42: Performance and Alcohol, Iron Levels and Fatigue, Career Motivation, Running While Pregnant
Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas
Jesse Thomas
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jesse’s training up for the Wings For Life World Run, where he plans to smash out a 5K. The catch? He’s doing it on crutches. He talks a bit about the race while Lauren makes some predictions about Jesse overdoing it. Meanwhile, Lauren’s just back from the Eugene Half where she ran a 1:17:27. They talk about how racing as parents has completely changed the pre-race dynamic, and how it’s difficult to take a race seriously while also taking care of the kids. The two also talk about exciting developments at Picky Bars before diving in to your questions. In this episode, Jesse and Lauren cover performance and alcohol, fatigue and iron, maintaining career motivation, and running while (trying to get) pregnant.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? |
| 0:04.5 | up. Hey, how you doing? That's so underwhelming. I was expecting you to, um, |
| 0:10.9 | Hello! That's a little bit better better I guess. I don't know, I kind of just, you know, |
| 0:16.1 | wanted to throw you off a little bit. Are you, last week I feel like you said, |
| 0:21.6 | that I was gonna do a joke. Yeah, that you were gonna do one. And so I was going to do a joke yeah that you were going to do one and so I was I actually |
| 0:25.1 | purposefully when you press recording did not say anything that was the joke actually the |
| 0:29.3 | joke was to make you think I had something, always on another level Lord Fleshman. |
| 0:35.5 | One step ahead. One step ahead or behind. Hey so where are you guys? You're at work play love. This is a podcast that we've hosted, I don't know, 40-something times. |
| 0:46.4 | This is our 42nd episode. That's exciting. Yeah. And my name is Lauren Fleshman. |
| 0:51.2 | We've talked 42 times. Wow, that's amazing in less than a year. |
| 0:58.4 | That is a kind of amazing. That's so sad. That isn't actually totally true. |
| 1:03.7 | No, that's not true. |
| 1:04.5 | But this is one of the most high quality moments of our week. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, it really is. |
| 1:08.6 | It is. And it's a high quality podcast also. As you can to say I have received some really nice encouragement |
| 1:16.3 | from people recently. Sometimes I wonder if anybody I know listens to it. |
| 1:20.3 | It's hard to know you know you see the downloads you see this number you don't really |
| 1:24.1 | know yeah we have like five million downloads on that one episode that episode is |
| 1:29.0 | killing it love 31 or whatever it was there's's something weird happened. I think the |
| 1:34.6 | J-bird guys put that one in their app or something. I don't know what |
| 1:38.6 | happened. But anyway, it's out in the world. So, but yeah, I have received some... |
| 1:44.0 | Needless to say, we have not retained many of those 5 million. |
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