Early Call Time Episode 19: The Guys Do a Draft! (Part 2)

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In this week's episode, the guys finish their draft, each drafting three things that they most look forward to for the industry when in-person events return. Before drafting, though, they talk about the Virtual Boston Marathon and whether running a virtual race "counts" (the verdict: it clearly does!), give a tip of the cap to past guest Tom Bedford for holding a successful 3500-person in-person edition of the findarace.com Kew Gardens 10k over two days, and then--in a bit of a callback to last episode's interview--talk about Eli's self-deprecation, the Dunning Kruger Effect, and the source of their powers (such as they are). (Warning: Eli drops an f-bomb or two in this segment.)
The draft is a fun one, leading to discussions of topics as far ranging as city permitting agencies' outdated tech, runner resilience and the monster we've created in doing so much to support our runners, the running industry lifestyle and race ops burnout, race weekend hotel room assignments, and old standby topic virtual versus in-person PRs and running "gatekeepers."
Somewhere around the one-hour mark, the guys lose track of what they're even talking about, and that's when they know it's time to wrap up this jumbo-sized banter episode, and with it the first and hopefully only edition of the ECT Pod "what we miss/what we're looking forward to about races" draft.
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