You know, you

observe what people are wearing in front of you. And Joel told me that out of all the tens of

thousands of runners that he had seen, that he did not see one single athlete wearing a pair of

alpha flies that said pick up the pace on the back.

And so it is our belief that it was a godsend that you ordered a pair that said pick up the pace on the back because you probably have a shoe that is one of one.

I wonder if it's only this color way.

I don't know,

but that became his focus while he was running to see if he could find another pair of

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