The Hobby Jogger Podcast

E17 | Quin Jenson's Journey from Football to Running

• Hosted by: WeeViews & Branch Sauce • Season 1 • Episode 17

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Ever wondered how a simple driver's license photo could ignite a life-altering journey? In this episode of Hobby Jogger, we chat with Quin Jenson, a digital creator, runner, and proud girl dad, who recounts his athletic evolution from high school football and track in Texas to becoming a dedicated runner. 

Quin opens up about the pivotal moment that spurred his fitness transformation, starting with neighborhood strolls and evolving into a passion for longer distance. We discuss the universal allure of running, its simplicity, and the uniqueness of the sport being accessible for so many. 

Casey Koza:

Thank you for joining us for this episode of the Hobby Jogger. This week, we have a very special guest coming to us. His name is Quinn Jensen and you can find him on Instagram at Quinn Jensen. He's a digital creator, he's a runner and he's a girl dad, and we'll just be going through a little bit of life's journeys how things are with Quinn. And, of course, today I am joined by my co-host, mr Rob Myers. Rob, how you doing? I'm doing well, happy to be here. It's good. You're looking good. You're looking fresh. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. We got a 50K coming up in what two months.

Rob Myers:

We do.

Casey Koza:

Brimestone, yep. Looking forward to that. I'm going to try and make it down to Chattanooga to see you, so hopefully we can work on that and have a great guest lined up today. Let's get after it. Huh, sounds like a plan.

Quin Jenson:

How are you, Quinn?

Casey Koza:

I'm doing good Doing so good, happy to be here. Thank you guys for having me on and this is just a blessing. Absolutely. Thanks for being here. Yes, sir Quinn, the first thing I wanted to ask you a little bit about is your athletic background and kind of how you started running. I mean, that's kind of you know, the beginning of everyone's journey.

Casey Koza:

You know we have had a lot of former athletes of other sports. We've had, you know, swimmers, youimmers, a lot of collegiate track people. I guess would be more the norm. But how did you start?

Quin Jenson:

And around 2014,. I went to take my driver's license picture to renew it. And I took the picture and I got it and I was like man, who is this person? Because I had gained a lot of weight after playing sports. Because you know you can eat whatever playing football. You kind of say, oh, I'll work it off, eat burgers and pizzas and all that. But as I got older and got done with sports, the weight didn't come off. So I took that driver's license picture.

Quin Jenson:

I was like I got to make a change but I didn't know where to start. So I was like, well, I'll just start with a half a mile around my neighborhood just walking. And I started doing that and I was like, well, let me try just jogging a little bit. So I started jogging a half a mile. Then I pushed it to three quarters of a mile to a mile and just so forth and so on. And then I didn't know anything about running clothes. I was just running in what I had and so I started diving deep into all the fancy shoes and gear and all that. So that's kind of how it started for me just really started for weight loss and just fell in love with the sport I love a good origin story.

Rob Myers:

Yeah, they're all. There's always similarities, they're all just a little bit different. Yeah, um, my neighbor actually bet me that I couldn't run a mile, and he was correct. I made it about half a mile, ran as hard as I possibly could and then felt like I was gonna throw up. Yeah, three months later I beat him in a 10k.

Quin Jenson:

So all day there you go yeah that's.

Casey Koza:

That's funny, like that reminds me of I don't know when. I don't know your age, rob, I know your age, but do you remember the? When did you have the presidential fitness tests? When we were kids, do you?

Quin Jenson:

remember those? It wasn't, it was called something else.

Casey Koza:

It wasn't called that, but yes yeah, they had like the mile run and these kids just went out and nuked the first 200 meters of this thing and then just crawled home Like it was kind of sadistic the way they you know hey, I know you guys have never done this before Just go out and bomb this mile here.

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, you're first to start off as a race and then you realize how far you got to go.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, For however old we were in it it was, it was quite the distance to cover. But I know, Rob, I know you're at least old enough to remember those.

Rob Myers:

So I do, I do remember it. I mean, when you first start running, you have no idea what a pace is. You just think go fast.

Quin Jenson:

I mean that's the first thing that pops in gasping for air Like what is this.

Casey Koza:

So did you play sports before this? Yeah, okay, because you said you had gained the weight.

Quin Jenson:

Was there prior sports played to that? Yes, I played so all through from. You know, growing up we played football, basketball. I got into track in middle school all the way through freshman year of high school and, oh yeah, all the way through freshman year of high school. And then, you know, high school it gets serious. So you pick a sport and you stick to it. So I played football all the way through and dabbled in track here and there my junior year and then I went off to college, played for a little bit and that was about it.

Casey Koza:

Okay, so you were a high school football player. Did you grow up in Texas?

Quin Jenson:

Yes, I grew up in Texas, but I'm from Louisiana, got it.

Casey Koza:

Did you go to high school in Louisiana or Texas, texas.

Rob Myers:

Texas okay.

Casey Koza:

I mean, that's one of the homes of high school football for sure.

Quin Jenson:

Ain't nothing like Friday nights the lights come on, man.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, so I grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania Same thing. I mean, we have some all-time great schools out there that know football, high school football, lore, it's awesome. I still, you know, I try and buy sweatshirts and stuff from some of the programs that you know don't have it as good as some of the other ones, just to, you know, help, support and try and give at least something to their, to their program. So yeah, southwestern boy uh, they're southwestern pennsylvanian boy. You know, that's kind of in our. You know, just like you in Texas.

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, and I'm right in the thick of it. I'm in Dallas, so it's like you got all the big name powerhouse schools. It's just like Friday night you have your game, you know you win. Then you check in like who's top ranked and all that stuff, trying to see who you're. Then you check in like who's it who's top ranked and all that stuff, trying to see who you, who you gonna play in the playoffs and all that kind of fun stuff yes, it's a big deal.

Rob Myers:

And well, rob, you grew up in ohio right, I grew up in ohio and one thing I was going to say it's a little different in the south. I live in tennessee, now southeast tennessee and in the north I think the nfl is a little bigger than college just a little bit. But in the south it's all about college ball. Nfl is almost second. There's still fans, but people get crazy over college ball.

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, the SEC man, especially in Alabama. They don't have a pro team, so Alabama is as big as you get.

Rob Myers:

Yeah, Tennessee has a pro team, but nobody cares about the Titans, at least where.

Casey Koza:

I live, I still call them the Houston Oilers. So the Titans, the Houston Oilers, yeah. But anyway, back to the running aspect, because this is a running show. I guess we're not doing a college game day podcast yet, although we should. I feel like you gained some weight, which I'm right there with you. That's kind of how I started the longer distance running. You know, just kind of looked at myself, I was like I'm not healthy, I'm drinking too much, I'm eating way too much, and it was during COVID, so I guess I kind of had an excuse. That's how we all did, yeah, that, that that's how it started for me. But what made you? Made you decide to want to go into distance running? Cause that's something that, as we see more and more of, you know it's. It's harder to get people to convince or harder to convince people to go to longer distances, it seems you know, past the five K mark.

Casey Koza:

But what kind of brought you to that moment of wanting to do that?

Quin Jenson:

Man, I tell you so, when I tell people that's not runners or like my non-runner friends, that running is like meditation, it's like one day, you know, I had got pretty good at the 5k distance and I went without my headphones one day and I was just running like my mind was just going and you know, just in my head thinking about things, and I looked up and I had ran like five or six miles. I was like man, that's the longest I ran. So I was like I'm gonna try this again tomorrow. Um, I didn't go quite as long but I went past the 5K mark. I was like I really like this. It's just like you can kind of escape and get away from the day-to-day life aspect for a few minutes.

Casey Koza:

So really, that's what really got me is the meditation and just to escape and get away for a second yeah, that's a big thing for me is, is the one hour a day just kind of focus on something else? That's, you know, not the girlfriend, not work, not the dog, you know just something out, and I do. I just put on the headphones and cruise down the trail and that's a. That's a great hour of my day every day. So I certainly understand that and how you got there. And is it a daily? I'm guessing it's just a daily thing right now. You have to. You feel like you have to get out there, right.

Quin Jenson:

Now it is. Yeah, I would say that at first it was more Let me see how far I can go. And then it was like, ok, well, I know about how far I can go. Can I run the same distance in, let's say, an hour, or can I run that same distance in 45 minutes? So then it became a challenge. Until 2019, I ran my first official race. I ran the Austin Half Marathon. I had got the entry that Christmas before. My girlfriend at the time bought me a race entry and that's when it got real. I didn't realize I had never ran that distance before. I thought I was training, but I didn't know how to properly train. And Austin if you ever ran in Austin, it's really hilly, so those hills just took my legs out. I ended up walking more than I ran.

Casey Koza:

it was tough yeah, that's always a big thing the first time you put your name into an entry that, oh man, now I I gotta do this, because I mean your case it was a, it was a gift, but still someone there's money on. You know that you've put up to do this. Now you have, you're forced into it. That's kind of one way I look like at it is, if I sign up for a race, I know I'm going to train for a race, and then that's how I kind of get motivated to to to do things. How about you rob?

Rob Myers:

yeah, 100, when you have it on the calendar and it's kind of looming, right, you get closer and closer to it. Right, you know you got to train for it. It's constantly there, right, it just slowly builds up and builds up over time. Is this monster event? It's a lot of fun. I like that feeling, that pressure as you get closer and closer to the date and you're a hundred percent right about Austin. To go back to that, people think Texas is flat. Austin is not flat.

Casey Koza:

So so you ran the Austin half. What do you think think after that? Like this is the first time you've run 13.1 miles, not an easy distance to run. I mean it gets pretty intense in there.

Quin Jenson:

So I think I went through the whole the ebbs and flows of running your first race. So I'm excited. We get to austin, check into the hotel, and then I was like like, oh, like I saw the people. I was like, oh, this is real. Then we go to the expo. I was like there's so many people here but I'm just saying like, just do the best that you can. And actually it was cold that morning, so I had on a sweater and some sweats, but I saw people throwing their stuff off and I was like I don't want, this is nice stuff, I don't want to throw it away. So I ended up running the Austin Half Marathon in like middle end of February in a sweater and sweats. It was so uncomfortable but I didn't want to lose my stuff. But after I crossed the finish line I was like man, I'm never doing that again. And maybe 20 minutes later I was like I'm never doing that again. And maybe 20 minutes later I was like when's the next one? When is the next one?

Casey Koza:

there's been a few times in my mind, right, I'm like this is stupid. I'm why did I sign up for this? I'm never doing this again, only a few times that happens every time.

Rob Myers:

For me it does there's.

Casey Koza:

There's been a couple good finishes where I've been like all right, I'm, I'm still, I'm still, I'm still rolling here, we're good, we're good. So, but yeah, that's, that's a pretty common thing. I feel like a a common feeling during it, immediately after yeah, you gotta wait two weeks sometimes for people be like, uh, oh, I'm never doing that again. Our previous guest, jen, just ran the Buckeye 50K. Fortunately, she broke her foot and has sworn off ultra running, I believe. But I think she'll loosen up to it after the next couple days here, after two weeks out. That's when you get the itch to go back at it.

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, that would entail running. That's a different beast right there.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, I enjoy it, it's fun. I don't know, what do you think, rob? What do you think the big difference is between trail running and road? I mean, obviously, aside from ones on trail, ones in road, like, do you think I mean obviously, aside from ones on trail, ones on road? But I'm saying like I, it seems like they're two different crowds, really are two different crowds. Oh the crowds are completely different.

Rob Myers:

Yeah, I mean there's some crossover, but I would say that the feeling is the road always seems familiar where the trail feels unknown we're gonna put that on a t-shirt.

Casey Koza:

We're going to put that on the Hobby Jogger t-shirt. I think we got our quote now.

Quin Jenson:

Back in 2020, 2021, I ran a 50K and I trained, for I had never ran a trail race, but I trained for the trail race like I would approach America, which was crazy because I wasn't prepared for one. The rocks, I think. The first six miles, I think I hit my toe on every rock, every rock out there, um, and I wasn't prepared for the vertical. There was a lot of climbing that I wasn't used to as well. So that was my first and only trail race. That one I was. I don't know if I can do this again. Then I got lost. It was just crazy out there.

Rob Myers:

Yeah, I noticed on Ultra's sign-up that there was only 150K. I was going to bring it up, so thanks for getting ahead of me on it.

Casey Koza:

I'm glad you brought that up, quinn, because I want to ask you something here. I know me and the producer David were recently out at Western States and one of the things that was brought up is how do we get people of color involved in trail running, how do we get people of color to join our sport? And I want to see run that by. You see what ideas you had since you have run an ultra out on the trails, ideas you had, uh, since you have run an ultra out on the trails, like what? What do you think are some things holding those, the people of color, back and what do you think are some things we can do to maybe push them more towards the sport?

Quin Jenson:

uh, I was, I was I will speak from experience my biggest fear was being alone. You know, being alone in the middle of the woods by yourself. So, um, I would say, like people where I'm from, especially like Louisiana, down South um, being alone by yourself in a unfamiliar territory is, I think, the biggest thing. I think the biggest thing. So if we could get people to somehow make that fun, like it's okay, to slow down and enjoy the view instead of being so worried about I'm lost out here, I'm all alone, which you're going to have those thoughts, but it's like when you really just take it in for what it is Like really enjoy the sport, sport, really enjoy being out there and all the nature around you and all those things, I think people will be more willing to do it.

Quin Jenson:

Because when I, when I think about trail running, like I say, my biggest fear is man, what happens if I lose the crowd or if I'm by myself, or if something happened? Nobody can hear me and those type of things. But then during all of that, like you know, you're hurting. I actually fell on the trail, scraped on my knee, real bad, and I just sat there and it was just like man, like, look where I'm at, just like beautiful trees. It's like all the pain and all the suffering for a split second just goes away. But it's like people won't.

Casey Koza:

People won't be able to see that if they don't, if they never tried it and it is tough, like even even people of color aside, just people in general it's tough. It's tough to get them to sign up to run 50 kilometers Like it's not you don't have a large the Venn diagram of people that wanting to run in one running to run 50 kilometers is. There's just a little sliver in there. I feel like, right, rob.

Rob Myers:

I think running in general, we need to be evangelists of the sport and talk about it. And when you hear it enough, just like anything else, you become interested and you want to try it. And I think you do that through relationships, social media. I mean exactly what you're doing, just evangelizing the sport. People see it, they want to try it. Let's face it At the end of the day, when you do something that's hard and challenging, afterwards you're you're proud of it, it right, and then you learn to enjoy the the journey along the way yeah, absolutely, and do you have your site set on any other trail races coming up?

Quin Jenson:

uh, yeah, like I was going to do like murray but unfortunately I gotta have surgery this, uh, on the 30th of this month, um, so that's that's kind of out of the question, um, but I'm definitely going to jump back into it because, like I said, once you get out and I don't think a lot of people know like trail running I think it's a little bit easier pace than a marathon or say, like a half, because it's like there was more walking, like people walking, people were talking, eating their snacks. I mean it's still a race, but it's like it's more lax. So I wish people could see that part of it too. It's not just all running like america. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of hiking there's, you know like.

Casey Koza:

Well, we call it power hiking, but everyone else seems to want to call it walking. There are two different things. You know we are. We are not out there walking, rob right. No it's walking.

Rob Myers:

It's walking. Come on, let's be honest, it's tough right, it's not a pace around the mall, but we are walking.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, we are. Yeah, we do walk. I can't really even argue that. It's pretty funny when I see that. But no, I'm looking forward to seeing you run another trail race, for sure, quinn. I mean I know I think we're going to go out to Black Canyons again, hopefully, right, rob? That's the plan, either Black.

Rob Myers:

Canyons or Canyons.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, that's a pretty sweet one. So you know, look at that one if you're looking for races. It's all downhill, so it's super easy.

Quin Jenson:

Okay, that's what I'm all for. Yeah and what I'm all for.

Casey Koza:

Uh, yeah, but you also mentioned, you're a little bit bigger runner too, correct? Yes, sir, you've got a little bit more rugby player in you, possibly, than you know ultra endurance.

Quin Jenson:

That is the beauty of running and well, just being active. But more specifically, running in general, because it's like everybody can be a runner, no matter what your pace is, no matter you're short, tall, a little bit bigger or smaller, it doesn't matter. That's an aspect that I fell in love with is a community of running, because, like you wake up or you try to get to bed a little bit early friday night because you got your group run on saturdays, and then afterwards you, you hang out and have coffees and all that stuff, so it's like the community around the sport of running. Um, it's so cool and to everybody looks different. Everybody come from different places. Like I say, you know that everybody looks different, so that's it's fun.

Casey Koza:

Yeah, absolutely, and that's for sure one thing yeah, absolutely, and that's for sure. One thing like running is for absolutely everyone there's, there's, I feel like, of all the sports you can do as an adult, it's the lowest barrier sport to get into. You need a pair of shorts and a pair of shoes, and I realized there's some things with the shoes that can get a little bit you know, slightly out of control and we'll get into some of those here in a little bit.

Casey Koza:

But yeah, it's pretty. It's a pretty low barrier to get into the sport at the basic level without traveling, I guess. Right, rob?

Rob Myers:

Yeah, it's a very primal activity, right, it's just kind of built into us. It's. There's not a, it's not really a learning curve like other sports, right, if you can walk, you can learn to run. And my opinion, the coolest thing is, you can go out and there's, you know, a 75-year-old person next to a 19-year-old kid right running. I mean, what other sport do you see that? Guys in their 60s that are still hitting a nine-minute, eight-minute pace running on the road, running on the trail? I can't think of another sport that's like that.

Casey Koza:

Those are the dudes you look out for, the dudes with the you know old white Brooks shoes that are all muddy and torn up from 1989. That dude's going by late, for sure Late in the race.

Quin Jenson:

That dude is cruising by and he's talking to you while he's passing you.

Casey Koza:

Hey, what's up, bud? Are we going to go get a donut after this, or what are we doing? It's a little bit humiliating, but hey, one day we'll be there, rob. We'll be the old guys in our old beat-up shoes and just cruising by people. Hopefully Now we brought up the shoes a little bit. You exclusively run in Brooke shoes, correct? Yes, sir, I do. All right, this could be a learning experience for me. I don't know about you, rob, but I've never owned a pair of Brooks. I know Brooks Ghost I've heard great things about yeah.

Quin Jenson:

That's one, that's a model, one for one. Yeah, that's the. I guess you call it flagship or staple model when it comes to road running. Rob, you ever run in Brooks?

Rob Myers:

I have. I have Very popular shoe, solid shoe. I watched a few of your videos. You seem like you got a little bit of the shoe nerd in you. I know Casey and I do. What do you like about Brooks?

Quin Jenson:

I like the older Brooks, the older style, like the glycerin line, the older ghost style, because they give you that comfort, but then they also give you a little bit of style. Now I feel like they're a little bit more focused on the comfort side, which is great. If somebody came to me and said I need a shoe for running by by brooks, what would you recommend? I would say the ghost, because you could put tons of mouths, it's comfortable, it's a solid shoe. Um, but my favorite shoe right now I don't know if you guys know about the aurora, aurora, bl I will hear in one moment.

Casey Koza:

What is it? The Aurora.

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, aurora BL, they only made a handful of them. And then there's the Hyperion Elite 3. It's coming out. It came out this year. Those are my two favorite.

Casey Koza:

Oh, that's pretty sweet there. Yeah, brooks has been around a long time, a great company, I know. They've went into the trail running world at least a little bit. Um, that, despite the old men that just wear the road shoes and blast by you late, uh, but they, they have a great line of trail shoes as well. I know I've, I've for sure, seen a ton of them out there and it seems like you have a pretty good relationship with Brooks that you. You know at least on your feet that you wear them correct.

Quin Jenson:

Yes, sir man Brooks is. It's kind of it's like a sleeper shoe, like a lot of people like if you know, then you know. But like I don't want to say not as popular, but they're. You know, when you ask somebody what's their favorite shoe, they say nike, adidas, maybe new balance. But brooks has like this following. That's just like once you get one, you kind of want another one, then you want another one. So it's like, uh, it's a, it's a really solid shoe and the people that's behind the designing it.

Rob Myers:

I know some of the designers.

Quin Jenson:

they're pretty awesome as well, so we've been working together since 2019.

Rob Myers:

Yeah, that Aurora BL is an interesting design. Never seen anything like that.

Quin Jenson:

It's different. It has like a I don't know what you call it around your foot. It's like a tunnel type of thing around your foot. So it really stays on your foot, like when you just walking around or if you're running. It's like a sock almost. So I really like it, because I don't like to tie my shoes super tight. So with that, with that uh material that's inside the shoe, it really helps it stay on your foot.

Casey Koza:

So and I know one thing about Brooks that down at our local store here, second Soul in the Valley, great local store Always shop local for your shoes. By the way, don't be wearing them off Amazon or you know. Give those guys the business there running shoes and tie-dye shoes, because the sales guy knows are in there and knows when we go in that, oh hey, look at this new, uh, you know, whatever pair I have, who knows what it'll be next week? Probably, uh, some sort of weird and I imagine, who knows, galactic spaceships and she'll, she'll have those, I'm sure, for brooks. So shout out to bro, to Brooks. The Brooks also has the group, correct, run Happy, which you're a part of, right?

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, it was now called the Running Collective.

Casey Koza:

The Running Collective. I need to update my notes here Running Collective. Can you go into a little detail about that Because I'm not very familiar with it? Is it done by, like a local shoe store that carries brooks? Maybe because I know, I think nike has one in the valley here, maybe I don't know, I don't. I don't wear nike. I hate nike.

Quin Jenson:

So the the runner collective is done through bib ray, who partners with brooks to handle all the influences, so pretty much they all the latest drops that come out like shoes that may come out in 2025, we get them a little bit early, test them out, give our thoughts and just kind of go that way with it. It's really fun though, like I met some of my closest friends in the group.

Casey Koza:

So it's a little bit more than just a group that runs together. You get the exclusive merchandise. Uh, certainly, shoes, obviously, it seems. Anytime you can have a pair of shoes before they come out, it's pretty cool.

Quin Jenson:

So it's like more like an ambassador program kind of okay, do you run with?

Quin Jenson:

this. So it's all done on teams. So we have a group on teams and then it's sectioned off by different states. So like, for instance, here in Texas, I believe there is 19 of us throughout the state of Texas, so Dallas, san Antonio, austin but it's all spread out through the United States and we have some in Canada and Europe. But we don't necessarily have like a day or whatever that we run together. It just kind of like if we sign up for a race we say, hey, who's running this race, let's meet up and kind of go from there. But we do have like annual trips and annual things that we all go to that we can run together with quinn.

Casey Koza:

Another thing I saw, is you uh, I'm probably gonna say the name of the brand wrong.

Quin Jenson:

Uh, I'm guessing it's runway life rnwy yeah, runway, yeah, those, uh, yeah, those my guys okay, so it seems like uh, you, you definitely have used their product.

Casey Koza:

Use their product. What is it exactly?

Quin Jenson:

It's basically just like a hydration drink Just keep you going while you're out there, especially in this Texas heat Right now. When I came in the house it was 104. Definitely try to stay hydrated, but that's at the basis.

Rob Myers:

that's what it is, and they have collagen joint support in there, electrolytes and all the stuff that you need so it looks like there's a few other brands that you have relationships with, or honey honey stinger came up when I was doing some research a few others. You still work with those guys and what does the relationship look like?

Quin Jenson:

Yeah, I work with them. Honey Stinger is that one just came out of. It was just, I don't know, fell out of nowhere, it just happened, but they've been really good. They got some really good chews. Just happened, um, but they've been really good. They got some really good chews. Um, the waffles are, man, some of my best things to take with me on my longer runs. You know, you just crack it open and throw it, throw it down real quick and they're.

Rob Myers:

They're pretty good and they're tasty yeah, the waffles are good and they're just so different, right? I mean, you run typically at a race. You get to the aid station, there's a ton of gels after a while I get sick of gels. So the waffles are nice because just something different different taste, different texture they got a cookies and cream one.

Casey Koza:

Oh, that's my favorite one looking forward to, to the future here. Quinn, what kind of plans do we have? I know you got the surgery coming up, unfortunately, so we're going to wish you the best on that. It's your meniscus, correct?

Quin Jenson:

Yes.

Casey Koza:

On the left knee Left knee.

Quin Jenson:

Okay, sorry to hear that that sucks yeah.

Casey Koza:

It does, but we'll get through it. It's, you know, just another step in the journey. But what are we looking at after that running wise?

Quin Jenson:

So hopefully, when recovery goes well, we'll be in Virginia the end of the year for their marathon up there. And then we have Houston in January. We'll be back in Austin for Austin's marathon in January. We'll be back in Austin for Austin's Marathon in February and yeah, just starting out the year like that. So a couple of marathons. I have maybe some trail in there, we'll see.

Casey Koza:

One last question I have for you, quinn. Um, you said you run with headphones on what's on the track track list that you run with? That's a good question. We've had some great music discussions on this podcast, so I figure I should probably start doing that, cause I did have a request from someone that asked me why I don't bring it up with more guests music and I was like, well, I guess I could start doing that. So this is my segue into now doing that, quinn. So what's on the track list?

Quin Jenson:

Oh, shoot man. To be honest, I have to say I'm a big gospel rap guy. I like to listen to a lot of gospel rap.

Casey Koza:

Gospel rap. Give me an artist to listen to in the gospel rap.

Quin Jenson:

Heavenly. So it's H-U-L-V-E. He spells it different, but it's Heavenly.

Casey Koza:

All right, I'll find him. That is a new genre to me.

Quin Jenson:

It's like you get the, because I like to listen to music that's talking about stuff that got some content to it. Gospel rap is definitely on a playlist.

Casey Koza:

Hey, see, this is why we do the show, Rob. We learn something every time. Yeah, quinn, I certainly appreciate you sharing your story with us today, with Rob and I and all the hobby joggers out there hobby jogger nation, if you will and appreciate you taking your time and cool hearing your story and hopefully we can get you out to a trail race with us and maybe we'll come out to a road race there in Texas when it's not 104 degrees, because I do not do 104 degrees.

Quin Jenson:

Thank you guys for having me. One last thing I wanted to share real quick though. All my running dads out there, man, keep it up, because I started out as a running dad. It would be me and my daughter. We would go out there and she'll be in the scroller have her snacks and we'll run two, three miles. So all the running dads out there, man, kudos to you Runners in general, parents, you know, kudos to everybody, but no, I'm a dad, so I got to represent for the dads. Yeah, Thank you guys for having me on, man, Like I say, it's an honor blessing just to get on and chat with you guys Before we let you go.

Quin Jenson:

Quinn, where can our listeners find you? On all social platforms at Quinn Jensen. That's YouTube, instagram, tiktok, everywhere. Ed Quinn Jensen, perfect.

Rob Myers:

Thanks for being on the show. We appreciate it. Thanks, man.