Last episode we had nothing to talk about, this episode we've got a full docket. We briefly talked about USATF XC results, Houston Half and Full results, Dubai, shoes, Farah, and had THREE(!) great listener emails. Alex also talked about running a marathon (this time with some actual experience to back it up).

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We were short on content this week. We talked Houston fields and then Evan got really into explaining the Hakone Ekiden and that was pretty much it. So we got our friend and podcast emailer Scott to come on and talk with us and then we tried a new bit which is just running down the LetsRun training forum threads and answering the ones that were phrased as questions. We think it led to some interesting discussions and just generally funny moments, but we'd love feedback.

Next week's going to be weird because both Evan and Alex will be in Houston so we'll see what the recording schedule is like! 

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There were really only a handful of things on the docket, but we managed to do almost two hours tonight, so we're pretty proud of ourselves. We talked about a lot of best year/decade lists and more on winter running. And what we'd like to see out of running social media in the next decade. And Star Wars. And Disney World.  Have a happy new year, folks. Thanks a million for listening, we appreciate it more than you know. Don't forget #1609goals on Twitter and Instagram for the Tracksmith gift card.

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Nope! Today we had Footlocker and Club Nats! We also covered some miscellaneous shoe news, a super fast U20 race result, CIM, and we went through some gift guides!

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We talked Valencia, we talked Olympics, we talked Jorgensen and Lananna. We also got to cover NXN, which happened right before we recorded, and a Shippensburg Streak that happened in 2018.

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We talked about this return to the 10,000 in addition to the Athletes of the Year, new blood doping tests that might be ready in time for the Olympics, some notable Turkey Trots, and a quick preview of Valencia/reminder to watch tomorrow.

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We got to talk to Clare F. of the 1609 Podcast leaderboard fame this week, and she joined us for the whole show! We talked NCAA XC, which schools were actual AI inventions, trail and road news, Hasay's coaching changes, Olympics, and what we'd tell our younger running selves, and that was all ahead of the interview! Read more from Clare at her blog and catch her on Twitter here 

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That's right. The IAAF (or World Athletics) has confirmed receipt of  the refund for the overpayment they sent in 2017. This is it. This is all we have for this story. It's been a fun ride. But while we were covering the end of this rollercoaster of a scoop, we also talked about whether athletes should boycott the Diamond League after the absurd program cuts for the 2020 program (Tianna Bartoletta blog post here). We talked about the NCAA XC regionals that have already taken place now and the news about the New England region, Nike's injury relief shoes, some fun facts about the second best high jumper in the world and gave our thoughts on two early previews for the US Marathon Trials.

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It's been a wild couple of weeks. We had to make up ground on NYC and the USATF 5K and make wild prognostications on NCAA Conference XC meets. We also talked about the new changes to the Diamond League 2020 event lineups and talked about the painful stories of abuse at the hands of NOP staff from Mary Cain.

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That's right, it only took us like 30 episodes to get another guest on. We've got Jeremy Ardanuy on this week, who has not only been topping our leaderboards lately, but also topped the podium at the 2019 Baltimore Marathon! We talked about a handful of running things and then also got to read another legendary letter from our pal Roger. 

Editor's Note: We are almost back for real for real to a normal recording schedule; next week might be wonky because of NYC Marathon but after that we should be good until at least CIM but fingers crossed we can get an episode out for you next week.

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