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You’re looking for a new pair of shoes and you’ve seen this reference about heel to toe drop. And you're trying to figure out what the heck is that? Well, I'm Jesse Funk and on today's episode of Runner's High, I'm gonna explain exactly what that is, and how it affects y...

“The coolest thing for me about participating and seeing all these people with different disabilities it’s just like how amazing each person's story is to get them to be competing at this elite level, given what they likely had to go through, whether it was limb loss....

Yeah, it's always a little bit gratifying, especially in that kind of situation where it's like, almost no expectations like coaches like yeah, I don’t-- You can come out if you want I guess, then you're like, really showing up, I feel like that's gotta feel pretty nice....

I love to get questions from people that watch the show, people that I know about running, about things that they don't know, they're struggling with, because I've been through pretty much all of it. And I can probably help you with that.

I enjoy the freeness. Yeah. So, maybe before we go, we'll see if we can grab one of those. But Joe mentioned that you have some kind of new works coming up there, maybe not Boston related that you wanted to talk about?

I remember in college after a hard workout, hard track day, hard intervals, whatever it was, both the guys team and the girls team we would all cram into the training room and try to get into this tiny little ice bath. I think our record was maybe fitting seven people in...

Well, it kind of just happened organically I guess I'd say. I ran the Boston Marathon 2013, the year of the bombing. And after that, I just did some personal kind of self-expression paintings about the Boston Marathon.

A lot like hurry up and wait. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it’s hurry up and wait. So, yeah, the scope is completely different. I'm not raising the money. Thank God.

If you've ever been out for a steady tempo run and over time, you notice that your heart rate is increasing, even though you're maintaining the same speed, the same intensity of effort over a period of time. Well, that means you've actually experienced heart rate drift.<...

...that I try to hold on to really. Because we all, you know, life, what are we so afraid of? We're all gonna die. We should just, if you want to do something, just do it.