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.

When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running public.com.

We have both monthly subscription training plans, $1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching.

Again, go to the running public.com and check out our offerings.

We're here, Kirk.

Did you ever think we would get here?

Here being specifically marathon race week. Yeah, yeah. I've done some affirmations, we'll call it,

and visualizations. No, no, no, no. I'm not talking in this block.

I'm saying you as a runner was a marathon race week.

Every realistic thing you ever spent a moment in time anticipating prior to getting the bug this time around.

Zero emotional energy has ever been put into the marathon for me in my entire life.

Other things were flashier and more exciting at the time.

And I always thought I'll do it someday, but that someday will be later.

I always thought it'll be someday, it'll be later, because we were chasing other things for a long time.

And then finally, something clicked and the bug was there officially. So it's just in the last two

years, year and a half, that I even wanted to do what was necessary to thread the needle on

the roads for 26 miles. So we're not the same person, but we had a similar background.

And I can say with zero judgment and 100% conviction that I always was a little turned off

by the people I knew who were in on the marathon because I knew what it entailed.

...