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Training thru Sickness & Risk in the Mountains · Run Mountain Peaks

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All right, welcome back to another episode of Run Mountain
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Peaks. This is my Jordan flu game
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podcast. This is my flu game podcast.
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I got sick earlier this week. Been battling through it,
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starting to feel better. But yeah, getting sick is never
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fun. I just crushed an herbal tea
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Advil, Dayquil. So I feel like I'm coming
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around. I'm, I'm in good spirits right
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now. And Speaking of so the first
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podcast topic today is training through sickness, training
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around sickness. What do you do when you get
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sick? I feel like I've had lots of,
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you know, I've been sick lots of times during training, during
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different parts of a training block.
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I've trained through it. I've not trained through it.
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And I'll just give you my thoughts on the best way to get
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through it. Next up, we're going to talk
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about risk in the mountains. So Washington has had three feet
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of snow, I think this month. It's starting to get winter up
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in the mountains. Last weekend, I did a hike and
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it was cold up top. I mean below freezing, wind
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chills, icy, snowy, and I'll probably talk about this a
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handful of times through the winter, but I wanted to discuss
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just overall risk in the mountains during the winter with
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more severe weather. We'll follow that up with a
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missing tent story on Mount Madison, which kind of got a lot
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of buzz in the last couple weeks.
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Next up we're going to talk about rehabbing knee injuries.
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This is a a question I got recently.
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Shout out Jack and yeah, so I'll go through rehabbing knee
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injuries. What I've done in the past,
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whether that be like a knee sprain, runner's knee, just
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tendonitis in your knees, like after an Ulter.
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I've had that before, just doing too much mileage.
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So I have a few little tips and tricks.
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I'll talk about that. Next up, maximizing speed
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workouts. So there's a few items I want to
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touch on quick. One being nose strips, 2 being
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ice, 3 being caffeine. I think those are like the
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staples, so I'll discuss each of those.
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Next. We're going to do a little quick
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breakdown preview of the mount, a Scutney Backyard Ultra that's
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coming up soon. We've talked about some backyard
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ultras before, and this one's a little bit unique.
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So instead of doing 4 mph every hour, you basically do a lap
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with a certain amount of vertical gain every hour.
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And there's actually two different loops that you can do
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for this back here at Ultra. So we'll do a quick preview.
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And there are some crushers on the on the entrance list right
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now. So it should be an exciting
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event and we'll just go through that quick.
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Next, we'll do a motivational minute.
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So I threw in, I got a quote throwing a little motivation
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towards the end. I did a few of these earlier and
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we're bringing back the motivational minute.
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I'll try to keep doing these each episode.
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And then lastly, I'm gonna discuss my 2025 victory over the
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fruit flies. I live in an older apartment
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complex, an older like building, like an old brick building, and
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there are some cracks in it and bugs get in and I've battled a
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few different species. But I wanted to talk about the
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fruit flies from this year. Yeah, we'll, we'll save it.
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We'll save the rest of it for that segment.
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So that's what we have today. And this is podcast #10 that is
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kind of, that is kind of crazy. I mean, these are flying by.
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I've been having fun doing them. I think some people are at least
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enjoying them. And if you guys keep listening,
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I will keep doing these podcasts.
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So we're at podcast #10 which is exciting.
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And with that, I want to share some exciting news.
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OK, all right, topic number one, training through sickness.
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So this is going to be like a training through sickness and
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just like overall running, like thoughts on like how to improve
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as a runner. So everyone has different goals
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with running. Some people have races that they
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want to finish. Some people have like lots of
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races they just they want to finish.
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Some people have times that they want to do.
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And so everyone's going to have their different priorities in
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running. But for me, if you are
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prioritizing like getting faster, like for me personally,
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that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to get faster and
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stronger. I have lots of things I want to
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do, but overall like I want to develop as a runner.
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If that is your goal, the way you do that like basically like
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run training is stressing the body running and then
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recovering. Like your body is recovering.
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And that's like a lot of what run training is.
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It's not like these other sports like basketball, football,
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baseball, where you're like learning skills, like those
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people have to be fast, strong, powerful, but there's a lot of
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skill and strategy involved. Running, a lot of it is just
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like your Physiology, your fitness, like how fit are you,
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along with race day strategies, nutrition, training, structure,
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stuff like this. But a lot of it is just fitness
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and like how do you get fitness? How do you get stronger?
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You train, you overwork your body, your body breaks down and
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then you have to recover and rest from it.
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And so yeah, it's this, it's this stressing your body and
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then recovering from it. That's, that's like what you
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want to do. And if you're over stressing
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your body, it results in injury, sickness, and you're just going
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to have to take down time at training and that is not going
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to give you long term success. So there are some people when
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they're training like the Goggins mentality, like he's
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obviously super famous and there's a ton of people that are
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like just going to train through anything, train seven days a
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week. And I think that kind of
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training that is not optimizing, getting faster and getting
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stronger like as a runner. Now, I will say that is
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definitely the and, and Goggins even says this like he's not
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training to be the bet. He's training his mind.
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He is like training his mental capacity.
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And that is like so, so crushing miles and crushing training is a
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separate thing from from optimizing your fitness.
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That is like a mental training, which I think is really
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important. There are times where I
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definitely need to train my mind.
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I've learned doing these ultras and doing these hard races that
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you actually mental toughness and, and grit is you have to
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train it. It's not just like a flip that
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can switch on. And so there is like that aspect
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of the training. But when you're, you're training
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to get faster, you can't just like rest days are important,
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recovery is important. And so you have to really
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optimize that training. And so when you get sick, right,
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there are some people will say no rest days, I don't care if
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I'm sick. I'm still going to get out and
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get after it. And what I've learned over the
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years, if you get sick and you just train through it, like you
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don't do make any modifications to your training, it's going to
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just set you back like a week or two.
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And so for me, if you get sick when you're training, you got to
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take a little bit of downtime and let your body recover
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because when you get sick, your body's already like totally
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stressed out. So if you add training on top of
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it, it's just going to be more stress and you're not going to
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be basically doing any training that is beneficial.
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So it's just not productive training.
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And so that's just like something you have to think
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about it. One, just like training in
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general, overtraining is definitely a thing and you have
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to think about it. And then when you get sick,
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doing too much is just going to set you back.
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And I guess on the overtraining and the sickness part, a lot of
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people, and there's a lot of people like what saying what I'm
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saying like you don't want to overtrain.
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I think yes, overtraining is a thing, but also like under
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recovering is a thing. You can probably train more than
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you think you can if you are getting 8910 hours of sleep
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every night, eating the right food out.
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Stress outside of training is low.
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I think there's a lot of under recovery and sometimes you're
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just being a baby and you're not training enough.
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Like, oh, I'm kind of tired when if you just had a little snack
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and you went out and trained, you wouldn't feel that tired.
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So it's a balancing act. There is overtraining, there is
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under training and you really want to shoot for that, that
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middle zone. And when it comes to sickness, I
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think the same thing applies. So when I get sick, like usually
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I, I don't know, sometimes you get stuffy, sometimes you have a
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scratchy throat or whatever. But like I treat sicknesses like
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you have, like you, you're getting a little bit of a
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feverish, like your body's fighting something off, your
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throat's very inflamed, super congested, that kind of thing.
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Just like a little cough, a little runny nose that that's
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something you can kind of train through.
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But when I get sick, when I get like feverish, really feeling
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not good, I immediately will take a rest day.
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And it's always hard when you get sick because one is never
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going to come at a good time. It's always if you're in the
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middle of a training block and you're like, oh, this is going
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to ruin whatever before races that's going to, it's going to
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ruin my race. Oh, it's going to recover this
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week. But now, like I didn't do, you
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know, it never happens at a good time.
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And so you just have to like, I think that's part of mentality.
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Like you have to accept the fact like, I am sick and the only way
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to get through this the fastest I can is to take care of myself.
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So I take as soon as I get sick, take a rest day.
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I feel like most sicknesses, like I don't get super sick a
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lot, knock on wood, but usually you have like a day or two
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that's the worst. And then you kind of slowly feel
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better. So if you're getting worse or
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you're really feeling feverish, I always will just take complete
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days off. If it's two days in a row, that
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kind of stinks. If it's three days in a row,
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that kind of stinks. But you have to do it.
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Rest, sleep a lot, eat good food.
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Like that's that's all you can do.
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Go to the doctor, see what they say.
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So I think that's like the first strategy, Shut it down.
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The way that I train is I always take a rest day every week.
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So if you get sick the first day, boom, it's just my rest day
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for the week. I haven't missed any training.
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Cool. The second day, OK, if you have
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to take two days off, all right, this is a unplanned rest day
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which you always try to avoid, but you got to do it.
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After that, you really are going to try to like find that balance
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of I need to start training a little bit, but I don't want to
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overdo it. It's kind of like when you have
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an injury, you want to start training, but if you're making
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it worse, not good. If it's getting a little bit
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better and you can start training a little bit, that's
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kind of how you want to do it. So the first day that I'm
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feeling a little bit better, I'm going to go do some half hour,
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maybe 45 minutes and maybe an hour if it's if I'm really
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feeling better of some super easy training and whatever I
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want to do is I want to do like the least stress on my body
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outside of that hour of training or whatever I'm trying to do.
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So if it's like super cold, if it's snowy, if it's icy outside,
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like that cold is just going to stress your body more.
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Don't do it. Hit a treadmill, go super slow,
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Just get the heart rate up a little bit and try to try to
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just get the body moving again. Like, and sometimes that helps
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with sickness. As long as you don't overdo it
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kind of working your, your body, getting your heart going, get
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your breathing going. Can it kind of help almost a
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little bit? I think one of the best ways to
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get over a sickness is sweat it out a little bit and try to give
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it to somebody else. I don't know, it's kind of a,
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that's a joke. I don't know, is that a bad
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thing to say? Like trying to give, not really,
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but kind of get out, do something, but do it super
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light. And then the next day if you're
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still like feeling a little bit better the next day you're like,
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alright, that is my new baseline.
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I can train a little bit, that's what I'm going to do.
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And then just kind of build up from there.
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Your training and eventually it's just like an injury.
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As you get better, as you feel better, ramp up your training
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back to normal and hopefully like you missed like a week of
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training. And if you take two or three
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deaths rest days, maybe the next week you don't do your rest rest
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day. So you train through.
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Like for me, I took off like 3 days in the middle of this week.
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So basically my, my Monday rest week rest day earlier this week
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is one of the days that I took off.
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And then like this upcoming Monday.
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So today's Sunday, so tomorrow I'm just going to train through
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it and not take my rest day. So really I only miss like one
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day of training. So you're not going to miss like
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a ton. And so that's kind of like how I
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I deal with it. I've trained through stuff and
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then you're just sick for like a week and a half, two weeks and,
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and and then you just feel bad when you're training, when
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you're training and your body is sick, like you're also
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recovering from an illness. You're not going to absorb
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training, you're not going to get better.
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So you're just kind of like a wasting your time if you take a
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whole week off and you're really overdoing it and like being a
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little bit of a baby, like I need to make sure I'm feeling
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perfect. Then when you get back, it's
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been so long that you actually are sucking wind on that first,
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you know, run, you feel horrible.
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Your legs are like jello. Like that's what you want to
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avoid. So it's finding that sweet spot.
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And then the other thing that I think is very important, so
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easing back into it is getting back your speed work and or
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strength worked as quick as you can.
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So if you are feeling ill, if you're not feeling 100%, keep
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everything easy. Run maybe into the moderate if
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you're, if you're trying to ramp back up, but don't do any hard
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workouts. But as soon as you feel like
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95%, try to hit some speed work because the longer you delay
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doing speed work, the, the, the harder it is going to be to keep
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like do it again and get back to where you were.
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So for me, like if you if you're if your sickness times perfectly
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where you just get sick after your speed work and you can
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recover by the next week, I would try to do speed work the
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next week and do some sort of easier speed work depending on
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where you are in your build. Like if you're doing like hard
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tempos or like VO2 Max style workouts, like maybe don't do
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that your first speed work, come back and just do like one minute
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on one minute off. That's like my sweet spot as
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like a, a workout that I use when I am coming back from
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something or like building back up.
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One minute on one minute off. You get the heart rate up, but
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it's not like very, very hard. Like you get a minute rest every
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every other minute. Do that for a week and then get
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back to your regular training and the next week you, you might
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be able to pick off where pick up where you left off and and
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there it's like, all right, I really didn't lose anything.
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Like I do the same speed work you did before you got sick.
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And if in two weeks you can just do the same workout, boom,
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you're right there. You didn't lose too much.
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Now, sometimes when you do that first hard workout after an
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injury, your heart rate is going to be a little bit higher, but
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that is actually not always a bad thing.
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Like I think everyone is always like, oh, I want to run the
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faster with a lower heart rate, which is like ultimately the
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goal. But having a super low heart
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rate sometimes means that your body isn't ready for training.
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Maybe you've been training too much.
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Maybe your body's too stressed and like your heart is actually
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not able to get very high, which is like not always a good sign.
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So if your heart rate's a little bit high, that just means your
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legs haven't been training as much as usual and your muscles
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can actually probably take more than they typically can.
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So don't freak out that your heart rate's really high.
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Buy that first hard workout back, do the workout.
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And then the week after that, usually I'm like back to normal
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and you're like, all right, you know, I'm back on track.
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So do one easy work, easy speed work to get back into it.
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Do a hard one. Don't be alarmed if your heart
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rate's a little bit high. And then after that you should
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be, you should be smooth sailing and just continue with your
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build. And obviously, if you don't have
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a race coming up very fast, that's like, easier to be like,
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yeah, I missed a couple or, you know, I kind of hovered around
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for a couple weeks, no big deal. But if you have a race,
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obviously that is a big deal. And so I have one more thought
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I'll share about sickness before.
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Like a big effort. If you have a big effort,
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especially ultra marathons, you can only do a few handful of big
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hard efforts in a year. If you're running like long
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ultras, unless you're like some sort of robot.
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And so your races are you put a lot of time into your races.
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You can train a couple 2-3, four months plus for for a big race
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and think about all the time, the hours you put into that.
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Getting sick the week of is just gut wrenching, heart wrenching,
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whatever you want to say it really, it really stinks.
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And, and so for me, like 1 of the strategies that I used to
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you basically want to prevent any sort of sickness that week
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before a race. So for me, if I have a race one
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week, the weekend before, I am not doing any like out in large
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setting, like party, not party, but like gathering atmospheres.
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I'm probably not going to go to like a big get together.
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I'm not going to go out to eat for no with a bunch of people
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for no reason. Like I'm going to be very
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conscious about like I, I am staying to myself.
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If anyone's sick, get away from me.
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I have put hours and hour and days into this build.
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Like going out for on a weekend just for like whatever until
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like a big bar and like being close with a lot of people
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during flu season, whatever in the fall.
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I'm just probably not going to do that.
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I think another one too is if you're like traveling to a race,
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like flying to a race, like wearing a mask, I don't know the
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science about wearing a mask versus not wearing a mask, but
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just be conscious about like, do not get in people's personal
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space. Don't share drinks and stuff,
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all all these things. Just be very cautious about
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like, OK, just don't get sick and don't stress about it.
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Like live your life, do your same routine, go to work, go to
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the gym, like whatever you used to doing.
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But you know, don't plan some some crazy extravagant like
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getting no sleep going out for a week and the week before race.
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I don't think that's any good. Some people take it as far as
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like they won't even eat out or get some sort of like take out
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the week before race because they don't want to get food
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poisoning, which is like a different sickness.
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But there's definitely things you can do to like minimize your
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risk of getting sick before race.
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And if you really care about the race and the effort, I would
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take all those precautions, no matter how silly they may seem.
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So that was the sickness talk. If you get sick, not the end of
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the world, but you got to be conscious.
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And if you don't want to get back track, just take care of
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yourself. OK #2 we're going to talk about
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risk in the mountains and the missing tent story.
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These kind of go together, but maybe they don't go together.
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But first I'll just talk about risk in the mountains.
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So I'll, this winter I'm going to go through like what I bring
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into the mountains during the winter, like, you know, stuff
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that you bring in your pack, safety precautions that you
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take. I think trail runners in
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particular, they, they get a lot of comments from hikers like,
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oh, be safe. Oh, that's all you got etcetera,
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etcetera. And so I'll go through that a
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different point, but I wanted to just talk about like your risk
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when you go into the mountains. So I think anytime you go out
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into the woods, especially the mountains in big terrain, you're
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taking some sort of risk of whatever that may be there.
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There's a risk associated with going out there, whether it be
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the conditions or getting, getting, just getting hurt and
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like not being able to get yourself out.
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And so there's all different things that you can bring.
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You bring the 10 essentials, you can bring in reaches, you can
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bring buddies like other people to come with you.
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And so there's all these different things we can bring.
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I won't get into that now, but I think the risk as far as like
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just being out there is something that you really should
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think about. So I went on a hike last weekend
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in the Belle Knaps, love the Belle knaps.
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We'll always shout out the Belle Knaps.
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It's like a smaller version of the White Mountains, just there
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are some sections that are just as steep, just as technical,
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punchy, and they're way quieter than the Whites.
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If you haven't been to the Belle Knaps, go to the Belle Knaps.
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But I was there on a Sunday afternoon and it was a cold,
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like it was like in the 20s wind chill last weekend.
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Just raw. It was kind of rainy sleety,
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just really raw out there. And I was thinking like in the
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bell naps, they're smaller mountains.
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They're like not even I don't even know if they're 2000 feet.
22:13
Maybe some of them are, but not something that you would think
22:15
about as being like pretty risky.
22:17
But for me, when I was out there, I was thinking this is
22:21
more risky than a lot of my time going out into the White
22:24
Mountains. And here's why.
22:27
If you go into the White Mountains on the weekends and
22:30
you start before noon, no matter what time of year, with all the
22:34
gridders and the 48 four thousand footer list people and
22:38
just hikers getting out who just love getting out, there are
22:41
always going to be people out there with you.
22:44
So if you do get hurt, there's always going to be people out
22:47
there like you never really are alone in the Whites if you're on
22:50
a 4000 footer on the weekend. Now, if you're just doing some
22:55
like no name trail in the middle of nowhere, like a lot of times
22:57
you are alone. But when you're on trail with
23:00
other people, I think your risk goes down like tenfold.
23:04
There's going to be other people.
23:05
You all have various sorts of gear and ways to get help or
23:10
whatever. And so if you're nervous about
23:13
getting out in the mountains, go on a 4000 footer, go in the
23:16
morning on a weekend and you're going to be with people and
23:19
there's really nothing to worry about.
23:21
Now, if you're out there, if you're the last person there, if
23:25
you there are not any other cars or there's one car and you pass
23:28
that one person and you're the last person in the mountain,
23:31
that changes your risk so much because no ones coming up behind
23:35
you to to help you out if something happens.
23:38
And so I think being aware of are there other people out there
23:42
or and am I alone is a huge thing to think about when, when
23:48
you're seeing risks. So when I was in the bell naps,
23:51
there was one other car get up to the top and didn't see
23:53
anybody. And it's getting darker probably
23:57
like an hour and a half from dark.
23:59
It's really, really cold. Like I, I had some gear, but
24:02
it's not like I have like a gear to stay out there all night.
24:07
That is when your risk is the highest and that's when you have
24:09
to make the smartest decisions. Don't bomb down some crazy icy
24:14
trail. Don't try something that you're,
24:16
oh, I'm going to try to jump over this for no reason, like
24:19
just because I'm trying to get fancy.
24:21
This is when you have to make smart decisions because I think
24:25
knowing your risk in the moment and then making smart decisions
24:29
will save you from 90% of the issues you're going to face on
24:32
trail. It's going to lower your risk
24:36
injury. It's going to lower your injury
24:37
of getting lost. Like I'm not going to do this
24:39
trail. Like I don't really know where
24:40
it is on a day that it's getting dark soon and it's really cold
24:44
and there's no one else out here.
24:45
Like knowing those factors are thinking something you should
24:49
always be thinking about in your head.
24:52
And so, yeah, that was just one thing I wanted to say.
24:54
If you're getting out in the mountains this winter, just know
24:57
it's getting really cold. If you get hurt in the mountains
25:00
in the winter and you have to stay out there, a lot of the
25:03
times you will get hypothermia if you have to stay out all
25:07
night. So understanding when you're
25:11
able to get help, if you are able to reach help, if you just
25:14
have your phone, you don't have service, risk goes up.
25:17
Understanding all these things and then like taking precautions
25:20
is going to be very important. And so that's what I got to say
25:24
about the mountains. Know who else is out there when
25:27
you go out there and just be safe this winter.
25:29
Look at the forecast ahead of time.
25:30
We'll do a more a deeper dive into like the 10 essentials and
25:33
what I bring and kind of thoughts about that.
25:35
But yeah, just understand when you're out there, your
25:38
surroundings, what's going on around you really does matter
25:41
and can't help you. So that's the risk in the
25:44
mountains talk. Next up, the missing tent story.
25:50
I don't know the whole details of this, so I'm just going to do
25:52
a high level overview. But essentially there was up on
25:57
the the Valley Way trail near Madison Hut, there was like a
26:01
camping platform or a place you can camp.
26:04
And there was a tent that was abandoned, had a bunch of stuff
26:08
in it, had car keys in it. Nobody was there.
26:12
And presumably it was, it was left there and eventually the
26:19
tent got reported like, hey, there's a tent with nobody in
26:21
it. There's car keys, We don't know
26:22
where they went. The tent got taken down and
26:26
there have been no missing persons reports.
26:30
And so it's kind of like this mystery, like what has happened?
26:33
Like is this person missing? Are they not missing?
26:36
Why are their car keys? There was no car that matched
26:41
the car keys at the trailhead. And so it was kind of like a
26:45
mystery. I think there's a bunch of
26:47
theories, like one, they could be missing, but nobody has
26:51
reported them missing. So like the police said that
26:53
they can't really, if no one's reported missing, like, you
26:56
know, they did a search for the person, they couldn't find
26:58
anything. So like at this point, they're
26:59
not going to search further if they, if nobody is actually
27:02
missing, there's a thought like, oh, somebody, you know, didn't
27:08
want to go back and they had a spare set of keys.
27:10
So they just left and they left all their stuff up there or
27:15
maybe that person was with somebody else.
27:17
They left their stuff and then they left with somebody else,
27:20
like if they parked at different trailheads.
27:22
So there's some theories. I honestly don't know.
27:25
They all seem hi there. They all seem that person to be
27:30
a Boston Marathon sweater on. So she seems like a BQR.
27:34
Good for her. Yeah, the all the theories seem
27:39
a little bit strange. Like, why would somebody leave
27:45
their keys and their stuff up there?
27:48
Like, maybe some people just really don't care about their
27:51
stuff that much. Or they didn't.
27:53
They had a bad time camping. They're like, ah, screw it, I
27:55
can't go back up there. Maybe they're really, like, out
27:58
of shape or injured and they couldn't get back up there and
28:01
they just bailed. And they did have a spare set of
28:03
keys if they're missing, like somebody like saying that
28:07
nobody's missing. So not looking for a missing
28:09
person seems a little bit weird to me because I'm like, I think
28:11
there's lots of people that don't tell, even though it's not
28:15
best practice, don't tell somebody like that they're going
28:18
out in the mountains or going hiking if you live alone or
28:22
whatever. Like I live alone.
28:23
Most of the stuff that I do, I just go and I don't tell people
28:28
the full plan like and I just go out there.
28:30
So I don't know like what my gut, what is my gut telling me?
28:36
I think there's probably like an equal chance between all
28:39
options. I think something weird is going
28:41
on though, and I think like if you have a car key, can you
28:44
match a car key to like a vehicle VIN or something?
28:48
I don't know, I don't know. I wouldn't dismiss the whole
28:52
thing though, like I would definitely and obviously like
28:54
the Police Department of sure isn't dismissing everything.
28:57
But if it were me, it seems like something there's still
29:00
something weird that needs to be solved there.
29:02
And that's my gut reaction. So that's kind of strange.
29:09
If if by chance that person is listening to the podcast A
29:12
needle in 10,000 haystacks. Hey, there's a bunch of people
29:16
looking for your stuff and yeah, that would help us all.
29:20
I've cracked that code, but OK, that's that's enough about the
29:24
risk in the tent. Next topic, rehabbing knee
29:28
injuries. So yeah, I've dealt with a
29:32
handful of knee injuries over the years and honestly, this is
29:35
going to be a super in depth talk.
29:37
I think I just have a few tricks, but I do think they are
29:39
extremely powerful. So I remember when I was first
29:42
getting into running, I had a runner's knee.
29:45
And I think that's something like that.
29:47
You just, when you start running a lot, your tendons aren't used
29:51
to the load and they'll just get aggravated.
29:54
And I think runner's knee is something that you can actually
29:56
run through at like a decent amount.
29:58
It's like the tendon below your kneecap is like flaring up and
30:01
that kind of hurts. And so when I had that runner's
30:05
knee, I actually got like bought access to a program.
30:10
It was, I think it was the ATG, it was knees over toes guy, knee
30:14
rehab program. And this guy is like somebody
30:17
who had chronic knee pain and now he can do these like insane
30:21
squats and put like thousands of pounds of pressure on his knee.
30:24
He can dunk. He's very, he's a good speaker.
30:28
Like he's very much like, and he seems like he knows a ton about
30:31
knee injuries, but his whole theory was like all these
30:34
doctors just he wants you to get surgeries and like, you know,
30:38
none of these are really long term fix fixes.
30:41
And he dedicated his life to training how can I strengthen my
30:45
knee like to the maximum extent. So he's got a lot of good stuff.
30:49
And so I bought that program and I think a lot of things in that
30:51
program are super helpful. I don't remember all of like the
30:55
workouts, so I'm not going to list them all, but that's
30:58
definitely like a good resource. And I'm sure if you go to knees
31:01
over toes guy Instagram, there will be like most of the info
31:04
that you need just on there like in video form.
31:07
But what I gathered from that program, the two things that I
31:10
gather that help me the most and 1 is like by far, I just would
31:14
recommend this to everybody. Walking uphill backwards or
31:20
dragging A weighted sled backwards is so good for your
31:24
knees. This is what I did for all of my
31:27
knee injuries and it's helped every single one of them pretty
31:30
much go away. I, I don't really have knee
31:33
issues, knock on wood. Like I haven't had a ton of knee
31:35
issues. If they do flare up, it's
31:36
something I, it's not something I can't work through.
31:39
And so I do a combination of like those weighted sleds at the
31:42
gym. Usually people like push them
31:44
with the two poles. If you just have like a belt,
31:47
usually they'll have them at the gym, tie it around your waist,
31:50
hook it to the sled and then just walk backwards.
31:53
For I like to do like longer sessions, so like 5 to 10
31:58
minutes of just like walking backwards.
32:00
I walk to one of the gym, I unstrap it, I turn around, I
32:02
walk the other side and I just go back and forth for five to 10
32:05
minutes. You can do it as a warm up, you
32:07
can do it after you do done cardio, done weight lifting.
32:10
And basically what it does is I think training your knees is
32:15
very hard because you get a lot of stress to your knees.
32:18
It's all like cartilage, ligaments that are like hard to
32:20
get blood flow too without putting a lot of pressure on
32:23
them. But if you're walking backwards
32:25
with a weighted sled or the same thing as if you walk uphill
32:29
backwards, you're putting pressure on your knee without
32:33
loading that tendon. It's really loading your quads,
32:37
but your knee is working, but in a, in a much lower impact.
32:41
And what I can actually like, I can feel this when I do the
32:44
workout. You can feel blood in, in a
32:47
fluvial fluid or something, the fluid getting to your kneecap.
32:51
And that's just going to promote healing.
32:53
And so if you have any knee injury, whether it be a sprain
32:58
like tendonitis, runners knee, I would do 5 to 10 minutes of this
33:04
3:00-ish times a week. And I would bet in a few weeks
33:08
you will start feeling better. That would be my #1 tip to
33:12
anybody. That was like the biggest thing
33:14
that I got from that ATG knee program.
33:18
It's just a way to strengthen your knee without putting a lot
33:21
of pressure on it. Because like when you're
33:22
squatting, when you're running downhill, when you're doing all
33:25
these different exercises for your legs, it's just a lot of
33:28
pressure on the knee. And if your knee is tweaked,
33:30
it's not, it's going to get worse.
33:32
But this is like the one way where your knee is protected and
33:35
you strengthen everything around it at a low impact cost.
33:38
So that is like the number one thing.
33:41
You can also I think like if you have a treadmill, like I don't
33:44
know if this is good for the treadmill, but if you keep a
33:46
treadmill turned off and you just walk backwards, there's
33:49
also that like resistance. It does like the same thing.
33:54
And I've seen a lot of people at the gym like walking backwards
33:57
on treadmills. So I'm sure knees over toes guys
33:59
still doing his thing, but I really recommend that.
34:02
The other big thing that I got from that program and this more
34:07
helps with runners knee, but I think this helps with shin
34:09
splints. I think this helps with like any
34:11
lower leg injury from running is strengthening your sole.
34:16
Strengthening your Soleus muscle is super important.
34:20
It absorbs a ton of shock when you're training and the stronger
34:24
that muscle can be, the least the lower impact that's going to
34:29
get to the rest of your leg. So I would just look into like
34:32
there's soleus calf raises. It's basically just keep your
34:36
knee bent and do a calf raise. They're very effective.
34:40
And the other thing too that I think, I don't know if this is
34:43
like proven, but it's basically the same thing.
34:45
You're strengthening your calf while your knees bent running
34:48
uphill, get your soleus faster. So run mountain peaks, guys,
34:54
let's go run mountain peaks. If you're running uphill, you're
34:58
going to be strengthening your soleus.
34:59
And I think that that helps with with knee issues as long as you
35:03
don't overdo it. So shout out running uphill.
35:08
Yeah. So I would, I would focus on
35:09
those two things, walking backwards and and strengthening
35:13
your soleus. And then like the other thing
35:16
this could go for any a general injury is as you're progressing
35:21
from an injury, do work. And as long as the injury isn't
35:26
a three out of 10 or more of pain, like as long as it's like
35:29
3 or below and the next day it's not getting worse.
35:33
Just progress your training like with that threshold, as soon as
35:36
you hit that threshold, you got to back off.
35:38
But just train up to that and give it some time.
35:42
And that's like the same thing with the sicknesses.
35:44
Eventually you got to take a little bit of time off to let it
35:48
heal, but it's going to prevent you from like losing more
35:53
training by just trying to train through it and making it worse.
35:57
So that was the rehabbing knee injury stuff.
36:01
Next topic, we have maximizing speed workouts.
36:05
So this is something that honestly the I just wanted, this
36:09
is going to be pretty quick. I just want to touch on one
36:11
thing. So I use no strips.
36:14
I used to use no strips every speed work.
36:16
So once a week on like a hard speed workout day I'd always
36:19
wear my nose strips and recently and so the no strips, I don't
36:25
know if they're scientifically proven to like do anything like
36:29
it probably has a 0.01% benefit. But when you wear a nose strip
36:34
like you're, you can feel like your nose is a little bit more
36:36
open like David Roche says, like if you can just get more oxygen,
36:40
that's going to be good for you. It can't hurt.
36:43
And they're super cheap, so why not use them?
36:46
So that's one of the things that I always use for speed workouts.
36:49
And I was using them recently. I don't know what brand I have,
36:52
but every time I pull them off now, I've used them dozens of
36:58
times before with no incidents. The last two times I've used
37:01
them, I pull them off and I get this big bruise right here on my
37:05
nose and it looks very strange, like it's very clear like for a
37:12
few days, like I have this big bruise on my nose that's like
37:14
very defined and I don't know, like people are looking at me
37:18
like, oh, what's up with your nose?
37:20
I don't know why this been happening.
37:22
I don't know if my nose strip has been like too skinny.
37:25
I need to find a new nose strip, but that's kind of been been
37:30
aggravated me a little bit. So I need to test some new nose
37:33
strips, but I don't know, I should, honestly, I should have
37:38
tried different nose strips before I came on the podcast and
37:40
wasted your time about this. But yeah, if anyone has had that
37:43
problem and has figured out how to solve it, let me know.
37:47
I think maybe just like a wider nose strip, but I don't know.
37:50
It's like you get like this little like bruise, like almost
37:53
like a little Hickey thing on your nose and I don't like it.
37:58
So now I'm like, do I want to wear no shirts for a speed
38:01
workout? I don't know.
38:02
I you know, is it worth that .0% whatever gain for a bruise on my
38:06
nose all week? I don't know.
38:08
So, but OK, yeah, no shirts for speed workouts.
38:12
So this is, I maybe should have done that after I did all the
38:15
things. But yeah.
38:16
So when I do a speed workout, the way that I think about speed
38:20
workouts is I am trying to basically strengthen my leg
38:25
muscles. So if you're trying for me long
38:29
distance stuff, I'm just trying to get aerobically more fit my
38:31
aerobic system. And when you do speed workout,
38:33
you're producing Lactape, you're not using your aerobic system,
38:36
you're using your anaerobic system.
38:38
And so the real goal of the speed workout is to strengthen
38:42
my muscles. So I do anything I can to
38:47
basically ease the stress on my body so that I can just destroy
38:52
my leg muscles so they can kind of rebuild the next day.
38:55
It's like run your easy runs easy and your harder runs
38:57
harder. I try to make the speed workouts
38:59
extremely hard, like as much as I can take.
39:01
And so a few tips that I use every training session.
39:04
It's probably just a couple to maximize your output.
39:08
One like no strips, like any, any little thing that's going to
39:13
give you a little bit of gains. If it's not expensive, it's the
39:16
cost money. I would just do it.
39:17
So like no strips. I wear like my short shorts.
39:21
I only have a couple pairs of those, but I'll wear those
39:23
because like it reduces drag just like a little bit.
39:26
I wear a tank top. So I'm like not over, you know,
39:29
not sweating or anything. Do all of those things like if
39:34
you have carbon plated shoes, wear those.
39:36
Like wear your big shoes, wear your fast shoes, do all of these
39:40
little things that are just gonna increase your output and
39:44
just gonna, yeah, make you stronger.
39:47
And two other things that I use. So caffeine, I've talked about
39:50
caffeine before, but caffeine is like one of the only legal
39:54
performance enhancers. If you use caffeine daily or if
39:58
you never use caffeine when you're doing speed workout, you
40:01
should use more than typical. So if you don't use any, take
40:04
100 milligrams, maybe 150, maybe 200 if you're used to caffeine
40:09
every day, like have coffee every day.
40:16
People don't wave back to me on this road.
40:18
They're getting very sad about that, OK.
40:23
Yeah. And then if you do drink coffee,
40:24
maybe you just have an extra 100 to 150 to 200 milligrams of
40:28
caffeine. It pretty much is just going to
40:31
reduce perceived like pain and it's going to give your body
40:37
like a little bit of extra juice to go faster, go harder.
40:41
And if you're not taking it, you're just going to miss out on
40:43
that, on that extra boost, which you want for these speed
40:47
workouts. So definitely take caffeine.
40:50
It's legal. Like, I don't know, is anyone
40:51
scared of taking caffeine long term?
40:53
Like people have been taking caffeine for for decades, for
40:56
centuries. Yeah, take caffeine.
41:01
And then the other thing that I do is like any sort of cooling
41:04
techniques that you can use. So like having cold water
41:07
available to you. And then what I do, if I'm doing
41:10
a workout inside, I'll bring an ice pack.
41:14
And for me, what I found out works best, take a zip lock bag,
41:18
like a sandwich zip lock bag, fill it with ice.
41:22
And then just use that to, like, rub on your body.
41:26
Yeah, I do really rub it on my body at Planet Fitness.
41:30
People think I'm crazy, but I use it.
41:32
So like in between, in my rest intervals, if I'm doing like on
41:35
the incline tremor or the Stairmaster, I will take the ice
41:38
pack, rub it on my head, rub it on my face, rub it on your
41:41
hands, rub it on your arms, your legs, just to cool yourself
41:45
down, to basically prepare yourself to go harder the next
41:48
interval. Like you're just going to be
41:49
able to get more out of yourself.
41:52
And I think it's really beneficial.
41:54
Look up cooling. There's some crazy studies about
41:59
like how cooling increases performance because one of like
42:03
the biggest limiters for, for physical performance is like
42:07
your body's ability to cool itself down.
42:09
That's why I like sauna heat training is so important.
42:12
So if you can manually do that and it will increase your
42:16
workouts, I think you should. So if you're doing an indoor
42:19
workout, use ice. If you're going outdoors on like
42:22
a track and you have access to ice or you know, whatever I
42:24
would do that to it's just going to give those reps a little bit
42:28
of extra juice. So, OK, so that was the the
42:33
maximizing speed workout over this podcast.
42:36
I'm definitely going to go into like there's a lot of topics
42:39
that I want to talk about. I want to talk about different
42:41
workouts that I do. I want to talk about different
42:44
strategy. I'm trying to figure out like
42:46
the best way. Sometimes I feel like I I'm a
42:49
little bit rambler all over the place, but I want to really
42:52
convey the information in a good way to you guys.
42:56
And I'm just going to try to keep keep getting better at
42:59
that. So, and if you have any
43:03
questions, please like leave them in comments.
43:07
I yeah, leave them in the comments wherever you listen to
43:10
it. I'll try to get to them, address
43:12
all of them. If there's any topics you want
43:15
to hear, put them in there. And I'll, I'll definitely, I'll
43:18
get to all of them. But OK.
43:21
So the next topic is the mount a Scutney vertical backyard race.
43:28
So that is happening next weekend, Mount Escutney in
43:33
Vermont, Brownsville, Vt. It's a last person standing
43:37
race. I feel like these races are
43:39
getting pretty popular. Like I said, typically they're
43:42
four mile an hour races, but here each participant is going
43:46
to ascend and descend 1200 feet per hour until there's one
43:53
person left. So 1200 feet of climbing and
43:56
descending each hour lap. And there's going to be two
44:00
different options. So I think there is.
44:03
Do they have it here? Yeah, there's one option where
44:05
you do 3 laps of 400 feet or you can do one big lap of 1200 feet.
44:12
That's kind of like an interesting topic.
44:13
So there's going to be strategy in this race for sure.
44:18
I think one like in these backyard standing races, they
44:23
can just get like kind of monotonous and boring and people
44:25
kind of wear themselves out mentally.
44:27
And I think just having different routes to do is very
44:29
cool and very I think it offers just like a good a good mix of
44:34
things to kind of keep your spirits, you know, up and you
44:39
can kind of I'm done with this lap.
44:40
I'm going to do this other kind of loop this time and kind of
44:43
like help with the mental game. So I think that's cool, but how
44:47
do I think about it? Is it easier to go up and down
44:51
400 feet three times instead of up 1200 feet once?
44:55
I think for sure, yes. Like I run at the Unkanunis a
45:00
lot, which are like smaller mountains and it is so much
45:03
easier to do 3000 feet when you go up and down four times as
45:07
opposed to just going 3000 feet straight up.
45:10
I think it's just you get you get a little bit of break
45:14
muscularly and aerobically when you're going downhill.
45:18
So it kind of mixes it up and I feel like it just deteriorates
45:22
your let your deteriorate, deteriorates your leg muscles
45:27
slower if you don't have as long a sense of descent.
45:32
So I would assume that more people who are really going for
45:37
long efforts are going to do the three laps to kind of ease on
45:42
their bodies. But maybe mentally that's harder
45:44
though. And I feel like if you're not
45:46
going super fast, yeah, maybe that is just like mentally too
45:50
much. So we'll see.
45:52
It'll be interesting. Different people will take
45:54
different, different people will take different routes here.
45:58
So, and oh, they have a little bit of info here.
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So if you do 5 laps, that is 6288 feet approximately the size
46:06
of Mount Washington. If you do 12 laps, 14,500 feet,
46:11
which is about Mount Whitney. If you do 24 laps, it's 29,000
46:16
feet. That's an Everest.
46:17
So this this is like an Everest thing event, pretty much Everest
46:22
thing is doing 29,000 feet of ascent and descent within 24
46:26
hours. So we'll see how long they go.
46:29
This is going to be super fun to watch.
46:32
So OK, we want to get in the entrance though.
46:34
This is what I was saying. There are some sluggers in this
46:38
race. So people are going to, they're
46:39
going to be Everest for sure. There's 75 people signed up.
46:46
I'm sure like at least a handful, maybe a dozen, maybe a
46:48
couple dozen Everest, maybe a couple.
46:51
I don't know. We'll see.
46:52
There's going to be a lot of Everest though.
46:55
So I mean top, this is just like the ultra sign up.
46:58
I'm just going to go through and like go through some of the
47:00
names. I'm going to miss some crushers
47:02
and we'll go through the results 2 weeks from now or next week or
47:06
whenever they come out. But I'll just go on some of the
47:09
just the names that I I see on here.
47:10
So I mean, First off, the top person looks like they've done 1
47:15
ultra race, Elijah Putnam, but he it was a 12 hour race, so it
47:21
was kind of it was a long distance lace.
47:24
So I'm sure he's going to be a crusher.
47:26
He's only done one other race. So I feel like an ultra sign of
47:30
if people only have like 0 or a couple results, you never really
47:32
know. They could be like crushers that
47:34
just haven't done races yet. So we'll see.
47:38
The second person, Lila Gadrault, go look at her ultra
47:42
sign up. She is like, yeah, 23 year old.
47:45
She has done so many races. She puts down so many miles.
47:48
She wins most of the races. Yeah.
47:52
I think she just does insane mileage.
47:53
So she's definitely a favorite. Peter Benito.
47:56
I mean, he's done so many things.
47:58
Absolute crusher. Amber Mozo, Don't know her, but
48:03
second rated female. I'm sure she's going to be.
48:05
She's going to be tough. Seth Richardson, Lyle Cortez,
48:10
Connor Brown, a couple people on Community Skies.
48:13
Brian SV. I'm pretty sure that's Brian SV
48:16
on Strava. I think he almost took one of my
48:18
crowns on a Moussa lock. And then Mia Buckingham.
48:24
So she's done. Oh, she's doing help Hellbender
48:27
next year. She's a crazy last person
48:30
standing. So she's won Bubbles.
48:32
She's coming second at Bubbles. She's won Bubbles multiple
48:35
times, three times maybe. Yeah, just an absolute crusher.
48:38
So she's going to be one of the top people.
48:40
Bill Tidd, the supported New Hampshire 4000 Footer Tour de
48:45
John's top 50 this year. Bill Tidd's going to be out
48:48
there. He he is definitely in it to win
48:50
it. Will Peterson long trail
48:54
unsupported supported FKTS ever heard of it?
48:57
I think those are yeah, top like top.
49:00
There's like 20 like premier worldwide FKTS and he has some
49:04
he's a long distance guy through hiker and I think he DNF D Tour
49:09
de genres this year. I think actually to the sickness
49:11
point, I think he got sick the week before the race.
49:14
He DNF D and I'm sure he's got a lot to prove and he's going to
49:19
go until he can't go yet. Ryan Joy shout out Amber
49:24
Constant. She did the whites one.
49:26
She did the AT section of of the Appalachian Trail, New Hampshire
49:31
section of the Appalachian Trail this year.
49:33
She got the overall FDT in that she did a White Mountains 100
49:37
yo-yo. I don't even know who would want
49:39
to do that. She puts down huge miles, so I'm
49:42
sure she's going to have a good showing.
49:43
Andrew Soras, that dude does tons of miles bunch of through
49:47
hikes. Yeah, so, and this is going to
49:51
be a stacked race, like some of like some absolute kill, like
49:56
some of the best long distance people out there.
49:58
So this event could go on for a couple days.
50:01
I wonder. Yeah.
50:02
What is my prediction on how long this event will go?
50:06
I think Bubba's did Bubba's go 2 days this year.
50:09
I think when you throw in vertical gain, it gets harder to
50:12
go for longer. Like your muscles just get
50:14
absolutely destroyed. 1200 feet though, is not really a lot.
50:19
I'm going to say the winner is going to go 38 hours, 30.
50:25
I want to say 36, but I'll say 38.
50:27
So what's 38 * 12145 thousand feet of climbing?
50:31
That's my prediction on how how long the farthest person is
50:36
going to go with this race. But yeah, that'll be a cool
50:39
event and and we'll definitely follow up when the results from
50:44
that come in. All right, moving down the list
50:48
here, we got two more things, both going to be fairly quick.
50:52
So the motivational minute. All right, hold on guys.
50:55
I got to get a drink of water here.
51:03
OK, I'm back. I'm probably not going to cut
51:06
that. I apologize.
51:09
OK, the motivation minute for the week.
51:11
This one hit me pretty hard recently.
51:14
I I like what I don't have like cable, so I watch YouTube a good
51:18
amount and my YouTube algorithm right now is just like half of
51:22
my feet. Is just these like motivational,
51:25
I don't know what you call them like kind of videos, but they're
51:27
just like motivational, like compilation videos.
51:31
And one of the ones that hit me hard a few days ago was this is
51:36
the quote. Everyone has two lives.
51:38
The second starts when you realize you only have one life.
51:42
And I think it's like maybe a little bit cheesy, maybe a
51:45
little bit corny, but something hit so deep in me recently when
51:49
I heard that, like, I just turned 28 and I'm thinking like,
51:54
I have two years of my 20s left. This I only get one chance at my
52:00
at my 20s. And this could go for every if
52:02
you're in your 30s forties, 50s, teens, you only have one life.
52:08
This is it. You get no do overs.
52:10
Like imagine all the things that you think back and you're like,
52:13
I wish I could do that over like I don't have any regrets.
52:17
But there are things that like, wow, you know, I had one crack
52:19
and I kind of not whiffed, but I learned a lot.
52:22
But I wish I did things different that you're, you only
52:26
have one life. This is it all you're going to
52:28
get. If you have a dream, if you have
52:30
something you want to do, you have to attack it.
52:33
Like today, like your time is fleeting.
52:38
You need to go after it and get it.
52:41
No goal is too big. If you have super big goals, I
52:44
think they're probably not big enough.
52:46
Dream bigger and just go after with all you have.
52:49
Now, that doesn't mean quit your job, do all all these things,
52:53
but make sure that you have a plan to get what you want.
52:56
If you have something you really want, you got to make a plan and
53:00
you got to be working towards it every day, every week.
53:02
No more. I'm going to start after this.
53:05
Oh, I can't do it because it's too risky.
53:07
Like how imagine how risky it is if you go your whole life and
53:11
you never take a chance on what something you really wanted.
53:14
Like that is actually the ultimate risk that is so much
53:18
riskier than what you're perceiving is like some sort of
53:22
thing that you'd be uncomfortable doing.
53:23
So if you have a shot, if you got something, you got to go
53:26
take it. And if you don't know what that
53:28
is like, I think a lot of the part of the battle is just
53:31
understanding what you want in life or like what, yeah, what
53:35
you really want to go after. You got to figure that out.
53:38
And once you figure that out, you have to take huge risks and
53:42
and go for it. And that quote really hit hard
53:45
for me. If you have anything that you've
53:48
been thinking about or you want to pull the trigger, but you
53:50
don't think because of this, that or the other thing, I think
53:55
that this, that or the other thing is actually the bigger
53:58
risk as opposed to not doing them.
54:01
Like if you just keep doing, keep going down the path you're
54:04
going down, like, hey, maybe you got a good family, you got a
54:07
good life. Like everything is good.
54:10
That's awesome. Like a lot of people love that.
54:12
But if there was something that you really wanted to go for and
54:15
you didn't like not going for it is actually the biggest risk.
54:19
So go, yeah, have a dream and go for it.
54:23
And last, last thing in the podcast, my 2025 victory over
54:29
the fruit flies. Like I said at the beginning of
54:33
the at the pod, at the beginning of the podcast, I live in like
54:37
an older, like a brick, just old apartment building.
54:42
And I moved into a new unit this year, but I've been in the same
54:46
complex for a while and I've just dealt with critters getting
54:50
into my house. Now.
54:51
Luckily it's not anything big, like I don't have mice or rats
54:54
or anything, but lots of bugs get into my apartment.
54:59
Some of them I make peace with, some of them I don't make peace
55:02
with spiders. I make peace with spiders unless
55:05
they're like super big and super scary near my head.
55:08
At night I let them go because they kind of put the webs up and
55:12
they get a bunch of other insects and stuff.
55:14
But flies have been my nemesis. Now at the old apartment, big
55:20
flies always got in. And I hate big flies.
55:22
Getting big flies stinks. But I haven't had this in the
55:24
new apartment, The new apartment.
55:26
And I will say this happened in both apartments.
55:29
The fruit flies have been absolutely insane.
55:33
I eat a ton of fruit. I get it.
55:35
I have a bunch of bananas every week.
55:37
I have apples, blueberries, like I have all the fruits.
55:40
Some of it's, you know, stored outside of the fridge like
55:43
bananas. You have to but if okay, this is
55:48
a this is a if you're a scientist or a biologist and
55:53
you're listening to this podcast needle in a haystack needle in
55:56
1000 haystacks. But if you were listening and
55:59
you want a new research project, the fruit flies in my apartment,
56:03
whatever DNA they have, whatever strain of fruit fly this is, is
56:07
the hardiest, most resilient, smartest fruit fly on planet
56:12
Earth. You need to study them because
56:14
you'll probably become rich. These, I cannot get them to go
56:18
away during the summer. I've tried every single thing.
56:21
I've tried the little plug in traps, the sticky traps that you
56:24
plug with the light. I've tried like the actual like
56:28
stick traps that don't have a light that are just like
56:31
whatever coating. I've tried the traps that you
56:33
can get like from a manufacturer that with the little holes that
56:36
they get in. I've tried DIY like throwing
56:40
apples in a bowl with vinegar or and poking holes with the little
56:44
plastic to get them to go in. I've tried red wine in a bowl
56:48
with the little holes in the plastic to get them to go in.
56:50
I cannot capture these things and and get rid of them during
56:54
the summer. It is, it is a horrible problem
56:57
and and I don't know if like I, I feel like a lot of people say
57:02
fruit flies are like annoying to have, but I don't know.
57:06
I, I truly think that these fruit flies are our next level
57:11
tough, smart. They just don't go in the traps
57:13
and I just have crazy amounts of fruit flies flying around my
57:17
bananas, my trash all summer. And honestly, I would prefer
57:24
fruit flies over the big flies because the big flies, like it
57:28
takes a little bit to kill them. Like the fruit flies, you can't
57:30
really do anything about them. So I just kind of like they're
57:35
just my roommates for the summer.
57:38
But yeah, it's something that I struggled with.
57:41
I can't figure out how to get rid of them.
57:43
And the only, the only the way that gets rid of them is in like
57:47
November when it starts to get cold for a long period of time.
57:50
They finally die off. So the fruit flies have died off
57:54
for the year. I have recaptured my my
57:57
household for myself. But yeah, it is, it is brutal
58:02
with these fruit flies. So I have about, I think maybe
58:05
like usually this spring, they're not too bad.
58:07
So I have about 6 months fruit fly free right now.
58:10
So I'm very excited about that. I'm going to try to be thankful
58:14
and not not become too comfortable without the fruit
58:18
flies because I know they're coming back.
58:20
But yeah, the fruit flies have just been insane.
58:23
And I mean, yeah, if you have any strategies, please let me
58:26
know. But I really think that this,
58:28
this strain of fruit flies just built different.
58:30
So, but oh, well, they're gone for the year.
58:34
And so I have one. And so I, I've been doing a
58:36
little victory lap, doing a little bit of ha ha with the
58:39
fruit flies. And I will say actually the
58:42
fruit flies are gone. But last week I had a little bit
58:44
of a Hornet incident. We have these Hornets by the
58:50
apartment that are just massive. And I looked at my slider door
58:55
the other day and there's like 10 of them just dead in the
58:57
slider thing. I've killed a few of them that
58:58
got into the house. I don't know really where
59:02
they're getting in. Like I assume that they're going
59:03
to go away in the winter. But yeah, I, I killed one the
59:08
other day. It was probably this big.
59:11
I was so frightened. I stunned it with my hat, and it
59:13
wasn't fully dead. And.
59:15
And I had to hit it again with the hat.
59:17
And then I had to go get a rock and finish the job.
59:19
And so. Hi there.
59:21
How's it going? OK, That's the end of the
59:31
podcast anyway. Yeah.
59:34
And so I took out this massive Hornet, which I was legitimately
59:37
scared to do the other day. But yeah, bugs just get in my
59:40
apartment and lucky for me, the the winter I will be bug free.
59:44
So that was a whole story I wanted to share there.
59:48
So that's all I have for today. Those were the topics.
59:52
I think we're about about an hour here.
59:55
Let's go. Yeah, that's all I got.
59:59
So I'm feeling a little bit better.
1:00:00
I'm going to hit a speed workout probably Tuesday and then
1:00:05
hopefully my training is back on track.
1:00:07
But. We'll see how it goes.
1:00:09
I'll do an update next week and hopefully any of these tips that
1:00:12
I talked about help you out if this is like the sixth season.
1:00:16
So I feel like people are getting sick.
1:00:17
So hopefully that's not you. But if it is, hopefully some of
1:00:21
the stuff helped and you can get back to training and get back to
1:00:25
Gaines, running up mountains, running mountain peaks.
1:00:30
That's the goal. All right, till next time.
1:00:34
Again, this podcast follows by Hillstrides.
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We'll see you next time, Peace.