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you are a marathon runner

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and i think you love running so what i

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mean what is it about running that you

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love so much what do you get out of it

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that's a good question is it time to

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think it's it is time to think i'm

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somebody who's never

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wore headphones while i run

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a lot of people

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i guess needed that ex the motivation

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the

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to get out and run to me i never wore

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them

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i would go on 20 mile runs and

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it was a good thinking time

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and i enjoyed running

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with others but almost as much or more

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enjoyed running by myself

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not that i didn't enjoy the company of

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others but it was a time to be on myself

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and

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it also

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i think running shows i'm at a point i

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haven't been running as much right now

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since i've had my son and been busy i'm

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not at the point running where i was six

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years ago and i wish i was and hopefully

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i'll be there again but but

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a lot of people say that they're not

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runners and they can't run

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and i don't always believe that because

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there's a there's a hump to get over and

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i'm i'm below that hump right now i'm

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having a hard time getting out and

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getting myself to run the way i know i

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used to be able to run so i know that

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you can get over that home because i've

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done it and i've been there

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and so i think others who say they can't

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run

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just push a little bit harder and i

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think you can i bet you'll be able to do

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it

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see people out there running now and i

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get jealous because i'm not out there

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running and

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that's some people think that's crazy

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but

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and i was at a point where it weather

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conditions it did not matter it could be

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raining snowing windy dry hot cold

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i would go on run

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and

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you i always felt good when i got done

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if it was a short run or a long run you

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just always feel good about the run

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about yourself

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and you know after you run a couple

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marathons

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it's it's

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a huge accomplishment and especially for

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people i think that didn't think they

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could run

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and then you go out there and by that

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when you finish a marathon like wow

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guess what you can do that

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you know but finding the time and making

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the discipline and having the discipline

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to do it how was that i do yeah i ran a

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little bit as an undergraduate student

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but not

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not very much i did a couple i think 5k

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races maybe

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but when i was a graduate student living

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in austin is when i really started to

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run a lot and

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i would actually use that time to think

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about my project

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and it's i would solve a lot a lot of

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times i would go for a long run at

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lunchtime

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and i remember i'd start at the ut

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campus and go down south to the river

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run around the river run back up to

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campus and uh

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and that's really i used that time like

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i said mentally a lot thinking about

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thinking about what i was working on and

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i actually solved some of the issues

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that i was having and equipment i was

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building and that type of thing for my

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project

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my first marathon i remember thinking

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if i can run 11 miles by

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this date and if i can run 18 miles by

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this date then i should be able to run

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the 26 miles by this date and i i just i

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put that on a calendar and i did it and

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i i got to the point where i was running

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that and i don't remember what my long

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run was before the marathon but i may

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have only gone to 18 miles but i figured

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at 18 i should be able to do another

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eight

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and then after that after doing the

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first marathon you kind of get hooked on

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but i think the time

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i used it as my time of thinking a lot

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when i would run

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i'm always just thinking about how bad i

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feel you know

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well i mean seriously i actually like to

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run too but i have to yeah there are

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runs there are runs where i have not

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been happy and

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and

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i just want to quit

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and especially marathons

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we're around mile 21 so you just you you

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just want to stop

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but then when you finish it's very

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it just feels really good and within an

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hour when should i do my next marathon

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you can have completely forgotten about

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that

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one hour period of time

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or half hour period of time whatever it

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was where i you know you just want to

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stop and sit down and do nothing else

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but

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then you realize well i guess i was able

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to push through it because i finished

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how do you get through it

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you just

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a lot of it for me i think is

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i just don't want to be a quitter

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you know and and i

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i know i could do it and there were

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times there were i think i've done nine

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marathons and only two where i didn't

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walk at least some portion of it

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and you know you come to the water

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stations and you walk for a little while

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and then you start shuffling along again

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you just find a way to push through it

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and i think that happens in a lot of a