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You’re getting ready for your race. And you’ve heard from people, maybe from me if you’ve been on this channel before, and if not, hit subscribe to stick around with me for tips in the future. But you may have heard from people don’t try anything new on race day.

Maybe you know people like me who just like to run and we find it fun, and you want to get into running, but you’re not quite sure that it’s fun, but you know, you should do it. And if you’re going to do it, you want to enjoy it.

I had two older brothers. So, imagine that was some of the influence. So, we were just skating all the time and I’m up in Canada and I mean, I’m in Vancouver so it’s not that cold, but we definitely had some ponds freeze over.

You’re looking and you’re trying to figure out what races am I going to do this year? How am I going to plan them out? When should I do them? How many should I do?

One topic that really shouldn’t be terribly controversial but seems to be and it comes up all the time is should women train differently than men? I’m Jesse Funk and on this episode of Runner’s High, we’re going to get into the nitty gritty of whether or not the sexes ar...

Again, I’m just a human so it’s really important for me to show that vulnerable side of me and I think it takes confidence to do that, because a lot of us are afraid to really show ourselves to others because what if we get rejected? 

You’ve been running for a while and you’re thinking to yourselves, why hasn’t it happened yet? I just don’t get that runner’s high. Well, today I’m going to tell you why that might be.

Maybe you heard about it here on this channel, or maybe you read about it somewhere else. But either way, you know there’s this thing called a tempo run, and you want to know, how do I actually do that? Well, that’s what we’re going to cover here on this episode of Runne...

I mean people come to this sport from all different avenues. I was a late bloomer. I was not very athletic in high school or college and I got into running in my mid 20s in graduate school.

Recently, I got this comment from someone watching one of my videos that among other things we talked about, they mentioned how running six kilometers everyday is difficult and how they had just started. And it got me thinking, are other people doing this?