This week, Alice flies out for the Chicago Marathon, and she shares a few last-minute experiments during her taper. Huw’s training is starting to come back, and he talks about a vision quest he’s headed off to for a few days. Alice walks us through how she’s getting her head ready for race day, which takes us into what goes on in the mind in the long middle miles of a race. Then we answer listener questions on whether you need different shoes for different runs and what to eat before a run. We close on hydration before a race, which matters a lot when you’re a nervous wee-er.

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This week, Huw ran 48K the day before his 46th birthday. Alice shares her latest race milestones, and she's 10 days away from the Chicago Marathon. We answer a listener's question on our top three tips for new runners heading into their first marathon, which gets us talking about our first marathons. Then a listener with a cold, who isn't sure how she'll handle a hill session on her schedule, asks what we do when we have a cold.

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This week it's just Huw. With Alice out for work, he's taking on the listener questions solo. He's been trying something different on his long runs, and walks us through how a hot 20-miler in Texas went. Then it's on to your questions: what really fuels a passion for running, how to face a big scary goal like a first 100-miler, and dealing with DNFs in running and in life. Huw also gets asked the closest he's ever come to quitting running. Plus, a listener's daughter has some questions after hearing Huw get numbers from strangers on Strava.

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