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

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

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Hello, folks.

You have one of two of your esteemed co-hosts with you today. That would be me,

obviously. Bracken is, I believe, late coming back from Poland. He gets in later tonight. So you are

getting a Kirk soliloquy today.

Bracken checked in with me, said he checked out Auschwitz, and it was a real bummer.

And I was shocked to hear that.

I'm going to do a Q&A today.

We got a big queue of questions. I figured first I'd update you guys on how my training is going, some recent musings

and learnings, which believe it or not, I still feel like I'm like rediscovering things about running

even though I've been, gosh, competitive since eighth grade. How old are you in eighth grade,

folks? You're probably what, like, I don't know, 14.

I'm about to be 43, so that's like a lot of years of this.

But, you know, I did my first big, we will call it downhill concrete focus session this weekend.

The trails are glorious. They do save the legs a bit. They're way more engaging. Love the trails. But I made a business trip this weekend to a hill that is about

a mile and a quarter from bottom to top. It's concrete. It's a county highway, we'll call it,

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