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2026 Running Goals, Not Making the Aravaipa Race Team, Stranger Things (S4) Chat · Run Mountain Peaks

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All right, welcome back to another episode of Run Mountain
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Peaks. 2026 is here. It is the new year, Happy New
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Year, everybody. And we got a few things to
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discuss today. Last episode we did kind of a
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lessons learned from 2025, talked about a few things from
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2025. Today I'm going to go through
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some of my personal goals for 2026 and we're going to do a
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little bit of New Year motivation.
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I think those two together are going to be intertwined.
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Talk about a few things there and then we're going to talk
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about the Air Viper Racing team. So I don't know what I'm going
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to title this, but I applied for the Air Viper Northeast Racing
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team and I did not get on it. So going to go through my
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thoughts on why I applied, why I wanted to to get on the team.
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What do I think about getting rejected?
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Because I think that's, I mean, ultimately that is what
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happened, right? I feel like I put myself out
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there and then they just kind of rejected me a little bit.
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So that's kind of the feeling from it.
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So I'm going to talk a little bit about my feelings.
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I'm definitely not like upset. I actually was not at all
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disappointed or upset. I just had some some takeaways
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from that and kind of like the whole process.
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So we'll have a big conversation and I feel like all of these
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things like my goals, motivation, it's all going to
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tie together into one conversation.
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So hopefully this would be maybe helpful, maybe interesting.
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And then I mean a little bit talking about my goals.
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And so I don't know who knows if you guys will like this, but
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that's what we have today. And I was thinking this may be
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one of the first episodes where we may have to cut.
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I may have to get this reviewed so I don't make sure I don't say
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anything stupid or say anything that's going to get me in
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trouble. Not that I mean, I don't know.
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I was thinking like, how much do I have to cut things from the
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podcast? I feel like every maybe like
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every other episode something comes out weird or maybe I say
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something I don't really mean. Or I kind of just like just
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talking to yourself is kind of hard sometimes just kind of
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trying to keep a conversation with yourself.
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It feels like. But so sometimes I have to cut
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and I remember like, oh, I have to go cut that.
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But I, I never really listened to the whole thing through.
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I just in my brain, I'm like, God, I think that that sounded
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decent. We'll just, we'll throw it out
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there. But this one, we may have to get
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a second opinion. Like, is this OK to say?
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I think there's maybe only been one or two times where I said
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something that that I really shouldn't have said.
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And I did cut those out, but yeah, we'll see what makes it in
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this podcast. And also I was thinking, I don't
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even know if I should I do this podcast.
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I'm kind of just like, I don't even know if I should do this
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podcast. But we're doing it because
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that's that's what we're doing today.
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So those are going to be the big things.
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We're also going to do a Stranger Things deep dive.
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And I know I'm pretty sure the season finale just came out.
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I am on the the last episode of season 4 right now, so I'm
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behind. I'm trying to catch up.
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So I'm going to do a little bit of Stranger Things recap, deep
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dive. Who are my favorite characters,
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some of the shockers from this season because I have a lot of
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thoughts. They're really enjoying the
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Stranger Things and I'm just going to, you know, no spoil
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hope nobody spoil anything for me.
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Hopefully. I've been sure I haven't seen
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anything. I'm trying not to get anything
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spoiled, but I am personally going to spoil up to season for
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the last episode. So that's just a disclaimer.
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We spoil everything that I've seen and nobody else spoil it
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for me. So we'll do that.
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And then what else do we have here?
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I have a Brownville Deer pantry. We'll talk about that briefly.
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And then in a big question mark, I have recite Elf from memory.
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I don't know if I have it in me today.
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I don't. We'll see what happens at the
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end of the podcast, but OK, so we're going to dive into my
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goals and for this year and we'll we'll start the
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conversation off there. So what are my goals for this
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year? I guess we'll take a step back.
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What are my ultimate running goals that I have?
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I think the big one of the big driving running goals for me, or
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I think I have two big driving running goals.
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The first running goal I have is to be like try to find my
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potential and I think I've, you know, I got into running a
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little bit later. I've talked about this before,
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started really running in 2020, like during COVID is when I,
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when I started riding zero runs. Up until then I played sports,
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was in the weightlifting a lot, but started running then And I
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think over the years I've had some, you know, I kind of, I met
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some cool people who did ultra stuff.
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I did a few ultras. I had some success.
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I liked it. I like getting out in the
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mountains. I like the longer days.
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I like pushing yourself, seeing what you're made of.
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And over the years I think I, I found that I have, I feel like
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in like I'm a decent ultra runner, mountain ultra trail
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runner, like I have a little bit of skill.
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I have passion. I like it.
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I like the training aspect of it.
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And and yeah, I think from from the get go, a little bit of a
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flame was lit like, oh, I like doing this.
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I want to get better. And so for the past honestly few
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years, I every day, every week, every month, I'm just trying to
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get better, get stronger, get faster.
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I think I came from a non running background, so I have
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years of base building to catch up on.
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Like I'm not coming into all of this with 10 years of, of road
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running or, or cross country or whatever.
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So I feel like I, I, I've made, that's maybe one of the reasons
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why I've made a lot of progress the last every year I've
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improved dramatically from the year before.
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And obviously you're going to get to a point where as far as
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like paces and times and stuff, they're not going to come down
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as dramatically. You can't just keep taking an
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hour, hour, hour off whatever sort of effort.
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As you get faster, it gets so much harder to lower your paces.
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Like going from a 6 minute mile to a 530 on like a 5K or
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something like that is relatively or we wouldn't say
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easy, but going from a 5 minute pace to A5 it's 5 or a 450
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minute pace is probably the same gap.
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So just gets exponentially harder to get more fit.
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And so obviously I think my my improvements are unsustainable
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unless I just start training X amount harder, sacrificing X
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amount more, recovering X amount better.
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I think there is the my limit is a lot higher.
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Like you have a perceived limit and then you have your actual
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limit. And so I don't want to say like,
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oh, I'm getting to a point where my perceived limit is, is in the
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near future. Like I don't think it's, it's
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anywhere in the near future. So that's my thing.
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I feel like I, I, I want to keep improving and I just honestly
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think that my potential is really high.
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I think it's higher than even I think it is.
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I know it's higher than I, than my gut maybe tells me it is.
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So I want to see where that is and when does that happen.
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I, I don't think that even that's, it's years from now that
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that's going to happen. And so I, I feel like I'm on
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this path of just working really hard, loving getting out on the
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trails for years and years and years to come.
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And we're going to see how, how fast I can get and what kind of
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crazy efforts I can do in the future.
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That's like the primary goal that that always drives me.
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And what I've realized is as I've kind of progressed and been
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training harder and training more strategically and getting
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out of the mountains, maybe in doing efforts more
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strategically, I actually feel like I, I enjoy getting out more
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and more. Like I don't think it's, it's
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ruined my love for the sport. I think my love for getting out
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on the trails has only been growing.
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It's like the most it's ever been right now is just getting
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up north. I love getting out, I love
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getting up in the mountains. I love feeling fit on the
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trails. Like feeling fit running up a
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mountain is the best feeling. And so the ultimate goal is to
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let's just keep doing this for years and see what happens.
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So that's goal number one. Now more of like a real goal
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that is tangible is I want to go to UT MB, I want to go to UT MB
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and Rocket see what I got at UT MB and that's years in the
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future. How many years, I don't know.
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I guess we'll wait and see a couple 234 somewhere in there.
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Definitely. I think so that's kind of what
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I'm working towards. And I just feel like the fastest
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way to get to where you want to go is slow.
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Slow is the fastest way you slow is the fastest way to get to
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where you want to go. And I, I really do believe that.
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And so if it takes 234567 years to, to make that happen, that's
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what it takes. And I'm, I'm dedicated to it.
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I'm willing to, to put in that effort.
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And I said this a bunch of the podcast, everyone overestimates
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what they can do in a year, underestimates what they can do
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in five years. So I really have a long term
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goal of things, but obviously any huge goal you have to make
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tangible smaller goals and a path to get there.
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So obviously I have a path with a lot of things to do on that.
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And what does that include for this year?
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So for this year, I feel like I have a handful of years under my
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belt or a few years, 345 years of kind of base building,
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getting into running under my belt.
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And I'm still young, I'm 28. I feel like the next few years
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are going to be focused on getting faster, stronger.
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Like I don't really want to crush a ton of miles and just
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destroy my body. Yet I think I'm still young.
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I think I need to maximize my power output while I can.
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And then once I get into my 30s, I'll probably transition and
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stop. You know, I wouldn't say stop
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trying to get faster. You can get faster for a long
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time, but then start doing more of the longer stuff and, and
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grind a little bit more as when my legs are kind of toughened
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and really start hammering out ultras and and events and
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training back-to-back to back and all that stuff.
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So that's kind of how I see it. So this year I don't know if I'm
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going to end up doing 100 mile effort.
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I'm probably going to keep it to shorter stuff, maybe 40 to 50 to
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60 ish miles is what I'm thinking.
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And so like, what are my goals for this year?
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I want to start, you know, I haven't raced a ton, but I want
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to start getting out there and racing with the best of the
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best, competing with the best of the best, whether that be
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directly like lining up on the same racism or going after times
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that, you know, the strongest mountain runners have gone
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after. So there's a handful of things
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on my plate this year that I want to go after and kind of see
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where I stack up on all White Mountain.
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Yeah, all White Mountain stuff, technical steep stuff.
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I think that's, that's what I like to race.
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That's what I'm the best at racing.
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So that's what I'm going to focus on.
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So some of the efforts that I, I don't know how it's going to
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play out, but that I would like to do this year.
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Hut Traverse, obviously the iconic Hut Traverse, it's like
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the most well known 4550 miles around.
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I want to go there and and race that, see what I can put up for
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a time there. I think another Mahoussic
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traverse and another one that's in the same kind of category.
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I mean Pemi Loop, but Mahoussic Traverse a little bit longer, a
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little bit more gnarlier. I think that's another one that
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I'd love to go stack my time. I get up against Jeff Colt just
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went out and ran that one set a new FKT there, Jigger Johnson
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50, Kilkenny 50. I think both of those I would
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like to go do those over again and show how much I've improved
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over the last couple of years. And so I think those are
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probably the race big efforts that I'm going to target.
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But this year I guess isn't doesn't have the biggest of my
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goals. It's going to be kind of like a
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building year, another building year and as far as race wise.
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But what I think I did do this year is, you know, if I want to
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get to where I want to get to, I need to kind of put myself out
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there and be a little bit vulnerable, like going up
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against the best of the best. I think eventually, like I was
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always off social media. Eventually I knew I was going to
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have to if I do eventually want to go down like a sponsored or
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some sort of route like that, like pro, try to be a pro trail
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runner kind of route. You got to put yourself out
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there. You just can't be like nobody
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who just is runs around the woods by, by himself all the
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time. So this year is maybe about
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continuing my growth and then being a little bit vulnerable,
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putting myself out there. And I think that's why I, this
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is one of the reasons why I wanted to start the podcast.
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I've been off social media for a couple years. 0 nothing, Don't,
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don't have it. Don't know what's going on in
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the world. Lots of news stories right over
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my head. And I think I was finally ready
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to all right. You know, I, I think I had a, a
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while where I was, I had to put my head down at work and just
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put down, put your head down and go do the work.
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There's no shortcuts in this stuff.
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You got to go do the work. And that's what I did.
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I really kind of focused on myself.
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I wasn't looking at other people's struggle, wasn't
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looking at other people were doing.
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And that's kind of what I ended up going for.
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And I forget that I made it happen.
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And I haven't done a ton of racing.
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I've dabbled in a little bit of racing.
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I did 1 FDT last year, but it's not like I'm going out to all
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these races and competing all the time.
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But I knew eventually if I want to do these bigger races and and
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compete, I need to get that racing experience.
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And I just wasn't ready for a little bit, but I'm feeling more
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ready. And so this year started the
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podcast, putting myself out there being vulnerable.
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So yeah, I got back on social media for the podcast.
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I don't really, I don't try not to do any doom scrolling or any
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scrolling at all, but put myself back out on social media going
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to sign up for the races and applied for this Air Viper race
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team. And I think the goal was to get
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uncomfortable a little bit because when you, I'm on social
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media, I have this podcast, there is added pressure when
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you're, when you, when you do something like that, when you
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put yourself out there, there's added pressure that gets put on
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you. If you get sponsored, you're
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running for whoever. There's added pressure there.
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And I think, you know, sometimes it's, it's comfortable to kind
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of avoid that pressure. But if you really want to want
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to get true growth, you have to put yourself in uncomfortable
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situations. And I just think I'm ready for
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it. And that's why I'm kind of doing
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all this stuff. And pressure makes diamonds.
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That's what they say. Pressure makes diamonds.
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What do you do when your back's up against the wall?
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You swing the hardest and either hit it or you miss it, right?
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Or obviously there's a little bit of in between.
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But yeah, you really just see what you're made out of.
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I think the best moments, the biggest moments, the coolest
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moments in sports, in life, is when the the most pressure is on
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you. Amazing things can happen.
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And so I figured this is the time let's start putting myself
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out there and see what happens. I know when you, whenever you
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put yourself out there, there's going to be critics, there's
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going to be criticism. I mean, honestly, social media
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is insane. Like the amount of impressions
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and, and people and that have just listened a little bit or
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seen clips of, of the podcast or whatever.
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It's super uncomfortable to think of how many people are
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watching or at least has have looked.
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And there is a ton of people who are like, I don't like this.
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This stinks. Who is he?
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Why does he think he could talk about this, that or the other?
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Lots of criticism out there and that's fine.
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That is what it is and it comes with the territory.
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And it's OK because if you don't do that, what, what is my goal?
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To just never, never try anything, never have big dreams,
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never put myself out there. That's not how I want to live my
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life. I want to try to go for
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something. And right now I feel like I'm in
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the process of going almost all in with running.
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If it doesn't work out, if, if I don't do things that I want to
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do or say I'm going to do or I get embarrassed or whatever, who
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cares? I have a dream.
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I got something that I want to go do that I could do that maybe
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I could do. I don't it's not even a
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guarantee. Like I have the the biggest of
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dreams. I there's no guarantees.
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There's a good chance that I don't even get close to what I'm
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aiming at. But it's like you never want to
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look back and say what if? So I'm going all in.
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People are going to criticize me.
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People are going to be against me.
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People are going to be like, oh, this guy, I'm going to line up.
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I'm going to try to beat him. There's going to be more people
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gunning after me. I don't care.
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I'm ready for it. I want all the pressure.
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And if I go bust or I hit a home run, I'm going to be thankful
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that I at least tried and put my all into something, gave
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everything I had. Because I've just been realizing
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all of these people that you see who are doing these crazy
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things, I don't think they're special.
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I don't think they're different. I think they just put themselves
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out there and they go for things.
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And a lot of times they're just working harder than you and
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they've been doing it for longer than you've been doing it.
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Like that is just the hard truth.
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But also they believe in themselves more and they don't
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care what other people think. They're willing to be vulnerable
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and put themselves out there. And I honestly, back a few years
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ago, I would have been one of the people like, oh, it must,
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you know, must be nice to XYZ have all this time or come from
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this sort of background or have X or have whatever.
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I'm I definitely was like that. But now I feel like I've been
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enlightened and I and I and I see anybody who are putting
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themselves out there or out of the norm, maybe getting
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criticism, but also getting lots of praise.
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And I am like, good, good on you.
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Like nice, good job. That is awesome.
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I don't care if I don't like you.
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I don't like what you're doing out there, but just somebody
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who's willing to go for it and be vulnerable and put themselves
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out there. Hats off.
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I respect the heck out of you now, because I know what it
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feels like. Only a little bit, but I know
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what it feels like. And I got a quote.
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I got a quote here. I want to read it.
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This this quote gets me fired up.
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The man. Is this the man in the arena?
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Yeah. The man in the arena is what
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it's called. Probably a lot of people notice
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this, but it's an awesome quote. It's a poem, I think.
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how
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the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have
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done better. The credit belongs to the man
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who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
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sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who airs and comes up
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short again and again. Because.
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Because there is. No effort without error or
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shortcoming, but who knows the greatest enthusiasms, the
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greatest devotions, Who spends himself in a worthy cause, who
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at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement?
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And who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
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daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those
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cold and timid souls who know neither, who know neither
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victory nor defeat. I kind of messed up the best
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line, but who know it, Let me read that one again at if he
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fails, at least he, he fails. Oh my gosh, let me read that one
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again. And at the worst, if he fails,
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at least he fails while daring greatly.
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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
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who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Oh my gosh, heart out of my chest beating.
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Everybody knows what it feels like when you really, really
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want something. When you give your all to
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something or or or and it doesn't work out.
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You're so you think it's going to work out.
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You know it's going to work out and then it doesn't.
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It's gut wrenching. It takes everything out of you.
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Now imagine you devote not just whatever you're thinking of your
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entire life, everything, sacrifice, hard work, slut,
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sweat, blood, tears, everything and it doesn't work out.
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Oh my God, I don't like that pain.
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I can't even imagine, but that's the worst that could happen and
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at least like that is so motivational.
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At least you know what it feels like to actually go for
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something all in. And so maybe I start the
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podcast. Nobody likes it, everyone talks
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smack. I start my run coaching.
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Nobody signs up. Nobody believes in me.
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I say I'm going to do XY and Z. And maybe none of these races
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pan out. If if that is the case, so be
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it. That's going to happen.
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But at least I tried. No one can say that I did not
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try. And so, yeah, that's that's how
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I feel about everything. If you got a big goal, if you
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got a big dream, you got to go for it.
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Don't make excuses because they say haters.
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The haters, the critics, anyone who's judging you and all of
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that hate and criticism that is actually mostly just self
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reflection or coming from a place of them having not having
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something that they want. You never meet a hater that's
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doing better than you right? Like nobody hates down on
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people. And that's, that's like a big
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quote, but I think it's, it's so true.
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And I think when I think back of like when I've had criticisms
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or, or those kind of thoughts about other people, it's just
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because I wasn't where I wanted to be.
23:24
And that's just a bad mindset that is negative energy.
23:29
And I don't want to be around those people.
23:31
I don't want to be like I want to be going in the direction of
23:38
my potential. And I think that negative stuff
23:41
can weigh you down. Making excuses weighs you down.
23:44
Must be nicing weighs you down. You got to get rid of all that
23:48
stuff or you're just putting putting your own negative
23:53
thoughts on you and you're just going to prevent your own self
23:57
discovery. And and we talked about like
24:01
perceived limits, right? Like I really do think I've been
24:05
told like, oh, you started running late, like it's
24:08
probably, you know, not really a great chance that you can get to
24:11
X status of runner. And I think that is just a
24:15
horrible mindset. I, I, I think the sky is truly
24:18
the limit and it all just goes into, are you willing to work
24:22
for it? Do you make daily actions
24:27
towards your goal and do keep up with that effort day in and day
24:31
out for years? And are you willing to have the
24:34
self belief when you're not getting things to keep putting
24:36
in that work for years and years and years to try to get to where
24:40
you want to be? That's I think that's where it
24:42
all comes down to. It doesn't come down to what you
24:43
have or like genetics or anything like that.
24:46
It just comes to how hard you're willing to work and how long
24:48
you're willing to work. And another quote that I wanted
24:52
to talk about that kind of ties in all this stuff is it's from
24:55
AJ Cole song. I love J.
24:57
Cole. I think J.
24:57
Cole is probably my one like art hype of artist that I always go
25:01
to for a big workout or a big run or something.
25:04
But and the offseason. That's the best album.
25:07
That is the best fire up album. But J.
25:10
Cole, the climb back at the beginning of the song goes.
25:12
It's like some like techno voice.
25:14
It's like, are you doing this work to facilitate growth or
25:18
become famous? What is more important getting
25:21
or letting go? And then it all goes into the
25:24
song. It's like beat drop and I
25:27
remember this song kind of hit me when I was first starting the
25:30
podcast and 1st like putting myself back out there.
25:33
Why am I doing this? Like why am I starting the
25:36
podcast? Why am I putting myself out
25:38
there? I think a lot of people when I
25:39
was like, Oh, I have a YouTube started making videos that like
25:42
what you're like the total anti social media guy.
25:45
And I think this was something that kind of hit home.
25:49
I do not want to be famous. No chance at all.
25:53
I, I, I do not want to be famous.
25:56
I'm not doing this for attention.
25:58
I really like to sit in the back, sit by myself, kind of do
26:01
my own thing most of the time. And that's really not it.
26:05
And I think I've had a little bit of internal battle like, oh,
26:09
this is in some senses, this is not what you would be doing if
26:13
you were being comfortable. But like I talked about, I am
26:17
trying to do this to put myself in uncomfortable positions and
26:22
to try to promote growth, facilitate growth, as Jay says.
26:32
And, and yeah, I'm really just trying to trying to push myself
26:37
to be better. I think if you just do the same
26:40
things to kind of like stay comfortable over and over and
26:43
over, you're not going to get to where you want to go.
26:45
And so I'm really trying to do this to put myself out there and
26:49
try to get to the next level of wherever I want to get to.
26:52
And I think that the quote, what is more important, getting or
26:56
letting go? I think letting go, it's, it's
27:00
like what we just talked about. You have to let go of what other
27:03
people think, Let go of what other people think is the right
27:07
path or what you should be doing.
27:09
I've gotten tons of comments about some of the things I'm
27:12
doing or, or, oh, you know, you need more balance or you, you
27:15
need to work. You need, you don't need to work
27:17
as hard. You don't need stress.
27:18
You need to take time off all these things.
27:20
I, I just, I do not think that that is what I need.
27:25
I think most people have a general path of how you should
27:29
live your life. And I am not most people.
27:32
I am not normal. I know this is true and I'm not
27:38
going to be doing what everyone else thinks I should be doing.
27:40
And I feel like that's almost a sign of I'm going in the right
27:43
direction. That's how one of the reasons
27:45
why I know that I'm going in the right direction and letting go
27:52
of feeling comfortable, letting go of distractions that are
27:55
holding me back. I really do think you can
27:58
control everything in your life. You just have to actively be
28:03
working towards it. And how many times, how many
28:06
hours are you on your phone? How many hours are you watching
28:08
TV? How many times are you being
28:10
lazy and didn't do this, this or this, which, oh, I didn't do, I
28:14
didn't clean, I didn't do that, I didn't do laundry.
28:16
I'll just do that some other time and then some other day
28:18
when you got to really you should be putting in the
28:20
training volume. Oh, I can't do this because I
28:22
have to go do XY or Z or all these errands.
28:25
It's just overtime. Everything that you're doing in
28:28
your life compounds and it starts with daily consistency
28:31
and letting go of what other people think and knowing your
28:37
path and then having your plan sticking to it no matter the
28:42
outcomes, no matter of what, if you know you're on the right
28:44
path, keep on that direction no matter what's happening.
28:48
And that's what I'm doing. That is what I'm doing.
28:51
I'm going for it. So some of those, some of those
28:54
goals, right, Like we talked about some of the goals that I
28:57
do have, some other goals that maybe I'll keep a little bit
28:59
closer. But that's really why I'm doing
29:01
all this and what I want to try to get out of this year.
29:06
Another last, another little quote here for the motivation.
29:10
This is Zac Bryant song I was listening to today.
29:13
Having the upper hand is a myth. You're only fighting.
29:17
Chance is too stubborn to quit. That's everything.
29:20
That is everything fall down 99 times, get up 100.
29:25
It sucks, but you have to keep doing it.
29:28
You have to just keep grinding no matter what.
29:31
If you believe in what you're doing and I think having some
29:35
success, loving what you're doing, being motivated, all of
29:39
those things are are kind of characteristics of being on that
29:43
right path. So even if you're not getting
29:45
the results that you want, if you're having those things,
29:47
you're still definitely on the right path.
29:51
So the Air Vibre race team, I applied to it.
29:55
I did not make it. And obviously after that rant,
29:59
you probably know why I wanted to apply.
30:01
I wanted to be around other really strong runners.
30:04
I wanted to kind of put myself out there more and I wanted to
30:08
start racing with the best of the best.
30:10
And that's why I applied. I actually, it was kind of like
30:15
a last minute on a whim, like I hadn't been planning to apply
30:17
for a while. I had just made my Instagram
30:20
again and it had popped up so good marketing on them.
30:24
But I was like, huh, maybe this is something that I want to,
30:26
that I want to do. And so I did it.
30:28
I was kind of on the table like I didn't know actually how I
30:32
felt about. I was like, oh, do I, It's going
30:34
to be something else. Like I have a lot on my plate.
30:36
It's going to be something else that's going to add to the
30:38
plate. It's going to be more pressure,
30:39
but I, I, I don't want to shy away from that anymore.
30:43
And so I was kind of on the fence.
30:44
Like I, I was obviously excited about it, but I was like, hmm, I
30:47
don't actually know what I want the outcome to be.
30:50
And so part of me was like, OK, yeah, you have, no, you have no
30:53
chance. You haven't been racing that
30:55
much and you've been off social media for, for so long like you
31:00
have, you have no chance. But another part of me was like,
31:05
well, I believe in myself. I believe in my technical
31:08
mountain skills, you know, all these local races I think I'm
31:12
competing for a top spot at and I think I should definitely be
31:16
on the team like so I was kind of split.
31:18
I didn't know if I was a locker, had no chance.
31:20
And it seems like I actually had no chance now looking back at
31:24
it. But yeah, I didn't make it.
31:28
And so I wasn't really sure totally how I felt about it.
31:31
Like, you know, something I was going to add kind of maybe some
31:34
pressure, add some stuff that I'm already got a busy year
31:36
going on anyway, you know, do I want to add this to the plate?
31:39
Do I not? But I applied and I figured,
31:42
well, when they say the results, I'll realize if I, if I how I
31:46
felt about it. And they put out the results
31:48
last night and I did not make it and I actually didn't, I was
31:53
not, I didn't feel any disappointment and I wasn't
31:57
actually upset after seeing the results.
32:01
I think after thinking about it a little bit, I, the emotions
32:05
that I was feeling were honestly one embarrassment just for kind
32:11
of putting myself out there a little bit in the application.
32:13
And then just them kind of looking at it, assessing it and
32:15
then being like, Nope, we don't, we don't, we don't think you're,
32:19
you're valuable enough or worth it.
32:23
And then two would just be kind of like chip on my shoulder,
32:25
like, OK, well, I, I don't actually need them at all.
32:29
Like I, my plan differs 0%. So I'm just going to still go
32:35
out there and do the things that they, that I said I was going to
32:37
do. And, and then we can see, you
32:40
know, it's just added motivation, maybe we'll call it.
32:42
So I think, yeah, embarrassment and motivation of the two
32:45
emotions that I was feeling after seeing the results.
32:49
And ultimately, I think, you know, I was talking about the
32:51
Jost and I was like, I really do think that it's just like
32:54
rejection, right? Like I put myself out there.
32:57
I said, I'm going to do these things here is kind of what I've
33:01
done. And and they basically assessed
33:05
you and they say, no, I don't think you're good enough or we
33:07
don't, we don't basically want you.
33:09
And that's just rejection. And it's purest.
33:12
And so obviously it's never like fun and yeah, I maybe just like
33:17
felt a little bit, I guess just embarrassed or vulnerable or
33:20
saying these things because in my, you know, in my head, I
33:23
totally see like, do I think I should have made the team?
33:26
No, if I should have made the team, I would have made the
33:29
team. Like I clearly was not what they
33:31
were looking for. So I'm, I'm definitely not being
33:34
like, oh, I should have been on that team at all.
33:36
Like I, I clearly shouldn't have been.
33:38
That was not my right path. And I'm I'm going to do my thing
33:43
because, you know, it's just, I'm not what they were looking
33:45
for clearly. But what I think about it is
33:52
like kind of was like, all right, so maybe the racing part
33:54
piece of it, like I haven't been racing.
33:56
So they want to see someone that has done a bunch of racing.
33:58
But I told them like I just started running recently, you
34:01
know, I plan to really put myself out there and start
34:03
racing now. And so I guess with no back
34:06
history, they're like, yeah, we don't really I guess believe
34:08
this guy. I guess they didn't, you know,
34:10
like we don't believe he's going to race that much because he
34:12
hasn't. So that's maybe one thing.
34:15
And then the other thing would be like the no social media.
34:17
It asks you like, what's your social media and how many
34:19
followers? And I, I, I proudly said I
34:24
started a podcast run mountain peaks.
34:26
We have about 100 followers and these the few, the proud.
34:32
And they probably just laughed at that because social media now
34:34
is like people have crazy followings.
34:37
So yeah, like I totally see why they didn't want to take me in
34:41
those things. And then just like the results,
34:44
like maybe like I just think I'm better than I am, right.
34:47
Or, you know, like other people don't agree with how how strong
34:52
of a mountain runner, ultra runner that I am.
34:55
And so that's the other one. That's the thing like self
34:57
belief. I'm totally always going to
34:58
believe myself over it. I mean, the other thing too is
35:01
the I so the team, it looks like there's seven women and four
35:05
men. So I don't know how many like
35:08
spots there were or if you know, if it was kind of a flexible.
35:12
They just want to take people of value.
35:14
It looked like there were a couple new guys.
35:16
So Ben Quantronimo, which who I was talking about, he's a
35:20
crusher. Not like when I saw his name, I
35:22
was like, Oh yeah, I don't. He should be.
35:23
He should be in over me for sure.
35:26
Just cuz like I talked about earlier, he's just someone that
35:28
I kind of like looked up to from afar.
35:30
Just think he's a super strong runner.
35:31
He always goes out and crushes. But like, he ran 1152 at
35:35
Kilkenny 50 and I ran 1141. So, you know, he did it I think
35:41
four or five years ago and I did it two years ago.
35:43
So it's like, all right. But then I'm kind of like, all
35:46
right, no, I know that I'm in the ballpark.
35:48
I know what my skills are. I just got to go out there and
35:52
show it and, and, and it won't be for Air VAIPA this year.
35:57
So, so yeah, that's how it panned out.
35:59
Like I'm actually feeling really good.
36:01
I think this is what I needed it.
36:02
I feels like I'm on the right path, but the Arrow vibe thing
36:07
didn't work out. I didn't hear back from them,
36:09
which was kind of a little bit, I don't know, a little
36:11
disappointing. I felt like they, I don't know
36:13
who knows how many applications that they got.
36:15
So if they have like 100 applications, it's like it's
36:18
hard to get back to people. But then I'm just posting a list
36:20
and not not hearing back from them at all.
36:22
It was a little bit weird I thought.
36:23
But we'll see if they get back to me and give any feedback or
36:27
whatever. Will I apply to their team in
36:30
the future? Like am I going to try for a
36:32
sponsor? Like I have no idea.
36:35
Like I, I do not know how my life is going to turn out,
36:39
especially with running stuff. But you know, so never say no,
36:42
never say yes, but I'm not looking like I don't really need
36:48
the sponsorship. I don't even know how a lot of
36:50
the sponsorship works. I think there's more money
36:52
getting into Truro running. But when you first starting
36:55
getting into that field, like I don't think it's that much.
36:57
You get a little bit of gear, you get a little bit of race
36:59
entries, that kind of thing, which is obviously would be
37:01
nice, but I'm not going to sell like I'm, I'm not going to, I
37:06
don't need just like external validation like we talked about
37:08
before by some company or some race organization that, that,
37:14
you know, I, I like Air Vipin in the White Mountain endurance
37:16
races are awesome. Love their races.
37:18
Still going to go to their races and support and run their races
37:21
and volunteer every year. But like, I don't really need
37:25
some company telling me that they think I'm valuable or
37:27
whatever. I'm just going to go show my
37:29
value. So listen to the podcast,
37:32
subscribe and yeah, if you want to run coach and go to my
37:35
website. But yeah, I'm just going to go
37:38
and do and, and do what I say I'm going to do.
37:41
And, and I'm not really looking for, I don't need anyone else's
37:44
approval essentially. Like I know my goals and I'm
37:47
just going to head down, keep working towards my goals.
37:53
So that was the Air Viper thing. Yeah, that's all.
37:57
That's that's all that's all that I have to say about that
38:00
part. Obviously wish the team the
38:02
best, like, you know, hopefully they all go out and crush, but I
38:07
will not be a part of that team. I have no jealousy, no envy, no
38:12
greed. Like all of those things will
38:14
destroy a man. I'm not feeling any of those
38:17
things like I'm just going to, I'm just motivated.
38:19
I'm going to go and do what I'm going to do regardless.
38:22
So that's what how I feel about the whole thing.
38:25
But all right, that was enough race talk, motivation talk.
38:31
But OK, we're not going to do the elf thing.
38:33
Maybe that's another day. Brownsville Deer Pantry, just go
38:36
look at the YouTube channel. It's super fun.
38:38
I don't know, it's super relaxing to watch at night.
38:41
Go look at the Brownsville Deer Pantry between the hours of 3:00
38:45
PM and 6:00 PM and just see what see what it's about.
38:50
And then the Stranger Things update.
38:53
So I'm going to do a little Stranger Things talk season 3.
38:58
I wasn't a huge fan of season 3, was not a huge fan of season 3.
39:03
I thought there was too much kind of teenage kid drama, you
39:09
know, teenage romance drama. The bowling stuff in in Stranger
39:13
Things is insane. It's not uncomfortable to watch.
39:16
Don't like all this stuff, a lot of teenage stuff.
39:19
And Hopper was kind of being an ass at the beginning of the the
39:24
season, like for no reason. You're kind of like, obviously
39:26
he has his problems, but there was a lot of and then and then
39:30
obviously it gets good. Like I, I still loved all the
39:33
episodes, but that was kind of season 3.
39:36
It didn't lose me a little bit, but it was like, all right,
39:38
we're getting through some of the stuff, but it was the key.
39:41
So for anyone who's like at season 5, it was the kids.
39:45
So the new the New Girl at the Dairy scoop, I'm forgetting her
39:49
name because I didn't write it down, but the New Girl, we like
39:53
the New Girl. They find out about the Russians
39:55
under the mall. They go in there and Stranger
39:58
Things. It's actually getting more
40:00
realistic. Like when I first started
40:02
watching it, it was very much oh these.
40:06
Alien kind of things aren't really really it was kind of
40:08
like a men in Black, like, oh, this isn't really real stuff.
40:11
Like it's all kind of make believe.
40:12
It wasn't really scary, but it's starting to get more of like
40:15
horror film kind of scary. And but there's still a little
40:19
bit of like the timing in so many scenes, like perfect, Like
40:22
how do they make that out of this?
40:24
How do they do that? TV timing is perfect.
40:26
And then the Russians, like, it's so funny when you have
40:30
Lucas's younger sister, Henderson, and then Steve, like
40:35
they break in and then the girl break into the Russian thing and
40:39
there's like Russians walking around anywhere and they're just
40:42
sneaking behind crates, like not being seen.
40:44
It's like, all right, what, what are we doing here?
40:47
But it was fun. The Russian thing is like, what
40:50
are they doing down there? All these things.
40:52
And then obviously the mind flare comes, Billy gets, I mean,
40:56
Billy was about to meet up with Missus Wheeler, although she
41:00
didn't go. And then he gets mind flared.
41:02
He's like the king of the mind flare, which again, I think
41:06
Billy's role, he just played the role really, really well.
41:09
But the mind flower, they start taking bodies, building this
41:12
army. It's scary.
41:14
Billy grabs a hole, L takes her powers, but they still end up
41:18
beating the mind flare because Joyce and Hopper close the gate
41:23
and then Billy. Elle loses her powers, Billy
41:27
saves the day, he beats the mind, Flair let's the kids run
41:31
free, and then Hopper. Does he die at the end?
41:34
Who's the American and the Russian prison?
41:37
It ended pretty good, but we'll talk a little bit more about
41:40
season season 4. So on season 4, just a few of
41:44
the items that I think about in season 4.
41:46
The bullying is sad. They're being really mean to
41:48
Elle. I don't like it.
41:51
Jonathan and Nancy's relationship falling apart and
41:53
then Nancy and Steve's relationship coming back
41:56
together. I dislike it.
41:59
I think they're doing Jonathan dirty.
42:00
He's just out West trying to protect Will and Elle and and
42:05
Nancy and and Steve are getting a little bit schmitten.
42:09
Nancy's getting too schmitten. And Jonathan is still the good
42:12
guy. I mean, Steve is very brave too.
42:14
We do really like Steve a lot, but I don't like their
42:17
relationship. That's a development.
42:20
We'll see what happens. I'm disapproving of Eddie
42:23
Munson. I actually he's a little bit out
42:26
there. I didn't like that they wouldn't
42:27
just reschedule the Hellfire Club meeting for after the
42:32
basketball game so Lucas could go.
42:33
But aside from that, I do like Eddie's character.
42:36
I like his hair. I he's kind of just a little bit
42:40
of a bad boy after rules kind of person and he's kind of funny
42:46
and so I do kind of like him. But everyone obviously is
42:48
hunting him right now and we just want Eddie's name to be
42:52
cleared so bad. We want one of these murders not
42:54
really to happen, but to happen when Eddie's not involved.
42:57
But obviously it's just not how it goes.
43:00
So everyone's manhunting Eddie right now for no reason.
43:03
This dude is terrified. He is terrified and they're just
43:08
hunting him down. The basketball guy sucks.
43:11
I don't know why every speech that he gives has to be a locker
43:15
room speech. Kind of pisses me off.
43:17
I think he's trying to do good, but I think he should.
43:20
I just dislike him. And they're on the last episode.
43:26
So the biggest shocker from this season.
43:29
Oh, and then the the Russian prison hops trying to get out of
43:32
prison. He sent the message to Joyce and
43:35
then the Russian spy comes in. And then this was the biggest
43:40
jaw-dropping moment of me for Stranger Things.
43:42
Just season. Hopper's in Russian prison and
43:48
Joyce thinks everyone thinks Hopper's dead.
43:51
Joyce gets a little doll in the mail and she's like, I got this
43:54
doll from from Russia. She calls up Murray the the spy
43:59
guy. I call him the Russian guy,
44:00
although he's not Russian. He just knows Russia and he's a
44:02
spy. But he calls Murray and Murray's
44:05
thinking about it. I love Murray, by the way.
44:07
But Murray's thinking about it was like, drop the doll, drop
44:09
something heavy on the doll. So they drop something heavy on
44:12
the doll and there's a note in it.
44:14
Hopper still alive. We can arrange to meet to get
44:17
Hopper to you. And so they go for it.
44:21
And obviously it's a long winded plan.
44:23
Are they set running into a trap?
44:25
Is it going to work? Hopper's working with the
44:27
guards. So it turns out the plan is
44:29
true. But how is Hopper going to get
44:31
out? Is it going to work?
44:32
Like he's got to escape this crazy intense Russian, Russian
44:35
prison. And so you just don't know.
44:38
But they set up, they got this guy who's supposed to meet him.
44:42
And Hopper's got this plan. He's going to get out X days.
44:46
So he has this guy break his ankles.
44:48
He's going to escape the cuffs. And they got this plan and it's
44:51
a one in a million plan. But he starts doing the plan and
44:55
Hopper escapes. He he breaks, he gets someone in
44:59
the shed. He beats a bunch of Russian
45:01
guys. He jumps on the top of the shed.
45:03
He gets a snowmobile. He goes, he finds the church, he
45:05
finds the peanut butter and he's safe.
45:07
Oh my God, this plan is going to work.
45:09
Hopper is alive. Now these two just need to go
45:12
find the the Alaska hell plane guy and get him over to Russia.
45:17
So they meet this guy Yuri. And at first Yuri was a top
45:22
three character for me. One of my favorite characters.
45:25
When they meet Yuri won't do the elf re enactment.
45:27
This is my favorite Yuri scene. Winona and Murray meet like some
45:34
warehouse where they're supposed to meet the guy.
45:36
And it's kind of like some ominous music because they're
45:39
like, is this a setup? Oh, oh, we don't know.
45:42
And then a plane door opens and they're like, oh, my gosh.
45:45
And then some guy with a big, you know, welding mask goes, who
45:49
are you? And they're like, we're looking
45:52
for Yuri. And the guys like, why do you
45:56
want to see Yuri? And they're like, it's kind of
46:00
secret because I don't know if Yuri knows that they're breaking
46:03
somebody out. It's the other guys that like
46:06
some random person, like it's kind of a secret.
46:09
And he's like, ah, well, you're a day late.
46:12
Yuri, you see this plane? It was like a damaged plane.
46:16
Yuri take this plane to go see Polar bear.
46:19
When he gets there, Polar bear break into the plane and grab
46:23
Yuri from the cockpit and kill him.
46:26
And and they're like, Oh my God, and the guys like, and they take
46:31
you to heart. They destroy his heart.
46:33
Oh no, no, they stab his heart with a bear claw.
46:37
And they're like, Oh my God. And then you're just goes I got
46:43
you. I am Yuri and they're like,
46:46
what? They're like I got you good.
46:49
I am Yuri. And then who are you is like I'm
46:53
Winona and I'm Murray and he's like, oh, Yuri Muri, Yuri Muri
46:58
haha, see, and they're like, who is this guy?
47:01
So and he's cracking jokes at the beginning.
47:03
I love Yuri, but then obviously the plan works out.
47:09
Yuri is going to fly into. He's flying them to Russia.
47:13
And then basically you get a call, get the the the the prison
47:19
guy gets a call on the phone and like what, Yuri, what are you
47:22
doing calling me? This is insane.
47:24
This guy is actually from Game of Thrones, a faceless man who I
47:27
was like, who is this voice? Who do I remember this voice
47:29
from? He was the faceless man.
47:32
But yeah, he calls from the phone and and he's like, why you
47:38
cannot be calling me here? This is stupid.
47:39
What is going on? He's like, we had a change of
47:41
plans and you're like, what happened?
47:43
He's like, well, I got your American friends to Russia.
47:47
But I figure you know what is better than $40,000?
47:52
Selling to Americans, to traders, to the Russia and
47:57
snitching out a a snitch guard. So sorry, but I turned you all
48:05
in bye bye. And I jaw-dropping.
48:10
So he takes these two prisoner. They they rush into the church
48:14
that hops in eating peanut butter.
48:16
They get hopped and then they get the guard that was trying to
48:19
break them out and it's like, Oh my gosh, trying to get hop out
48:24
the whole plan. Double, triple, quadruple
48:27
backstabbing. It was heartbreaking so F Yuri,
48:31
but also I still like Yuri's coming back in my mind, but I
48:35
was so pissed like that pissed me off so much.
48:38
But then obviously right now they kind of escaped because
48:42
Hopper beat the the little upside down creature and they
48:46
broke out TV timing. Murray and Joyce go in there.
48:50
Joyce, that's her name. Joyce go in there and they break
48:54
out and right now season and then the Elle returns to the
49:01
desert and they find Papa who I don't know how Papa's still
49:04
alive. We don't know.
49:05
I thought he was dead but he's still alive.
49:07
Trying to get Elle her powers back.
49:09
They just got her powers back and she's going to save the day
49:13
in season in the last episode and the last episode it is a 2
49:21
1/2 hour episode shout out Stranger Things.
49:26
I feel like most finales, maybe the Bay hit a little bit longer,
49:30
but 2 1/2 hours, it's like I got to watch a movie right now.
49:35
So going to watch that. We'll see what happens at the
49:37
end of Stranger Things Season 4, but that's what's going on.
49:41
That's where I'm at. I have no idea what's happened
49:43
to Stranger Things 5, but we will see.
49:47
I have no idea how it's going to end.
49:49
Like we just learned about 1 being in the Upside Down.
49:52
He's like the guy who's controlling everything.
49:54
Vecna. I literally woke up in the
49:56
middle of night. The other dream, thinking about
49:58
middle of night, thinking about Vecna.
50:00
Like, I need to get over Stranger Things so I can start
50:02
sleeping better again. But yeah, that was the season 4
50:07
recap. And all right, right now my top
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three favorite characters, Dustin Henderson.
50:14
He is so funny. Shit, he is so funny.
50:17
I just think he's always hilarious.
50:19
He's got good time with things and he throws in some jokes.
50:22
I like Dustin. Steve is a is probably a top
50:25
three character. I can't believe it forgot
50:27
Steve's name at the beginning, but Steve, we like Steve so
50:30
brave is just willing to just go.
50:33
We love Steve. And then Yuri.
50:37
No, you're not in the top three, but I do think Yuri is so funny.
50:40
He's still cracking jokes. But I think probably, obviously
50:44
Elle is probably in there. Like Elle is the best when she
50:47
comes back kicking butt. Oh my God, the best feeling.
50:50
And then Murray. I really like Murray.
50:53
I think a lot of times Murray with this black belt karate
50:56
thing, he's like, I don't know, kind of a goof sometimes, but
51:02
he's kind of a weirdo. But I think he is living like, I
51:05
think he's scared a lot. But I think he loves he loves
51:09
everything, breaking codes, breaking into places.
51:12
He looks like he's scared. He doesn't want to do this.
51:14
We can't go in there, Joyce. But I do think he loves it and I
51:17
think he's funny. He had a pretty good year
51:19
impersonation when they were going into the prison.
51:21
But those are my top three characters.
51:23
Maybe we'll do it after we'll eventually do a full breakdown
51:28
of all the characters, all the different things that I like
51:30
about Stranger Things. But but yeah, that's that was
51:37
the Stranger Things updates and that's what we got for this
51:39
week. Yeah, this week we did have to
51:44
cut some things out, not because actually I didn't say anything
51:46
bad, but just because it got a little bit rambly this week.
51:48
But appreciate everybody listening.
51:51
We got, I don't think this next week, but the week after that,
51:54
hoping to have a guest on which will be exciting and lots of so
51:59
the first lots of races this year.
52:01
So I've compiled the list of all the races, the ultra races in
52:05
New England and some of the shorter distance mountain races.
52:08
And every week at the end of the episode, I think I'm going to
52:11
put in race results segments. And so starting next week, we're
52:16
going to have race results segments in there was the Cobbs
52:20
Cook Winter 20 K got delayed until next weekend, which was
52:25
the only one that was happening on the 1st today.
52:29
The Gills fat Ass 50K, which is now, which just got taken over
52:35
by TARC. And I think they're calling it
52:37
some sort of what are they calling it?
52:40
I think I have it here. Hold on.
52:47
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I may have to cut this bark
52:49
through cut, cut, cut. OK.
52:51
The yeah, Gills Athletic Club Faddis 50K, which would takes
52:53
place today on the 3rd is now the Tark Yeti Trail Trot 50K.
53:00
And so next week we'll report on the results on that because I
53:03
don't know if they're out yet. And then we'll just start doing
53:06
race results, just reporting on all the races.
53:10
And yeah, we'll do the regularly scheduled program weekly podcast
53:13
this year. And there's a there's a lot of,
53:16
there's a lot of things that I'm excited for this year.
53:18
So, and the podcast, one of them.
53:21
Oh, also, yeah. So I mentioned it a little bit
53:23
and I've mentioned it a couple times, but I am officially, I've
53:26
launched my, my website, updated my website.
53:30
I'm officially offering coaching services to anyone who's
53:34
interested. So Mountain Ultra Trail, if
53:37
you're looking for a coach, my one of my first years into ultra
53:40
running, I coach really helped me out kind of get my brain on
53:44
the training and and learned a bunch of things.
53:46
And it would I am a certified ultra running coach.
53:49
I know how to get faster. I know how to train for the
53:52
mountain stuff. So if you're interested in
53:54
coaching, go to my website, reach out, send me a message.
53:57
And yeah, I'm excited for my running this year.
54:00
I'm excited for the Northeast Trail Races FKTS this year,
54:07
excited about a lot of things. So as always, thank you for
54:11
listening, appreciate the support and we will see you next
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week. Peace.