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Hey, everybody. I'm Doug. That's Connor and this

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is the Bethel school district presents podcast. And

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we have a great show for you today.

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We'll be talking with a teacher who has

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a very

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wool, extra extracurricular activity in fact, Connor, I'm

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gonna go so far as to call this

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an extreme sport. Well, you know, Doug, I'm

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gonna half to go ahead and disagree with

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you there because I actually did this interview

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and I know the sport in question is

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running. And unless you're being chased by a

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bear. I don't think that qualifies as extreme.

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But you do you? Well, I did me,

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and I got out running the other day

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just to see if I could still do

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it and I will tell you it is

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an extreme sport, at least as far as

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my legs are concerned. We will get to

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that interview in just a few minutes, But

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Conor, I thought since we're talking sports Let's

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talk popularity of sports across this great globe

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I have in front of me, The list

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of the most. Popular sports ranked by total

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fans. This comes to us from world atlas

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dot com. Now you don't have this list.

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I've got it. You're coming in cold to

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this 1. And I wanna see if you

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can guess at least a couple of the

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top 10 most popular sports ranked by total

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fans, and I will tell you this right

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now, like they say on the Internet, Number

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6, will surprise you. Wow. What a tease

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for number 6. I can't wait to hear

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number 6. But I'm gonna jump right to

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number 1.

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I don't need to phone a friend.

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I'm not right here anyway. I don't know.

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I only have 1 friend and he's right

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in front of me.

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I'm gonna say the number 1 sport. Hundred

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percent confidence,

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American football.

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Well, that is certainly a good guess but

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we are talking worldwide I gotta tell you,

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1 through 10 American football does not crack

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that list. The number 1 sport, which I

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won't tell you, but has... 3500000000.0

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fans.

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The Nfl has a hundred and 84000000

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fans. Wow. So I was not even close.

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Let me re calibrate here and think more

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worldly,

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less America centric. I'm gonna say

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it's gotta be not football, but

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football or soccer as we call it. That

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is exactly it played in Europe, Africa, Asia,

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America all across the globe 3500000000.0

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fans can't be wrong. Foot football. Soccer is

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number 1. Okay. And I'm gonna go... III

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just... I know of a couple other sports

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that aren't huge here,

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but they may be big other places. So

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I'm gonna just throw a couple. You tell

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me if they're on the list or not.

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Alright.

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Underwater hockey.

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Is that like, when the ice melts, I

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guess.

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I'm take that as a note. It's that's

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the no. What about cheese rolling?

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She's rowling did not make the list surprisingly.

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That's a that's a great sport and w,

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I guess? Or Wisconsin.

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What about

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wife carrying?

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No. I've heard of this though.

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Extreme ironing.

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Extreme ironing.

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No. I... That's definitely not. I'm I'm 1

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for about can here. What about giant pumpkin

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kayak. That's gotta be on there. Right?

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I need to know more about... It's gaining

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a popularity.

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Maybe next year I'll be on the list.

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But yeah. I don't know What about... I'm

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gonna... A real 1 now. I'm gonna say,

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cricket. Everybody in the world seems to love

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cricket. I have no idea what how you

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play, but that's gotta be on the list.

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It is not only on the list. It's

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number 2. Now your ridiculously

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amazing list. Of

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bizarre sports aside. You've gone 2 for 2

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here. Soccer number 1 Cricket number 2, cricket

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has 2500000000.0

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fans. That's 1000000000

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less than soccer still. Golly. That's a lot

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of folks. A lot of people loving that

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1. And you were real close on number

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you said underwater hockey, which I think is

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fantastic, but regular hockey has 2000000000 fans, and

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number third most popular sport. I thought that

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was pretty interesting. Would not have called that.

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Where's quid shrank. Quid also not on this

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list surprisingly. I'm gonna, give you a couple

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more guesses for our audience gets bored here

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and we get to our teacher interview. Let

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me throw out like, 3 more sports for

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me. Okay.

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Out house racing.

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I don't wanna know what that because.

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Belly flop. But oh, it was like a

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swimming type sport. Yeah. No. There's no. No

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no water represented on this settlement all. I

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was gonna say chicken fighting, but if there's

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no water, you gave me a good hint

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if that's not gonna be on there. So

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I'm gonna just say good old the American

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pastime,

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baseball.

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Baseball coming in number 8 at 500000000

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fans, The ones you missed in between there

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were tennis at number 4 with a billion

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fans,

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volleyball at number 5 with 900000000,

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table tennis. Wow.

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fans. Well, I count me as 1 of

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them. I'm at. I love a good table

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tennis game.

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It's the number 7 basketball at 800000000.

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We just said baseball. So I've got 9

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and 10 left, and we know they're not

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American. Football. Got 1 guest left.

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boxing. That is a good guess. Not on

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the list, number 9 rugby 475000000

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fans. And number 10 is the great game

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of Golf.

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I'm gonna take that as a you're not

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status side with the start to the show

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this week, but that's okay. We're gonna roll

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with it. I had a good time at

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least. Let's move on to our interview Connor.

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You sat down with 1 of our amazing

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team features, and they had just gotten back

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from a very

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interesting running event.

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Joining us today is Abigail Shelley is an

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educator in our multilingual ling education department teaching

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at 2 middle schools. Is that correct? Yes.

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I'm at Bethel Middle school and Cougar Mountain

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Middle. School. And so you recently had a

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pretty special experience. You got to run the

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Boston Marathon, which... I understand that's kind of

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the school super bowl of marathons. What was

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that, like, first off? I mean, that's a

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pretty amazing experience. Can you kinda walk us

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through the day? Yeah. It truly was amazing.

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Think I went in with low expectations just

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because, you know, when everyone says something's great.

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It's like, isn't it really the magic that

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they say it is, but it completely was.

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I mean, it is 1 of the largest.

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In the United States, but it's also definitely

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the most historic. It was the first marathon

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in the United States and it's run, 26

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miles outside of Boston and you just run

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into the city and people are lining the

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street the entire way. So... Yeah, for for

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about 3 hours, Had people cheering for me

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the whole time, which that was truly the

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magic of it. And I just assumed when

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I heard that you'd run the Bo marathon

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that you must be some hardcore marathon or

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this must be year. Fiftieth marathon,

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but it's not. It was your second marathon.

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So your first time out, you qualify

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for the hardest marathon to get into? When

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did the idea kinda come to your head

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that I'd like to qualify for the Boston

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Marathon? And can you take us through your

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training a little bit. Yeah. So

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why Wanted to run the Boston Marathon. I

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competed as at AD3 university for Tracking Cross

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country. And then also got into Triathlon during

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my time there and wasn't an all American

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for that for Nc DD3.

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And then when I graduated in 20 20,

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Covid hit, so I got really into continuing

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that exercising and I had more time, so

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I just liked more the endurance piece of

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getting to run and and having the time

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to do that. And during my second year

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of teaching, I decided that I needed something

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to train 4 because I was kind of

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getting lost in the motion with my exercise

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and by when I didn't have that direction,

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then I was like, you know, what what

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do you do and my expectations for myself

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was kind of less. So I was, you

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know what? If I train for marathon, I

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might as well try to go for Boston,

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I knew the paces that I was running,

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and I knew that it would be a

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push, but it would be an attainable push,

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and it probably keep me motivated.

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I ran in the Virginia Beach Marathon

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in March of 20 22. And was 5

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minutes under the qualifying time. Sorry. For... Oh

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so I was 03:24,

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qualifying time is 03:30. And so you have

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to wait until the

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registration opens, and sometimes depending on how many

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minneapolis since they haven't in, you won't even

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get in if you're under the qualifying time.

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bit throw my time in and then I

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found out that I got in. So the

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that was when my training started. What was

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that experience? Like, of because I imagine even

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though... I mean, you you got the original

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threshold of okay. I I met the qualify.

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Time. And and I imagine 5 minutes is

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not nothing. That's probably pretty good. You had

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to be feeling pretty good. But when you

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finally get the official...

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Okay from the marathon and, you know, wow.

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I'm actually gonna get to do that. How

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excited were you? I was super excited. I

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mean, it was... Definitely

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still up in the air. If it was

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gonna be a possibility. So to have that.

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I mean, I was super excited and I

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was like, alright. It's definitely with time to

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get work. So I I hired a coach

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to start working with, and that's also I

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just moved to the P w in the

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in the past few months, so to knew

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that I was gonna have some really dark

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nights

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really, really early on. And, yeah, It seems

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so far away when you start training for

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Marathon, It's like 4 months out. So you

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kind of... It's really delayed gratification. So I

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wasn't even thinking I don't think about the

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end part when I was training for it,

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but at that time, I was also coaching

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Cross country. I had recently accepted a position

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to coach... Head track field... 1 of the

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had track field coaches at Bethel High School.

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So had a lot on my plate. So

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I knew that I had to prioritize that

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training somehow, and I have some crazy stories

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as to when I had to fit in

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some runs, but I mean... Yeah. The boss

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Marathon itself made it completely worth it. It's

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kind of, like starting out and, you know,

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getting picked for the yankee on your first

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time ever playing baseball.

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So where do you go from here? Is

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this do you imagine that you're gonna keep

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running marathons? Is it not now you wanna

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win the marathon? What... What's next? So I

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P in Boston. By 7 minutes, which was

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super exciting. So I ran a 03:17,

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I think I'm gonna focus on some shorter

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stuff for a while. Coaching takes up a

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lot of my time,

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and training for a Marathon is just a

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complete, like, eat it eat it eats all

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your time.

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So I think I might try to enter

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some local races, maybe some half marathons and

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10 k and just see how competitive I

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can be in that scene. But what's most

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important to me is, I mean, coaching. Athletes

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all day. I think you always have to

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remind yourself how hard that is and how

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much dedication that takes. So if I'm asking

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kids to be a practice every day and

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give it their all. Like, I... I need

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to making sure that I'm holding myself to

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that standard too, And that's just a personal

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thing for me. So I think it makes

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me a better coach. So some things will

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definitely be on the horizon, taking a little

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bit of a break right now.

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Where my partner and I were hiking the

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camino this summer. So we'll practice some walking

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a little bit more, but hoping to get

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into some short and faster stuff. I imagine

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training for Marathon offers many life lessons. Was

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there anything that you learned as you were

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kind of testing yourself out there that now

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applies to you in the classroom helping students?

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I think a great analogy for marathon training,

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especially over the winter is just putting a

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lot of work in in the dark. So

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metaphorically that beats you know, people don't really

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know

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all the work that it takes to be

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a teacher. People don't really know all of

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what you're doing behind the scenes, and people

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may never know. And People also may never

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care. People might not know the amplitude of

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the difference you're making, but find those people

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in your corner who know how to support

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you through the hard times who know how

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to ask you good questions about what you're

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working towards as a teacher or what kind

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of stuff you're doing in the classroom

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to make the difference in students. And then

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especially take time to celebrate what you've done.

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So that really is what a Marathon the

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race itself feels like. If you've put in

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the work honest the day is just a

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celebration to showcase what you've done. So for

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teachers, whether that's an end of your project,

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whether that's you just prioritizing,

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making sure that you're highlighting what you're proud

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of that year.

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A lot of work that we do is

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in the dark and behind the scenes. But

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it it it can, and it and it

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is worth it as long as you give

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yourself the, but of respect that you deserve

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with how proud you are of yourself. So

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there are many many dark nights when I

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was on the track and just took some

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moments to be like, you know what Ab

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I'll go? Like I'm really proud of you.

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And I think that's a a very

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deep form of self love and self appreciation

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when you're the 1 who tells you that,

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and you don't need to hear that from

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anyone else. Definitely good lessons. And thank you

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so much for joining us and congratulations and

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get, can't we to see what you do

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next? Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate

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it.

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Connor fantastic interview as always, have you ever

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run a marathon. I have run the mile

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when I was in seventh grade. Alright. That's

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not bad. Kept it under 10 minutes. Had

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Massive stitch in my side the whole time,

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drink my body weight and gatorade afterwards and

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I have not run again. That'll still solve

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everything. They're not running. Yeah.

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I have run a half marathon. I'll tell

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you the end of that. That was it

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for me. I knew I was not cut

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out to be a marathon runner, but lots

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of respect for everybody out there that's listening

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to our podcast. And getting their steps in

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today, we will talk to you again next

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week.

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