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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This episode is the classic fire aim ready.

I'll tell you that. Yes, it is. Because you just hit the button like you just did. We didn't even talk about it. You had an idea? I didn't need to

hear a single extra word. I wanted to get rolling. Let's maximize our time. God, I feel like a good

salesman today.

I hardly had to work you for that one.

This topic is one that comes up constantly when we coach athletes who are not lifelong athletes,

people who find sport or running later in life and they have no real like backdrop to view running through

like compare it to how should that relationship feel and as a result uh i don't know if they read too far

into things or what but they don't always have a accurate picture of what the life of an

athlete looks like. I would also argue that even if you are a lifelong runner, like ourselves,

this is super pertinent, even for those people. Do we need to jump? Do we not want to like catch up

with each other BS a little bit first? You were telling me,

well, no, let's get to it in a second, but people are invested in how things are going for you

and me. And we just talked for five minutes quick before hitting the record button that

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