Couch to

marathon.

Yeah.

But there was a couple of years.

So it was a couch marathon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then in 2018, I ran the Chicago Marathon.

Is that something you've done in multiple training cycles? Or was that something you tried different this time around? Like, let's kind of break this down into things that I want to be able to like celebrate and acknowledge along the way.

And I always like to just why why did you become a coach? How did you become a coach? And then we'll go from there.

Yeah, well, thanks for having me.

So I became an RRCA certified running coach in 2019.

So that was step one.

I had gotten back into running after becoming a first-time mom in 2016.

And I just fell completely in love with it.

I ran in middle school.

So I would love to just share more about how you, well, first of all, what it was like in those final weeks and then how you kind of create boundaries around and protect your time and your energy while you're training for a big goal of your own while you're also coaching others.

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Oh, with your hip.

I think it, yeah, like obviously it depends.

But if, especially if you're not doing any strength training and then you're going to throw a carbon plate that's gonna force your foot all over the place when you're running, like that's recipe for injury.

And so when I...

You know, that's my first thought when we talk about super shoes, is like, okay, but like do you have like the sturdiness under you to be able to tolerate that aggressive shoe? Um, also like if the athlete ha- is just, has an, a history of like a lot of injury too, it's-It's interesting because I know there has been some research that's still being done about super shoes potentially increasing the risk of stress fracture.

We don't know a lot yet because they're so new still.

... strength training, you know?