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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Good morning to those of you listening ASAP when this drops. Good afternoon or evening

to the rest of you. This is going to be a solo episode. We have not done this in a while.

Kirk and Jess are camping. I don't know where. Somewhere in Wisconsin, actually, I think. But

as happened last time, when the cats away, the mouse will play. And playing for

me, obviously, entail shoes. So when Kirk is gone, my default is either bring a guest

host on and nerd out about some obscure running topic like we did with threshold training, not that

obscure, but with Rich

Ryan two times ago. And then last time it was a shoe episode. And today's going to be a shoe

episode, but with purpose. So yes, we are going to go down rabbit holes probably, but I'm going

to try to rein this in so much so that if you are watching, and this is an episode that

might be worth actually watching on our YouTube channel, not all of them are. If you're a YouTube

watcher, it's not that we don't take you seriously. It's just that most of what we do is verbal

base. We don't do a lot of visual aids, but today there's going to be visual aids. So I have a

row of shoes out in front of me, also behind me that I may be

using. But if you're watching, I even took notes. And if you followed us for a while, you know that we

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