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Welcome to episode 92 of Coach Bennett's podcast. As of this moment, I don't have a title for it.

Now, by the time you're listening to this, there will be a title for it, but I just can't think of one.

And the reason why is because as simple as the concept is, or the subject is, I can't simplify a title to wrap up what I'm talking about.

Now, without, you know, the limitations of a title, this episode is going to be about how

much you have in common with professional runners or what we would consider elite runners, although I don't want to use

that term, and I'll tell you why, in just a little bit.

Because I was sitting down recently next to Grant Fisher, who has set two, yes, two world

records so far this indoor season in the 5K and the 3k and i was also watching a panel discussion of a group of

women some in high school some that were coaches and one that is a professional athlete sinclair

johnson and i'm not going to say it dawned to me. It just reminded me that we are so

close to what the professionals are doing. We have so much more in common with professional

runners than we have not in common with them. In fact, I would say that the biggest difference

is just the times on our watch, the numbers, and in some cases the volume, but not always the

volume. And yet we think there's so much different between us and them. Now, this is something

I've known for quite some time, not because I was ever at the level

of some of these professional athletes, but I was lucky enough for a number of years to train

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