Love, Laughter, and Rowing: A Conversation with Kristi and Boyfriend Ian Accomando | Episode 42

*This Transcript is Autogenerated*

Ian Accomando  0:04  
But there was a moment in time where I thought about leveraging the Harvard lightweights Instagram account and to like every day just like sliding into Taylor's DMS or whatever tagging her on all our posts and seeing if we could get heard of like calm and like come to practice and then we can meet

Kristi Wagner  0:21  
Welcome to the other three years a show for anyone who has an Olympic sized dream they want to turn into a reality. Hi, and welcome to this week's episode of the other three years podcast. This is a fun week because I'm going to record my episode with my boyfriend in who I don't think I've even mentioned on the podcast. So surprise, but we've been dating for a little launch soft launch. We've been dating for a little while and in in do you want to introduce yourself?

Ian Accomando  0:56  
Oh, sure. Hi, I'm Ian aka Mondo from Boston, Massachusetts, originally from Andover mass Somervell. I also row or used to row now I'm still rowing sort of like Coach rowing and Harvard. And I've been doing that for 12 years. You

Kristi Wagner  1:10  
wrote today are you work today?

Ian Accomando  1:12  
I tried to hurt with the team because I can't abide watching steady state on the earth. So I do it with them instead.

Kristi Wagner  1:20  
Why can't you abide watching? Okay,

Ian Accomando  1:23  
I don't know. It's just 90 minutes of loud music and mediocre TV. But I think that the most important thing is that they are earning so I don't want to interrupt that by like trying to coach or anything like that. I don't want to freak them out. But like walking behind them. I just want them to earn I want them to relax, forget about school, earn, get fit, have fun with the boys. It was great. It was

Kristi Wagner  1:45  
great. Fun. What is your go to or gang song?

Ian Accomando  1:48  
Without depends on the type of piece. I just have one playlist on my phone I have I have Apple Music I don't have I do not have Spotify. And so I have one playlist. It's called Favorites. And I've been curating it since I'm sorry.

Kristi Wagner  2:03  
You said that, like you are the person that first started a favorites album. But that's like,

Ian Accomando  2:09  
well do No, I don't know. I mean, I'm just saying like people have other playlists, whatever, like you've got girl pop, I know that currently, I don't have that Girly Pop, right. But you have other playlists as well. And all I'm saying is I have one, I have one playlist, it's the only playlist I play. And on steady state I have a personal rule of I don't skip any songs. Doesn't matter how much I actually don't want. So that song I put on my favorites list. I'm gonna listen to it.

Kristi Wagner  2:37  
So you don't have a favorite song to listen to while arguing.

Ian Accomando  2:40  
It used to be Lil Jon, and the East Side boys. Oh, it's called throw it up. It's very expensive. But it's really great for like low rate power pieces. Like we used to do this to buy 24 in high school. And I used to have an iPod Shuffle that had a like, in a very small memory. So I would have even more condensed form of my favorites playlist that would fit on it. But one of the songs that was on it was throw it up by a little John. And at rates 2822 24 It's like intense, but just low and slow enough to kind of go with the rhythm of that rate. If that came on, pieces over, I was gonna destroy everyone.

Kristi Wagner  3:21  
Wow, I'm so happy for you. So yes, in I thought that we would we'll chat a little bit about some winter training stuff. And I have an erg test coming up this Saturday. So maybe we'll talk a little bit about ERG testing. So maybe we'll start with some pop culture things just to give the people what they want in what are your thoughts on do you think that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are actually dating or do you think it is a PR stunt?

Ian Accomando  3:51  
I think I've been thinking about this a lot. Yeah, I mean obviously, I'm very happily dating you as you know. But there was a moment in time where I thought about leveraging the Harvard lightweights Instagram account into like every day just like sliding into Taylor's DMS or whatever, tagging her on all our posts and seeing if we can get her to like come and like come to practice and then we could meet and because we're both born in 1989 that was been my opening of the Yeah, it's also 89 or split good for Travis. I think he's also an 89 or there abouts. So happy for for Travis gray podcast. The Kelsey brothers. I know you listen to it. I only see clips of it on Instagram. I think I think it's great. I don't really care if it's for real or not. I think it's a great cultural moment. If Taylor saves the NFL because its ratings are going down but now it's ratings going up again then that's cool. I guess I don't care.

Kristi Wagner  4:47  
I didn't know that you had such a crush on Taylor Swift though. That's lovely.

Ian Accomando  4:51  
I went to her read tour at Gillette. Wow, that's pretty cool.

Kristi Wagner  4:56  
You go to the tour this summer. Did you dress up Oh, era's

Ian Accomando  5:00  
No I did not I was on my own server

Kristi Wagner  5:02  
tour is fun. So no opinion.

Ian Accomando  5:04  
I think if it's a sham relationship, I think that's actually kind of cool. So like, either way, I think it's great.

Kristi Wagner  5:11  
I think that it's a rom com and that it was a sham, but then they really did fall in love.

Ian Accomando  5:18  
That's hilarious. Like, that's just, it's just like that movie that's blowing up on Netflix right now. It's got the guy from Top Gun Maverick. And it's got Sidney Sweeney. I haven't seen it. They like don't like each other, but they pretend to be in a relationship during his wedding weekend and like Hawaii or something and then turns out like they fall in love, obviously, because it's a rom com.

Kristi Wagner  5:40  
If your life could be any rom com, which rom com would you pick?

Ian Accomando  5:45  
I feel like my life is Notting Hill. Like you're Julia Roberts. And I'm Hugh Grant running my travel bookstore. You're Julia Roberts, you get the big smile like Julia.

Kristi Wagner  6:00  
I do. Smile, but I'm not a movie star.

Ian Accomando  6:03  
No, but you're like, I mean, relative to me, you're the star of this show. saying that's not a guilt. Mine feels great. Okay, well, I

Kristi Wagner  6:11  
have a few questions about Wait a second. Your life was a rom com.

Ian Accomando  6:16  
What would it be?

Kristi Wagner  6:18  
I don't know.

Ian Accomando  6:19  
I can pretend that I'm interviewing you for horsing around. Like in Notting Hill.

Kristi Wagner  6:24  
Notting Hill is a good one I've always loved how in that movie, no strings attached. He like professes his love to her via flashmob.

Ian Accomando  6:36  
I don't remember that no strings attached no strings attached or friends with benefits.

Kristi Wagner  6:39  
No strings attached with me like Kunis and

Ian Accomando  6:44  
that's friends with benefits. Oh, no. Justin Timberlake is no strings attached is Ashton Kutcher.

Kristi Wagner  6:52  
And the one with Justin Timberlake Portman. Okay, that's that's friends with that. Okay, sorry, friends with benefits. It's the one with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis Kunis. And he like decides that he likes her or whatever. And he professes his love to her via flash mob.

Ian Accomando  7:16  
Yeah, taking notes taking

Kristi Wagner  7:18  
No, I think that I would actually be in real life. Oh, flash mob was happening. I just That's a fun scene of a minute. It

Ian Accomando  7:25  
was fun. Okay, good to not taking notes. Okay.

Kristi Wagner  7:30  
Okay, now we can switch gears back to growing. So you've coached rowing for a year now? What do you think the most important things that people can do during the winter to help them prepare for a good spring? And the follow up question to that is what's sort of a big mistake that you see people maybe a big misconception of something that you see people focusing on a lot, that's not as important as people think it is.

Ian Accomando  7:58  
Yeah. So I guess I'll take that back to like my college career. So I was a lightweight at Dartmouth. And I was a big lightweight, I'm what we call a max or a true master, but a maximum sweat in a pretty big cut over the course of the winter to get down to like sweating range. So I guess I would say that I got lucky that that was the scenario that I found myself in because it forced me to train. And I was not I'm not like naturally talented. In a like, physiological way. I had a lot of like, pocket power, like peak power, like I have that no questions, but that's really not like, I can go for one minute, I can talk I'll take on anyone for a minute. But that's not going to win you a 2000 year race. And that's it's a five minute 42nd breaks and then like midday, right, so being big, I had to train to burn the calories to cut the weight to get down to lately. And that meant that like Monday practice was at 430 I get there too. I do 20k In the back of the earth or I'm all the freshmen heard back on the discussion around freshman learning, I did 20k In the back alone, then practice started. And it was all are 10 minute pieces. And you got 15 minutes off and you had to go into the tanks and do like technical training, which was like recovery, like I didn't care about that at all. And then you go into another Altima piece then we go to left, so I got there at like 230 Lift started six went to like 645 Seven, right? So that's five hours, not like constant training. There were some breaks in there. There's a you know, after my 20k to come talk and then we do you know these you know 15 minute rotations and we walk over to the gym or whatever. So there's some downtime but like I'm there a lot a lot Wednesday. We only met three times a week, the team. Wednesday we have an hour long circuit. It was at 6pm I would go and I would sit in the back of the herb room with the heavyweight admit, there was almost always one or two open I did a cake, you know, the total time. Do you mind if I just heard 20k alone, then I go to circuit for an hour, which was brutal. And then Fridays we have like three bucks 1800. So I take it easy and only get in a 10k and then Saturday's like I was captain or whatever, like senior year, I made the team come down and we did fun stuff like 500 like Team relay, stuff like that. Like, whatever. The freshman coach actually let me like kind of run the freshmen through some fun stuff. That's cool. That's kind of when I first ended up coaching, I guess, like Sunday, you know, this is like peak Bill Belichick Tom Brady era, right? no days off. So Sundays, I would break into the boathouse, I'd climb over the fence, go around you if you pull hard enough, and like bounce the door off its own hinges, you could rip the back door of the Dartmouth boathouse open, and then you could walk in. And the custodial staff always came down at like 11 o'clock. So I had to make it look legitimate. I was in there. So I knew or the key to the door was so I get the key and I unlock the front door, put the key back on and email it to you and be like, hey, 1030 Sunday morning, I'm here forgetting if anyone wants to join, do 20k on the earth and 45 minutes on the bike. And then Tuesdays and Thursdays was just the assignment was 20k. From Coach, right. So that was just like 10 straight weeks. Start with some trimesters. So it was January 3, until Spring Break does 10 weeks. And that was it. That's what I was doing. And then the spring that has persisted. But you're asking about the winter. So like what's the one thing you can do in the winter the long summer there's I learned after that, but like God do the meters because I went really fast. And because the two day like I finally went really fast when I started training like that. My junior year, I was an absolute idiot my freshman year. So like, you know, it happens freshmen get over it. Just get smarter, learn from it, get better sophomores I was a little bit better sophomore year, just not like fully committed yet. And then junior year and senior year, I like figure it out, figure out what worked for me. And like really, the reality is now that I've been in Harvard, and I got to Harvard, and after graduating, there was just like, Harvard just have this stable of guys like 12 Guys deep that could do what maybe two guys on our team to do. And I was like, oh my god, like, I can't believe you're within a second of these guys. This is ridiculous. So one big lesson there is do the meters in the winter, you need to do them hard, like I would have dragged 100 for the drag factor. Only going like a lot of two minutes splits. You know, whatever. Like I go 1234 or 2010 shirt, I just didn't need to like that wasn't the point. The point was like, get fit for the meters, whatever. A lot of people up here at heart rate zones or training zones, whatever, like, now they call it duty to in England or whatever zone to, you know, a lot of like cycling, like that, whatever. But just do the meters, honestly, you got to do like 36 to 40k in college a day, if you want to be a champion, like the rocket put on, like if you have a lift, you know, 20k Earth and lift, that's a good day, whatever. But you got to do the meters. So I was really fortunate to be a big guy, I had to do the meters like the little guys who were already at weight, like they didn't train that hard. And they went slow. They went to spring break. They got mastered and series. And then the one thing I think that's over valued in the winter is like technical coaching. We just had 12 weeks of fall, at least at Harvard and Dartmouth, like we will have already had our training trip like Darby through December, I think they still go in December hardware. We go in January, Dartmouth and Harvard both come in March, and you're rolling in the water. So like the Earth, like, if it's at all close enough, just let the kids or don't coach them. Like if it's egregious, like they break their arms entirely before they push it. Right? Fine, coach them up. But if it's in the ballpark, just let it go. They don't want to listen to you. They're already hurting, they're hurting coaches. They're earning it that's a miracle. There's a third, that's it.

Kristi Wagner  13:59  
I know we're gonna have to agree to disagree about doing tech on the earth, but that's okay. I forgive you. I haven't coached a college team. So I feel like it's a little different. Yeah,

Ian Accomando  14:10  
I feel like I was trying to say was like, I am invested in the technical side of it, on the water and on the ERD all thought like that's 12 solid feet for like, I'm asking you guys to come in, outside of practice time, whatever, like we're going really slow from a block. But now it's like, you know, if we didn't get it, that opportunity pass and now the best thing we can do to a board is just get really frickin strong because the Naval Academy doesn't have roster caps, and sports are required. And in fact, it's better to be on a sports team at the Naval Academy but not the sports team because you get out of formation and stuff like that you get off campus in the fall. If you're fast enough. You definitely get on campus on the screen if you happen to be in 58 gets off campus right so like they've got so seven eighths of guys who are already the kind of guys who sign up to go to the Naval Academy. And they're just in the meat grinder, right? They're just churning these kids through. So by the time it comes to the spring season, like their 3d, has, like 10 seconds per man on two kg against us. So like, we're not going to skill and drill our way into that race. We are at the 3d level, right? Like, we need to smash and bash our way into that race.

Kristi Wagner  15:25  
I do feel like it's a little different in high school, though, like, I think that if they're just taking horrible strokes, it's like, what's the point? And yeah, and they're just gonna injure themselves, and they're never gonna even have rowing experience? No, I mean, I understand what you're saying. And I do think that like, it's pretty disruptive. You know, I can't remember a time in college where we were doing a study ERG as a team, and somebody got, like, stopped for a technical reason. I feel like they just know, we were just going, we had tanks. So we could go in there and do tech stuff. We wanted to, okay, what is your favorite winter workout, either that you down as an athlete or that you've done as a coach? Well,

Ian Accomando  16:09  
we basically knew one workout. Now, you just do like six by three minutes, which is fine. It's really awkward. It's like two minutes, or apps or 90 seconds rest. And it's like maybe the first one or two, the rate starts at 28, and finishes at 35 to 20 to 32, to 32. But then I find like week two, or whatever the end of week two, is the rates are about 30 The whole time, and you're just like mashing. So that's, it's pretty brutal. But historically speaking, I would say I got a couple so like, I'm really sorry, I'm gonna go as fast as I can, to by 24 minutes, but three minutes rest. So in high school, we only have the herbs for an hour. So we had to get on and get off, you know, short and sweet. So like, we there was no such thing as steady state high school, which I think is kind of actually the way to do it. Like it was just like, pull, just pull as hard as you can. And we never took the rates that high. Like, you know, we were doing for like 10 weeks in high school. So whatever the rate stayed pretty low for a long time, but to go to 24 is, it's like three minutes 22 minutes to 22 woman that 24 drop it back down three minutes and 22 minutes and 22 One minute 24 dropped back down to a little break do the same thing again. And like one guy turned to me my junior year and he was like, I didn't like ask your opinion. He just kind of gave it to that kind of guy. It's kind of macho guy and he was like, yeah, man, when you're that dreaded juice, that's when you use the odds. Like I don't know, my legs and the swimming pool he didn't make the top 16 But that's okay, nice got but that workout is just like it's such a meat grinder and it ebbs and flows and you get a second wind like I don't know 12 minutes to go the second piece like the second piece starts and the three minutes of rest might as well not attack you're here your gas right because you're supposed to go maximum repeatable effort, maximum repeatable effort, right and we didn't like he didn't have a heavier regimen as freshmen or sophomores the only route in the spring there was no fall there was no winter my first two years right so like in the self selecting group that was doing third winter so my junior year is the first time I've done like heavy ERD winter and I'm going up against these like Monster dudes who then varsity for like three years and I'm like trying to scrape my way in and I remember the first week like some guy just quits, and he was a front row guy and they were like Armando Rondo does like like the captain and the PG the postgraduate but like, fifth year senior who's gotten pulled into like the MRC that year. And I'm in the middle of these two monsters. I'm just like, there we go. And yeah, so two bytes 24 That was like the bread and butter of high school, winter training. And I'll never forget it. I made my freshman do it a couple years at Harvard, it's a bloodbath. It's great. In college, as I said, on Mondays, we did 10 minute pieces, and it was ranked really cool when these fees. Really it was Rachel you did two to 10 minute pieces. Now I am ready to to some of the pieces. But you got this like 15 minute break in between but the best part was you were ranked exclusively exclusively by your first piece. So really, there was paper posted on the bulletin board of your score. And the other teams use that room like I don't care on the second piece goes. I am I am burning the Saudi oil. I'm burning West Texas oil. I'm burning Venezuela. I'm burning the strategic oil reserves. I'm burning it all the on that sort of seminal piece and trying to get as high ranking as I can. And so I love that So as far as you know, everyone's done it in really 4321 2224 2628. We just did upon sliders, and the floor was uneven. So sometimes you get unlucky, and you just see fashion back and forth. Fair enough. But anyway, I'll tell you my absolute This is last one, I'm sorry, top three, top three, absolute favorite or bed of all time to man 10k. And it's a relay race, and you have to transition every 500 meters. And you're allowed to like crank the handle during the transition. And yeah, you just absolutely just smash it yourself.

Kristi Wagner  20:30  
I was gonna ask you what your favorite thing about coaching it.

Ian Accomando  20:34  
So in college, my college coach was this big guy in Ruffini. If you've seen Lord of the Rings, he like kinda reminds me of free beer. And he also just kind of sounds like a baritone, Kermit the Frog. And, you know, he would get really animate. He was really a technical guru. And he would get really animated sometimes. And if you were like working in change, we're making a change and the changes and change. And you finally got it. He'd be like, yeah, and he hits you with a triple. Yes. So we call it I call that the triple yet. Yeah. And so now, you know, I don't know why I just also throw up the triple. Yeah, if kids are like making a change, and I hit them with a triple Yeah. Like, there's very, like, sometimes I'll be potentially being funny, and they'll laugh and that's one thing. But sometimes, like, I'm obviously very seriously coaching. And I'm like, No, that's wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Yes. Yes. Good. Keep doing that. Yeah. And I put it in with the Yeah, like, the big smile on their face. And they'll be like, and that's like, the best moment.

Kristi Wagner  21:34  
Oh, that's nice. Yeah, can be nice. Do you have any questions for me?

Ian Accomando  21:39  
What do you miss the most about coaching to the to the high school.

Kristi Wagner  21:43  
I miss just getting to hang out with the kids. I feel like it was crazy. You know, I started coaching Saratoga, like the eighth grade girls into the ninth grade girls into the varsity. So I coached these classes for their whole experience, basically, probably like five or six classes of, you know, kids that were just coming through. And most of the kids in Saratoga row, fall, winter, spring summer, so I spent so much time with them, you get to know them like so well, and you get to watch them grow up, sort of. I mean, obviously, they continue growing when they get to college, but I just

Ian Accomando  22:22  
I feel like you told me a long time. Like they're calling you from college? No, yeah.

Kristi Wagner  22:28  
The process doesn't stop and you get to talk to them still. And you know, I get to roast them on Instagram when they go to college, and they're wearing crop tops. And I'm like, put some clothes on. Like, or I need to stop following you. But no, I mean, I think that the really cool thing. Obviously, we had some kids that performed super super well and you know, are now either graduated from or still rowing at some top programs, which is really incredible, and super awesome. But also, we just had kids that like high school rowing was all they were ever gonna do. I don't know, you know, and yeah, you get to go to their other things they're interested in and cheer them on, you know, doing other things or hearing what they're going to talk about. Just like the watching them grow up sort of was cool and playing a part in that. And, to me, like having that much influence on a person at such an influential time in their lives. I took it really seriously. And I was like, you're all going to be better people after this. And of course, yeah, I want you to win races. I want you to go faster on YouTube, I want I want you to do everything you want to do. But like we're gonna empower each other. And I want to be a strong female influence in your lives. You know, whether that's coaching boys or girls like, I feel like I've had a lot of coaches. Not a lot, but I've had some coaches that really sort of coached from a place of like power and did a lot of yelling, which I'm not knocking at all. I think that can be very powerful. But that wasn't really my style. Like, don't get me wrong. I did yell at them sometimes when they really frustrated me. But I think there were many times right everywhere. in your back pocket. Yeah, but there were many times where I'd be like, Hey, you're out here with your best friends, getting to exercise you're outside. Like, this is amazing. And I just want you to relish this moment. Like you don't have to be at home doing homework. You're don't have to be at school. You don't have to be stressed about Hoko or whatever the heck and I think just empowering them to do what they were doing out of fun and happiness. And that kind of thing was like no, no, I missed that.

Ian Accomando  24:51  
Yeah, no. 100%

Kristi Wagner  24:53  
I don't miss all the girl drama. I mean, there's good boys. I wouldn't know anything about that. Boys have drama too. You have it. Oh my goodness, there was Girl. Girl drama.

Ian Accomando  25:03  
Yeah, on the topic of strong female role models for youth, especially boys I had my first ever coach was a woman, Miss Devine. So if you're out there, Miss Devine, thanks so much. And she, yeah, we, she had the fifth vote. And we're mostly novices. And then even one guy had rode the year before, he was a sophomore. And we were, I mean, obviously, we were terrible, right, starting out. And, you know, we were the bottom of the barrel, chunky kids and the non athletic looking kids and like, that's why the coaches put us on the fifth vote, but also in another row. And she just whipped us into shape. I mean, she did y'all a lot. But like, for good reason. Like one kid, I think that that add, like could not keep his head in the boat. And like he eventually got, he stopped getting voted, and which is the right talk the dumpster fine. But she would she was just so funny. She would just say the craziest. And she'd be like, I want you guys to be like, vicious vampire buddies. And so we got these shirts made up and we're divines bunnies. And we started up the years of FIFA. And we beat the fourth vote in a race and she was like those. Those are my fishes, buddy. And then we rolled in the next week with the shirts that arrived. He was like, oh my god, the shirts, like the back had like Vampire bunny that had like, chiseled down or like, carried into a sphere. And then we beat the third ball, we became the third vote. So the whole point of the story is to say if anybody in high school that can listen to this podcast, it doesn't matter where you start. We can all start in the Fisto. But eventually, if you try really hard and stick with your crew and like become a crew, we really became a crew, like we really bought in to our coaches saying and like had a lot of fun, and our Coxon would sing crazy songs to us, Stacy Gulbransen, Stacy to this day, was just a wedding with her. And she was awesome. And like, I mean, I could do the songs right now, but I won't. So you can start on the fifth. So your first year you can finish and the third vote and like go to your regional championship and like make make a memory. So I know what their training is hard, everybody, but like stick with it. Put in the meters. Don't worry about the technique. I noticed you get disagrees. But just just get after it and just get the bow ball in front man, like don't worry about anything else just stay in time late in the water Hall. And

Kristi Wagner  27:24  
that was very inspirational, but I'm gonna tell you one more thing, okay? Because when I coached the eighth grade boys, one year, I made that maybe I already told you this, but I made them all come up to me at the end of practice every day and look me in the eye and shake my hand before they left

Ian Accomando  27:43  
savage. It was intimidating.

Kristi Wagner  27:49  
It was amazing. And if they didn't like Look me in the eye, or like it was limp fish like we did it in pill, but I feel

Ian Accomando  27:57  
like that matters. Yeah, yeah. I mean the crush that year.

Kristi Wagner  28:03  
They were a little rock stars. They're so great. They're still there, like seven years now. I'm pretty sure that classes seniors. So what's your favorite thing about dating me? For the people

Ian Accomando  28:14  
everything but dating you. You're very fun. You're very adventurous. You always have a great time. Wherever we go. Whatever we do. Sometimes it's just like, sitting on the couch watching TV. Sometimes it's going out to dinner. Sometimes that's going for a hike. Oh everybody. Christie just got back from Colorado Springs, which has this famous incline called the Manitou incline, which is 2638 steps up a hill is really like there's just like steps built into the cell you use killed off the whole time in the middle section is very steep. And it was a little slippery. But fortunately, I brought my Microspikes and I brought some for Christie to I think that I'm in like decent shape. But I realized that I'm in terrible shape. But also, Christie is already an Olympian and striving to be able to be in good shape people are in until they are on a phone call ahead of you on the incline, dropping you. So even that was pretty funny. I had to laugh myself and like that was very humbling moment. But it was fun. And so yeah, the best part about dating you is that you so much fun. You make more fun.

Kristi Wagner  29:24  
You make my life more fun, too.

Ian Accomando  29:26  
Right? What's the best part about dating me? He asked me a question was asked it right back. That's the pattern.

Kristi Wagner  29:32  
Yeah, what the heck. I don't know. There's so many good parts. I like that. You understand so much. And I don't feel like you're judging me. But you also tell me your opinion about things and not don't just agree with me all the time. And I like that you're always in a good mood, and how even when you're not in a good mood. You're still very animated because of your child acting classes. Yeah, thank you.

Ian Accomando  30:00  
Well, thanks for having me on. Thank

Kristi Wagner  30:03  
you. Thanks for coming on.

Well, for my quote of the week to end the show, I'm going well, I was going to ask you in because I've been writing this book that gave me that's called a great book once a runner, and there are a lot of parts I like, but do you think I should do a quote from Bruce Denton?

Ian Accomando  30:27  
Yeah, it was a chapter eight through seven.

Kristi Wagner  30:29  
But I wasn't sure which one like, oh, it's

Ian Accomando  30:31  
the one. I mean, I could like paraphrase it right now, but I don't want to ruin it.

Kristi Wagner  30:35  
I think this is what you're talking about. On the third day, assuming the new man made it that just

Ian Accomando  30:40  
do the times do the setup. And then you can read the book. Okay. So the setup everybody for the for the week is this book is about college runners, cross country runners, okay. And in the town, which is essentially Gainesville, Florida. They're the basically University of Florida runners made up. There's this Olympic gold medalist, Bruce Denton, and he's also trained in Tampa. And so Bruce Fenton is his Olympic gold medalist that lets the college guys run with him. And they can come, they can knock on Bruce doesn't care for us is always going to be there. And there's certain rules, if a young freshman like takes the pace up on his first day running through sets, and that's just for the pace stays for the rest of the run, no matter how long the run is. And so that's kind of the setup is that like, if you if you mess around here, find out I know that there's a different way of saying that which I don't think you should have a podcast. If you mess around. We're going to find out who isn't being continued Christine.

Kristi Wagner  31:40  
So yes, the tempo was always moderate, but steady if a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed whether he finished with the group or not, you showed off at your peril. On the third day, assuming the new man made it that far, his outlook would begin to darken. For one thing he was getting very, very tired. No particular day wore him out, but the accumulation of study miles began to take its toll. He never quite recovered fully between workouts and soon found himself walking around more. In a more or less constant state of fatigue depression, a phrase Denton called breaking down. The new runner would find it more tedious than he could bear the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him. There was no secret there is no suggestion there is no secret.

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