final season i think it's hard to stick the landing with a show that was so good i feel like when they started it was something that no one had really seen before the production value and from a cinematic perspective what they were able to do in the final season and all the way through was just really spectacular i think it became really obvious where the books haven't kind of taken the show yet and where artistic liberties from the producers and directors kind of played in i thought the last two seasons weren't nearly quite on par with all the seasons preceeding it i recently read watched the whole series it's just so good there are so many great characters and conflicts and it's just so beautifully shot but i feel like the final season was rushed i feel like the pacing did not reflect the pacing that it happened in the st of the rd season for example so while the conclusion is something i'm relatively satisfied i think people would never have been satisfied with the ending because a lot of us didn't want to and including including the author george r r martin he wanted to show the gulf the ten seasons and went for eight right and yes you pointed out the st few seasons were great because it was based on his books the last two or three season george martin sees that the books will be coming out and you could be that hopefully let's hope he writes them faster than something the other things out there yeah and i feel like it was a bit of a disservice that a lot of the actors weren't kind of clued in a season or two ago as to what their character arc was i feel like a one million clark is such a fantastic expressive character he played and her it's just a lovely human being and all of her interviews i don't personally know her but she just seems like a real down to earth person and i don't think that her character was given the opportunity to really have that evolution and progression in the way that the audience needed it to help and i think it felt very rushed i totally saw her becoming the mad queen but i wanted her to i think based on how things were going it just made sense for her and her history and how her character had been affected and and just what her progression had been but i don't think they did the show or her character justice by leaving her kind of in the dark as an actor you're right i think part of that they were so worried about leaks yeah and so they kept it as long as possible in secret one no two characters that really got justice and in your opinion i do feel like the end of varus y is exactly what it should if that and i feel like it was one of those endings when those character arcs where there were clues about if you betray me this or that or if you're to say something to my face all those things that danny had kind of dropped in the last couple of seasons and i feel like the show runners were very good about actually seeing that totally throw while there are other things i feel like they kind of could have done more with i feel embarrassed as arc was exactly as it should have that yes i feel like tyrian had an interesting arc and i feel like it was good to see him kind of come out on top because he's kind of been good and bad and and he's very human and they've never tried to make him just one thing i felt very dissatisfied by the clues and hints that been kind of dropped but then weren't really fit followed through on pregnant like that things being said like there are you know when the wolves are together they survive and when they're not they don't essentially have paraphrasing and then in the end it's like ok great all of the starks and i'm going in totally separating the world to have the whole progression of everyone learning about john being a target area in and then it was totally dropped it was never mentioned really in the final episode it never changed anything it was such a big part of the story of who is he who is his parents what's his identity and then you know if i had her gary and it's never really concluded i guess i don't know as he didn't wa before he does stick the knife in her is he gave her opportunities he gave her opportunities to just make it seem like she wasn't going crazy to make it seem like she wasn't going to help people and she just she took the bait and took the bait and took the bait i think she was like you know if i don't do it right humanity is doing this in chile and you know i think it was something she really didn't want to do but very much like ned stark that having to do the right thing i think he would not have been able to live with himself  it you know you know the consequences have you thought about it or he did or terrible it was probably worried about his sister sounds a whole was not going to bend indeed and he was going to obviously wipe out the north if they did anyway  anyone watch that they haven't already h b o does have a lot of behind the scenes stuff about how they have filmed the season this this time around i think there's things in the past too but especially in the bell episode when they show how they films that with the c g i and the technology and the stunts and everything it's so amazing it's so well done and you can see just no detail went and noticed it was it's really incredible so if you are bitter about the ending or feeling that it was rushed i recommend looking at that because i feel like it does kind of make it a bit more satisfying as a fan just to see what goes into something that was so specter ocular of you well i think  coach does for example suppose a person comes to use as a you know i'm a i'm an older runner i used to run i've been out of commission for the last few years because of injury and you know i wouldn't want to response thanking them and giving them a lot of information as to the training plan kind of how i work what platforms i use what support they can expect from me as part of me being their coach a breakdown of my fees a breakdown in kind of how i communicate and if they would like to talk more on the phone or shoot me questions via e mail great sometimes i hear back sometimes i don't it's very easy to send an email shopping around it takes the integrity to kind of bite the bullet and say ok i'm going to do that five k i'm going to go back into running and so from there we set up a meeting that isom some forms to fill out so that i can get to know them for somebody coming back from injury i'd want to know about their injury history the nature of the injury what have they  since then are they in p t are they medically cleared to ride on what they're running background wise before the injury kind of it's includes as to maybe what contributed to it or what contributed towards their success in the past were all very different athletes and then also where the men doing since then if anything and then we kind of go from there think about those goals look at the calendar make sure that a timeline that makes sense and if we're starting at zero it takes time to build back safely and our body adapts to stress but we need consistency we need rest my priority is making sure that we don't take a step backwards it's not worth taking one step forward to take five steps back and so then from there based on all their information we figure out what they need sometimes it's simply a training plan and i'll design a personalized one from a runner is usually updated a week at a time i use a platform called final search i give what i can to support that athlete sometimes it will mean meeting him in person and leading them through workouts around in the park for example sometimes they will be helping them with the strength training routine other times it's that i'm pretty much just coaching them from behind a computer and checking in and helping them with their progress and it's really a two way street as far as communication goes i find i coach best and my athletes get the most out of it when they communicate with me and we start to build a report in a relationship and i get to know kind of what they need mentally and physically and how they're adapting to the consulate be making adjustments to their training to then get them to that ultimate goal feeling healthy and strong and rested and capable of that achievement whatever it so the five kids a great example sometimes it's the marathon sometimes it's things between it but every runner is different and what i love about what i do is that st off it never gets boring because each runner is different physically and mentally different goals but also i get to take somebody on a journey from somewhere they are to somewhere they want to be and sometimes the goal is simple other times it's very complex and sometimes there's one big goal but there's going to be a lot of little mini goals they're going to help get them there too and it's always about my runners it's not about me i always check ego at the door because i find running is such a special personal thing and i want to make sure that it's always what that runner needs and wants and so yeah so every every journey with every athletes really different and this is going to have to be customized sometimes surprises come up as a whole you know you're much because you're out the door yeah and sometimes you know it's tough knowing how much should i be doing what's too much what's not enough how i balance my recovery had a way supplement or support my running with other activities it's very very top talen and i know that because i've been self coach for a long time i just this week gave the reins to somebody else for the st time it's really tough when you're in your body to also be the mind away from your body looking at the most connecticut residents want to use as their example of connecticut but there you have it and i was the raised outside of philadelphia on a christmas tree farm from the age of about three until i moved to new york ten years ago so i was an outdoorsy kid always dirty riding a tractor playing with animals as i love being outside so running for me is just my time to be nature and breathe air and  some sunshine to go to war college i did i went to college for music i went to westminster choir college in princeton so i would sing at the lincoln center with the westminster savannah choir  yeah different lifetime oh now it was something i really loved it was a real passion of mine but it's a really tough industry i don't have to tell anybody and after pursuing that and acting for a long time i was burning out how i did not want to ever resent the arts i think that they're very special and i started really gravitating towards running i was coaching part time at the time and i began really looking forward to coaching others more than i did going to audition and i realized maybe it's time to kind of shift the balance a little bit and see how that feels and so in two thousand and by people who want to be running coaches how do i do it what do i do and there is no blueprint and if you want to do it you've got to take it by the reins and really think about your brand and how to get there i have a degree in musical theater i've a bachelor's in music i have no business background it's taken a lot of time and investment on my own part to figure out how to get there i just stumble along the way i have been hustling hard at times you know at four am when i would get home told levin pm from coaching somebody else i would never say it wasn't worth it it was worth it for me or something like that so for somebody else that may not be the lifestyle it is not as cushy as it looks from the outside saying is you've got to put the time and it's not going to be an overnight success one thousand percent but you also model yeah for a long time i wasn't i was trying to fit a mold that i wasn't which is i think part of why the acting modeling world can be not so great for  yourself self worth and when i started running more and more and my body type was changing i realized i did natural fit the maturing fitness modeling so if and when i do model now which i still do it's  and running here it's no longer in street where anything formal and it feels like a natural thing and it's like art imitates life and vice versa and i have to say at thirty five years old i also don't self destruct anymore about measurements or what i look like it's kind of like i look like i do because of training for what i love and then so be it versus tying to fit a mold at that an agency or an industry wanted to put me in and you know i there i was fit enough one way but then had too much muscle and one way and it's just exhausting to feel never enough and i feel like as an athlete i am enough when i run and when i race on a train and then if i'm good member of queens distance yeah how did that happen oh there are lovely group of people and kevin months hollo is a great recruiter and i met kevin in two thousand and sixteen a five k and i think i finished nd female or something and he comes over as kevin and i swear he's going to be a politician at some point in time it's a matter of when and how introduces himself and at the time i was in central park  year and it was like recruiting out of the gate was like no pressure but you should really have a queen's tested because you live in queens or because i live in queens because i think he thought to be an asset for the team because i wasn't feeling one and that's where i you know i train on my own a lot i don't really partake in a lot of team practices and that's been true for years and so i really didn't have any reason to stay where i was t my is and i realize that kevin and the crew around and so it's been a pleasure and an honor to be wearing gold since december two thousand and sixteen and it is an incredible team i had i'm a real one here do you realize you're eight hundred strong and only had like five years but that is a testament to the people behind it truly and they welcome and support anyone and everyone despite the fact i was recruited perhaps for speed they welcome anyone and everyone regardless of experience regardless of pace age gender or size where you live you not let me live in queens and right now new york has so many teams it's kind of its kind oversaturated great like there are so many teams out there that i think it goes to show that queens to us into something special to be that large and have athletes that are jumping ship to go to the new thing we're happy where we are we love who we are present and history that's that's the before we had that you were all warm longtime member of one of my other favorite running club the mile high club which i think truthfully could say they really  running on a map for new york city because before that there wasn't a place where you can go strictly for treadmill running how did you compliment your personal coaching now you're coaching and it is true coaching in front of a studio of people runners on a track so weird i have no idea how i went from coaching in a park to being on a headset st up i am not a group fitness person i have never taken a berries class i have never taken orange theory class i am an old school runner and like i run outside i go to the gym i lift on my own i am not part of the drinking the kool aid crew with that and so it's very funny that i have now been considered a group fitness instructor for over four years when mile high opened in fall two thousand and fourteen there was a new york times article that went out about it i had no idea about it until people were sharing on facebook and it was runner as like myself who were tried and tried to run or is that were sharing it and they were negative about it they were judging the they were skeptical i saw the article i read it and i thought they were on a something and so that day i facebook stopped facebook stopped deborah warner the founder asked that her direct message  i said hey i'm running coach in new york i see you just launched i don't know if you need any more coaches could i send you my resume and the rest is history i was knew it to be i had set a new ceiling with a clock new to dealing with group fitness but i think my background in acting made me very comfortable in the had a very male voice did not terrify me knowing how to project in a healthy way was not strange to me and so in some weird way coaching the studio's been the marriage between outdoor coaching and being on stage and it's one of those things where no matter what kind of dad having no matter what's going my personal life or in the state of the world don't forget and you also had to be a dexter king to abuse equipment or not yeah i went into that st off terrified because it was an targeted territory for me i'm not a good fitness person i was wondering for myself and for the runners they're going to walk through that door who are out draw fleets how do i not sell this but how do i sell this how do i sell treadmill running is something it actually is good how can i tin's athletes that they're training outside can be supportive of what we do inside because it absolutely can and i would not have joined the coaching roster there if i thought it was garbage if i didn't actually think it was good and i hated the treadmill i absolutely despise the treadmill i'd be out in like snowstorms as my alternative to going to a gym before my high i was at mile high joined them then they opened in november i joined them that st week in january and i was on the roster there for four years and four months and i coached thousands of classes i've seen thousands of athletes people my class because i want running to be fine i want to be accessible and unlike a lot of as i understand the other groups that nests studios can be i want to be out them in their journey not about a calorie burn not about their neighbor not about what their speed is in a competitive wage of the person next to them but i actually have a bit about that and i'm so fortunate to do what i do i was recruited back in october six months eight about a treadmill studio that was opening i was not given any information other than it was going to be a big thing and they want me i felt very humbled i didn't know who it was i didn't know probably thought was pro already out and it wasn't peloton but so i was intrigued but i also wasn't totally sold on leaving where i had been for so long and then this past january that connections were made and  was on the phone with david speak and he and i have to just make sure it's clear for everybody out there myself and everyone my high he never once tried to poach me he out of the get go said look i would love to have a dialogue but if you were a thousand percent happy where you are best of luck hopefully i'll meet you at some point in time you should feel honored that you're on my short list but i don't want to play from something that you love doing and i said thank you so much i'm kind of actually interested in a change and so he said ok great we want you and here we are to i mean we opened six days ago i was actually i was staying for one of your preview gatt you were kind enough to  scientist st and foremost it's new york city st off air quality is important in a studio when you have bodies sweating and breathing heavy gases are emitted air quality change it is not only is it about the temperature or about the humidity it's about the air quality in what you're breathing and so we have a system in our studio that keeps it level all the time whether there's thirty four dollars bodies in there the maximum right there you go thirty four well and you don't have to worry about it and the other students got to wear a headset because you're competing with everything else here you're not competing you're competing against yourself and david was beautiful st time i seen david in action really personal ball and everybody had a great time so this is a winning formula of how it's done all the other thing that i liked when i was a club when i walked into the studio they knew my name we have one in london but this is new york this is where the action happened to get make it a new york you can make it anywhere corky yes any final thoughts running keeps evolving technology keeps changing and i encourage those who are skeptical those who have never before and those who are like me and our tried and true outdoor warriors to come get precision when a child it is the most scientific program out there it's safe it's incredibly challenging and when we continue to open ourselves up to possibilities we learn and adapt and change and grow even if it's that hey i'm cool i never need write in a studio again the odds are good runners are going to walk out that door learning something or learning something about themselves they didn't know before or meeting another runner that they could run with you just never know where this is world's going to take you it's such a small industry it's such a small city which sounds silly to say i'm excited take my training in there as well as outside and just feel very blessed to do what i do thank you so much