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, do you need a monster energy drink?

I need a case of monster, Kirk.

Yeah, it'd be a big day.

Put the whole thing down.

It'd be a lot of sugar.

Depends what you get.

Get the low-carb one.

What's the point?

I agree with you there.

I think I'm immune to bad, like, habits. And then I realized over the

holidays, like the last two weeks with Christmas, New Year's family coming into town, that I've,

like, I've done a good job of staying away from the fun energy drinks. And then I redevelop the

habit in the last two weeks. I couldn't figure out why my stomach hurt all the time.

It's like, oh, my stomach hurts again. What could that possibly be? It couldn't be the energy drinks full of crap. Guess who cut them out two days ago again and guess who feels so much better.

So you're trying to poison me is what you're saying. I'm saying if you need a quick fix,

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