199.) Summit Sessions #74: The Old Forge Quad-Athlon Meets Great Range Athlete

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the forty six of forty six podcast Summit Sessions,
where we'll talk all things Adirondack back country and beyond.
From high peaks, stories and adventures to trail tips and tricks.
We'll dive deep into the heart of these mountains and
the people who passionately climb them. Adirondack maps and spruce
traps to bushwacks and backpacks. It's all here, the forty

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six of forty six Summit Sessions. Hello and welcome to
the forty six of forty six podcast. I am back

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with a summit session this week, and today we're diving
into something that screams Adirondack Mountain fund A race that
was truly as wild and rugged as the Adirondack Park itself.
A brand new event took place last Saturday here in
the Adirondacks an old Forge called the Forge Quadathalon, a

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true Adirondacks style endurance event that included not one, not two,
not three, but four disciplines biking, hiking, paddling, and running.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes you heard that correctly.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
This race kicked off with a thirteen mile mountain and
gravel bike ride, followed by hike up Vista Mountain From there,
everyone had to do a four mile trail run back
to the road to then do a two point six
mile run on the road to the water, where they
would begin a five point four mile paddle down the

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Moose River. But if that wasn't enough, the following the
paddle there was a one mile run to the finish line.
What an adventure. That must have been a true Adirondack
mountain adventure in every single sense, and not surprisingly, not
surprisingly at all, this event caught the eye of not
just one, but eight different members from my Great Range

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Athlete and seek to do more teams who signed up
to compete and have some fun, not to race against
each other, but simply to race alongside each other, because
quite frankly, that's what this community does. And it's quite
frankly why you cannot stop the Great Range Athlete community,
because basically, when one person says I'm in, chances are
someone else will join the fun, and then someone else

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and then another person will join into It's happened many
times before and it'll happen again, I'm sure. But that's
the story of this race. I personally love to see it.
So it is an Adirondack story. Worth telling. So tonight
I'm sitting down with a few of those Great Range
Athletes to hear about their experience, their mindset going into
the event, and what it means to be a part

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of a community where pushing your limits and helping others
do the same, it's just what we do.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's part of the culture.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
So, without further ado, I'd like to welcome to the
forty six of forty six podcast. We've got Annie, We've
got Jen Lindsay, the Ona, mattch Shane and Mac just
some of the members of the Great Range Athlete teams.
Who competed or I guess Youngny to say competed, who ran,
who participated? You didn't just run, You did all sorts
of things in this race. But it's great to have

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you guys. Welcome to the forty six to forty six podcast.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hello, good to be here.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Most of you have already been on this podcast at
one point or another now from different Great Range Athlete teams.
So before we kind of go around and introduce each
one of you and also find out.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
What teams that you have been a part of.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Who was the first person that signed up for this
event originally, who is the mastermind of this.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Someone had to go first. Who was it, I don't look.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
That yeah, or who got us all roped into this?

Speaker 5 (03:47):
I think it was the first one to sign up,
But Lindsay was the one that made everybody and she
was probably the last person to sign up.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So Annie from Maryland, you're the first person that signed
up officially. But you're saying Lindsay is the one that
kind of rallied the troops.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is that what you're.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Saying, Lindsey is the one that peer pressured everybody into
doing it. I love it, which then the peer pressure
rolled down the hill and got to me.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So but you were the first person to sign up,
So Lindsey you I think so you started peer pressuring
other people to do this and you hadn't even signed
up yet.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh I love it. Hilarious.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
I mean I was.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
On to put the demon and everybody's head James, okay,
and I think I started the idea.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Lindsay ran with it. I love it. No, that's great.
That's what that see, That's that is what team environments
are like.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So before we dive in further, I just want each
person to introduce yourself, just say, you know, what's your name,
where you're from, what teams of mine have you been on,
and just kind of give us a little introduction on yourself.
We're going to start with Annie because you're in the
top left of my screen here.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
My name is Annie.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
I'm from Maryland, and I was on the og Marcy team,
the Cascade and and Wolf Jaw and Right Team and.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
The Elite Team and the Seek to Do More team.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Oh, and the Seek to Do More team, all right.
Moving across by screen, Jen Jen Jen Jen. I'm Jen
from Saratova, New York. I started on the Gothics team,
then did the Seak to Do More team, and we're
in the last week of the Elite team.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
All right. And Lindsey.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
I am Lindsay from Kesanovia, New York.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
I was on the Gothics team, seek to Do More
and most recently the Elite team.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Dianna euroupe Hi Dianna from Syracuse, New York. I'm on
a two seventy of Seek to Do More and in
the middle of Team Wolfjaw on g ra.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Right, fantastic, Matt talk to us back, Matt, Oh, Yeah,
good called Matt, Matthew.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Matthew Flaner you, all right, I met.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'm from Westmoreland, New York.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
I am from the Marcy team, the number one team
just so everybody here knows it, the Seek to Do
More team and currently finishing up the Elite team.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, very good. Now onto Mac Mac talk to us, buddy.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, I'm Mack. I'm from now from Delaware.

Speaker 9 (06:20):
I am on the Gothics team, our Cascade team and
just wrapping up the Elite team.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, very good. And last but not least, she
made it into Zoom. Thank god.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Shane. Talk to me. What teams are you from? Shane?

Speaker 10 (06:35):
Shane from water For, New York, and I am from
Coldin but we hiked Colvin, so yes, I get those
confused myself.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Makes perfect sense. And Shane is also a member of
the seakh to Do More team, So as you can see,
there's a bit of a family affair here. But once again,
that's like, that's the community culture that has been just
kind of very organically developed here in this world of
pushing one another, pushing yourselves to do new things and
quite frankly roping your friends in to join you for
the Shenanigans. That's pretty much what we do here. So

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it's it's fun to watch for me watching all of
you guys sign up for this and like how the
list grew bigger and bigger and bigger of who was
doing this event. It was a it was fun. It
was fun to watch it unfold. And I'm looking forward
to hearing more of the stories from you because I've
I've seen the bruises, I've seen the cuts, but i
haven't actually heard how it all went down.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
So I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
So as we dive into this, So, Lindsey, you're the
first person who kind of roped everybody into it. So
I'm gonna ask you this question, even though you weren't
the first person to sign up, what made what made
this event seem of interest? Like, clearly it perked your
It perked your interest a limits. So what was it
about it that did you know four different disciplines?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Like, what was it?

Speaker 7 (07:51):
Well, I need to start off by saying like, I
have never signed up for anything like this, so I'm
not I mean maybe I've done a five K years
ago and that was pretty much.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
So this was really out of character for me.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
But it came out, it was announced when I was,
you know, deep into seat to do more, and during
that and being influenced by others in that group, I
really wanted like a goal, like a you know, obviously
I was in Seek to Do More because I wanted
to continue getting stronger at hiking mountains and just getting
stronger mentally and physically and all of those things, but

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they weren't like more short term tangible goals, and I
really wanted like some big goal, and to me, that
was a huge goal. And I started biking. I got
really into biking last year, so it included the biking.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
I like that.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
I already paddle hiking obviously that's a big part of
my life now, but the running part was not. So
that was definitely a challenge, and you know, I ended
up training as best I could for that leading up
to it, but really it was just the challenge overall
and knowing that, you know, coming out of Seek to
Do More and being on the Gothics team and all that, like, yes,

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I can do hard things. This is going to be
freaking hard, but I want to do it just to
be able to say I did it. But I wasn't
going to do alone. That's how I roped everybody else.
But yeah, just more an overall challenge I needed to do.
I was just drawn to it and I needed to
do it.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
So you really stepped outside your comfort zone for this race. Yeah,
big time. Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right, So before we dive into, you know, some
more information about it, who wants to kind of give
us the overall rundown for the listeners as to like
how the race went, like in terms of like give
us the give us what the race really was.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Who wants to to who remembers? Very well, I can
do that for you, all right, Shane, let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
All right.

Speaker 10 (09:42):
So the first leg was thirteen point one of gravel
like path bicycling, and then we transitioned.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
There was a little bit.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Tell us about the so what was the bike path?

Speaker 10 (09:55):
Like, what was that?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
We get it? It was stupid, It was ao so
not stupid. It was the best part.

Speaker 10 (10:03):
So we had about a mile on road and then
it transferred to gravel, which it was either small gravel
sand or larger gravel. It was wide enough to fit
a car on, and that was essentially the There was
houses off of part of the like what we drove,
like maybe summer houses, winterhouses for snowmobiling.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
That kind of situation.

Speaker 10 (10:27):
But that's essentially what it was for thirteen point one
miles point five.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, it was longer than they state it.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, all those distances were not right, all right.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
And it was the we were on the Toby Trail.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yep, the Toby Trail. It's okay, Well we'll let it
ask this time. Since it was the very first year
of the event, I have a feeling that next year
this event is going to be I bet you it's
five times the size next year in terms of, you know,
the popularity it will grow. It's such a cool idea
I told I think I've told a few of you.
I was so disappointed when I heard about it. I

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was disappointed that I didn't come up with that because
I thought it was so cool. But any okay, So
thirteen and a half mile bike ride, we learned a
little bit about the path, all right, continue.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, let's add to the path.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
It did have around six to eight hundred foot gain,
so you had some climes.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's important.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah, So then we had uh about sorry, three that's it.
We had about three it's some a mile walk.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
To our first aid station, which then transitioned into our hike,
which was four point two along a ridge, so you
had a lot of false summits, ups and downs and
that was about one thousand feet of elevation.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Now how did that be going from the thirteen and
a half mile bike to climbing elevation. That must have
been a peries different experience. Okay, that was my favorite part.
Jen you're shaking your head, No, Jen Off, It was
actually fifteen hundred feet of elevation.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Gain ed the bugs, at least for me, black flies, mosquitoes, humidity,
It just it was a slog I did not the
hike was the biggest mental block to push through for me.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I think the hidak was the biggest surprise for everybody
that it was that. As challenging as it was, I
mean it was still super fun.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, I mean there was rambling, there was some it
was not a well main trained trail, so there was mud,
There was a little bit of bushwhacking. There was very
loose like loamy loamy areas.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It was.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
It was a challenge And.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
How did the legs feel?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Because obviously like hiking amounts, you guys are used to
hiking mouains, but coming off of a long bike ride
like that, your legs must feel different, I would imagine,
especially for those of you who aren't. You know, Annie,
I know you're not a fan of riding bikes, but
how did how did the legs equate when you actually
got on the hiking trail?

Speaker 6 (13:06):
My quads balked immediately, i'mer immediately cramped on me. Said
that was when me and Bustard had a fun time
for the rest of the day, which right, I think.
And he has a story about the mustard ferry later
in the podcast.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
So let me ask.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
So there's for those of you listening who don't know,
and I only learned this from Blaine Colopy, but apparently
mustard is like an instant cramp solver. So I've never
tried it, never had the pleasure, but take it for
what you will. People swear by eating mustard when your
body starts to cramp up. So did it work for you, Matt?

Speaker 3 (13:41):
It works immediately.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's short lived, but it works like fifteen seconds and
your cramps are going.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's impressive. All right, Yeah, well there you go. There
you go solve your cramps this summer on the trail
with some mustard.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
It works.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
And my quads were killing me after the bike.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
And because I was attempting to power up the hills
because I'm not good.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I've never ridden a bike before.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Well, I hadn't ridden a bike since I was thirteen,
and I just bought my bike at Walmart like a.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Few months ago, so I was under prepared for the biking.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
And I never switched gears, not once, so I just
stayed in the middle and went for it. So my
quads were killing me when we started the hike, and
then when we started the hike, then thank goodness, it
shifted because we had such so much elevation, it switched
to my calves.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Despite we having a Walmart bike. I think Jen and
I can commiserate with you. Clearly overpaid for your Walmart bike.

Speaker 8 (14:41):
If all you were going to need was a fixed
one fee, sure.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's got to be I should skinny your hockey.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
No gears, could have had my son's BMX bike or something.
But yeah, my calves definitely were feeling it during the
during the hike, which was nice because then my quad's.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Got a break. That's good that you want and we
had to run all right into place.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
So we start with a thirteen and a half mile
bike ride, and now we have uh, what was the
mileage of the foot point two for the hike or
take for most people?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, it sucks, Mac Mac.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I heard you count jassed at some point and went off.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
I got so Yeah.

Speaker 9 (15:24):
For me, I was really gassed after the hike or
the bike ride, and I was just trying to make through.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
I made a bunch of rookie met sticks, I was.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
Eating something, I didn't have any water on me. Uh,
and I just couldn't go down fast enough. And but
I got distracted. I missed the major turn at the
beginning of the hike, and I went at least a
mile maybe out of the way and bow boy. So
I was like maybe two two point five miles extra
that I did. And at that point I had no

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idea where I was. I had no idea who was
in front of me and who was behind me at
that point. I know I was really far ahead at
the beginning, but I just I felt really demoralized after that,
and I was like, you know, I had I had
a very competitive focus kind of coming into it, and
I kind of shipped like just get the.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Race done, okay.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Sure, So let me ask you this, at what point,
So there must have been a point where you were
on that trail where something changed and you said, maybe
I need to turn around.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
This isn't I'm not on.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Three times actually I denied. I denied the first two.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
The so I saw there was a first a turn
where there was no marker for the quadathlon, and I
was like, that doesn't seem right.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
I'm gonna keep going and uh.

Speaker 9 (16:32):
Then the second time, I met a father and son fishing,
and I asked him if they seen any other races
going to buy and they said no.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I was like they might have missed them. I really,
I've been putting so much into this race.

Speaker 9 (16:44):
I've been preparing for, like you know, like eating righte
for like the last three days. And uh, I just
kept going. I was like, I can't, I can't afford
this can't be the wrong trail. And I kept going
for like uh, and then I was just like, I'm
going over a way too many like fallen trees for
this to be the right trawl. That yelled out and
I best if anybody was there. I was really trying
to catch the guy in front of me before I

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made the wrong turn.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
I was like, where do you go? How do you
get so far ahead of it? Mac.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
Was that the guy that was streaming at you that
you were going the wrong way when you first made
the turn.

Speaker 9 (17:13):
I just passed that guy. I just passed that guy
before I made the wrong turn. Oh boy, Yeah, I
was in his zone.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
So no, you were in the zone. That's it. You
were in the zone.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
You were ready to win, even if it took you,
you know, to a different state. You were going to
be the first person to get to that stick.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Good stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Okay, so you turned around, you still Mac? Didn't you
still finish?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Very like?

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Were you still the first person to finish despite that
of the group at least?

Speaker 5 (17:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
That was Oh sorry, Matt, Matt not be snuck in
while you were.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Wasn't it a photo finished?

Speaker 10 (17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
No, Mac and I finished neck and neck. They just
read my number first.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
Okay, so I wished you're on the record a second
before Mac did.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
But there you can watch the video. It was neck
and neck.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:00):
After that, my goal is just to find somebody I
recognized from from the one of the teams, and I
actually happened to remember Matt's number from the beginning of
the race. It was like one thirty two or something,
and I they were taking numbers at the water the
second water station. During the run, I saw that Matt
was seven places ahead of me. I was like, I
just got to pass seven more people. I'll find them.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
So that was my I've got them during the kayak.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's good. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's what having the team environment is for, right, friendly
competition and also just wanting to beat your teammates, because
that's what it's all about. Now, before the hype, before
the night before, you guys got together for like a
dinner or something.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right, isn't that didn't I see those pictures. That's amazing.
I appreciate it. That's exciting.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
We had a carb it out.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, what a great community. You had a carbo load.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I hope you guys just had this endless amounts of
fetichini alfredo and heavy waffles with good stuff. Okay, So
Mac eventually got back on trail during the hike, and
you know, he went a couple of miles off trail,
came back, the hike continued, So was four miles on
the hike.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Who wants to take us from this point? Now? Continuing
on the trail, who wants to tell the story?

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh God, Jen, what happened after the hike, Jen, you're
up after the hike, Well, there were a couple of
things we were I was focused on Lindsay and Diana
because I knew they were still on the hike and
not paying attention. So we pop out of the woods

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so excited to be out there, see no signs, and
it was like we should go left. So we did
for somewhere between one and one and a half miles
before we realized that we were closer to where we
dropped the bikes off to the kayaks, so we had
to turn around.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oof.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
So yeah, we added another two to three miles onto
our hike.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
God, I would like to not say anything given the
situation I was up against.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
But Jen off all the signage that had to be
the largest arrow of the entire side.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I see, No, She's right, it was in the woods.
I walked back and forth. I will I.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Walked back and forth looking at the sign like it
says right, but there's nothing on the actual pack.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
So right, I did it too, Jen.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
I wasted like three minutes just whatever, and then I
was like, right, it is going in circles.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah. So by the time we we righted ourself. We
caught up to Lindsay and Gianna and continued on our
merry way.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
All right, So that's cool that you guys were able
to like you were. You weren't necessarily together, but you
would catch up to one another and see one another
and then you know, continue on.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
So I think that's really yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
I started out like trying to push at that first
hill on the bike because I didn't know what every
I didn't know what it was going to be like.
And then I ended up by myself on the bike
for at least two miles. There's nobody in front of it,
I mean, nobody behind me, and I was like, Okay,
this is gonna be fun. But luckily Jen's husband, Brett,

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got a flat tire, and luckily there was a Tom
Bombadill guy there to help him and gave him a bike.
So Shane and Chris and Jen and Brett had stopped
to wait for Brett, and so I was able to
catch up, and then I wasn't alone for rance to
the race. I got to stay with Shane and Chris
for the rest of the race, so that was that

(21:29):
was great because I normally had no problem racing alone,
but this was a little.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Bit different, So that was that was fortuitous for me.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
So Jen, yes, I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I remember you had told me that your husband Brett
had a flat tire, so talk to me about So
the bike is the first thing you do, So to
have a flat tire right at the top of the race.
What was going through your guys head at that point,
you know, to kick off the race without a flat tire.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, he was mostly pissed because then I should say
that we have five bikes total between the two of us,
and all of the bike except for gravel bikes for
this race are outfitted with everything you need to fix
a flat tire. So he was really annoyed. But we happened.
He happened to have it right by this amazing volunteer Andy,

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who was like, dude, I have a bike in the
back of my truck. We're the same height. You want
to borrow it? And Brett's like, that's awesome. So yeah,
a bunch of the group, pretty much except for Chris,
we're like, you know what, you guys are faster than us.
We're going to keep going, And so they keep going.
Brett gets on the bike and all of a sudden

(22:34):
I just pull up into the group and I'm like, hey, guys,
and they're like, where's Brett. And Brett's like, Hi, I'm here,
and he just passes everybody. And I think it was
Shane and Annie that are like Brett, You're like, you're ridiculous.
This is stupid. Biking sucks. Okay, fine, it does suck
a lot. I hate biking.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
He was just like THEO and just kept going.

Speaker 10 (22:57):
Because mind you, this also happened to his bike, maybe
a couple miles from the end of the biking, so
it would have been.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
That would have been a sad moment. Yeah, that volunteer
was there miles to go out.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
I think the saddest part of the biking was at
the end of the biking for Shane.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, is that when so I saw some of the
war wounds. Is that when you when you heard yourself shamee?
What happened at the end of the bike.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
I crossed the timer to finish biking, and a volunteer
head crossed in front of me and.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
I just went down, Oh.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Ouch, off a bike.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, I became one with the ground. Brutal, but I
feel like that was like another one of those moments
where like everything happened for a reason in the hike
or in the race itself. Because Brent and I were
already off our bikes ready to hike, but everybody we
all gathered to make sure that each other worse and

(24:00):
okay before we kept going. I didn't. I was laughing
at I was laughing at Shane.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes, but then karma came back to bite.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You tell tell the listeners what happened after you laughed
at Shane's de derey.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
So so after we came out of the woods, so
I got Luckily, I was with Shane and Chris for
the hike, and it was way more challenging than I
thought it was going to be. I was really glad
I was with Shane because she kept keeps a really
fast pace. I was waiting because I kept watching Chris's
ankles like almost give out, almost give out. I thought
he was going to eat it in the mud, but
he didn't. So we started on the run and we

(24:41):
actually started running, and that's when I realized that my hamstrings.
I had gone from quads to calves to now hamstrings
and they were going to be done. So Shane and
I were like, we're going to get some mustard. So
we go with our packs and I'd packet some mustards.
So we down a little bit of mustard and I
was like, I don't know if that's going.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
To be enough.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
But then we look down on the ground and there's
a little trail of packets of mustard. So we just
started picking up packets mustard from the ground and I
was like, yay, how great. So I just took a
couple packets and I thought for sure it was Max
because Mac gave me a hard time about it made.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Him take mustard with him. I should have made him
take water with him or.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
But but then Shane found like a goo and everything.
So we were just like following this like little trail
at Goodies Ali today.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Thanks they tell you something. That's what teammates do for
one another. They leave packets and mustard knowing that, hey,
my teammates are behind me, they're gonna grab some mustard.
They'll need this. Let me just leave this on the ground. Well,
let me leave this trace for them. I know they'll
pick it up. Good stuff.

Speaker 5 (25:51):
We were really excited by all these treats, and we
did some like pow locking and some jogging, and then
I noticed, like I recognize the road that we were
on because that's where we had dropped off our kayaks,
and I was like, let's go, and I got so excited.
Now we started running and then I was like, lookings
are so much better than bike's.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Bikes are stupid. And then you could hear this loud
like clunk and my foot hit these two railroad ties
that were sticking.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Out of the ground and then I just like supermanned
it straight onto the ground and you could see like
squiggle marks from my wrists hitting the ground, and I
just rolled over and started laughing. It hurts so my
knee's still bruised under the scrapes, but it hurts so bad.
But I was like, yep, that's what I get.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So falling down as an adult is just very different
than falling down as a as a kid.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
It is so much different.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Good yep.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
You have that mental pause with like, am I going
to get back up?

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Is something broken right now? Am I able to move?

Speaker 9 (26:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Okay, got it? So we've got the bike. Or we
started with the bike. We had some flat tires, but
we eventually made it. Shane ran someone over and then got,
you know, clothes lined off the bike. Then we started
the hike. The hike, Mac went off trail. Jen also
lost during the hikes. Okay, so we made it. We
eventually made it to the trail run. We start the

(27:17):
trail run and Annie face plants into the ground and
fights the ground and eventually made it back up. Okay,
So now someone take us through. What what was the
trail run? What did we what could we expect at
this first running portion of the trail?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
This was it that you came back on like four
so it was still a gravel path. It was nice
and easy.

Speaker 9 (27:38):
You went up for a couple of bridges, but that
was about it. And you have any water station in
the middle bit. It was two point six miles.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Any any shenanigans during the during the running portion? Did
we make it away?

Speaker 5 (27:51):
It?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Boo yep.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
I ate so many fruit snacks. They had fruit snack
to the eighth station and I just done as shoveling
fruit snacks in my face.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
They were so good, So you did.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Fruit snacks are a constant in my hiking backpack as well.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Easy to get hit hard.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
The volleyball team in the area was the one being
the helpers. So these poor girls are standing at the
eighth station getting eaten live by bugs while we like
stop real quick and then run away.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
So the race of them. Yeah, the race took.

Speaker 10 (28:27):
The local volleyball team from the high school and they
volunteered and the race donated money to their team.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Shout out to all of the people who volunteer for
the endless amount of events in the addiron decks. It
is amazing to see how many people volunteer for these things,
from iron Man to you know, the five k's, the
ten k's, the half marathons, these events. It's they don't
happen without them. So shout out to all of those
people who give their time for hooligans like yourselves who

(28:56):
need mustard and fruit snacks. But good stuff. Okay, so
someone tell me a little bit more about the trail run.
What was it like? What was it?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
How did it go? Someone gave me some more detail.

Speaker 10 (29:07):
It was more like a road run, I would say,
a backcountry road run. And it had a couple hundred
feet of elevation. There actually were kind of a handful
of cars when we were at least on it that
we had to pay attention to, and there was houses
and everything on it. But that was kind of a
long stretch of just boredom. I get like that would

(29:30):
have been a long stretch if you were by yourself,
I would say yeah coming out because it was immediately
everything was immediately a pill when you started.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
I feel like the bike was, the hike was, this run.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Was what made what made it a long stretch of boredom.
So you you're a runner, Shane, You've done like a
billion half marathons. What made it boring in your opinion
or is just like compared to the other stuff.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
It was just getting into the groove of it again
after coming off of like the hike and everything I
used to I grew up running roads that, so to
me it just felt natural to be there. But that
wasn't so well marked. So there was the one arrow
a little bit in the woods that I do agree,

(30:12):
I wish was on the road, But you're kind of wondering,
like going the right way kind of thing because there
wasn't great cell service. There was enough to call if
you need it to, but it's not like you had
maps out and stuff. So when you saw the aid
station and recognized that, oh Weed biked here, I mean
you had.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
That, but.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
Okay, if I had developed that, I feel like it
was a very There was only fifty something people, right,
and the race had already developed at that point, so
you're almost depending on where you're on the race, you're
already in like no man's labs. So I feel like
with the next year, more people, there's gonna be more people.
You're going to see more people trying to keep.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Your eye on, absolutely sure, So they'll probably twice as
many volunteers. There'll be three times as many people signing
up for it since this was the first time. So okay,
Jen and Lindsey, I happened to know little bit about
your training, and I happened in a little bit about
both of you. You two are not runners. You'll tell
you tell me you're not runners. How did the run go?

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Talk to me?

Speaker 7 (31:08):
Well, No, I did do some Yeah, I'm not a
runner at all. I actually hate running with a passion.
So leading up to it, I definitely did some running training,
like I just kind of sprinkled that into my weekly
workouts and pretty much hated every minute of it.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
But I needed to do it.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
So I on the race, we actually didn't run as
much as I had thought I would. It was more
of a combo and I'm okay with that. You know,
the last mile I did, and we'll get to that part.
But it was so I was so like physically and
mentally drained from the hike ending that thinking about now

(31:49):
I'm going to run. It was just not and it
got really hot at that time. The bugs got really
bad at that time. It was super muggy. So for me,
it was best to just do like a combo run walk.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
And great, great, Jen, how'd you feel on the run?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
I did well. When we were trying to catch up
after being lost. There was more running in that part.
But of course the week before the race, you know,
two weeks before the race, I sprained my ankle, so
there wasn't a lot of running because I was just
trying to be mindful of, you know, not breaking myself.

(32:26):
So I kind of, like lindsay, like after the riding,
which was my favorite part, but the hiking, I was
ready to just like walk and just kind of like
clear my head, get back into a good headspace for
the rest of this and like seeing somebody else for
the first time in what felt like hours was so refreshing.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, I bet I bet okay. So this's a good
point to talk about this.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
So you guys, once you're on the run, like you've
obviously done the you've done the bike, you've done the hike,
you're on the run. So there's the run, the paddle,
and then like the final run. So mentally, I'm going
to go around the board here at the point that
point during the you know, during the run, like what
was going through your mind, Like, how were you guys
feeling at this point into the race, And there's anyone

(33:12):
can just shout out it, can me give us a
little kind of look inside your brain at this point
into the into the race.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
I was going to I was just focused on the
kayak at that point. I was like, I just want
to sit down. So my legs were shot, I was
cramping like crazy, and I was just looking forward, just
sitting in a kayak.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
That that was it.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
And that's what Dureba and I think, what kind of
sums up this whole thing is I hit my watch
to end the trail runs, just see where we are,
and it finished right at six point sixty six miles
for the ke and trail run together.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
It was evil and I, yeah, I'm the devil.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I did Okay. Yeah, so that's where that ended.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
But I think it was just if I get through this,
I get to sit for an hour and a half,
not thinking what that would do for my legs for
the final run.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah that's so much.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah, I was a little scared about having to sit
and sit and like, because you braced yourself in a kayak,
and I was a little nervous about sitting for that
long and then having to get up and tell my
legs to work again. But I spent most of the
run laughing at Shane trying to run without hurting herself
more because she had hit her ribs and her shin

(34:30):
and her whole body was just broken. So yeah, that's
how I entertained myself during the run.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Sure, he did.

Speaker 10 (34:37):
I was running with one arm sticking out to my
side and wobbling at one point. And yeah, so she
was having fun making fun of me. So I was
also on that. Yeah, I was in the same mindset
where I was afraid to sit down for the kayak.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Afraid it is because you thought your your body would
basically turn off at that point and camp up and
then you're stuck in a kayak.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Because I actually felt really good after the bike.

Speaker 10 (35:05):
I felt good during the hike, moving like like my
legs weren't hurting, I wasn't cramping, and it was just
essentially that that leg injury that I was like, that's
what made me scared.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, so different, complete opposite thought processes between Matthew and
Shane at this point.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
So good stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
So, now Annie, you sent you sent a Marco polo
video to the Great Range Athlete Elite team showing us
Shane's You.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Know, I had to make sure there were I wanted
to make sure there was zero context, so nobody knew
whose leg it was.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
So I rightly thought it was my leg.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
But then minutes later, but then minutes later you show
So did you send Shane's war wound before yours happened?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, gosh, I mean that's karma right there for sure.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah. I stayed out then she like, hold on, don't move.
I don't know why people want to do stuff with me.
I'm not nice.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
No, this is this is what you get.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
This is what you get from this sort of the
Shenanigans of the community here, very good, good stuff. Okay,
So the the bodies are you know, they're they're working
somewhat here. There's lots of war wounds that have happened
at this point. So the road run, the running portion,
whe I'm getting it's kind of a little boring, but
also it felt like you hadn't seen people in a

(36:29):
long time. So any where any of you solo during
this portion, were you always kind of with somebody? I know, Jen,
you're with your husband, I'm assuming the whole time.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
With the hike, I was with Brett. The whole time.
For the run to the kayaks, Brett and I were
with Lindsay, okay, got it. So any of you guys
solo during any part of the run, good thing.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Mack and I are okay.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Until the kay I passed to people while I was running.
That was about it.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's the only people I saw, Okay, And how did
the how did everyone? Did you guys see anyone else
like struggling? Like, how did how did? What was kind
of the overall vibe at that point amongst the race?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
It was very go ahead, go ahead?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
I would say it was very casual.

Speaker 9 (37:16):
I'm sorry, Yeah, I was like like I saw somebody
you know, walk for a couple of seconds, eat something,
and then like you go, keep going, It was very
It was very like runk was treated almost as like
a recovery.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Period for like what was to come sure after that? Yeah,
if I love that? Okay, very cool? All right, So
you you run the four or the four how many miles?
Was it four point something? Two point okay? So two
point six miles and then you guys get to the kayak. Okay,
so Matt, you take us through this. So you were
excited and couldn't wait to get to the kayak. So

(37:46):
when you got there, what what what take us through
that part of the race.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
I was excited and I got into the kayak, I
started going and the first thing you hit as soon
as you made the second turn was a log across
the river that you had to kind of sneak your
way through. We were told, don't go over it, you'll
flip your kayak. You have to go under it. And
at six foot two hundred pounds with a kayak paddle,

(38:13):
that was a fun little trick to get through, but
we did it without flipping it. Then, at the very
beginning it was kind of shallow, so I bottomed out
a couple times, but then you just got into a rhythm.
There was not a single straight portion of the kayak.
It was like every fifty feet you were turning left

(38:34):
or right, and a ton of downfall or trees down
and everything in the water, so you're dodging them the
whole time. But it was for me because I was
pretty much alone until I met up with Mac.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
It was just it was peaceful.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
It was you had zero cell service for the entire
I think it was like five point six miles or
something like that, and there was nothing.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
I think I saw a couple.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Ladder ondeck chairs at one turn, and other than that,
it was just you were in nature. It was silent.
You didn't hear a thing. It was it got into
that zen mode and ready to be done.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
I mean I was ready to.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Be done after an hour a little over an hour,
but it was after everything you had just done. It
was a good to clear your mind and rest your
body for a little bit. And I talked to the
race director the night before and he was saying about
the kayak, like I finished an hour and a half
and I was taking pictures and this and that. So

(39:32):
I had that goal in my head when I'm finishing
this before an hour and a half, and I think
I came in at like an hour and fifteen something
like that, so I was happy. I really didn't have
a pace for this. At first I said noon, and
that went out the window very quickly, and.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Then I'm like, under five hours works.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
So there was just that was the only part of
the race where I actually was pushing myself two hit
a time, and it was fun.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
I mean, I really did like kayak.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
It was a couple of went past me saying, you know,
this is the most boring race I've ever done. But
after everything that we've done and all the war injuries
and everything else, I think everybody would probably agree that
that was a good, just relaxed time.

Speaker 11 (40:14):
Besides maybe Jen on this one, Oh, Lindsay was in
it with me. All right, let's hear it. Let's hear it, ladies,
take us through it. What are we talking about?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Do you want me to doot, Lindsay?

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Or do you want to start? No, you can start,
that's good. So same thing. I think we were just
so relieved to be at the boats, yeah, and getting
them and we're like, wow, this is so beautiful, this
is so great. And Brett and I are boots are
carbon fiber, so they're slick, they're smooth, they're fast. So

(40:49):
we know we're the last three in the race. We're
the only ones that are left, and it was important
to stick together because the Rimmer is so twisty. No service,
like Matt said. And then we get to a point
where we have service, and we already see the dark
sky the clouds coming in, and Shane starts texting that

(41:14):
we basically have like where are you You have forty
five minutes before a storm hits, And I'm trying to
text her as I keep running into the bank, making
sure that we're all staying together as a group that's
just taking off. I'm like, well, screw him, Lindsey and
I'll stay together. And then and we just like start

(41:35):
paddling as hard as we can. And all of a sudden,
like as Shane is texting in real time that there's
that it's down pouring, it sounds like we are coming
up to whitewater rapids and it just is pouring. As
Shane is texting that it's pouring, and we are giving

(41:56):
it everything we have to paddle asked as we can
not knowing because we can hear thunder, like not knowing
what's going to happen, and we're kind of coming up
with a game plan like if it starts lightning, what
what are we going to do? And coming up with
a plan to keep ourselves safe because we're in it
to win it.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Now.

Speaker 7 (42:18):
It was just like this wall of heavy rain that
we saw heading towards us, like it was like a
slow motion movie just coming towards us. And like the
wind picked up so much at that time, of course,
right in our face, and so we were just paddling
like max effort maximum.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I mean, I was just like, are you kidding me?
Right now?

Speaker 7 (42:41):
It was just so difficult at that time, and we
didn't know how far we were from the finish, Like
so we didn't know how much longer we had to
be in this like where's the finish? You have no
idea because it's just super twisty. You can't see what's
you know, how do you fifty feet? So and this
made it even worse with the rain. It was just
coming down so hard, Like thank god I had my

(43:02):
like goggle type sunglasses because it was sort of like
a windshield.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
But it was it was insane, like you should not be.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Out on the water when that kind of stuff is
going out, but we were in the middle of.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
It, and then all of a sudden, Shane texts and
she's like, I'm gonna yell. Let me know if you
can hear me, and like very faintly, and I'm like, yes, yes,
I can hear you.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
And we start yelling there Shane, Annie, Deanna Annie's husband Patrick,
like everybody is waiting for us, Chris, and they're like
still yelling. We're yelling, And we round the corner at
the bridge and they are all there. They are all
soaking wet with us, waiting for us, helping us get

(43:50):
out of our boats. It was for feeling like like
not defeated, but almost like, oh my gosh, how much
worse can this get? See everybody there waiting for us
was probably, I don't know, lindsay if you agree, but
probably like the best moment of the entire race.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
It really was, and no one would know it, but
I honestly had tears in my eyes.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
You wouldn't know it because I.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
Was drench shape and wet, raight every like just covered wet, soaking, wet,
stopping wet. But I didn't realize that they waited for
all of us, and I just was like, oh my gosh,
why would they do that, like go to the barbecue?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Why do you know? I felt so bad, but I
was like.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
That's why I'm here because of all of them. I'm
like in this because of all of them. And I
was just so happy to be done with that part
because then we know it's just one mile from there.
But to have them all there like rallying for us
was just huge, Like that just made me feel so
much better.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
I kind of all of a sudden had energy again. Yes, yeah,
it was like that just what we needed to, yeah,
finish the race, because I think we were both just
feeling discouraged and done. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, Oh that's incredible. You know, you guys weren't out
there racing solo. You know, like you showed up as
a team, and you actually, you know, you represented that
in an amazing way. I mean a year ago, all
of you were strange, complete strangers, and now you're cheering
for each other, like showing up, staying in the rain,
like all these things for one another. And that's that's

(45:20):
something that people don't quite understand until you have it.
And the fact that you guys were doing that is
absolutely just beautiful. All in all senses of the word. Now,
what I need to know though, Shane, what were you
yelling when you were yelling for or in texting?

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Can you hear me? What were you actually yelling or
were you just yelling?

Speaker 10 (45:37):
We were yelling their names and then Annie and I
did yell something funny at one point.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
But we were being grated because their kids are there.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
That's good, good FAMBLI Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
My kids were there.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
They were cheering everybody at the finish and then they
were whining because they didn't understand.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
They're like, what are we still doing?

Speaker 5 (45:56):
We can go to the barbecue, like Mac, I want
to go with Matt and Mac and I was like, no,
you can't go with them and I. So they're whining
and running. So I've got them in the car and
I said, you need to stop. Friends are out there.
We are not done until we get our friends back safe.
And they like gre real quiet. We drove down to
the water and then they were all in. They're like

(46:17):
screaming their heads off for Jen and Lindsay and Bread
and they were like the starting rain came down on
them and they're screaming. So I think it was a
great lesson for them. To watch people who aren't trying
to be better than anybody, They're.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Just trying to do their best.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
And to see people like Deanna put in her absolute
best effort, and to watch people who who cares if
you're last, who gears you are doing your best and
that's what matters. So I was fantastic. I'm so glad
that they were there to see it, and they want
to do it next year, but they're not old enough.

Speaker 10 (46:57):
Yeah, they finished with Annie and I and then you
Rany Allen and they did. Chris and Gianna both were
blaring music from their cars following them up the road
to finish that one mile to the finish line.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Is there actually an age go to a car for
those that you're just telling him though? I just told him,
Though I don't know what it is.

Speaker 10 (47:15):
I think there actually is in an age without a
parent doing it with you?

Speaker 3 (47:19):
I did.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
You were just really old enough, Mac, you were mayor man.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Just made it. I was his saberone.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
Guys, James Mac was so mad because there was some
punk seventeen year old doing the rates.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Oh yeah, he wanted to beat him like no other.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Just when we looked at the results, there was maybe
five people under thirty.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Yeah, if you look at the high mid life, the rices, if.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
You look in the top tad, everybody's ever forty.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Sixty five, sixty.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
And he weren't by thirty minutes.

Speaker 9 (47:55):
Yeah, places humans behind them that he finished.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
He had changed his clothes, put his he had gotten
his stuff out of the water, he was ready to go.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
And then the next person finished. So it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
That's absolutely currible.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
So you were saying the first place was sixty five
years old and he had thirty minutes before the second
place person.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
He finished him three and a half hours.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Any idea what his name.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Was, I could tell you to hit up?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah, No, absolutely credible.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
May that May that inspire all of you listening to
the podcast that droking the Egles on the South Coast
age means?

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, he would be. He would be be a great
story to tell, great story to tell.

Speaker 7 (48:35):
So let me ask you, guys, love to hear his
side of the story of I would actually like for
you to invite him, and I'd love to hear his
story because it would be completely different than that worst.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
His name his name was Jim A Lot and he
finished in three hours, twenty one minutes and forty six seconds.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
He had an eight h five pace for the race.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Quit Rowley went and ran a marathon afterwards. He probably did.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
That was just a more about He probably had a
lot of Jipper packets in his bag, more than you
guys had.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
That was really game changer, very good.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
So let me ask you guys, like what like and
anybody anyone who wants to to jump in can answer.
But you know, there's a there's a theme here, you know,
talking about this like community that you guys had, Like
you showed up. You weren't by yourselves. I guarantee it.
Most people were. There were eight of you and plus
spouses and boyfriends. And also shout out to Nicole who
couldn't make the podcast tonight, another great range athlete who

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was competed in the race. But like being a part
of a community versus like doing it yourself and just
being out there by yourself, Like what made the difference
for you guys in that category?

Speaker 3 (49:46):
It was a game changer.

Speaker 6 (49:47):
When I met up with Mac and I don't know
if he feels the same, but we posted each other
through the rest of the kayak and then when the
road run came the last zero point nine miles whatever
it was. MA was kind of hobbling along. I don't
know if I can run. I don't know if I
can run, and I got up the next film. I'm like,
come on, let's go, let's get this. And then at

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the end it was just I wish Nicole was here
to actually tell this, because you just had Mac and
I all out sprinting, me looking like a dump truck
coming down the hill, across the finish line, running next
to Mac who looks like he's a seventeen year old boy.
No offense, Mac, and just neck and neck, just like
I don't even know what I was yelling at him.
I think at one point I was saying, who's going

(50:30):
to carry the boats? David Goggins style, just to like
get him going. And then at the end, him and
I were just all out, and I'm surprised we didn't
run through the building at the end because I was
not going to be a step behind Mac and he
wasn't going to be a step behind me. And it
was that neck and neck finish that, you know, I
think we pushed each other because in the end we

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were just so spent everything hurt, and I just kind
of made everything go away.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
Everything was seizing up. After the guy I usually we
were talking about it like it's gonna be all on sprint.
Then I got out of kayak and I was like,
my knees are not in a good shape, and I know.
It was like I was like, I'm pretty sure they'll
get better in like two minutes, but I don't think
I can run right away.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Sure, yeah, let's let let's pick up. Let's pick up
the story at this point for for you guys. So
you get out of the kayak, you've got the one
final mile run, right, That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
A one mile run after the after the paddle.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Yeah, one mile flat road run, which it was not.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
It was completely flat. They claimed it was completely flat.
At it was all uphill hill.

Speaker 6 (51:35):
It was all up hill, and then like it was
three quarters uphill and then a quarter downhill to the
finish line. But a guy coming back going, oh, just
to the top of that hill, and I'm looking at
it and it looks like it's about six miles away.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
It was like I was like, just that hill right there,
Oh it's right there. Great, uh huh. As my legs
are falling off.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Was the thing guy that gave me the bottle of water.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
I'm pretty sure, right, yeah, I think he took your
vent bottle of water.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Well, you know, he gave it and took it back.

Speaker 10 (52:03):
I drank.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I drank it almost a Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:07):
This guys like in their cars like pacing us as
we're going down.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
I'm like, come on, guys, you got it.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
And yeah, Matthew's adds a trash band and a water refall.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
So okay, Now, were any of you guys like not
paddlers before tackling this event?

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Annie, So you're not not a.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Paddle I went kayaking with the kids like casually, like
twice maybe, but that's pretty much it.

Speaker 9 (52:34):
Okay, So like anybody in this race had like except
for like the sixty five year old has raced within
a kayak before, Like I didn't.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
I didn't get that impression.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah yeah, so Annie, talk to me about the paddle then,
So what was what was the paddle?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Five miles? Maybe?

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Was it fe grab and a half?

Speaker 2 (52:52):
So like the was that like crea?

Speaker 4 (52:55):
I felt good?

Speaker 5 (52:56):
And I think the crazy thing about this race is
that you used every single part of your body separately,
like you know, you're pushing with the bike in one way,
and you're you're climbing in another way, and you're running
with so everything's using something different. So you get into
the kayak, you lock in with your lower body and
you're just moving your Tourso so like I felt really

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really good, and I had Shane and Chris with me.
We were moving through the water pretty well, so like
we didn't have too much bug issues or anything.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Well I didn't. They might have flowed back to Shane.
I don't know, but like I forgot we were in
a race.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
A couple times I was like, this is so nice,
this is so pretty, and I was like, oh shit,
we're in a race.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
And I started paddling again.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
I think we all said, like the paddle was about
a mile and a half too long, Like it felt
like but that's what endurance races are about. You go
as long as you think you want to go, and
then you keep going. But yeah, I was I think
after four mile I was like, oh, I could be
done now, Like that'd be great if this was done

(54:05):
anytime now. And we and like because we weren't really
following a map, we really we were trying to see
how far we had gone, but we really didn't know
where you were.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
And you're just winding and winding and winding.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
Even when we were calling to Jen and Lindsay, just
because they could hear us, that doesn't tell us how
close they are. Because it wound around so much, they
could be way farther than we thought, or that, you know,
as the crow flies, they're not as far, but the
because of the river was just winding, they're much farther.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
But yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
It was nice because you're resting all the muscles that
you used, you're using totally different muscles, and then.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
They want you to run again.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
They do, absolutely, they do, all right.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
So I'm going to ask, you know, I want to
ask Jen and Lindsay talk to me about what was
going through your minds as you got out of the
kayak and it was time for the final mile of
the of the of the race.

Speaker 7 (54:59):
I was just really excited at that moment, like I said,
because everyone was right there cheering, So I all of
a sudden had this like burst of energy and because
I had just been sitting down. Although it was, like
I said, maximum effort, it was still raining.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
And when we got out of the kayak, I.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
Mean, my sneakers were soaking wet, so it was like squish, squish,
squish with every step.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
It was disgusting.

Speaker 7 (55:19):
But I just was like excited that I was finishing this,
like that was my only goal. I the bar was
pretty low. All I want to do is get across
the finish line. This is not something I've ever done before.
I'm excited to get across the finish line. Annie's kids
ran with me, which was awesome, so they were like
our little cheerleaders. And yeah, then it sucked a big
time because it was like uphill, like Matt was saying, and.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
We were told that it was flat fast one mile run.

Speaker 7 (55:45):
So I was like, am I on the right road
because where's the flat fast one mile run?

Speaker 4 (55:50):
This is not what I'm on.

Speaker 7 (55:52):
But but you know, they were telling us you got
to go this way. So I was just happy to
know that I was going to actually complete this, Like
I just did all that.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
I don't care how long it took me. I don't
care that I'm you know, dead last. I am doing it,
so that's all I cared about and I was happy
about that.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
How about you, Jen?

Speaker 4 (56:12):
I have to admit that when I first got out
of the boat. I think I was like a little
overwhelmed by everything. So I was like, wait, what do
you mean I have to run? Why are you all
yell looking at me? Why what is happening? But yeah,
got she was on started running with Annie's kids for
a while, and I just the running. It was hard,

(56:35):
and I was my shorts so I didn't change, and
so I had on my padded bike shorts with mountain
bike shorts over top of it for the whole thing,
and my shorts kept falling down as I was trying
to run. So Deanna is next to me in her car,
She's pacing, and I just stop and I take the
mountain bike shorts off. I'm like I am done. And

(56:56):
then I don't know Dianna. I think she could see
that I was like just tired, and she knows that
I love Eminem. She must have been able to read
my mind because she starts blaring Eminem and whatever it was,
I don't know. I don't know if anybody else was surprised.
I was surprised of myself. My husband was surprised because

(57:16):
he was behind me. I took off running faster than
I've ever and just like arms were pumping and just
like that was exactly what I needed in that moment,
and crossed the finish line and just I kind of
in my mind thought that I was just going to
drop to the ground and be so exhausted, but I

(57:37):
was like more pumped up after that and like ready
to keep going.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Wow, that's great, which I did. Yeah, that's fantastic. Dianna's
mother's intuition came in at that point. She knew what
you needed. Dianna, what song did you play? What was
the eminem song that you played?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Lose Yourself?

Speaker 1 (57:55):
I'm new that's weirdly I fail it.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
It's perfect.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Yeah, it'll get it got you over the finish line.
I love that. That's a fantastic story.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Okay, So Lindsey, I'm let's circle back to you as
we start to wrap this up. Since you were you
were the first person who kind of like nudged people
in this in this direction, and you said, like, this
is so out of your league. It's like something that
you never you know totally, it's something you wouldn't have
done in the past, but here you are stepping outside
your comfort zone. Did this event change how you see

(58:26):
what you are capable of doing.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
Yes, and I know I can do better, so I
can't wait to do it next year.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
It was awful. It was grueling.

Speaker 7 (58:35):
I like hated life for probably many hours of it.
But and I think we all agree, We're like, this
was awful. When are we signing up for next year?

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Can't wait?

Speaker 5 (58:45):
You know?

Speaker 7 (58:45):
So, Yes, I was proud of myself again. I don't
care you know where I placed. I was just proud
of myself that I did something like that, and I
want to do more. So and you know, I think
my biggest win. I know you didn't ask this yet,
but I'm just going to tell you my biggest win
is that I was not sore at all afterwards the

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next day or the next day ever.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
So I felt pretty good about that too.

Speaker 7 (59:10):
I felt like I was in the right shape for it,
I trained appropriately for it, and yeah, I was.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
I was happy with with what I did.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
You know, you stepped outside your comfort zone you have
you know, you're training, You've been pushing hard, doing you know,
showing up doing all these things over the last year plus,
showing yourself what you're actually capable of. You all have
been It's been really fun to watch I know, Annie,
you said, you told me this was the hardest thing
that you've done in terms of the event. And yeah,
you've done half marathons, now, you've done power lifting meats,

(59:44):
you've done forty something mile ultra pikes. This was the
hardest thing, though, you said. And why do you think
that is?

Speaker 5 (59:50):
I think because it kept well, Because I mean I
can hike and I can run, but like I said,
I haven't ridden a bike since I was thirteen, and
I just bought a bike, and bikes are stupid, so
not really like, you know, knowing that a vast majority

(01:00:12):
of the miles we're going to be on a bike,
and then only casually.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Being able to kayak.

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
You know, there was two large sections that I was
not familiar with at all, and then the thing that
I was most comfortable with, which was hiking, was a
surprise I think to everybody in the entire race that
the hike was.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
As challenging as it was.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
Because when Matt sent me the link months and months
and months and months and months.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
Ago, I was like, Oh, that sounds cool. I'm not
doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
That sounds horrible. Why would someone want to ride a
bike for thirteen miles and then and then I signed up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Then you signed up, you joined in one the fund,
Jen just like as Lee raising her I want to
ride my bike for thirsty miles.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Yeah, Jeen's like, I want to do this horrible thing,
but I'm not going to do it unless you do it.
I was like, like I don't want her to miss
out on something, and like I talked to Deanna like
months ago and I'm like, sign up for a race.
So I thought she was going to sign up for

(01:01:21):
like a casual ten k or like a cute little
bike race. Nope, They're all signing up for this thing.
So then I had to because I have to be
one of the cool kids.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
If I can tell you, I was going to sign up,
whether you did or not, sure, I love you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
That's what it's all about, right there, friends, that is
what it's all about. Okay, So what was the order
of the signing up? And Mac, didn't you sign up
like very last minute yourself for this?

Speaker 9 (01:01:48):
I think I signed up in May. Uh I it
wasn't twite last minute. I think I was like maybe, oh,
maybe second to last person to sign.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Up in this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
What was the what was the or Okay, so any
signing Lindsay. I don't know when Shane signed up or
pretty early.

Speaker 7 (01:02:09):
I know it was before I knew Matt was doing it,
because then Matt came up with some code that got
twenty five percent off that I never heard of before.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
So I was already signed up before that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Well I knew about Lindsey, Jen and Annie doing it
that I knew, and Deanna, I knew about you guys,
and then everyone else just like all of a sudden,
it was like, Oh, another person's doing, another person's doing,
another person doing as the coach of all of you.
That gets me so fired up, and I'm just like, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
Yeah, I'm just disappointed you didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
It's exciting. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
At that point it's as I listened to this conversation,
I'm like, how was I not in this event? I'm
kicking myself for it, but absolutely will be something next
year one thousand percent. It sounds, you know, I like
a good suffer fest, So I think this is a
This has been fun to listen to. But let me
ask you guys, so anyone could answer this question, what

(01:02:57):
would you say to someone who's listening to this podcast.
Let's take Lindsay a year ago, if you were to
tell yourself a year from now you're going to do this,
you would have been like, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
That would be stupid. Why would I ever do that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
What would you say to someone who thinks something like
this is out of their league.

Speaker 7 (01:03:12):
That you're absolutely capable if you take control of your life,
like you can do hard things. We can all do
really hard things. And it's funny because my husband said
exactly that to me the day before the race, because
I was like starting to go and freak out mode
and he was like, a year ago, there's.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
No way you would be doing this.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
You would have never even thought for a minute that
you'd be capable, or it wouldn't even be under radar
at all. And it was like something I was excited about,
excited to do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
I love it. That gets me so fired up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
So as we start to wrap up this episode, I'm
gonna ask each one of you what are you most
proud of from this experience. We're going to start with
you Annie, what's the single most thing you're proud of
from this experience?

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
The single most proud I.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Am is of Deanna because Deanna is completely ah, She's
gonna cry. She was completely out of her comfort zone.
She hasn't been one hundred percent healthwise, and the bike,
which was her best event, she injured herself.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
She hurt her she tweaked her back on the bike.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Not only did she get off the bike and continue,
but she continued and finished the entire hike until Lindsay
talked sense into her and helped her to realize, like,
you have the whole rest of your life to do
another race.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
Let's not make it worse.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
But the fact that not only did she hurt like
she had a sports injury, It wasn't it wasn't that
she was out of shape, it wasn't that she didn't
have the ability.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
She injured herself during the race.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
And she put that hike was brutal, and she also
she's not confident in her hiking, and she pushed through
and just absolutely kicked the hikes ass, came out on
the other end, and then she made a very smart
sports decision. So it was like Dianna's Adventure was like
a great sports movie. And so I was super, super,

(01:05:07):
super proud of her. And she's going to come back
and she's going to kick the races ass next year.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Yeah, that's exactly how the sports movie is going to end.
Diana Deanna now follow up that what are you most
proud of during this experience? For yourself, I know it
didn't end the way you wanted it to, but you
did power through and did everything you could.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
So what are you most proud of?

Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
I think it's the community here and the mental shift
that sorry, uh yeah, I was discouraged, I was deplated
and defeated all of that to have to leave the course,
but it was the smart move and necessary at that point.

(01:05:50):
I will give a shout out to this team that
has been you know, brought through the ranks of of
C to do more or gra Lindsay did not get
to try out her running prowess and all the training
that she did because she did not leave my side
during that entire hike and a lot of hikes, you'll
have some reprieve some running sections.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
Shane, I know you're crazy, and I know you're crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
Mac.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
You're in a different league with Matt. But for those
of us who just you know, normal hike, there were
no flat sections. If you look at the top all map,
it was an ascent or a decent The entire hike
with over twelve hundred feet of elevation. I don't think
we covered that when we talked about the hike. So
the fact that I came out and I refuse that

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somebody was going to be taking me out of the
woods and off the mountain, And the most proud after
that is the fact that I would have said, no,
hell no, not happening. But I've already reached out to
the race director to get those jr X files so
that we can get that back into the training loop,
since we're lucky enough to live only two hours away
to get back up there and hike it and bike it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
The biking was the funnest part. I don't fix up.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
What goes up must come down, and you can come
bombing at a pretty decent speed.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Well, Dionne, I'm proud of you as well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
You gave it your all and again you stepped outside
your comfort zone to try something and to set a
big goal for yourself. Don't underestimate how important that is,
because most people sit on the couch and won't actually
challenge themselves, won't push themselves, won't step outside their comfort zone.
No matter what you put a gun to their head,
They're not going to try something new. But you did that,

(01:07:34):
and next year when you finish, when you come back
and you finish the race, it is going to be
the perfect ending to your sports movie. I can guarantee
you that good stuff. Matt's what, Matthew, what are you
most proud of from this experience?

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Man, you guys just you choked me up there. But
I'm most proud of that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:52):
I that I came in front of our marsipoffer fish
Annie on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
That was my main goal was to beat Annie, right Mac.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Uh, love you Annie, But no, no, honestly, the community.
I'm so proud of everybody and Mac and I did
run to the barbecue joint to get some food, so
we didn't get to cheer Lindsay and Jenna and as
they finished, but we did make up for it because
when they were closing the buffet down, we made sure

(01:08:22):
that they got fed afterwards. So I came out with
three giant boxes. But I'm really proud of of everybody.
And you know, when we all started, I think the
main goal was we're just going to finish.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
And we all did in our own way, including Deanna.

Speaker 6 (01:08:41):
You know, she finished everything she possibly could that her
body would let her.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
So it just it just shows how much we really
have in us. I mean, if you think you can,
you can. If you think you.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
Can, you can't. But it's all mindset. And we all
got through those demons that I'm sure every one of
us during the race wanted to quit, and it came
multiple times for me, and just you power through the
mental and until you act, you know, physically drop or
haf to drop, then you go and that's it. And

(01:09:12):
it just really showed how resilient that my body can be.
And I kind of knew that, but I've never challenged
it to this level before.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
So you just yeah, and you know how resilient your
mind is too.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
It's why we put so much emphasis on building up
the brain and the mental toughness in all of the programs,
whether it's Great Range Athlete, whether it's Seek to do More,
Because when you're climbing up a mountain, all you have
to do is turn around and go home and call
it a day. Like when you're on the race, you
are literally one step away from just saying, eh, I'm done,
I'm going to stop.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
You know, you're in the rastaurant.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Cermunite is going to quit way before your body is
and you just kind of painted that picture beautifully.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I appreciate that. Shane. What are you most proud of?
Give us your your number one takeaway?

Speaker 10 (01:09:57):
Here I'm going because I've had this discussion with Jen,
is the team effort all together through the whole race,
getting to the starting line, throughout the race, like especially
like Jenna had said about like how like maybe Brett's
by getting that flat and then being at the end

(01:10:17):
because when I went down, I went down hard and
they were literally there to lift me up, brush me off,
and like off we all went as a team. We
all stayed as a team. We were trying to communicate
as a team. And there is a lot of moments
because it was such a remote race that I feel

(01:10:37):
like a lot of us would have gotten into our
own heads and just been like I'm done, like myself,
like that first instant with like the fall, like I
could have just been done. But it's like here we
go next, and we'll see how far we can go.
Because we always knew there was help a phone call
away if.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
We needed it.

Speaker 10 (01:10:54):
But we all like even at the end, like I
know that Lindsay and Jen and Brett were like, you
don't need to wait for us, but it's just like,
it's what we did. We showed up as a team
to start a race and just have fun. Whether or
now we are competitive at the end you're together, that's
a different story. But we just had fun. It was

(01:11:15):
something new for everyone, even the race directors and everything,
and we just did it. We pushed ourselves mentally and
physically and we showed up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
I love it. You certainly did.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
And I also want to, you know, mention to the
listeners of the podcast here when they say they showed
up as a team.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
This is a like a.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Hodgepodge group of people who have the common bond of
having done great range athlete or seek to do more.
Some of you guys didn't know each other before this
actual race, so you became a team at this event
because you know, Lindsay started roping everybody into this and then,
like a snowball, as it does in the world of
great range athletes, see to do more, people start signing up,

(01:11:53):
and then you guys just kind of formed your own
quadathlon team.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
So it's it's super freaking awesome to see Mac.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
What was your best, your most proud experience besides for
making the decision to turn around and get back.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
Yeah, I don't think so, I would say, but it
was already touched on. I don't think I've ever pushed
myself this far before, but you know, everybody else has
that's said that. I was really proud of myself, you know,
for being able to pivot after all that, like mentally
be like, I don't I can't give up. I'm gonna
keep doing this race. But other than that, I want
to say I was really proud of the community and
how you've not just in this team, but also all

(01:12:27):
the other racers I think were really great friendly as well.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Even like while we're in like.

Speaker 9 (01:12:34):
Like seventh or eighth place that somebody on the bike
was we had a little bit of a positive banter
and we're just cracking jokes as we're like racing for
the in front. The same guy who told me how
we went the wrong way afterwards, he even checked in
with me after the race, because yeah, I'm sure he
had no idea where I was. Right on on top
of that hike, thought was gonna be easiest part, but

(01:12:56):
like it was definitely the hardest, and I saw other
racers like helping each other up the rocks, like pausing
and stopping to make sure everybody's going the right way.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Glad it was.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Community overall was great, awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Glad to hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
So it sounds like a great, a great, a great
environment was created at the Forge quad Apalon. Here, good stuff, Jen, Sister, Jen,
what are you most proud of?

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
I have too, Like personally, on a personal level, I'm
proud of all of the training which seeks to do
more and even the elite team. We had talked about
the bike riding, So the confidence I have to admit
going into the bike, I was like, oh my gosh,

(01:13:47):
eight hundred feet of elevation gain at the end, I'm
not going to be able to do this. And when
we got to the end, I looked at Brett and
I go, wait, that was it. So that was like
a really proud moment that it was like, Okay, all
of the hard work was worth it. But I'll go
back to just everybody the team, like everything happened the

(01:14:14):
way it was supposed to do. After reflecting on everything,
all of the hiccups, everything, because it led to us
all reconnecting in a way when we all needed each
other in one way or another, and it just it
couldn't have asked for the race to go better or

(01:14:34):
end better than it did with everybody together. And just
appreciate everybody who is on this call right now. And
I know Lindsay is already recruiting more people for next year,
so the whole Great Range Athlete seek to do a
more team is only going to be bigger and better

(01:14:55):
next year. At this race.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
One thousand percent go, I can assure you the Great
Range Athlete sign ups next year will be pretty big.
Maybe we'll do something special too for that good stuff. Lindsey,
we started with you and we're going to finish with you.
What are you most proud of from this from this event?

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
I am most proud of that I, you know, challenged
myself in that way. I picked a goal like I
needed a big goal, like I said each week, I
stuck with it and and followed through like I was
just happy that I actually did that. And then also
of the someone said it the community. I'm just like
so proud to be a part of this community. And

(01:15:39):
it was so fun, like just to be with everybody
and knowing that we it's like Misery Loves Company type thing.
We all were in it together. We were all there
because the other people were doing it, and you know,
like Friday night when we all hung out and we
had this little community dinner. It was just so fun

(01:16:00):
and I felt so proud, like just to be a
part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
So I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
I love it, And anyone want to give a shout
out to anybody else, will shout out to Nicole who
couldn't make this, But anyone want to give a shout
out to anybody else Before we wrap this episode up,
I have.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
To give a shout out to Lindsey again. She was
my rock.

Speaker 8 (01:16:17):
And I got to say, when folks, you know, it's
different when you're hiking, when there's like you're very very remote.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
You don't have race directors checking you in, checking you out.
There was never that fear factor of are you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
Going to get out of the woods. But I think
my ending would have probably been a whole lot different
had she not stuck with me. And I definitively didn't
want to hold her back and gave her numerous exhaustive
opportunities to say, hey, go right, and at that point
it was no, we're in this together. I don't care
about finishing, and let's be real, we all care about finishing.

(01:16:54):
That's why we're here. We want to finish this awesome event.
But it's a testimony to not just the community, but
the values of you know, we're not going to leave
folks behind and that was tried and true.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Well, you guys made me so proud watching you guys.
A just sign up getting pictures from you guys having
dinner the night before and being like, man, I don't
think some of these people know each other, but here
they are just like fellowshipping together and they're going to
go do some hard things together and do some do
some trauma bonding.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
You guys have it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
You guys have a new bond that most people will
never experience. So congrats to all of you for doing
something hard. Thanks for coming on and sharing this story.
There was a reason I didn't ask too many details
from any of you because I wanted to kind of
hear it firsthand on the podcast here, So thank you
for coming on the podcast. I really appreciate. What a story,
what a day, what a race, and what a crew

(01:17:46):
we've got here. As we wrap up this episode, this
episode is not just about. It's not about biking, it's
not about hiking, paddling, running, It's about really what happens
when just everyday people decide to do something extraordinary, decide
to push themselves, and then surround themselves with others who
believe in doing the same thing. Because the truth is,
you are always stronger than you think you are, but

(01:18:08):
sometimes it takes a challenge like this to prove it
to yourself, and sometimes it takes a community to help
to remind you when you forget just how strong you
actually are. And quite frankly, that is what we're building
at the Great Range. Athletes seek to do more communities.
That's what we're all about, showing up, pushing forward, impacting
the world around us, and refusing to settle for anything

(01:18:30):
less than our best. You know, when one person signs
up for the challenge, what happened? Lindsay signed up, Anti
signed up, everyone else starts to sign up. Then we
had eight different people, and next time I can guarantee
you it's going to be a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
But that's the magic of having communities.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
It's not about being the fastest or the strongest, It's
about being willing, willing to try willing to grow, willing
to struggle side by side with others who aren't here
to play it safe, but they're here to live boldly
and do hard things on purpose simply because you ken.
So if you're listening to this and wondering if you've
got it in you, I can guarantee you that you do.

(01:19:07):
Surround yourself with people like all of these people on
this podcast. Surround yourself with people who raise the bar,
who will get uncomfortable, who will start climbing, and who
will pick you up when you need.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
That pick up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
Because we always say, here the mountains, they don't care
about you, but they're going to teach you the lessons
you need to learn about you. And until you push
yourself in them, you're not going to learn just how
strong you are. So I encourage you to get out,
push yourself and watch what happens. Thanks for listening to
this episode of the forty six to forty six podcast.
Head over to forty six Outdoors dot com to see

(01:19:41):
how I can help you become a stronger hiker. And
if you really want to become a part of this community,
head over to Great Rangeathlete dot com and sign up
for the next team. I have a feeling you're going
to like what comes out the other end. But remember
it always leave no trace. Do the rock walk and
if you carry it in, harry it out. See you
on the trails, everybody

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