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I kind of consider myself what we call an integrative physiologist. What I mean by integrative just means that I have been trained primarily as a cardiovascular physiologist. 

It seems to be the mainstay of every single runner nowadays, or at least the vast majority. And I’m going to tell you why you shouldn’t do it. And that is why you shouldn’t run with a watch.

Okay, marathon friends, this one’s for you. Even though I’m not particularly fond of the marathon for my own personal endeavors, I know that you probably are and many, many people are.

Vancouver Beer Mile Director, definitely the thing I’m most proud about. I feel like it’s the feather in your cap. Like you [crosstalk] should be able to retire now, and say I did everything I could possibly do.

You may have seen me make this suggestion on the channel before to go do run-walk workouts. And you know that I utilize these on my long runs on the weekend. So, then you start thinking to yourself, does walking actually help build running endurance.

You finally did it. Congratulations, you hit that 5K mark. You’ve been meaning to do it, you started the race, you got to the finish, you hit your goal. Now you’re looking for the next thing. Welcome to the club, always looking for the next thing.

Yeah, definitely the mountains. I was born on the East Coast, grew up on the Midwest, lived in the South Texas for a while, and Kentucky and then moved over to Utah, Oregon, and now Colorado. So, I would really say the West was a draw for me. The mountains really called ...

Hacks. They’re all the rage. Life hacks, cooking hacks, mechanic -- what -- hacks for everything, running hacks included. You may have tried to look up how I do something simple, where it doesn’t mean I’ve got to do a lot of work to get better.

You know, I think as we sort of move on the water, and the way we’re trying to kind of align with the river current or move through the river current of life, that, I think the hardest thing — the biggest expenditure of energy is accelerating from a dead stop. And so it’...

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about anything injury here on this show. And maybe that’s because I really haven’t been dealing with anything. Anytime I get injured I think, hey, I need to make a video about this and the things I’ve been going through.