Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode about tempo talks brought to you by runners connect. I'm Coach Zillenbellis and I'm Coach Rooing

at Mike last week I'm going to be interviewing Coach Rory just asking him a

few general questions and getting to know him just a little bit more and maybe get some more

insightful tips and you know cool stories for you to take home and just listen to you today.

Let's do it.

Sound good.

So I'm going to get rolling.

So Rory, tell me how did you get into the score, what brought you into it?

Walk us through that process.

Sure thing. I got to give credit to my dad for getting me into running.

It started off probably, I think I ran my first like road race in fifth grade maybe one of those like

kitty races like the 1k fun runs and then from there it actually progressed

pretty much later that year to running 5k's very quickly

because I found I had kind of a natural ability for it.

So my dad just kind of ran recreationally and it started off where I bike alongside

them on country roads out in North Dakota because that's mostly what the terrain was.

And as I progressed it was only a couple years later

that I was running with him and then eventually it switched to where he he was

the one biking and pacing me.

Cool.

So was your dad competitive growing up as well?

You know, he really wasn't.

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