the oregon high school track and field state championships

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Episode Four of to coach Bennett's
talking has the two coachbenefits talking about sinus
infections and hamstring cramps,the epic awesomeness of the
Oregon State High School trackand field championships, long
lines at the pharmacy and theart of bagging groceries. And
so, so much more. Let's getstarted.

Oh, hey, coach.

Hey there, coach. How are you?

So good.
How are you?

It doesn't feel like we've been away for a
week.

Yeah, we have. Well, we've

been away from the listeners, but we
haven't been away from eachother.

Yeah. So tell us about your past week.
What's been going on?

Where do I begin? Well, I know what the
meat and potatoes are today. SoI'm not going to talk about that
yet. I will say at the beginningof the week, I jacked up my
hamstring on a run. And I gotvery worried I kicked a root on
a trail. And I had this massive,massive pain in my hamstring.

(01:48):
And what happens is the worstcramps feel like terrible muscle
pulls or strains. So you don'tknow if you strained your
hamstring. You pulled yourhamstring. Or you got a terrible
cramps. I didn't know. And I waslike a week away from hitting
five years in a row. So I was Ihad to call you up and say,

(02:08):
Please pick me up. And I've beennavigating through that this
past week. And I'm happy to sayit was definitely a cramp
because it's pretty much gone.
And I was able to run through itand it get better each day. So
that was kind of I think the themain headline, you know, streak
in jeopardy?

Well, I think the main headline is what
is the status of the streak?

The status of the streak is we are now five
year plus, actually. So we madeit. Yeah. Yeah. Five years

plus of running every single day without
missing a day.

Yes. Five minute minimum. Yes.

So good.

Yeah.

I should put a link to the podcast where
you came on my podcast to talkabout was it four years?

Yeah. I think I came on, maybe at 1000
days and 10,004 years.

Yeah. So maybe I'll link to those in the
show notes. If people arecurious to hear more about
those.

That's a great idea. How could you not be
curious?

Okay, well, I'll tell you about my
week, even if you're not goingto ask, I

didn't know if I was going to sneeze, which
is residue from where we werethese past couple of days, which
we're going to get to in themeat and the potatoes. So I
apologize. I just didn't thinkyou or the listeners would want
me to sneeze right into theirear. Are you rolling your eyes?
A little bit? Okay. Hey, how wasyour week?

Um, well, I have assignment I had, I
guess, a sinus infection. So Ihad to go on antibiotics for the
first time in I don't even know.
But I think over a decade.
Because luckily, I never getsick. I mean, maybe there was a
time in there, but I can'tremember a time. So anyway. And
then in my dares group, we had acome as you will be party. So we

(04:03):
had, you know, just on the Zoom,to come to the Zoom call as you
wanted to be or as you will bein three to five years. So and
you just have to stay incharacter of the you the future
you who has accomplished thethings that you've wanted to
accomplish. And so that was justa lot of fun. And it was a fun
exercise to think about where doI want to be in three to five

(04:24):
years and who what are we goingto be doing? Where are we going
to be living and so anyway, thatwas a lot of fun. And the other
thing that both of us had goingon this week will just this will
be the nice segue into the meatand taters of this podcast. We
were in Eugene, Oregon for theOregon state track and field
high school championships. Andit was amazing.

Friday and Saturday. massive crowds
beautiful weather. electricatmosphere. Yes. Me yet. Do you
have anything else to add tothat?

We're going into meat potatoes we are
we have segwayed into the meatand taters section.

I'm aware of that get get into some of
that meat getting some somegetting to Can I say this get
into some of them taters?

Why not?
Is that bad? No tater haters aregonna be mad.

Oh, I was wondering if I could actually
get it out. I was stumbling.

So anyway, our whole family of five was in
Eugene, Oregon, on Friday andSaturday for the high school
track and field statechampionships for the state of
Oregon,

at legendary Hayward field, on the
campus of the University ofOregon. Electric crowds, big
crowds, noisy crowds. And what acool celebration of just
hundreds and hundreds andhundreds of kids probably
because Oregon has stateclassification. So one A is a
small schools also up to six A,which are the big schools. And

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it is it is like a carnival, itis really a great, great 48
hours.

Yeah, I mean, I think the thing that's
so fun about Hayward, and we'vegone to it, you know, since it
was the old Hayward field, andnow the new Hayward field is the
crowd that it attracts is soknowledgeable about the sport of
track and field. I mean, thereare people that are, I mean,
they just know everything aboutall the different sports. And
it's just so fun to be a part ofthat where every event is

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celebrated. And people know allabout it.

Yeah, and there's something special about,
I think high school age to 14 to18, because they're old enough,
where you're going to see somereally extraordinary
performances. And they're youngenough where that optimism and
excitement is, is there. It'sjust a perfect, I think it's

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just a perfect age group. Wewere laughing about even little
things, and I'm kind of bouncingaround a little bit. But just
it's fun to walk in and seethese pockets of different
colors in the crowd representingthe different schools, you've
got this collection of 50 peoplewearing, you know, bright
orange, and you know, they'reall cheering for one school. And
then there's red, and there'sblue, and there's purple. And

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it's I don't know, there'ssomething great about that
knowing that these kids on thefield and on the track, they've
got their supporters and theirfriends and teammates and family
there. And they're invested inwhat they do. It's, it's just
one really cool celebration.

Yeah, this is so unrelated, but not
related. But just like you said,looking around at the crowd, and
all the different pockets ofcolor, I think it'd be really
cool. If, like, if the crowdjust somehow organized
themselves into rainbow order.
And you just look around thewhole oval, and there's just the
spectrum of color. I thinkthat'd be so fun.

Yeah, this is this is where you being an
artist makes things just likeweird. Like, I would never think
that like, oh, let's geteverybody in rainbow order and
put them put them in there. Andthat would be so pretty and
nice. Which is why I think it'shilarious sitting next to you
during sporting events sometimesbecause you're so knowledgeable

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and such a geek, in a sportysense. And then suddenly you
come out with these commentsthat are so not sports, which
are hilarious. It'll be oh mygoodness, look at this move.
Look at this move that's beingmade. And the socks on Fifth
place are fantastic. Wait, what?
What are we what am I focusingon? And yes, the socks are

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fantastic. But yeah, I thinkmaybe next year, you should
write a letter and see ifeveryone can be given seat
assignments based on teamcolors. You should look into
that.

Yeah, the overhead photo would be so
pretty.

Yes, yes.

Yeah. So you want to talk about some of
our favorite events. What do youwant to talk about?

Yeah, well, I mean, first we had both our
daughters were racing. So ouroldest Maggie was running the 3k
on Friday morning. Our youngest,Emma was running a prelim or
semi final in the 800, Fridayafternoon. And then on Saturday,
Emma had the 800 final, the 15final, and the four by four

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final spread out throughout theday. So we were very busy.
cheering on our girls. They alsohad a ton of teammates racing
and a lot of different events.
Their high school is really wellrepresented on the boys and the
girls side. And then obviouslyjust living in Oregon, which is
not the biggest state. We knewso many kids or friends that had
kids racing. So it was reallyjust almost every couple of

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minutes. We were cheering forsomebody, which was a lot of
fun. And if you if you don'tknow anyone in the race, you're
just usually cheering on areally great race. So it was a
very busy 48 hours. Soconsidering how busy it was,
were there any moments that kindof stood out for you whether it
was in the crowd on the track onthe field?

I think two things that were kind of
really apparent to me, we cantake these one by one if you
want. But one was the amount ofstate records that got broken or
state meat records, I guess theygot broken, was kind of insane.
There was a period of like anhour where I felt like it was
almost every race. Yeah, a longheld like 20 plus years, state

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meat record went down. And thatwas just so fun. The crowd was
so into it. And it was just,yeah, it's just cool to see when
it all comes together on theright day.

Yeah. And I think what makes that extra
special is knowing what thisgroup of kids have gone through
over the last few years,especially with missing so much
time from COVID. To be able tocome back and have performances
like this, because Track andField is a very demanding sport.
And it's based on progression.
You don't just wing stuff. Youdon't just wing stuff, you don't
just pick up the sport. Andthree weeks later, you're

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running a great 3k. Or yousuddenly can throw a javelin. I
mean, it takes a lot of time.
And to see some of theseperformances, and the depth of
the performances. It was justamazing. It was just, it was
good sometimes to stop andthink, jeez, two years ago,
these kids were out of school,and they weren't having

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competition. And for them to beable to do this. And you're
right. It was it was relentless.
It was like, every five minutes,it was an announcement of a
state record or a state meetrecord. It was so impressive.

Yeah, I think that's, you know, if you
think about all the seniors thatwere there, they're the ones who
had the brunt of COVID andhaving their season shut down
when they were freshmen and thenhaving iffy weird seasons, sort
of hodgepodge kind of seasons,their sophomore years, you could
have realized the loss of oflike, why are we doing this,

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right? Like there are, they hadno meats in sight coming up,
they didn't know if they weregoing to have a season. And so
to keep training and to keepbelieving in themselves, even
though they didn't know whenthey were going to have a chance
to compete, I think just speaksso highly of them. So I you
know, especially I think a shoutout to the seniors for
navigating their way through allof that uncertainty was really

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cool. And the other thing Inoticed, and it's really funny,
because you and I talked aboutthis, and then our daughter
posted something similar to thison her Instagram. But I noticed
the amount of hugs at the meat.
And so you know, the amount ofpeople the competitors that
crossed the line or finishedtheir throw or their jump, and

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then were immediately hugged bytheir competitors was insane.
Like, I mean, we always haveseen that. But I felt like there
was an extra kind of warm,special glow to this meet this
weekend. Just so many hugs andcelebrations of people that
literally fractions of a secondor seconds ago, were giving it

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their all to beat each other.
And then seconds later arehugging and smiling and laughing
was just really cool.

Yeah, probably some state records for
hugs, too. At the mean, thatwould be a fun counter. Oh,
absolutely. And you know, one ofmy favorite quotes, which I've,
you know, said countless timesis from Jeff Johnson, who used
to coach both of us who said,compete with and not against
each other. And that and thatwas so true with what you were

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saying. I mean, these, thesekids would not have been able to
have achieved such incrediblefeats if they didn't have such
incredible people to competewith. And I think they drew
entire fields to personal bests.
And all time records and staterecords. I mean, that was this

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was the best Oregon State meetin history. I don't think it's a
what's the word a coincidence?
That, like you said, it wasprobably the most hugs ever
handed out amongst competitors.
There was some type of specialfeeling and I'll tell you what,
I think it it made its way intothe crowd because the crowd

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seemed to be cheering foreveryone. If you were competing
hard. The crowd was cheering foryou, even if you were wearing a
different uniform than who maybethey were representing.

Yeah, all around love, lots of love.

I also think it's kind of cool. Which
we always notice, especiallywhen we've been out of meat for
a long time you start noticingmore than just, you know who's
crossing the line first, or ifit's a state record. There was a
few moments where we were justjust looking at the kids that
how hard they were competingdidn't matter if they were in

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first place or eighth place or15th place and how much it meant
to them. And we were thinkingyou know, these kids sacrifice
so much. You know, it's Fridaynights. It's Saturday mornings.
It's after school every singleday, they still are expected to
do their homework, even whenthey're getting home at 10pm.
And they got to be at school at7am the next day. And they put

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so much effort into it when thatgun goes off, or they're told
that they can, you know, jump orthrow. It's, it really is such a
wonderful environment to bearound as an adult to see these
kids compete the way that theydo. It's a it's a great reminder
to, you know, make sure you havesome of this in your life still.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. And we also hadsome pretty cool family things
occur. You want to talk a littlebit about that?

Yeah, well, I mean, you kind of hinted
at it. We had Maggie run the 3kon Friday. And that was
incredible. You know, superstrong fields. And she ran a
fantastic race really smart. Andshe was fourth, which is her
highest placing at state meet.
And it was just really fun tosee.

And what was really cool about that was
the race, we thought it wasgoing about really, really fast.
And it didn't it just picked upand was crazy bonkers at the
end, which was a lot of fun towatch. And it was a again, a
crowd was there to watch greatracing. So it was really cool to
see the kids get such an awesomereaction. And like you said
afterwards, ton of hugs fromthese young women that have been

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racing against each other foryears, a lot of them since
middle school. Yeah. Andobviously, it's emotional when
you get to see your kid,especially a senior wrapping up
a high school career on theaward standard states. So really
special moment. And neither oneof us passed out from elevated
heart rate. So that was cool.

My watch didn't even notify me that I had
an elevated heart rate thiswhole weekend, which I think
maybe my watch fell asleep atthe wheel because I've gotten
those notifications and Reese'sbefore. And I definitely felt
more nervous, I think thisweekend than at some other
meats. But yeah, my watch kindakind of fell asleep at the wheel
didn't warn me about those. Butthe other neat thing about

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Maggie and the three Ks, thatshe had two teammates in the
race, and another of theteammates was on the podium next
to her. So that was just reallyfun to see them, you know, get
to hug and celebrate together upthere.

And then a little while later, Emma had her
semi final and navigated thatsometimes the semi finals a lot
more stressful than the actualfinal because the finals almost
like a release, you made it. Nowyou can have some fun, the semi
finals, where you're worriedabout, you know, tactical
blunders and missteps or gettingtripped up, but she navigated

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that, like a boss. So it wasvery cool. And we were kind of
done in terms of the parentalnerves for the day. And we got
to just enjoy the rest of themeat until the allergies kicked
in.

And oh my the allergies were crazy. So
they were like two or threedifferent drugstores that we
went in and the allergiessection was just annihilated,
just empty shelves. But somehowour two girls didn't really have
too much of a problem with it.
One of our you know, one of ourgirls did, but it was after her
races, but I was really happythat it didn't affect them so
badly. But there were so manykids walking around the stadium

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with tissues stuffed up one oftheir nostrils because they were
just so tired of walking, wipingaway the drips. So,

Eugene's like the allergy capital of the
world. You came in with a sinusinfection. So you were already a
little beat up. It was like theeighth round of a championship
boxing match for you as you cameinto Eugene. I got cocky and
said, I haven't had an issuewith allergies. All spring and
then all hell broke loose and Ijust lost it. I had the worst,

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probably allergies for aboutthree hours that I've had, maybe
ever. I just kept apologizing toyou. I think I sneezed 50 times
in an hour.

So much so that a stranger walking by stops
to offer you some allergymedicine that he had had to walk
45 minutes to buy. And heoffered you one of those
precious pills.

Yeah, we assume it was allergy medicine
because one the allergies wentaway. And I also felt great.
There you go. So yeah, but itworked. But that was That was
brutal, terrible. But we gotthrough it. And then we were
ready for day two, you want totalk a little bit about day two.

So day two, or Emma had the 15 101st.
And we you know, again, wedidn't really know what to
expect. You know sometimes racescan be really tactical and
nobody wants to take the leadand sometimes it goes out really
fast. And she handled it reallywell. She knew exactly what to
do and she came away with thewin and that was really fun.

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Such

a fun race.
I love the 1500 1500 is threeand three quarters laps on a
track it's known as the manTrick miles. So it's a really
nice combo of speed andendurance. Yeah, so that was
great. And I think more thananything was nice to see how
happy she was when she crossedthe line, that you could tell

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that she actually had funracing, as opposed to it being
really stressful, which is nice,which is what you want. You want
the kids to be having fun. It'sokay to have pressure. It's okay
to be nervous, but you stillwant it to be fun. And it looked
like she had a really good timeracing. Yeah, like

it looked like that. And then when we got
to see some photos that weresent to us, she like literally
had a smile as she was crossingthe finish line. So that's, of
course, always fun to see. Sothen she had 800. And she had
two of her teammates in thatrace with her as well. So that
was really fun to watch. And,again, handled the strategy and
the tactics really smartly, andcame away with a win and had her

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two other teammates on thepodium with her. So that was
another one that was a lot offun, a lot of hugs. And later,
we got to see photos of thefinish. And there were more
smiles.

Yeah, and I think that was really special to
her that, you know, to haveteammates go one to eight and
three scores at the state meetthe same same team is really
special. And to be able toexperience that with your
friends is is great. And the daywasn't done, though, we had what
about another hour, hour and ahalf, and then the four by four,
which is always a blast at everytrack meet, because it's just so

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much fun. It's an electricrelay, every kid runs one lap.
Our kids are in six A's. So wegot to watch the boys and girls
for a the boys and girls five Aand then the boys and girls six,
eight to kind of end theweekend. And that's always a
crowd pleaser. The kids love it.
And one of the cool things atthe end of the meat, they give
awards to the top four teams ineach division. So they all come

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down onto the field, you've gothundreds and hundreds of kids on
the infield, the meats now overthere waiting to get their their
chance to stand on the podium asa team. But you know that that
moment when the stress is allgone, the nerves are all gone,
you're done, you've achievedsomething great. And now you
just get to have some fun. So itwas nice to see just these

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hundreds and hundreds ofteenagers finally getting to
just really just relax and havesome fun together. At the end of
the meat. It was a really coolkind of view looking at it from
the upper deck down onto thefield.

Yeah, I mean, that was probably one of
my favorite moments of the wholeweekend is when you and I were
up on the upper decks withhardly anybody around, you know,
just looking at these hundredsof athletes on the infield. And
we spotted our daughters andtheir team. And one of our
daughters in particular wasdancing her heart out to the
music and just the joy andlightness and relief and

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accomplishment that all of thesekids on the field felt we could
finally breathe as parents wecould just be spectators and
just soaking it in. And it wasjust I will never forget that of
just looking down and seeingthem taking pictures with each
other and more hugs and morehugs and more dancing is just
you can't beat it.

Yeah, it was a great way to to end it.
And then to drive out and getsome wings before we left Eugene
because hot mamas wings. We didit twice in just over two days.
So shout out to hot mamas wingsand Eugene.

They took good care of us.

They took good care of us. All right.
Well, that was that was the meatand the potatoes. It was a
pretty, pretty sizable feast ofgood stuff. So what do we got
now? Is it pet? Do we slide intopetty grievances straight out of
meat and potatoes,

we do.
What you got?

You go first.

So this one is sort of a petty
grievance, but something thatI'm sort of in awe of, and that
is that there's always a longline at a pharmacy no matter
when I've gone to the pharmacy.
In all of my years of living onthis earth, there's always a
line at the pharmacy. And thepharmacists and farm techs are

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never really appear to beflustered or concerned about the
long line. So it's a pettygrievance in the way that I
feel. I feel like I would justfeel better if they acted like
they were in a hurry. Or if theyacted like I know that you're
all waiting in line and I'm sosorry, I'm doing my best. I'm

(24:32):
trying to get through all these,you know, orders. I feel like I
would feel better if there wassome acknowledgement of it. At
the same time, I don't want themrushing through while they're
counting people's pills. And Idon't and at the same time I
also wish I could be a littlebit more like that where I where
I didn't let other people'simpatience affect me and make me

(24:53):
tense. But I tend to let that bea little bit contagious. So when
people are antsy and tense, Itend to let it you know,
contagious onto me a little bit.
So I'm a little bit in awe of itand a little bit also, pity
grieved.

Whenever I'm picking something up from
the pharmacy, um, I think I'mmore focused or hyper aware of
whether the people around me arepicking something up for someone
who's sick, or if they're thesick person.

Oh, yeah, totally. I'm seeing like, are
they coughing? Or, like if theywipe their face? Where do they
touching after that? Because whoknows what illness they have? Is
it contagious? Yeah, I spend alot of time like that mask?

Yeah. Why am I picking this up? I'm not
the sick one. Well, maybe that'sthe right thing to do. Yeah, so
I got you. Alright, what'syours? Well, it's interesting,
because it's, it's in a foodstore as well, our pharmacies in
a food store mine has to do withthe packing of the groceries.

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Oh, gosh, yes, I do anextraordinary job. When I pack
my own groceries, if thereoccasionally there is someone at
the end, that is there to packthe groceries for you. So that
always gets me very anxiousbecause I know how to pack

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groceries. Like for instance,you don't put soft things like
chips, or fruit, or vegetables.
Unless it's something likecarrots, we wouldn't put
tomatoes on the bottom of a bag.
You don't put glass, littlebottles at the top of the bag,

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because they roll and they slideover. And then they can make the
bag tip. All of these littlethings. I know. You don't put
bread in the middle. So I alwaysget anxious, does this bagger
know what they're doing? Andwe're at that time of year where
you're starting to get kids nowgetting hired. And they just
don't have it. They don't havewhat it takes when it comes to

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bagging. It's a greatgeneration. They're good kids,
they do a lot of things awesome.
What I've seen so far, they'relacking in the bagging. So my
petty grievance is the last twotimes I've gone to won't name
the place, the bagging has beensubpar, sub mediocre. And I
would rather just do it myselfbecause I can do it quicker. And

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I know nothing's gonna getdamaged, and the bag isn't gonna
rip or fall over. I basicallyknow that I can just kick ass.
So just let me back. So my pettygrievance is if you're not
properly trained, bagger justdon't bag or do the training.
And then get back out there. Butuntil then, don't touch my

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stuff. Let me just do it. Iappreciate it. But no, thank
you.

I feel the need to point out that a tomato
is a fruit and not a vegetable.
I also want to just say that youdevelop these fantastic bagging
skills during quarantine, youwould come back from the grocery
store with mega pride on how youpacked and ever since then, if I
go which is rare, but on therare occasions that I go with

(28:07):
you to the grocery store, youwill not even let me near the
bagging because you and andyou're so particular about how
you put things on the conveyorbelt? Yes, you won't even let me
unload the cart, which is greatfor me because I just get to sit
around and look at the magazinesand all of that while you're
doing all the things. But I alsofeel like there is a competition

(28:28):
in the world for fastestbaggers. Not only fastest, but
also like most appropriate youknow, so I mean, anybody can
pack really fast if you're justthrowing everything in. But
there is a competition and Ifeel like I want you to enter
it.

Yeah, well, it's a combination. It's its
efficiency. And its excellence.
Those are those are twodifferent things. So yes, like
you said, you can just throwstuff in there. And that's the
young man who packed the bagslast time. He was really fast.
But I literally got to the car,and I had to rearrange
everything. Because I wasfreaking out that the tomato,
which is a fruit according toTammy even though if we re

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listen to this, I never said atomato was a vegetable. Are you
just throwing that out there asjust some

you said you would never put vegetables
on the bottom like a tomato?

I think it's a fruit and vegetables.
Okay. So but we can read listen,and I will be sure to edit this
podcast or whatever I say iscorrect. But the point is, you
have to be efficient and therehas to be an element of
excellence. I do notice that youwill and I wonder if you're
doing this on purpose when we goto the store. And yes, it is
rare that you accompany me. Youwill Are you putting stuff on

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the conveyor belt in the wrongorder. So then I tell you to
stop. So then you can just readmagazines.

No, but that's a great idea. All right,
let's open the mailbag.

Okay, I won't make the fake rip noise
and never picks up on the audioanyway. Oh All right, as I reach
into the mailbag. Okay, this isfrom our good friend Sam
weathers. And the question is,what is the coldest you've ever
been? It's very specificquestion.

Yeah. Do you have an answer?

Yes, I believe so. Do you want me to go
first? Or do you want to go? Goahead. The coldest I can
remember I, I think I was socold, I stopped feeling cold.
And it was running a crosscountry race. Oddly enough in
North Carolina, where the daybefore, it was in the low to mid
70s. In the morning of our race,it was sleeting. And I think,

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upper 20s. So I've been outsideand worse, I've run and worse,
but for whatever reason, I couldnot move my mouth. I could not
move my hands. I didn't feel myfeet when I cross the finish
line. And if you remember, youwere there at the finish line.
This is a US cross inGreensboro, maybe way back when

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and I couldn't get anything offme. You had to get the gloves
off me. I couldn't get thejersey off me. It couldn't put
shirt, a shirt on me. My fingersstarted to hurt. When they got
the feeling back. That's when Iknew I was cold. That once I
started to warm up, I started toget feeling back. And then I was

(31:26):
in intense pain for probably anhour of just like the digits,
the toes and the fingers.
Absolutely, totally brutal.
That's probably the coldest Ican remember because I just
remember the pain and myinability to do anything.

Yeah, mine's really similar. And it's
also at a cross country meetthis one was USA, TF. Junior,
Olympic nationals are all threeof our kids were running. It was
an Albuquerque, New Mexico. Itwas I just can't even describe
the level of cold that it was. Idon't think there was snow on

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the ground. But it was bitter,bitter, bitter cold. And I was a
coach. And so I had to lead thekids on a warm up and get them
to the tent. And it was justYeah, it was really really cold.
I will never forget it itsomething about the air being so
thin. And it was just it wasbrutal. And these poor little

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teeny tiny kids were justshivering so hard. I thought
that their muscles were justgonna cramp and seize up. But we
made it through.

I think probably my if I was to go back
into like my top five, I thinkall of them would involve in
some way running, or coaching.
And coaching is a slightlydifferent type of pain because
you're not running around asmuch as the kids or the
athletes. And you have so muchdowntime, you're waiting for
them. And you're just like thisis never going to end time. Just
move so slowly.

Yeah, you feel like you'll never thaw
you'll never get warm again.

All right, well, there you go. Sam
weathers. Now you know, ourcoldest ever. Okay, what do you
got coming up?

Well, actually, we're going to talk
about floating fancies, first

floating fancies, at some point, I'm
going to figure out this order.

So I'll tell you what's floating my
fancy. What's floating yourfancy. And this might lead to a
petty grievance of yours on afuture date. So if if you're
starting to go there, just saveit for another episode. But I am
really liking Dr. TEALS sleepspray. So it has melatonin and
some essential oils likelavender and you just spray the

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little mist on your beddingbefore you go to sleep. And that
is actually helping me sleepbetter. Or at least it's making
me think that it helps me sleepbetter, which then in fact helps
me sleep better. And it smellsso good.

Okay, so the directions are to spray it
on your bedding. or other placeson your partner. Because when
you spray it, you are sprayingit on me.

Actually, I'm going to read the
directions. Use Dr. TEALS,multipurpose sleep spray at
bedtime and four different waysto enhance your sleep routine.
And then it has bullet points.
One in shower two on pillows andbedding. Three on body four and
bedroom. Okay, so validated. Dr.

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TEALS. Thank you but

it seems like Dr. Teal is inferring on
your own body. The person whoowns this lavender sleep spray
or sleep mist whatever it'scalled. And that's not saying on
random bodies. You don't goaround and say, Hey, stranger,
I'm going to spray you with mylavender sleep and mist and

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there's no strangers in mybedroom at night. No, but I am a
unwilling participant a nonconsensus in this ritual. I just
know that my eyes are closed andsuddenly I hear in about a
second and a half later, theprecipitation reaches me. And I
know you're

telling delicious and then you love it.
You

think it's hilarious? And then you go to
sleep. After I say, why did youspray me? Yeah. And I think
maybe the reason why you sleepbetter is because you You're
laughing quietly that'sreleasing endorphins. It's
lowering your blood pressure.
And that's why you're sleepingbetter. Perhaps. Joke mist, as
far as I'm concerned,

what's floating or VNC?

Well, the last few times I've gotten
coffee. I've gone a littlerogue. And I've gotten some
fancy pants brands. But Iusually buy them because they
look cool because I have like apirate on them or a skeleton or,
you know, like a really cooldrawn bear. I have no idea if I

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don't know who any of thesecoffee makers are. So I'm buying
it strictly on the package. Butso far last couple patches have
been good. So floating my fancyor kind of fancy coffees. It's,
it's all straight up coffee. Idon't do anything weird. I just
do coffee with a little half anda half. And that's it. So, so
really, it's fancy packaging.
It's fancy packaging. Yes. Butthe coffee has been good. So I

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feel like I'm kind of lookingout. So lately, it's been fancy
packaged coffee has floated myfancy.

So this is like when you send me to Jon's
market, which is this localmarket that has 1000s of kinds
of beer in your house, and youtell me to get some one or two
beers for you. And I will pickit purely based on the
packaging, because I'm tellingyou what, the artist illustrator

(36:54):
in me loves the packaging onthese small brewery beers.
They're just so good. And so Ialways just purely base it based
my choice on the artwork on thecan. So it sounds very similar
to me.

Yes, and you are hit percentage is
through the roof when you go. Idon't know if you've ever
brought back. A bad beer. Yeah,I've

never brought back an ugly beer.
That's for sure.

Yeah, you've never brought back an
ugly beer. And it's never tastedugly. Right? So beautiful on the
outside. And more importantly,the beers you by me are
beautiful on the inside of thatcan. Let's talk about what's
ahead. What do you what do youhave coming up?

Well, we have our daughter's graduation
from high school. We've We'vesurvived one, we can survive
this one too. But yeah, it'sit's gonna hit. And then on a
more personal note, I am goingto be starting some kettlebell
exercises. So I have triedkettlebell in the past. And I

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obviously didn't do it right.
And it didn't feel so good. Butnow I have been taught the right
way to swing those kettlebellsaround. And I'm looking forward
to just adding just a little bitof strength, weight bearing
exercises to my day, and justlittle, little tiny ways. So
yeah, because I'm working onadding strength to my routine.

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So this will be a fun way to doit.

Yeah, it was cool seeing you randomly
walking around the house lastweek with the kettlebell over
your head.

Yeah, I decided that like, you know, I
do a lot of my client calls herein the room. And then I'll come
out in between client calls togo get a sip of water or a
little snack. And I thought,well, as long as I'm walking to
the other side of the house, whydon't I just bring a kettlebell
with me and carry it overhead.
And it's one of those micromovements, that's just going to
add up to big gains.

Very cool.
To take advantage of thoselittle down moments. To lift
something up, like a kettlebell.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've gotobviously our daughter's
graduation as well, thisweekend, totally unprepared
emotionally for that. So that'sgoing to be that's gonna be
rough. I'm super proud of her.
And also just, you know, they'regrowing up. And that's tough.

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And there's also a great meetlocally at Lewis and Clark
College, the Portland trackfestival. So hopefully, there'll
be time to go and watch that wemay even have some of our kids
racing there. But that's areally fun track meet that gets
put on and it's about, what,five minutes from our house.
Just really cool. And the coolthing about that is you can

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actually watch it on pay perview. I think it's like $6 to
watch. And $3 goes to the pricepurchases for the athletes,
which is really cool.

I'll put a link to that in our show notes
so people can add to the pot.

Yeah, you should. You should Watch the
great races. And maybe you'llsee Tammy and I in the crowd,
which will be lots of fun. Andthen at the beginning of next
week Monday, I fly out to Miamito do some stuff with some run
clubs and some runs for globalRunning Day. Next weekend in

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Miami. I don't know if I've everbeen in Miami. I don't think
I've ever been to Miami,Florida. So there you go. Yeah.
So that's it. So that's all Igot. I think that's all we got.
I think we're at the end of theline

ending. So thank you so much for joining us
today. Come back next week.

We'll meet you here.

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