Episode #246: What HYROX Taught Us About Doing Hard Things

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Here we go, and we're rolling with the Berman Method Podcast.
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Dr.
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Jake Berman here with my beautiful co-host.
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Jenni Berman, physician assistant.
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Where we're focused on treating problems and not symptoms.
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David going against Goliath.
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Goliath being the corporate medical system, big pharmaceutical companies, your health insurance companies.
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They do not have your best interests in mind.
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They'll choose profits over patient outcomes every single time.
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And here we are.
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Here we are.
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Barely made it up the stairs this morning.
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Aww.
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Poor thing.
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Oh man.
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Still sore?
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Still sore, yeah.
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So last episode we left a little cliffhanger there because I had hurt my knee over the weekend and it was very emotionally challenging.
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Just six days before the high rock.
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Just six days before the high rock.
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You injured your knee.
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Yeah.
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So we talked about that all last episode.
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So if you did not listen to it or watch it, you need to go back.
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Resulting in me having to, or not having to, but choosing to get an MRI, my first MRI of my life, MRI of my knee, to see is this a pain that I should push through, can push through safely during this race competition, or is it something where I should not push through this pain and just need to say, Alright, we gotta do this the right way.
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Throw in the towel in.
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Throw in the towel.
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So got the MRI done and didn't get the results back, jumped on the plane, and we're flying out there, and end up getting the results back while we're on the airplane.
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While we're on the airplane, and nothing horrible.
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Well, I guess.
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Yeah, nothing horrible.
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Nothing that I couldn't safely push through through the competition.
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The biggest thing that I was concerned about was is this a partial quad tendon tear or rupture?
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Yeah.
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And the reason why is because every single person that I've ever met who's had one never experienced pain before it happened.
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Right.
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It just pops like out of nowhere.
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Right.
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And I felt something that was extremely sharp and painful, and I'm going, I don't know what the heck this is.
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But it's in the right area.
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Like it's right there.
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And I don't know what else it could be.
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And I don't want, if it's a partial quad tendon tear, I don't want a full.
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Right.
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And with high rocks, if you're not familiar, it's a lot of running, a lot of squatting, a lot of loading on the quads.
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I mean, your quads are just extremely sore after the race, no matter how many times we've done it.
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Yeah.
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As far as training for it and actually doing um.
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Yeah.
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So the MRI comes back, and here's the interesting thing is it showed stuff was wrong with my knee.
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Yeah.
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But I don't know that any of the stuff that showed up was what I felt.
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Well, I have my own theory to that.
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Yeah, you have your own theory.
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But neither here nor there, it didn't stop me from competing.
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That was the biggest thing.
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Right.
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Got the results back.
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I was feeling better, anyways.
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I was feeling pretty good about my knee.
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Get the results back.
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I'm like, okay, I think that we're good.
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We're good.
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We're all go.
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All green, green, green.
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Let's do this thing.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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So end up competing.
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And the one thing that I was not prepared for.
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The altitude.
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The altitude.
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Oh my gosh.
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So we're in Salt Lake City and it's 4,37.
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And oh my god, I went into that race the most confident that I could possibly be.
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I'm just gonna do everything that I need to do to get sub-90 minutes.
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Yeah, that was my goal because the last one was an hour 38 minutes and something seconds.
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Yeah.
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I'm like, I just want to get sub 130.
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After the first lap, I could not catch my breath.
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I think you were on your second run when you were like, I'm, you know, if you've never been to a high rox, the spectators can run around the facility chasing the athletes.
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And so I could be there to watch them pass on the run, and then I could run over to the ski erg and watch them do the ski erg, and then you run back to where the track is and you watch them run by you, and then you go to you meet them at the next event.
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So I ran over to you at your second lap on your second run, second lap, and you're like, I need oxygen.
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I could not get oxygen.
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I'm going, oh my gosh, I felt like I was suffocating.
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Yeah.
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I could not get oxygen.
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And this was the story for the next hour.
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Yeah.
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And it's interesting, like, this is the first time I also have competed or done any real athletics in altitude.
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Because I've never even been like snow skiing or snowboarding.
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Like, I've never done any activity in altitude before.
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And it's not just your lungs.
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I mean, your muscles feel hypertrophied and fatigued quickly in this altitude.
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Yeah, epoxic, I think, would be.
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Yeah, that's probably true.
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Hypoxic, yeah.
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Just no oxygen getting to the muscles, and it was brutal, absolutely brutal.
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The mental battle that I went through, we both went through.
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Yeah, it was just absolutely insane.
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Never have I ever thought about quitting more than I did during this.
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And there was just one saying that kept getting me through.
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There's three sayings that I kept saying over and over in my head never get tired, never give up.
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But then the third one was, you're not gonna die.
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You're not gonna die.
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You're not gonna die.
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And I'm telling you, I could I said that third one a lot because I just wanted to quit.
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I wanted to give up.
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There was nothing fun about it, there was nothing comfortable about it.
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I was in the most pain that I've ever been in in my life.
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Mentally, I'm just going, why am I doing this?
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I could never catch my breath.
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Yeah, like it just never happened until three-quarters of the way through the run, over an hour into the or three quarters of the way through the competition, then finally I could start breathing again.
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Yeah.
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And it was just it was torture.
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But one thing that I did learn was it's absolutely amazing how resilient the human body is.
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For sure.
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And how we've heard this so many times: mind over matter, your mind, your the games that your brain plays are way stronger than that what you're physically capable of doing.
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Yeah.
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When your brain tells you you're done, you typically have at least 30% left in the tank as far as physically what you're able to achieve.
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It which is true.
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It's very true.
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Because my brain was done the whole time.
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It was just saying, quit, quit, quit.
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But physically, I just kept going.
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Yeah.
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Like physically, it didn't stop.
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Physically, I didn't collapse.
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My quads were cramping, my hamstrings are cramping.
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The sandbag lunges were absolute torture.
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Like everything was cramping, and it was painful.
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It's extremely painful when it's cramping.
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And you have to keep going.
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And you have to keep going.
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You can't stop moving.
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And that's something that I can give credit to our first Hyrux competition because I had never experienced cramping like that and or experienced cramping while competing.
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I'd never experienced that.
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But in our first Hyrux, I first time I ever cramped during a competition was during the sandbag lunges, and my quad started cramping, and I kind of panicked.
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And luckily, there was a judge standing right next to me, and I said, I'm cramping, my quad's cramping.
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He goes, I don't care, keep going.
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Yeah, just keep moving.
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And I said, Okay.
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Yes, sir.
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And that's essentially what I had to do.
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And so I get through the whole thing.
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My knee did not limit me one bit.
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My lungs oxygen was the major limiting factor.
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And I get through the finish line, and my time was one hour, 30 minutes, and three seconds.
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Three seconds.
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So now I'm just, it's so bittersweet because I'm going, yes, I just finished it, I did not die, but I missed my goal by three freaking seconds.
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But then I had to keep reminding myself that I left it all on the table.
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There, I there was no three seconds to be made up.
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When I got through the finish line, I literally I collapsed.
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Collapsed on the ground, and I'm just laying on the ground.
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And one of the judges comes by and goes, you know, there's a stretching area right over there.
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Yeah, because you finish and it's like a platform that's like being recorded, and all the racers are coming in looking at their tops.
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That's not where I collapsed.
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I got off the platform.
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You got off the stairs.
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Yeah.
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Just off of the stairs.
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Because I couldn't, yeah, I can't see you at that point.
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But I missed it by three seconds, and it was so bittersweet.
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And I had to keep reminding myself that I gotta be proud of it because I shaved over eight minutes from my first one to my second one.
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I was the most physically prepared that I've ever been in my life.
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But I ran into an obstacle that I didn't know existed.
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And that was, you know, you keep training for this thing, and then this obstacle hits you.
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And that's life, right?
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Like when people are listening to this, like, why would you torture yourself like that?
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Like, why did you do it?
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And what would you ask me when you were done?
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Like, after probably, I don't know, four or six hours.
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I guess after I was done with mine, you said, so there's no way we can get Nashville tickets.
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Yeah, I was really frustrated with that because I was so prepared to do much better than I was, and I didn't.
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And I'm like, Well, is there any way that we can get into this next one that's two months from now?
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Yeah, there's one in Tampa in October, but that's hunting season, so you're not we're not giving that up.
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But there is one in Nashville, and I initially didn't sign us up for the Nashville because it's right after Thanksgiving, where we'll already be in Nashville for Thanksgiving.
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Didn't think we'd make the trip back, but now you're like, can we just get tickets so I can accomplish it and you know, reach my goal?
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So yeah, it was brutal, it was absolutely brutal, most bittersweet thing that I've ever gone through.
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But at the end of the day, I had to remind myself that it you gotta be proud about this because then we got Jenni competing.
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Well, back up because I was starting to say something, is like people ask, like, why do you do this?
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And it really is the fact that you are training for life, and the fact that you are always gonna be met with obstacles to overcome, you're always gonna have mountains to climb.
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There's always gonna be something, whether it's physical, emotional, mental, work, dietary, nutrition, health, wellness, medically, like there's always gonna be something that we have to climb.
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And the reason we do this is to remind ourselves that your mind is so so much stronger than the body when it comes to telling you to quit and telling you to give up and telling you that you can't do it, but you really can.
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And if you can work with that mental aspect of whatever it is that you're trying to overcome, you can overcome it.
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You have to have that, you know, mind over matter.
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We have to change that focus, change that talk that we have inside of our body.
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And we have clients telling that uh telling this to us all the time where they are working towards a specific goal, and their mind will tell them one thing, and then they hear Jenni or Jake on their shoulder saying, You can do it.
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This is what you need to do.
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Just focus on this, stay mindful about that, and they're like, I can do it, and having that push of someone else to be like, You can do this, and let your body take over and let your body do what it's actually trying to do and capable of doing, and get this negative talk out.
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So I think that's why we continue to push ourselves to accomplish these very challenging tasks.
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It's a perfect example of if you're not progressing, you're regressing.
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You have to constantly move the bar.
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You cannot do the same thing over and over again.
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You cannot maintain, there's nothing alive on planet Earth that maintains.
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You're either growing or you're dying.
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That's a fact.
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Nothing just maintains status quo.
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So that's where we're at.
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I'm 41 and I'm in the best shape that I've ever been in in my life.
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And this is not just physical, like as far as the prog progressing or regressing.
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It's physical, it's mental, it's emotional, it's professionally.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And it's moving the bar.
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It's like, okay, achieved that one, or didn't achieve it.
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What do we do different differently next time?
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Oh, I'm already looking up a different athletic race today.
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No, I'm not looking up that one.
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Before you switch gears too much, let's talk about you.
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Okay.
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So Jenni has this all planned out.
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She's like, I'm gonna get in great shape.
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I'm gonna beat my last one because your last time was an hour 13 minutes and how many seconds?
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44 seconds.
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44 seconds, and she missed the top 10 by one.
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You were the top 11.
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Yeah.
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She's like, my goal is to beat 110.
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So I'm gonna shave three and a half minutes, and I'm gonna get the top 10.
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And then she has it all planned out just right, and she knows this is what's gonna make it even better.
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Is I'm going to catch Walker's really bad cold before we leave on the trip.
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Yeah.
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So she has this horrific upper respiratory infection the day before, the day of, and like we're she's literally laying down.
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If you know Jenno, she never lays down.
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She's only laid down one time in our entire relationship, and it was when she had pneumonia.
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So she's on the couch.
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We're supposed to be resting, but Jenni doesn't rest.
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And she actually did rest Thursday before our race Friday because she has this massive upper respiratory infection, so she can't breathe.
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We're at altitude.
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Yeah, 4,000 foot altitude.
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I already am like so congested, in my chest at this point, coughing, can't breathe.
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So after I finish my race, a lot of the times during my race, I'm thinking about Jenni and I'm going, How is she gonna compete?
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I can't breathe, and my lungs are fine.
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How is she gonna compete in this?
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So Jenni goes out, she starts competing, and she is getting her ass kicked.
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Yeah, like absolutely kicked.
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Because when I watch Jenni train, she just looks like a machine where it's like, yes, this is hard, but this is what I do.
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I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence, like this is what I do.
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When I saw her going around the track, the first 15 minutes I'm going, oh boy.
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Yeah, it wasn't good.
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This is not good.
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I mean, so much the the first exercise after you run your first, you know, a thousand meters, then you get on the ski erg and you ski erg for a thousand meters, and I got done with the ski erg, and I get off the ski erg platform, and I was so disoriented.
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I like didn't know which way I was supposed to be running.
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I didn't know left from right.
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I'm looking at the judge, like, where am I supposed to be going?
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And that's when I was like, oh boy, this isn't good.
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Like the altitude, my muscles just hurt my brain hurt.
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She ran backwards, and I'm going to go back.
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I ran the wrong way.
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She ran the wrong way.
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Turn around.
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Yeah, I was so confused.
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Oh man, I was so sick, but yeah, so I kept going.
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She kept going, she kept going, and five exercises in is this the rower, and it's one of Jenni's least favorite exercises.
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This is after the burpee broad jumps, which is hard.
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Yeah.
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So now she's on the rower, and we had this planned out to where I was gonna FaceTime our kids while we're on the rower, and there's two sides like you can be facing on the rower this way, you can be facing on the rower this way.
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If you're facing that way, I can't be in front of you.
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I'm like, so let's just hope that the stars align and she's on this side.
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They were.
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So I weasel my way up to the fence, pushing people out of my way.
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So now I'm right in front of Jenni.
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Yeah.
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Face time the kids, and all three kids are going, never give up, mommy, never give up.
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And Jenni's literally dying.
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I I did smile when they got on the screen.
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She smiled once for half a second, and then she immediately went back to, I think I'm dying, and I think I'm gonna quit.
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And so then I had to shift gears a little bit.
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I'm like, okay, now it's time for me to lean in and get laser focused on coaching, supporting.
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And it's loud as hell, right?
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There's speakers, there's music, everybody's screaming, there's nothing quiet.
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So I'm trying to do my best on locking in eye contact, and I'm just like, you can do this, keep going.
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And every time I said that, she shakes her head no.
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Shaking my head no, I can't do it.
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No, I can't, you can't do it.
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And I'm like, Yes, you can keep going right now.
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Look at Walker, he's screaming right now.
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I could hear you saying that, yeah.
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And you were saying, the girls are saying, Never give up, mommy.
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Yeah.
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So all of this is happening in one of the most challenging moments of the entire race, and you got through it.
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Yeah, you got through the hardest part and you kept going.
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And the lunges were coming up, and I looked at the time because you're able to see the time, and I'm going, okay, we're behind schedule.
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So I said, Alright, this is the seventh out of eight workouts.
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So, right now, like you're gassed.
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Yeah, like you're almost completely wiped out.
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Seventh out of eighth workout are sandbag lunges, and I say, Alright, Jenni, you're behind schedule.
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This is your strength.
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I need you to make up time right now.
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So she gets the sandbag lunges or sandbag on her shoulders and just starts powering through.
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She has to push through some girls because they're going too slow.
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There's like a traffic jam.
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So she literally elbows people out of the way, move it, get out of the way.
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I said, move, and they go, you can go around us.
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And I was like, oh boy.
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So she gets through, and I'm like, Alright, we changed some time.
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I said, That's right.
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Now let's go.
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Keep going.
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Let's finish strong.
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She starts.
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Now we're picking back up again because the last couple of minutes, it's like, okay, now I can breathe a little bit better.
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Yeah.
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Finally acclimate an hour into it.
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And you get to the wall balls, which is the last exercise, and I can't find you.
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By the time I do find you, you've already done 70 out of a hundred.
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Haven't even taken a break.
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Yeah.
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And finished the last 30, finished the crawl or the finish line.
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I'm like, okay, she made it.
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I did it.
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I survived.
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You survived.
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I did not make my time goal.
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I did not make an hour and ten minutes, which was my time goal.
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However, I did make my accomplishment in ranking.
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You know, which was I landed 13th overall for all of females.
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Out of how many?
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I think there were a thousand and thirty-two females that competed.
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So she got 13 out of a thousand.
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Yeah.
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And then I was number five in my age group out of close to 200, 197, I think.
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Uh landed number five.
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So yeah, that was.
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I was excited about and I beat my last time.
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And you beat your last time.
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I beat my last time, but didn't make my goal.
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So with being terribly sick and altitude, I still shaved some time.
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Shaved some time.
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Thought I was gonna die.
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And did it.
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I didn't.
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You know, it was by at one point I was running in an EMS um firefighter, ducked in right in front of me, ducked under the rope to go into the course, and I was like, well, if I die, he's there to save me.
00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:31.039
Yeah, so you're gonna be okay.
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Yeah, he's got an AED on board.
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We're good.
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You're gonna be okay.
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It's just absolutely amazing what you're able to accomplish with a horrendous.
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If you like it, just it's hard to communicate how sick Jenni actually was unless you heard her.
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If you're standing right next to her, listening to her breathe and cough on the couch, not even running or anything, and it's like, oh my god.
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How are you gonna do this?
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You did ask me Thursday, you were like, What are you gonna do?
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And I was like, It's moving into my lungs, which isn't good.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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But the funny part about all this is I finished my race and I'm literally laying on the ground dying, hoping that I can get more oxygen to get back up again and continue living.
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Jenni finishes her race with an upper respiratory infection and at altitude, and she's like, Oh, alright, so are we gonna go grab Lennar now?
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Is it margarita time?
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And I'm going, you mother effer.
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It's just like okay, it's time to move to the next space.
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We did it.
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It's just like, oh my gosh.
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But it really, it was totally a mental game, and having some support and accountability is so huge.
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And we talk about that all the time in in our business and being the support and the accountability to others, and we need it too, you know.
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And at that time when I was on the rower, I after the I think it was one of my sleds, I literally walked in the rock zone, which I've never done ever, right?
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Leading from the event to back to running, and I walked and I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna make it.
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And I was like, Yes, you are like that's not even an option, not making it's not an option.
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And again, getting to the rower and seeing the kids on FaceTime and locking eyes with Jake saying, You can do this, you've got this, they're yelling for you, and it was just that mental switch that I had to make where I literally was shaking my head saying, I can't, I can't, and then I would look at you and say, You can, and I was like, You're right, I can.
00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:49.839
And so having that accountability and that support outside of your brain, and again, it it doesn't have to be health-wise, it could be in a career path, it could be nutrition, it could be fitness, whatever it is.
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You have to have that outside support and accountability.
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We have coaches everywhere.
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We had a I have a platform that I follow for high rocks.
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We have business coaches, we have individual um coaches when it comes to just you know life coaching.
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Um, we've seen tons of times seen mental health counselors for ourselves and our marriage.
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Like you have to have that outside support and something to work for.
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A goal, a standard.
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It's not a goal.
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Where do we hear that?
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We can't make goals, we need to set standards for ourselves, and that's so true.
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Yeah, I think standards are something that you are non-negotiable things, but there has to have have to be goals associated with standards.
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Is the standard is I don't eat donuts.
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Like, I just don't do it.
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That's just as a standard.
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But my goal is I want to shave this percentage body weight and this much time off my runs.
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So that's something you're working towards versus the standard is yeah, I'm not eating donuts.
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That's not even an option.
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Like, don't even it doesn't appetize me one bit because it's not an option.
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Right.
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So that's my standard.
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So a year ago, it's we're almost coming up on a year now, when you first mentioned this idea of high rocks, and just first mentioned that you were gonna sign us up for this thing, and at that point in my exercise career, physical ability career, my pants were fitting very snug, and I was very comfortable with where I was at at a for as a 40-year-old dad of three.
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I was like, I'm no, I'm good.
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But you went behind my back and signed us up regardless of what I chose.
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That sounds so negative.
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It's not negative because you did it because you care about me.
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Yeah, you care about me.
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And here's the best news is I absolutely hated, hated, there was nothing enjoyable about my first race.
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Nothing enjoyable.
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But here's the reality: I was not prepared.
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Yeah, I was not prepared at all.
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I did nothing on the cardio side that should have prepared me for it.
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I didn't even share show up wearing the right shoes.
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But I just didn't know those things.
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After doing that, I'm like, okay, I didn't enjoy this, but I what's the right way to say it?
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I don't enjoy losing more than I didn't enjoy that race.
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Let me say it even more bluntly.
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I dislike failing more than I disliked the race.
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Because the stats came out for the first race.
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And where I placed in the first race was the bottom 30% in my age group or all males?
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Of men.
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Of all men.
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I I placed in the bottom 30% of all men that competed in the Miami High Rocks.
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And when I saw that stat, I'm going, oh my god.
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There was that many more guys that were that much better than I was.
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That was the thing that really irked me.
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And I'm like, okay, this is not happening.
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Right.
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That's not happening again.
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Like, let's focus on this thing.
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This is the new goal.
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Now I know what we're trying to do.
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We're trying to not be in the bottom 30.
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And in this one, all things considered, well, really just altitude and knee considered, I got in the top 40%.
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Top 40%, yeah, huge improvement.
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Yeah, so from the bottom 30% to the top 40% of all men and the top 40% of men in my age group.
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Yeah.
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So I'm like, okay.
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And it is so incredible to see, and this is something that we talked about so much at both of the competitions we went to, the amount of fit people that are there.
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I mean, just incredible the amount of fit people, how fast the men are, how in shape the women are, they're strong.
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So it's just like putting yourself in these environments where you're around those people just makes such a big difference.
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And in general, like we were talking about in the area of Salt Lake City that we were in, of course, it was massively overloaded with high rocks people, but there weren't any overweight people.
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Like it was just everybody walked, they were in shape, but that's part of going to these events where you surround yourself with that atmosphere that you just dry have that drive to be better with them.
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Yeah.
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So good.
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Incredible experience.
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Let's wrap it up with that.
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Awesome.
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Ciao for now.