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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Bracken, you're not a coffee drinker.

I am not.

I find that weird.

Yeah.

I think more and more it is.

It's not weird.

It's just less common.

To be an endurance athlete, a forced morning person, and not to have a heavy crutch on coffee.

I've said it on here before, but it was because of growing up around teachers.

Coffee breath as a kid struck me as a really awful thing. And then all the, when I taught my

first year, first couple of years, all the teachers coming in, just like in the absolute funk in

the morning, just hating life and then doing the, oh, I can finally like come alive. I have my coffee

now. And I just thought, you are so crazy dependent on that. I'd never want to be that person. And the

irony now is I have caffeine every single day now.

But it's not coffee.

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