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So, uh, hey man. Howdy. Howdy. Howdy is the thing we say, I guess. Down in Texas. You have not towed a start line since when. What kind of start line? Uh, start line is something that mattered. Whatever that means. Uh, you 11 months. All right. And you race this weekend down south.

Yep.

That's where you picked up howdy, I'm guessing.

That's where I picked up howdy.

I just saw the post or the story.

Whose?

I saw something out there.

I think Joyce posted maybe a story or somebody. You guys did well. How did the race go?

Race is great. So first of all, any coach out there, whoever has an opportunity to do a race with or alongside an athlete they coach, take it. I've done this probably a dozen times in my life.

First time I ever did it was Sean Rogers back in the Spartan days at, I want to say the L.A.

sprint I ran with him. I was down there for a Reebok photo shoot, and then I ran the race with him.

Unattached, just ran behind him the entire time around

the side of him and just witnessed his race. And from that moment forward, programming him was

so much easier. Because I'd seen what he looked like on course and where his strengths and weaknesses

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