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Maine & Moosehead Lake, Extreme Activites, Tracking Sleep, Favorite Chips - Ep.25 · Run Mountain Peaks

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OK, welcome back to another episode of Run Mountain Peaks.
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Today's going to be a little bit different of an episode.
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I just got back from a long weekend up in northern Maine,
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did a little trip my friends to Lake Moosehead and the biggest
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lake in Maine. And initially I was going to try
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to do like a little bit of maybe filming some podcast stuff
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there, kind of stitch something fun or cool or different
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together, but it did not really work out.
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I think like trips in general and this trip like there's just
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so much going on, so busy. It's just like kind of it was
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hard. It's already got enough stuff
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doing, doing all the different things, you know, seeing people
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I haven't seen for a while. So didn't pull.
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There's going to be no direct content or videos from that
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trip, but out of inspiration, we're going to do a full Maine,
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Northern Maine Lake Moosehead Trip Stories podcast today.
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So it's going to be we're going to do a little bit of running.
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We have some running topics, but it's going to be a lot of kind
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of Maine stories. So growing up, we had a little
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camp in central Maine. I went to school at the
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University of Maine, so I met all of these guys and I spent a
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good amount of time up at Moosehead on our annual trip
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there. So we got a lot of stories.
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It's going to be a deep dive into all things Maine.
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Shut up, Maine. But so we'll do all that stuff.
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We're going to mix in a little bit of extreme sports talk
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because I was, I was kind of thinking back some of my main
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memories and some extreme sports got brought up.
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So we'll talk about that. And then I just got a, a sleep
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tracker. So I've been tracking my sleep
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every night, getting into some of those metrics.
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So I am going to do a little bit of a training sleep metrics
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talk, how that's been going for me.
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We're going to bring back the motivational minute.
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Haven't done a little bit of motivation in a while.
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So we'll do some motivation stuff.
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And then we're going to do my top three favorite chips.
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We're going to do a chip talk. I think the last ranking we did
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was a fruit ranking. And I had, yeah, I think that
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went, I think that went fine. But I every anytime I do it a
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ranking, I'm like just I question myself and I have to
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just stand, you know, whatever I say, it's going to be the final.
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So we'll do that. And yeah, we're going to talk
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about some like running mountain stuff in Maine.
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And I hug Katahdin when I went up to college, so and there's
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some awesome mountains around the Moosehead area that I
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always, I'm kind of looking at Mount Keneo's awesome.
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So we're going to do some mountain talk, some main talk,
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some fun stuff. So it should be a good episode.
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Stick with us. And before we get started, we
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are going to do another 62nd training tip.
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This tip is going to be revolving around cooling.
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Everyone knows that cooling can help your output in running, you
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know, specifically during races. But I also use cooling during my
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speed workouts, especially if I'm indoors.
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Like if you're on a treadmill or a Stairmaster doing a workout,
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it's like so easy to just have some cooling with you.
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So what I do to cool me off when I'm doing hard interval workouts
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is just bring a bag, a Ziploc bag, sandwich bag of ice.
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If I leave the house and I'm going to the gym to do a workout
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and I don't have my ice, I will go back and or stop at a gas
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station to get ice because I feel like it just helps me get a
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little more out of myself during the workouts when they're really
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hard. When you, when you fill it up at
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the beginning, it's not going to be super melty.
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It's going to kind of feel a little rigid.
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But after like 10 or 15 minutes of kind of touching it, using it
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during your workout, it will melt a little bit and it starts
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kind of like feeling it's contorts to your body almost.
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And I rub it on my hands, my face, my neck, my arms, my
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stomach, anywhere that seems kind of hot, like just trying to
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cool your body down. I just rub myself with a bag of
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ice at the gym and at Planet Fitness and most people stare at
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me. But it's OK 'cause I'm getting
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gains. So that was the tip today.
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If you have any questions, like always, go to
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runmountainpeaks.com and you can just send me a message there.
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But OK, getting into the main talk.
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So I guess I'll do like a brief history of my main roots.
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So I grew up in in Southern New Hampshire, but growing up, we
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had a little camp in central Maine that that I would go to a
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couple times a year. And so that was kind of good
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exposure. Central Maine is very rural, but
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it was a cool place. I always loved going up there.
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And then for college I went to University of Maine, I went to
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Orono. And so I lived in Maine for
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three years, I mean for the majority of three years when I
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was going to school there. So I got to see a lot of Maine.
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And thinking back, I actually, I don't think I fully utilized
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like living in Maine. Obviously you're going to
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college different priorities, like I hadn't gotten to hiking
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as much. I still like getting outdoors
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and doing some stuff around that, you know, around around
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the campus and stuff. But I wasn't like I only went to
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Katahdin once. I didn't, I didn't fully, I
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wasn't into the outdoor hiking running scene yet, which is
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fine. I'm in college.
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You know, I, I was there for school, did a lot of school, did
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a lot of sports, intermeal stuff.
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But I think just the the remoteness, the outdoors of
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Maine is just so awesome. Didn't fully get out in there,
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but I still had a good experience.
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So yeah, basically what I'm trying to say is I I wasn't
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doing any of this hiking, running stuff on trails, so I
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didn't explore many of the trails around there.
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The campus on Orono had a bunch of trail systems that I like to
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just go on like walks for. I really like doing that and did
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a little bit of like fishing around there.
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Did some hunting in central Maine, like by our camp, but
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that's the extent of my outdoor experience there.
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So a little bit of a miss, but you know, I think I, I love
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getting up to northern Maine. So I get back there.
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I, I'm going to try to, in the future get back there more.
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But one of the stories that I did want to tell is before going
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to college at U Maine, they had an orientation week up at U
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Maine. So it was just like, I think an
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easy way to kind of meet people 'cause I didn't really know
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anyone. I knew a couple people from my,
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my hometown that were going to U Maine.
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I wasn't super close with them, with them hung on with them,
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maybe a little bit on campus, but I didn't really know anyone.
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This was kind of like me doing my own thing.
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So I went to this orientation to kind of meet people and it was
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an outdoor adventure weekend with miscellaneous activities
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that you could choose. So the ones that I choose, I
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think that the base camp, we we camped up in Baxter State Parks
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that was kind of like the base camp.
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And then the activities that I choose were I hike Katahdin, I
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did whitewater rafting and then maybe there was one more like
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canoeing or something. No, it wasn't canoeing, but I
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can't really remember. But the two I remember were the
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whitewater rafting in the, the Katahdin.
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So so that I went on that trip and it was like a cool way to
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meet people. And I met a few people there and
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just kind of like, you know, got my toe into like, you don't know
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anyone. You, you don't know anyone here.
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You have to make friends. And so that was one of my first,
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I would say, what year was that? I just was looking at my grid
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application sheet and I think I had a few 4000 footers, like
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maybe one or two in 2015, 2016. But Kitato was probably like my
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biggest hike to date. It was definitely like a big
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deal when I did it. And I, I mean, it was cool.
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I remember, that's what I remember.
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I remember it being cool. I remember I wanted to do the
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knife's edge, but there was no like there was only a handful of
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people or like, I don't know, there were a bunch of groups
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that you got to got to sign up for and like it was already full
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or something. So I couldn't do the knife's
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edge, but I hiked Katahdin. I'm sure I don't even know the
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route. Like I haven't been up to that
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area that well. I know we kind of went up this
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steep area and then Katahdin was off to over my right shoulder
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way in the distance. So that's if, if you guys can
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can put that together, that's the trail I went up.
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And I one of the things I do remember that hike was I don't
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even remember being like how strenuous it was if I was tired,
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how long it took. No recollection of that.
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But I do remember getting up above tree line and seeing
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Katahdin in the distance and being like, there's zero chance
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we get there today. Like there's no way we get there
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guys. It's so far away, which I think
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that's something actually I've gotten a little bit better at.
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But when you when you see something in the distance, like
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when you see something a mile of way, a mountain a mile away, a
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peak a mile away, it looks so far like that's going to take
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you so long. And it never really takes as
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long as it looks. I don't know.
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I mean, just like running a mile doesn't take super long.
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Obviously on trail it's going to take a little bit longer with
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gain, but in 15 minutes you could be there.
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And so that's a little perspective.
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But I had no trail experience, so I was like that we should
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just pack it in guys because we ain't getting there.
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But we got there. Dig Katahdin.
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That was cool. I remember that night we they
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must have supplied tents because there was a bunch of us guys
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sleeping in one tent. I didn't know these guys.
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We're all slipping in a tent we hiked at and we're probably like
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dirty, I don't know, like I'm sure there were showers, but we
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probably weren't like the cleanest.
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And I remember it was super hot, super humid, muggy.
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And at one point in the night we just like, I was like, I think
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we were all kind of like, what are we doing right now?
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And we just had the, the giggles basically.
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Like we could not stop laughing about like how crazy, like
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stupid this situation was. Like it was so hot and
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uncomfortable and you had no space.
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And I'm not like super big into like tenting out and I don't
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sleep good out in the outdoors like that.
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So I was kind of like out of my comfort zone.
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And yeah, I just remember that night being like, I, I, I needed
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to be morning so I can get out of this tent.
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That's why I remember there. And then the, the last day of
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the trip, we did white water rafting and I wish I remembered
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the river that we did the white water rafting for.
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I mean, it was before the fall semester.
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So it was like late summer. I, I forget the river, but it
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was low. Basically it was low.
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And the whitewater rafting, they kind of talk it up as to being
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like this crazy thing, like super.
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And this is the start of the extreme sports talk.
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They kind of talk it up as being like this crazy, like people are
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falling off, you know, keep your legs up, you put your leg down,
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you get caught, you could die. And I'm sure a lot of white
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water rafting is like that. I'm sure we didn't hit it at a
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good time, but I remember being very underwhelmed.
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I wasn't even close to getting thrown off the boat.
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There were like 2 little sections that were maybe a
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little bit of white water and the rest was like fairly smooth
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going. I think one person fell in and I
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think they wanted to fall in. I'm so I'm just going to chalk
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it up to a bad time of year because some of those like I do
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watch whitewater or not watch, but I've seen some stuff where
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it is like the people in kayaks are going down crazy rivers,
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high water. It's it is insane and water is
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scary. Water is very, very scary.
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I feel like just like swimming a little bit in rivers and even
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oceans too, and just spending time and like seeing some of
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there's a big falls, Wildcat falls where near where I kind of
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grew up. And when that when it rains a
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lot and the water's pumping it like it is so scary.
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The amount of volume and force that water has so you don't mess
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with water. But on that day, I it was not
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scary. But yeah.
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So then that kind of got me thinking about extreme sports.
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I was thinking about what extreme sports or I don't know,
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is that an extreme sport or extreme activity maybe is the
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better word. What extreme activities have I
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done and how would I rank them? So this is kind of like another
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mini ranking in this episode, but whitewater rafting, I think
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it's what was the list I have over here.
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I think it is for. Yeah.
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No, whitewater rafting is for that.
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Was these the lowest extreme sport that I've done in my
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experience. That's going to be #4 #3 And I
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guess I'll just give you give you guys all this.
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I've gone whitewater rafting, skydiving, ziplining, where I
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throw that in there and then parasailing.
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So I feel like growing up, we all, my parents are pretty good
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about like taking us on kind of activities like that.
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And so I've kind of like done all those things with the, the,
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the skydiving was kind of on my own doing.
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But yeah, those are the activities.
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I think white water rafting is still going to be 4 for me #3
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surprisingly is going to be parasailing.
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We've gone parasailing a couple times at the Cape at Cape Cod
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and it's pretty cool. You go out over to Cape Cod Bay
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and you can see the whole like the top of the arm on the Cape.
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If you can see that, you can kind of like you go all around
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this area. So it's like you can see lots of
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the island. You can see the whole curve.
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It's very cool. And at first you're kind of
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looking at the the setup and you're thinking like, this is
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just like some guy with a boat and he bought some rope and he
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has a Paris. Like this is not, this doesn't
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seem there are no safety standards.
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You know, it's, I'm sure there are, I'm sure.
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But but like, I don't remember. Like it was kind of like, all
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right, who's up first? And they just click in, then you
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go. So it was not like it doesn't
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feel super safe when you start. But yeah, once you get going,
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basically the boat just goes and it pulls you up very high.
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And then once you hit the maximum height or whatever,
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you're pretty much good. But when when it's it's
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shocking, when you get up to the height and parasailing, you
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would think it's kind of like an airplane or like of a car.
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You roll the window down, it's going fit 30 or 60 or whatever
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miles an hour. It's very kind of like loud and
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windy. Every time I've gone
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parasailing, it's like you're in a movie.
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It's like the opening scene of a movie.
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You know, when they do that big back in the day when they did
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that big like drone shot before we had drums.
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So it must have been just been cinematic.
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And it's just like quiet with like a little bit of music, like
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motivational music and you're just going over the skyline.
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The sun's coming up. It kind of just like that very
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quiet, very picturesque, very is this a green screen and and
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that's it. I wouldn't.
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So it's not really like super extreme.
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I would say, I guess landing on the boat back when you're
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getting reeled in is a little bit extreme, but it doesn't seem
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super extreme and it seems pretty safe.
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If you go, it's pretty much just like a swing.
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Like you know, when you went to like a like a Six Flags or a
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canopy Lake Park and they had the swing ride, it's pretty much
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just the same mechanism as a swing ride.
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You get a bar over you, you get a strap and you're kind of good.
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So I think the system is good. But if you're kind of like one
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of those kids that kind of like just like squirm or like my
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dwarf ham, so you just you just like push his face through cage
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threw all the cages we bought and he would just get out.
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If you're kind of like a squirmy little kid that just like pushes
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the boundaries of like confinement equipment, I feel
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like you just slip out, you know, But if you're not messing
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around like that, it's fairly safe.
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You're just strapped in and you're chilling.
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And if you let's just say like the one fears, like what if we
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get detached from this boat? You just glide down because I
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think the boat is pulling you, but the whole para sail
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mechanism still works. So really the only I guess, I
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guess if the para sail itself got messed up, you could you
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could just start plummeting. Yeah, I guess that would be the
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one thing. But it it doesn't seem, it seems
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like there's kind of safety. You know, there's a backup plan,
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there's a Plan B. If you get detached, you're
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going to float down. Nice.
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And, and I think people have actually done this in, in
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different places. Cape Cod is notorious for their
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Gray white sharks now. So that's maybe like one thing,
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Like how what, how much time do I have between the parasail
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entering Cape Cod Bay and the boat tracking us down?
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I would assume that the boat is fast enough to just get there.
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And it's Oh my God, we're so sorry.
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I can't believe that happened. I'm so glad you're safe.
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We're going to give your money back.
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But who knows? A strong wind, what actually
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would happen? If you're in the para sail and
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the end of Cape Cod is very narrow, It's only a few miles
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across. I love running in Cape Cod in
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the summer because you run to the Oceanside beach and they go
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to the Bayside. But what if you get a strong
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wind, some sort of some sort of wind, a strong wind, and it
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takes you across the island to the Oceanside, then you're
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screwed because there's seals over there and there's sharks
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over there. So you don't want that.
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If you go out to the Bay, like the middle of the Bay, Me and my
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dad, we used to go fishing out in the middle of the Bay and
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it's shocking. Those are big waters out there.
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So who knows, but overall, I think parasailing is is fairly
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mild and it's very cool. It's a good experience ever to
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go do it #2 is going to be ziplining as far as extreme and
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I don't know is ziplining seems a little bit more of like your
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adventure is chosen for you because the lot you know, you
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just go on this line and everyone does the same line.
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You have a different course or whatever.
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But the thing I I think about ziplining is you can't a lot of
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the times, one time, 1 zip line, I've only been a couple times,
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it was foggy because you go to the top of the mountain.
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It might have been like Dunstock or something.
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You go to the top of the mountain and it's foggy and you
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just have to trust that there's nothing, you know, over the drop
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of the zip line. You have to just trust that the
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trail is cleared for you. Like you kind of you get a
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feeling of like, oh man, I'm ripping down this thing.
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I hope there's not just like a log here for some reason today.
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That is a little bit of a scary thought.
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And I remember if one guy from high school, yeah, one guy from
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high school, I think he broke his ankle actually on a zip
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line. He was like a basketball player,
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very, very big guy, like 6, whatever.
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And I think he hit his ankle on a on a zip line in a broke it.
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So, so that's why I think zip line is a little bit more
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extreme. I don't think you have control.
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I guess you probably do have brakes, but come on, you don't
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want to hit this. Yeah, I guess you do want to hit
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the brakes. But it yeah, it just feels like
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a little bit of like you you're putting your faith that there's
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no trees around, even though you're bobbing and weaving
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through all these trees, which is like, I'm sure these guys
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clear at every whatever, but who knows?
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In the sky on a parasail, you just like there's nothing in the
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way. Bird maybe.
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No, no bird. There's nothing up there.
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And then last obviously is skydiving.
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So yeah, when skydiving once, definitely the most extreme.
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I mean, you're jumping out of a plane.
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So it's just all the elements are there to be super extreme.
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One thing that I remember from the skydiving, you're in a
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plane, you're strapped to. I was strapped to an unknown man
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that I didn't know, like you're in his crotch kind of thing,
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which is always just like it puts you at a little bit or who
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knows for me, you know, I don't think it's anyone's comfortable
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doing that. Like it puts you in a weird pit
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situation where you're like you're throwing off your
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comfort. You're in a plane.
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What's going on? So I was not comfortable even
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though, although those people are very nice and they try to
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like calm you down. It's going to be cool.
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Done this a million times. This is my 2 millionth jump
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whatever. So but but you're in a a plane
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that it's like a plane in a movie.
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There's no seats, there's nothing in it.
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It's just like a bench. And the whole, I don't know what
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is it called the cockpit? No, what's the, not the cockpit
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like the main thing of the, the plane, you're just, it's just a
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bench and everyone's lined up and there's nothing else in the
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plane. And once our people, people
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start jumping out, I, I remember having a little bit of a weird
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feeling being like it felt like I almost had to get out of the
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plane. Like I was nervous to jump, but
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the plane like people are getting out.
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There's nothing in it. And I don't, I'm like, wait, is
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this plane even functional? Is this plane able to land?
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Like I think I have to get off this plane.
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It's going down, like kind of thing.
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I don't know why. So I remember that like being a
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feeling which I didn't expect. And then, yeah, once you jump,
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you're just like, you're just in it and you're just like, you
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know, in your head. It's like crazy, the adrenaline,
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all the stuff. Once you're falling for like
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3045 seconds, that's when you start thinking, all right, let's
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hope this thing opens right. You know that obviously they
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have a couple packs or whatever, but you're just relying on that
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thing to to open up. And then once it opens up, it's
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kind of like the parasailing. You're like, you're pretty good.
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Someone's steering out when that feels even like a little bit
21:07
easier and, and it feels fairly safe.
21:11
So, so I would say the skydiving is the most extreme.
21:14
I I wouldn't do it again. Like maybe I'm not really like,
21:19
I guess I'm not an adrenaline junkie.
21:21
I mean, maybe in some ways I am, but Nah, no, I would call myself
21:24
an adrenaline junkly, a junkie. I don't need to chase that
21:27
adrenaline again. I'll say that it made you feel
21:30
weird. Like I remember my, my, I had a
21:32
little bit of a headache and your stomach kind of hurts just
21:35
because you go from such high elevation to such low so
21:37
quickly. The pressure in your head,
21:39
everything gets messed up. So I remember feeling kind of
21:42
sick after and and that was it. But I was happy to hit the
21:46
ground. I had some, they took a video of
21:48
everybody that I had a video like on our old phone or
21:51
something. Poof, gone, won't won't capture
21:54
it again, which won't ever have that again, which is a little
21:56
bit sad. But yeah, Scott, I was Scott
21:59
Ivan was cool. So I I'd recommend, you know,
22:02
all of those sports that anyone who's who's willing.
22:07
But yeah, that's how I would rank them in terms of like
22:09
extremeness, in terms of scariness.
22:11
And that was our little extreme sports side tangent.
22:15
Now getting back to U Maine, So we did the, yeah, we did this
22:19
story before going to U Maine. We talked a little bit about
22:22
like I didn't do a ton of hiking.
22:23
The one thing that I did do was went to Acadia a couple times.
22:28
And I remember the first time I went to Acadia, I, what is it?
22:32
The sandy beach that's very sandy.
22:34
I think it's called sandy beach or something like that.
22:37
When you get there and it's like the cliffs and a good day in the
22:40
ocean and there's the sandy beach and all the colors are
22:42
great. It was the first time in my life
22:45
where I was like, this seems straight out of National
22:47
Geographic magazine. Like this is unbelievable
22:51
picturesque, every, you know, it's just gorgeous.
22:53
Like that's obviously why everyone goes there.
22:56
So I remember being a little bit blown away with that.
23:01
I've never ran there. Like I did the whole drive
23:03
around the loop there. I know there's a ton of trails
23:05
up there, so one day I want to go back and do a running trip up
23:09
there. And this summer, who knows?
23:10
So that was kind of that was kind of like the the stuff that
23:14
I did at U Maine and kind of the outdoor stuff.
23:16
But after school pretty much. Yeah.
23:20
I think the year after I graduated school, me and some of
23:23
the friends that I made-up in up from Maine, we started going to
23:27
Lake Moosehead for an annual ice fishing trip in February.
23:33
And it's, it's been something we've done.
23:36
I think this is our 7th year, so seven straight years, which is,
23:39
which is very cool. And it's always a trip I look
23:42
forward to the trip's evolved over the years a little bit.
23:46
And so I have like a few, a few stories that we'll kind of just
23:49
like go through, like what I kind of think about.
23:51
But the main objective, or usually the main objective is to
23:54
go up there and do a little bit of ice fishing.
23:56
So Mainers love their ice fishing, love snowmobiling.
24:00
A lot of people look forward to the winter.
24:02
And so it's kind of like a big tradition up there and lots of
24:05
hype behind it. And, and it's a fun activity.
24:09
It's obviously very cold up there.
24:11
And they always have ice like in the winter, which is a little
24:14
bit different from around here. Like sometimes we actually don't
24:16
have enough ice to go out on lakes all the time.
24:18
So I think that's why it's a little bit more rooted up there.
24:21
And Lake Moosehead is, is one of the, I don't know if it has to
24:25
be one of the best fisheries in Maine and one of the last, I
24:30
don't know. It just feels it.
24:32
There's a lot of people who live on the lake.
24:34
There's a lot of kind of like tourism around it.
24:36
I I would assume. But it's a total different feel
24:39
than like a Lake Winnipesaukee or, or one of the big lakes in
24:43
New Hampshire because it's a little bit more northern, it's
24:46
more rural. The lake is massive.
24:48
I think it's bigger than than Winnipesaukee.
24:50
And that's a huge lake. And there are there are like,
24:54
still like native landlocked salmon, which is like one of the
24:59
big things in the trip. But there are species of fish
25:02
that you cannot catch anywhere else.
25:04
Like there's native landlocked salmon, which is one of the only
25:06
places that they still exist where they don't get stalked In
25:09
New England. There are massive trout, brook
25:13
trout, lake trout, some of the biggest fish that are caught in
25:16
the state of Maine in that in that body of water because it's
25:20
so big, it's so deep to, to 300 feet in some places.
25:24
And it's like still just feels very wild out there.
25:28
So it's a really cool place to go.
25:30
And every, every winter we we go up there and fish.
25:34
And so the first year we did this trip, I think it was just
25:38
five of us. I don't know whose idea it was,
25:40
but I think it was Sawyer's. But we, we went up there and we
25:45
went up there. We fished so hard.
25:48
So like ice fishing, especially for salmon, like a lot of people
25:52
will go out like they'll have shacks on the ice and they kind
25:55
of go out and they stay most of the day.
25:57
Some people will do like a it's more of like a pop up tent
26:01
instead of like the full ice shack, but like Bob house kind
26:06
of thing. So you could be a little more
26:08
mobile. Some people don't even go out
26:10
there with a tent if it's if it's if it's not super cold, but
26:15
usually so if you have like a big 10 or a nice place, you can
26:18
stay out there all day. But if you don't like you go out
26:21
for the morning or the evening. Like those are the best times to
26:23
fish. And for salmon particularly like
26:25
the morning is the best time, like right after sunrise.
26:29
So we for four straight days we got out there in the dark and
26:34
set up and fished hard for salmon and we killed it that
26:38
first year. We were catching big salmon like
26:41
the whole morning, running around, setting our traps,
26:44
getting fish and it was really cool.
26:46
And also this is back and I was still drinking.
26:50
We just were drinking a ton. No sleep.
26:53
Like I think that first trip I got 2 hours of sleep each night
26:57
for for four straight days and we just fished super hard and
27:01
just destroyed our bodies like just playing games, whatever.
27:04
The whole a whole a classic like guys weekend.
27:09
So it was super fun and one of the places like I'm not going to
27:14
say where we fish, you know, I'm not going to use the other way.
27:17
But we we go by like we usually stay in Greenville or Rockwood.
27:21
And one of the big features up there is Mount Tineo.
27:25
So it's not a huge mountain. This is probably not a mountain
27:29
that's on someone's radar, but as far as picturesque views in
27:35
the wilderness that I've seen, being under Mount Keneo, looking
27:40
up at the face of it is just one of the best pictures that I've
27:44
seen ever. Like I've been on all the
27:46
mountains now in New Hampshire, been on trails, seen different
27:49
things. It is Acadia like we were
27:52
talking about. Mount Keneo is awesome and it's
27:54
pretty much if you look at in the map, Google Mount Keneo.
27:58
If you look at it, it's like some sort of tectonic plates or
28:01
something happened where just a big Ridge came out of nowhere
28:06
and it formed this mountain in the middle of the lake on an
28:08
island. And what happens, it literally
28:10
just looks like it was lifted up from the ground.
28:13
And so there's like a couple 100 feet rock face that just is
28:17
overhanging the lake by a few 100 feet.
28:20
And then below the lake, it's 200 feet deep, like 10 feet
28:24
offshore, maybe you know, 50 feet offshore.
28:27
It's just straight down and the view going under it.
28:31
So if if you're on the ice, like on a snowmobile, whatever,
28:34
driving under, it's awesome if you're on a boat.
28:36
I've been there during the summer on a boat looking at it
28:38
and it's awesome. It's just a super cool place to
28:41
go to. I think the view on top would
28:43
probably be like a good Lakeview, maybe maybe something
28:48
to like a mount major or somewhere around the I don't
28:51
know if the view on top of the mountain is anything crazy, but
28:54
the view under that rock face is unbelievable.
28:57
The colors in it. I don't know what kind of rock
28:59
that is. The colors are like crazy.
29:02
You can't believe it. You're going to look at a
29:04
picture and be like, that's cool, but it's not When you're
29:05
there in person, it's it's insane.
29:08
It's just one of those things you got to stop and look at.
29:10
So that's a cool feature. And there's a trail to the top
29:13
of Mount Keneo. I've guys, I've never summited
29:16
Mount Keneo. We're just too busy fishing,
29:19
doing everything like, and I just don't, you know, busy, busy
29:21
up there. So I haven't made the time to
29:23
get out there. I don't think it's super popular
29:25
to hike it. You have to cross the lake.
29:27
So I think once or twice I've seen people with snowshoes
29:31
walking across the lake to go climb it, but it's not something
29:34
that gets stomped out a lot. But I have thought like, oh, it
29:37
would be cool to go get that, that Strava crown on Kineo.
29:40
And I remember one time I actually looked on Strava and
29:43
it's, it's actually pretty fast. And so it's not something like I
29:47
could not do it if, if it is not like like the trail isn't
29:52
usually super packed out. So it's like, I don't even know
29:54
if you could do it in the winter.
29:55
So maybe this summer I got to go up there.
29:58
You, you would kayak or boat across the lake, maybe triathlon
30:01
across the lake, swim across and then run Keneo.
30:04
But, but it's very cool. And as far as other mountains in
30:07
that area, it's, it's a little bit, it's, it's unique northern
30:14
Maine. There's actually a lot of
30:15
mountains that are that are, you know, it's kind of in they're
30:20
not as hiking mountains as more of like, you know, they're in
30:22
these big industrial forests in Maine.
30:25
And a lot of them do have trails, but it's like the big
30:29
woods of Maine up there and they're just kind of in the
30:32
middle of nowhere and they only people get out there are like
30:35
hunters, loggers, people like that, like hikers don't get out
30:38
a lot and it's cool. So in the White Mountains you
30:41
have, obviously you have mountains everywhere.
30:44
It's like just peak, peak, high, peak, High Peak, just everywhere
30:47
surrounding you. But up there it's almost like
30:50
longer stretches of flatter woods, so you can see forever.
30:55
And then in every little distance there's a couple
30:59
mountains that that poke out pretty good.
31:00
Nothing crazy, maybe 2 to 3000 feet, maybe 3500, not 4000
31:05
footers, but they just poke out enough to be like and, and it's
31:09
all alone. So it's not like mountains
31:11
everywhere. It's like couple mountains here.
31:13
Oh, what are those? I want to go couple mountains
31:14
here. What are those couple mountains
31:16
over there? What what are those like?
31:17
And it's all kind of spread out. And so it's really cool and I
31:21
would love to, I mean, I'd love to have a little place up there
31:23
that he could kind of, I don't know, I guess we already have a
31:27
little place more in central Maine.
31:29
But yeah, I would like to spend more time and do more running up
31:32
there maybe in the summer sometime.
31:34
But it's super nice. And Greenville is right near the
31:39
AT, So that's pretty much the the section of the 100 mile
31:42
wilderness route. So it's definitely sparked my
31:46
interest interest in the 100 mile wilderness route.
31:49
I think the terrain up there is super cool.
31:52
It's like it's just a different vibe.
31:53
It's it's very big woodsy feels up there.
31:59
So yeah, the 100 mile wilderness honestly is on my radar just
32:02
because it's so cool and it does look very intriguing.
32:06
But the thing with the 100 mile wilderness is it's point to
32:08
point and it's it's you need a lot of support.
32:12
Like the getting support at Rd. Crossings is not kind of like
32:16
something around here. It's it's takes more effort,
32:19
it's more remote and it would just be more effort and planning
32:23
and needing support. So it's something a little bit a
32:26
little bit maybe harder to pull off as far as logistics, but one
32:29
day I would love to do it because the area up there is
32:31
just it's just so awesome. So Northern Maine, if you
32:34
haven't been out on Northern Maine, you got to get out on
32:37
northern Maine because it is it is really a gem up there.
32:40
So, yeah, that was kind of like the main, I guess some other
32:44
stories we need. Yeah.
32:45
Like, like I said, we used to like fish really hard.
32:47
I feel like each year we we spend a little bit less time
32:50
fishing and a little bit more time just like hanging out or,
32:53
you know, sleeping a little bit more like hanging out with
32:55
buddies, grabbing food, stuff like that.
32:59
Yeah. And there's, we've had a lot of
33:00
good times over the years. Like we always bring a bunch of,
33:02
you know, we do. It's like snowmobiling.
33:04
We play lots of games. So we we invented a couple games
33:07
up there. Rock Golf Ice hole from this
33:10
year. We play a ton of code names.
33:13
If you guys, I don't know if you guys have played code days, but
33:15
we get we get deep into code names and yeah, I had there was
33:20
a malicious attack against me in code names this year, which I
33:24
don't. Maybe this is not like one of
33:26
the stores engineer. No, it was code names is like a,
33:30
it's like a word game and you, you, you give clues to your
33:34
partner and there's a timer and it's very like it's hard because
33:38
all the words are the same. You have to give a clue that
33:40
like helps your team get your words and not the other person's
33:42
words. So it's it's really hard if you
33:44
played it. Giving clues can be hard.
33:46
And I am notoriously a fast clue giver.
33:49
I just, I just go with my gut and some people take a lot about
33:52
the time. I'm not going to name names.
33:54
I'm not going to name names, so I'm not going to name names.
33:59
Some people take a lot of time. So, you know, sometimes you're
34:02
sitting there and finally, like, all right, you got to have you
34:05
got to pick a word here, put the timer down.
34:07
So the timer is kind of like a, it's a, if it's getting too big,
34:11
you, you put it down. And I, I never get the timer put
34:17
against me because I'm, I'm saying my words quick.
34:20
But at the end of a game, they had one card left.
34:24
So basically they're going to win.
34:26
I have two cards very hard. There's a, there's a death word,
34:31
my 2 words and you got to combine it and I know this is
34:34
the last chance. I haven't taken any time yet.
34:36
And immediately, I think for 30 seconds he would 30 seconds
34:42
immediately flips it on me and I just honestly, I stopped
34:45
thinking I was like, dude, this is this is crazy.
34:48
I take no time. You take so much time on every
34:50
term. So I every single turn.
34:53
That's a crazy movie. Just did you just this is for
34:55
the whole game. If any, if there's any time for
34:58
one person to get time to think, it is for the game.
35:02
This is for the game. Let the guy think about a good
35:04
word. This is malicious.
35:06
This is the whole fun of the game.
35:08
It's not fun when you're giving out two word clues every round,
35:11
taking forever to think about it.
35:13
One word clues after sitting there for 2 minutes.
35:15
This is for the game. I'm saying sploosh for five.
35:19
My teammates hate it, but we're about to win.
35:21
I just need, I need a couple minutes here to think about a
35:24
good word for my 2 abstract things without getting the death
35:27
word. And you put the timer on me and
35:29
it was a fast timer this year. This timer was like a 22nd
35:32
timer. And so I used the whole time to
35:34
go ahead Sawyer and and then I, I said a bad Rd.
35:38
We didn't win and then after that I was like, this is it?
35:42
I mean, this is the tone for the weekend.
35:44
We are I am being malicious with this time or the rest of the
35:48
weekend. So anytime there was a big
35:50
decision it you would just time it on people, which just I just
35:54
think it ruins the fun of the game.
35:56
If we want to play like that from the beginning, I'm cool
35:59
with it because I think I'm a quick a clue giver.
36:02
But if we're giving everyone else time and then one at the
36:06
end of the game, you put you flip the thing.
36:09
Crazy, crazy. I didn't get fired up right
36:11
there. Yeah, I got yeah, it was fun.
36:13
It was a fun game. I didn't get too fired up there.
36:16
Yeah, that was crazy. So.
36:18
But then it became a joke for the weekend, like just flipping
36:20
the timer on everything people does.
36:23
And I did flip, you know, so whatever.
36:26
But we play a lot of code names, play a ton of games like that.
36:30
Ice, ice, Rock You basically, I'll just tell you no.
36:35
Rock, rock, rock golf. This how you play rock golf.
36:39
One person has a stone. Wait, is it a stone?
36:44
No. Sometimes we use a water bottle.
36:45
Actually, it doesn't matter what it is, but you take, it's like
36:47
bocce. You take something, you throw
36:49
it. You have to be on a lake or a
36:51
pond with some jagged ice, some open ice in some snow banks,
36:56
some drifts. Those are the best conditions.
36:57
Lots of variables. Somebody throws it and you each
37:01
have to find two rocks along the bank.
37:05
And with that or no, we found a bunch of lot rocks and then we
37:08
drafted the rocks. Yeah, that's how we do it.
37:10
Then we draft rocks. What rocks are good?
37:11
You want a small rock, you want a big rock.
37:13
So one person throws a thing and then you play bocce, whoever
37:16
gets close. And you would think this it can
37:20
be insane. So that's one of the games we
37:23
played. And then this game, this time we
37:25
played ice hole. It's kind of like it was kind of
37:27
like curling and corn hole together.
37:29
You drill a hole in the ice and then you play, you play curling
37:35
and it's super fun, super fun. And you can set up a course.
37:39
You had some snow bank little bumpers to do it on.
37:41
And so we do a lot of like that stuff now, like more like fun
37:44
stuff. We catch a few fish.
37:45
We got a few fish this year. I, I caught actually a Big Lake
37:49
trout. I got a 4 1/2 LB lake trout.
37:52
And at the end of the day, the biologist, there was a fish
37:56
biologist going out there collecting data.
37:58
So he came over to us and he was kind of talking, measuring fish,
38:01
doing, you know, taking all the stuff.
38:03
And he was saying and he said it was like, oh, that, you know,
38:06
this is the biggest lake trout I've seen in a few weeks and
38:10
which is kind of like, oh, nice, nice, nice.
38:13
It was, it was like a nice fish, but it wasn't anything like
38:16
super crazy. But then come to find out he
38:18
just started this winter. So we're like, we're like, does
38:20
that give you, you know, this? He hasn't seen too much, But no,
38:24
he said a few weeks. So we were talking about this.
38:27
This is a little fishing hack for anybody out there fishing.
38:30
You catch a fish 4 1/2 lbs, four and a half pounds in person.
38:35
That was my lake trout, 5 1/2 lbs.
38:37
On TV or YouTube, if I recorded it, I just, you just say 5 1/2
38:41
lbs. And on the radio, on a podcast,
38:44
6 1/2 lbs. Yeah, actually I caught a 6 1/2
38:46
LB lake trout. That was a joke.
38:48
I heard that was that was just kind of dying laughing because
38:50
like, you know, you kind of make up, you make the story, you
38:53
build it up a little bit and on TV you can see it, but you can't
38:57
tell exactly how big it is. So you held it out a little bit
38:59
and you can say it's bigger than it is.
39:00
And the radio, you can't see anything.
39:02
So you just say whatever you want.
39:04
So we were kind of say joking that joking about that this
39:08
weekend. But yeah, it was a good trip.
39:11
It was a fun trip. I look forward to it every year.
39:14
And this year actually, I will be honest, I I got some runs in
39:17
up there, which was which was good for me.
39:19
So because I got to, I got to stay training up there.
39:25
I got big goals, guys, I got big goals and I got to go after it.
39:29
But yeah, that was kind of like the main talk, some main
39:32
stories. I think I got to spend more time
39:35
on the trails up in Maine. I really do think they're
39:37
awesome mountains up there. Probably slept on underrated.
39:41
But next offers we're going to do is tracking my sleep.
39:46
So I want to talk about the the sleep tracking.
39:48
I pretty much just bought a a sleep tracker recently that I
39:53
just wear during during a bed. You know, I have my GPS watch.
39:57
It's a Garmin, but it's like too clunky.
40:00
It's big and I don't I don't really think the sensors are
40:02
great and I don't think Garmin specializes in the sleep stuff.
40:05
So I bought a sleep strap. I bought a whoop.
40:10
Excuse me, should I do I have to cut that narrow?
40:13
I bought a whoop. So I've been wearing that to bed
40:17
to just track sleep. And for a long time I didn't
40:20
want to track my sleep because if I sleep bad, if I don't get a
40:26
lot of sleep, I know it. I don't need somebody telling,
40:29
hey, you recovered slowly. You slept bad last night.
40:32
It's like, no, I know I'm tired. I know I feel like crap.
40:35
Like I don't need you telling me this.
40:37
And you know, sometimes it gets in your brain like if you had a
40:40
bad, if you have a bad HRV or something, you're like, oh,
40:44
maybe I shouldn't do a workout. But if it's the only time that
40:46
week you do a workout, it's like kind of like messes with your
40:48
mind a little bit. So I'm kind of like, you know,
40:51
just sleep, sleep the best you can and don't worry about it.
40:55
Don't track track about it. That was my thoughts for a long
40:58
time. But I really do think like sleep
41:01
is so important. I'm really trying to dial in
41:04
everything this year and like moving forward, you know, sleep
41:06
training, nutrition, everything, really kind of get the most out
41:10
of myself. And I do think tracking the
41:14
sleep is, is going to help me in the long run get better sleep.
41:18
Now, at first I was trying some, you know, there's lots of hacks,
41:22
asleep hacks, what you should do to sleep better.
41:24
And I'll go through some of the ones that I've been doing, but
41:27
I, I, it's hard. Some of the things I was trying,
41:31
I didn't know if it was helping. So I was like, you know, what
41:34
this is, this is going to give me some data on to, you know, if
41:37
I try something to sleep better, is this working or is this not
41:40
working? So that was, that was kind of
41:42
like one of the big reasons to get me this, the, the strap.
41:45
And I've been liking it so far. I think it's good.
41:48
I think it's actually reinforced a lot of what I thought and what
41:51
I'm feeling more than it's hurt me.
41:54
So there's been actually more days where I think, oh, I
41:57
actually got decent sleep last night and I, I recovered good
42:01
where I thought I, I maybe felt a little bit more tired or, or
42:04
lethargic. I'm like, Oh no, I'm good to
42:06
train, like I'm good to go here. So it's actually, that was
42:09
something I was not expecting. The, the strap was fine to wear
42:13
to bed. I, I, I was thinking it would
42:16
kind of be annoying. I've already gotten used to it.
42:18
So I don't think that that's super annoying.
42:20
And so I really think it's, it's helped me and I don't think it's
42:23
something that's going to hold me back.
42:24
I think it's only going to be data that I can use to help me
42:26
get better. And so I'm, I'm in on it.
42:28
I'm wearing this thing from here on out.
42:30
I'm, I'm wearing, I'm tracking my sleep.
42:33
I until unless things start going bad, I'm going to start
42:36
tracking my sleep. So I think it's a good thing to
42:39
have some of the things that I've tried to get my sleep
42:42
better. The one obvious one that
42:46
everyone kind of knows, everyone says is the blue light before
42:49
bed. I've really been trying to all
42:52
screens, phone, computer, laptop, everything off about an
42:57
hour, like 40, you know, half hour, 45 minutes to an hour
43:01
ideally before I go to bed. I've been trying that and I've
43:05
been sleeping pretty good. Sometimes like this actually,
43:09
like sad to say, sometimes I feel like scrolling on my phone
43:13
a little bit before bed can actually help me fall asleep.
43:16
But I, I don't think like all the science says it doesn't.
43:19
So that was kind of one thing where I was like, I don't know,
43:21
like I feel like it helps me sleep, but I what I actually
43:24
have determined, I think looking at your phone before bed, it
43:30
doesn't help you get better sleep.
43:31
It helps you fall asleep because we are addicted to, to yo using
43:36
our phone and so if we don't use our phone for a while before
43:39
bed, you have almost withdrawal symptoms from your phone that I
43:44
don't this is what I feel like. So it took me a while to break
43:49
the pattern of being on the phone before bed and I, I, I
43:52
really been trying to get off the phone more and so that's
43:54
always like kind of like a fight.
43:55
I'm sure it is with everybody, but I feel like I'm getting to a
43:59
place where I don't, you know, my bedtime routine, it does not
44:02
include the phone. So I'm kind of over that.
44:04
And now I think it does it, it probably does help me sleep
44:06
better. So yeah, if you're, if you're
44:09
saying getting off the phone before bed doesn't help me sleep
44:11
better, I would challenge you to, to get unaddicted to your
44:15
phone during your night time routine for a few weeks and then
44:19
see when you don't need it to fall asleep.
44:21
Then see if you think it helps your sleep.
44:23
That was #1 the other one too is food.
44:27
Eating food right, right before you go to bed is not good for
44:29
you. I think again, this is one that
44:32
like for me, it's like I sleep good.
44:33
Like when I have a full stomach, I don't think I really like I,
44:37
I, I used to always eat five eggs plus and an apple before
44:42
bed every night, like right within 1/2 hour going to sleep.
44:47
And so I was, I was kind of like, you know, I'm so busy,
44:49
like I can only eat X amount. Like this is a good eating
44:51
routine for me. It's something that works if I
44:53
go to the gym late at night, I just can't change it and there's
44:56
nothing I can do. I chalked it up to there's
44:57
nothing I can do, but I've reworked my brain a little bit
45:01
and I've thought, no, like there's there are other ways to
45:05
get your food in. There's other ways that you
45:07
could schedule your training. If this is something that
45:10
actually is going to help me sleep better and recover better,
45:14
you should be doing it like it is something it it's you should
45:17
be doing it. This is not a supplement.
45:18
This is not somebody something selling somebody is selling you.
45:22
This is research back data in a free habit, habit that you can
45:29
do to improve your recovery. Do you really want to do you
45:32
really want to get the the most out of yourself?
45:35
If your answer is yes, you got to try it out, at least try it
45:37
out with data. So I've been trying it out and
45:40
again, it took me a little bit to adjust.
45:44
But once you have a new sleeping routine, once that kind of it
45:49
takes a little bit, there's a little bit of friction it felt
45:51
like for me. But once you flip that switch,
45:54
I, the routine feels good and I've been sleeping better
45:58
overall. And so I, I eat my last bit of
46:02
food about, you know, 2 hours before I go to sleep, maybe 2, a
46:07
little bit more, 2/2 and 1/2. And people say longer is more.
46:11
Two to three hours is the most that I can do right now to open
46:17
minded right now, but it's a huge improvement from what I was
46:20
doing. So I'm going to keep, keep it up
46:22
and keep doing that and see how it feels.
46:23
So that's been really helping. And then the last thing I, you
46:27
know, waking up to go to the bathroom, I think this is like,
46:30
you know, everyone just does it in a lot of the times, or maybe
46:34
most people and a lot of the times it's within your R.E.M.
46:37
cycles. Like I'm not into the full
46:39
science of it, but it's something that like can disrupt
46:42
my sleep. It's something where if I get up
46:45
and I start thinking about something it, it can negatively
46:48
impact me. So what I trying to do, and this
46:51
is the same thing with eating. I just try to, I try to keep the
46:54
same liquid intake, water intake, but I move it up in the
46:57
day and 7:00 I stop drinking. Now I've noticed my mouth will
47:03
get a little bit dry or days I feel like a little bit more
47:05
dehydrated. I I kind of need a little bit of
47:08
water. So I'll just tiny sips.
47:10
They say the sips is going to be better than gulps.
47:14
So I do tiny sips just to wet the mouth and get me over.
47:17
And then I'll put a lot of salt in it before I go to bed because
47:20
whenever I wake up in the night, I will take a little sip of
47:22
water. If there's salt in it, it's
47:24
going to help you retain the water better than just straight
47:27
water. So, and I think that that's
47:31
helped a good amount too. And some nights I almost feel
47:34
like I'm a little bit dehydrated, but it's helpful
47:36
with my recovery. And then if I just rehydrate in
47:39
the morning, like fast in the morning, like I'm drinking more
47:41
right when I wake up, then I think it's fine.
47:44
So those are the things that I've been trying for sleep.
47:47
They have been working. I think it's hard to implement
47:50
everything they tell you to implement online, but I think
47:53
it's really worth it. And I think if you, if you
47:56
really want to get the best out of yourself, you should be doing
47:59
everything you can to recover. A lot of people will put X
48:02
amount of volume, X amount of miles, hours in.
48:05
I'm training super hard. But if you are not protecting
48:08
your night time routine for sleep and getting good
48:11
consistent sleep, then you're just leaving games on the table.
48:14
And that's something you got to be OK with and I'm not OK with.
48:17
So I'm trying to fix it. So that's the sleeping thing.
48:21
That's my sleeping take. So if you guys have any tricks,
48:25
I, I dabbled a little bit with like magnesium.
48:29
I think supplements are kind of like a, a little bit of slippery
48:32
slope as far as sleep for me right now.
48:35
But I, I'm taking a step at a time trying to get better sleep
48:38
and track of my sleep. So that's from up with the sleep
48:40
stuff. We got two more things.
48:42
So we're going to do the top three chips and then we're going
48:44
to do motivational minute. So we'll start with the top
48:46
three chips. Is this my order?
48:49
Did I write it down in my order? Let me review.
48:51
Let me review. Yeah, this is the order.
48:53
Yeah, this is the order. My top three chips.
48:56
And I am not a chip snack person.
48:59
And, you know, people who know me can attest when I go to the
49:02
grocery store, I don't, I don't buy any snacks really.
49:05
I don't really buy any snacks. I just buy Whole Foods, fruits,
49:09
meat, you know, like I, I really I never go to the chip aisle.
49:13
Back in the day, though, I loved I love snacks.
49:16
I'm a big salt guy. Probably still salt over sweet
49:20
savory. I love chips.
49:22
I love snacks. So here are going to be my top
49:24
three chips. Oh, I got something going on
49:28
here. My number, no work in reverse.
49:32
Honorable mention. I think honorable mention for
49:35
these chips, I don't know how I feel about it.
49:38
It's almost like one of my original longest lasting good
49:41
relationship, but I don't have a good number one flavor for this
49:46
chip that put it in the top three.
49:51
So it's kind of something that I grappled with, but I had to give
49:54
honorable mention Pringles. I mean, I remember as a kid on
49:58
the beach went up sake licking the salt, licking the red stuff
50:02
off of pizza Pringles and then putting it, putting them in my
50:06
mouth like a duck quacking and eating those things down happy
50:09
as a clam and then repeating that Pringles are awesome.
50:13
The original Pringles are really, really good.
50:15
Like they're they're amazing. Like even if I have a Pringle
50:18
now, like they're amazing, they're just not, they're not
50:21
there. Sour cream and onion, that's
50:23
probably my favorite flavour. But I think sour cream and onion
50:29
laser may be a little bit high. Yeah.
50:32
I think sour cream, sour cream and onion stacks may be better
50:37
than sour cream and onion Pringles.
50:39
And and that wouldn't be a top three chip God, but sour cream
50:42
and Pringles are so good. Can I, should I?
50:45
No, no, oh, I don't know. No my #3 so that's where I have
50:50
it. So they're in the honor roll
50:52
mention Pringles are goated, but not the top three.
50:58
My #3 this is, I think this chip is going to be in everybody's
51:05
top 390% of people's top three, one flavor or another.
51:09
And for me, what the one flavor is just it's, it's good enough
51:13
to get there. And I actually think that I may
51:15
have the least, I may have a the lower favored flavor as my
51:21
favorite, but I'm going to roll with it.
51:23
This, That's the cool ranch Dorito.
51:26
I mean, Doritos are just electric.
51:27
The cool ranch is electric. I love a folded cool ranch with
51:31
like double the seasoning. You don't know how it got double
51:34
the seasoning. You don't know how it got
51:35
folded, but you love that it's that it's that way and just
51:39
putting that down electric. So cool Ranch Trudeau's 3 #2
51:45
this is 1. I don't know if it's I don't
51:47
know if this is Speaking of Maine.
51:48
I don't know if this is AI don't know if this is a main thing.
51:53
I don't. So a lot of people, if you're
51:54
not from Maine, you may sleep on this.
51:56
But if you're if you listen to this whole podcast, maybe you
51:58
are from Maine or you're more tendencies towards Maine.
52:00
The all seasons Humpty Dumpty Chip.
52:04
Oh man, oh man. I don't know what the seasonings
52:08
are, but they got all of them on there.
52:10
Humpty Dumpty's are electric. That ship is so good.
52:14
It's if you haven't tried it, you have to get to the store
52:16
today. I know it's at market baskets.
52:18
Humpty Dumpty's all seasoning, maybe convince someone else to
52:22
buy it and then so you can just have a couple because if you
52:24
buy, you're going to eat the whole bag.
52:25
And if that throws you off your training for the week, that's
52:27
not what I'm here trying to do. But I think you need to try the
52:30
chip. So if you got to outsource your
52:32
chip so you can only actually get to do that.
52:36
Humpty Dumpty and my third favorite chip.
52:40
My first favorite chip. Sorry, first favorite chip.
52:43
These are all so good too. It's kind of like hard to, but
52:45
my third favorite chip is the salt and vinegar Cape Cod potato
52:51
chip. Some people like salt and
52:53
vinegar, some people don't. I think the flavor is just, Oh
52:57
my gosh, I would eat salt and vinegar Cape Cod potato chips
53:00
until my mouth is bleeding. Like you know how you eat too
53:03
many of them and your mouth gets sore from the fire and the
53:06
flavor that is salt and vinegar. I used to love that.
53:11
Oh my God. I remember in college I would
53:12
get salt potatoes, these chips all the time, just eat them
53:16
non-stop. I couldn't stop.
53:17
I could not stop eating the salt and vinegar Cape Cod potato
53:20
chips. The Cape Cod is just the perfect
53:22
potato chip. It's very it's crunchy, it's
53:25
big. I love Cape Cod and I love salt
53:27
and vinegar. That's my number one as I don't
53:31
eat chips. But one thing I do do I have
53:34
been doing recently salt and vinegar almonds, who it's almost
53:39
like the vessel for salt and vinegar doesn't matter.
53:44
The salt and vinegar is so powerful and just it's Oh my
53:48
God, it's addicting. You just start eating one.
53:49
You're just like, you can't have one.
53:51
You can't have one. If you have one, you're super
53:52
strong. Can't have one.
53:54
If you can go and eat 1 salt and vinegar potato chip, one Humpty
53:58
Dumpty all season and you can do that and just eat one of them
54:02
and then put the bag down for the rest of the day.
54:05
Strongest person on earth, but OK, That was that was my chip
54:10
tape. We haven't done a food one in a
54:11
while. So we got back to the roots a
54:13
little bit. We did a food.
54:16
Oh, no, not like this. We did a not like this.
54:20
My phone's not like this. I haven't been doing the sheet
54:23
as much because I've been having more notes for some of these
54:25
podcasts. I don't know how I feel about
54:27
that. I really love my sheet, but
54:31
sometimes if I'm busy and I didn't have time to write the
54:33
sheet, but like Andrew, it only takes 5 minutes to write on a
54:35
sheet. Oh God, but I have my phone.
54:39
But I do remember the motivational minute.
54:41
So we're going to end this episode today with the
54:43
motivational minute. Haven't done this in a while.
54:47
We had a couple good ones. Sometimes they go over the top
54:50
on this, sometimes the same, the same, say the same stuff over
54:53
and over again. But I think it's it's it's worth
54:56
saying. But today's motivational minute
54:59
inspired by Dustin Poirier, UFC fighter.
55:02
He always had the hashtag, hashtag paid in full always and
55:07
all this stuff. He had a bunch of different
55:09
sayings, but that was one of the things that he always posted
55:11
paid in full. And I saw it a couple times
55:13
recently again and again. And I just, I love that hashtag.
55:19
And part of you guys are like, oh, Andrew, you're just selling
55:23
out, trying to do the pot. You're throwing your own stuff
55:26
on the website. All this thing, the coaching,
55:28
all this thing, you just want to get paid.
55:29
You just want to get paid now, don't you?
55:31
No, I actually think that quote is like the reverse.
55:35
What what it that quote means to me is paid in full.
55:41
Obviously Dustin Poirier is one of the top guys in the sport and
55:44
probably has lots of money and all those all these different
55:46
things, but he's somebody that people look up to.
55:49
He's accomplished. He's climbed the mountains, he's
55:51
conquered. He's done it for a long time.
55:53
He's one of the goats. Everyone loves him.
55:54
Respect. Just a a, a, a true GOAT
55:59
athletes. Mount Rushmore.
56:02
I don't know Mount Rushmore of, of UFC Rush for his division,
56:06
what, you know, Hall of Fame UFC guy.
56:09
And I think for me, when I hear that and see what he's been
56:12
through, the wars he's been through, the stuff that he's
56:14
dealt with, the things he's talked about, it just reminds me
56:17
of the amount of effort and sacrifice, blood, sweat and
56:22
tears that he has probably put into the game.
56:25
I don't even know. It's probably way more than I
56:27
think. But all that, that he has put
56:29
into it to be #1 it's so easy to see people online or see people
56:34
doing something you want to do or see people, whatever, and
56:38
just think the kind of the must be nicer or, or oh, I could do
56:41
that or oh, blah, blah, blah, all these things.
56:45
And, and the thing that you don't see is the massive amount
56:49
of work, uncomprehensible work that they have done to get
56:54
there. And some of it's jeans, some of
56:57
it's luck, some of it's all these things.
56:59
And people like like to kind of poke and prod at people and say,
57:02
oh, it's only because you did this, because of this, you do
57:04
that because that oh, I could, oh, I could this if I had that.
57:07
And it's like all of that is so if I hear someone start talking
57:10
about that, I just, I just kind of like, I, I don't, I do not
57:14
mess with that anymore because all of these people who achieve
57:18
greatness put in more work than you could even fathom.
57:23
And the more that I kind of like talk to these people and kind of
57:26
start to go down some of the paths that I'm branching out
57:28
into, it just takes way more work than whatever you're doing.
57:34
It takes so much more work than what you were doing to get what
57:37
you want. That's like the brutal truth.
57:39
It takes more work to get what you to to get what you want than
57:43
you think by a landslide. And So what do you have to do?
57:47
If you want to be paid in full, You got to put in the work.
57:51
You have to do it. And I think an endurance
57:54
running, this is a disclaimer, especially as an endurance
57:56
coach, this is a big disclaimer. This does not mean go and train
58:00
20-30 hours. Do not train like Christian
58:02
Blumenfeld 30 billion hours a week.
58:04
Do not train like these top athletes, do not run 150 miles a
58:08
week like some of these runners. It does not mean that because a
58:11
lot of people would just break them.
58:13
It means maximize your potential and what you're doing today.
58:18
And that is training properly, training with a structured plan
58:22
to get to get closer to your goal.
58:25
I would say get faster, but my goal is to get faster.
58:27
Other people have different goals.
58:28
It's a different goal. But your plan should be getting
58:31
closer to your goal, right? It should be a structural plan
58:34
to get closer to your goal. And every day you should be
58:38
figuring out a way to maximize your output.
58:42
And so if you can't train X amount with getting hurt, wow,
58:46
what can I do with recovery? What can I eat more?
58:49
How can I sleep better, get more recovery?
58:51
How can I stay consistent? How can I try a new stimulus or
58:54
a new training route or a new program or a new workout that's
58:57
going to get me gains that I have been missing?
58:59
You, you need to everyday be like fiercely interrogating
59:04
yourself in your program and what you're doing and say, how
59:08
can you get better? Challenge yourself to get better
59:10
because I'm telling you, especially in the trail of trail
59:13
run this this world of trail running, ultra running, mountain
59:16
running, the sports growing, people are going harder, people
59:19
are getting more scientific, people are putting in more work
59:22
than you. And if you are not trying to
59:26
maximize yourself every single day, you're going to get swept
59:30
over by these guys and these girls who are putting in this
59:34
work and, and doing it's, it's, it's getting so competitive.
59:37
And if you are not doing every single thing to can't to get
59:40
better, don't expect to climb whatever mountain or or peak or
59:44
try to get to wherever you want to get to without the work.
59:47
And yeah, like I said, it's really just looking, looking
59:51
inward and saying, what are you not doing?
59:55
And there's lots of different areas to improve.
59:56
Guys. It's, it's fast, it's strength
59:58
work, it's mobility. It's, it's, it's all this pre
1:00:02
hab stuff. It's rehab stuff.
1:00:04
It's staying consistent. It's saying no to things that
1:00:07
are getting you away from your goal or not aligned with your
1:00:10
values. It is are is your mindset good?
1:00:14
A lot of people train good. Oh, I'm training good.
1:00:16
I recover good. I sleep good.
1:00:17
What's your mindset like? Have you been, have you been
1:00:21
like meditation? I feel like is a huge.
1:00:24
I wouldn't say like you need to meditate but what is your
1:00:26
mindset? How often are you thinking
1:00:28
positive things and have that unwavering self belief in
1:00:31
yourself on a daily basis. Can you get better?
1:00:34
Are you manifesting what you want?
1:00:36
Picturing what you want? Are you trying to get better at
1:00:39
containing yourself? Because what you think is how
1:00:42
your body works. And if you're thinking positive
1:00:45
thoughts and being OK and understanding, hey, I'm here, I
1:00:51
need to get to here, what do I have to do to get there?
1:00:53
It's all going to help you. These are all things that are
1:00:55
going to help you. And if you want big, big goal,
1:01:00
if you want to reach big goals, you want to do big things, you
1:01:02
got to put in big work. And so if you want to get paid
1:01:05
in full, put in the work, find out what your value is, find out
1:01:09
what you think your value is, set that, put it bigger than you
1:01:12
think, and then put in the work to get there.
1:01:14
And that's where you get paid in full.
1:01:17
And so that's the motivational minute for today.
1:01:19
What do we think about that one? Did I?
1:01:20
I think that was a pretty good one.
1:01:22
I think I stayed within the rounds a little bit there.
1:01:25
Sometimes out of these I get out of hand, but but yeah, and
1:01:30
that's and that is all we got today is that that's all we got
1:01:34
today. So the last couple weeks, there
1:01:36
hasn't been too many races or race efforts to report about in
1:01:39
New England, the New England trail scene, but there's
1:01:42
definitely stuff coming up. So again, like we're going to
1:01:45
start mixing that stuff in. We got more interviews on the
1:01:47
way. So stay tuned for that and I
1:01:50
appreciate the support. Appreciate you guys listening.
1:01:54
See you next time. Until then, we'll see you.
1:01:57
Peace.