Broken Bones & Olympic Opportunity (Ep. 3)

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The ankle rolled, something crunched, and a strong ten-miler turned into months of limping, boots, and hard lessons. We walk you through the moment the fifth metatarsal gave way, the swelling avalanche after the shoes came off, and the confusing reality of x-rays that look worse even as the pain fades. If you’ve ever told yourself “it doesn’t hurt that much,” this story is a mirror and a map.

We get honest about noncompliance and its cost: daily miles on a fragile foot, flip-flops on vacation, and the seductive lie that function equals healing. Along the way, there’s real progress—from a podiatrist’s blunt advice to a smarter boot choice—and real-world context on bone biology: resorption, soft callus, and the slow path to hard stability. The thread ties back to a history of near-miss marathons, early-morning heat runs, and an MRI that once revealed a femur stress fracture and possible labrum issues. The fix that worked? Glute strength. Simple, targeted lifts that stabilize the hips and calm the chain.

Fueling turns from afterthought to advantage. A late-race bonk meets a perfect gel, and performance flips. We share why steady carbs and electrolytes shrink the post-run crash, and how sleep underwrites every adaptation. Cross-training steps in—yes to bikes, maybe to treadmills depending on your brain—and walking proves its quiet value in preserving aerobic base. Through it all, the tone stays candid and a little chaotic: Olympic daydreams, Strava art, and the stubborn optimism runners know too well.

If you want fewer injuries and better comebacks, you’ll find practical takeaways here: respect pain that changes your stride, let imaging guide load, build the glutes year-round, fuel before you’re hungry, and sleep like healing is your job. Enjoy the ride, share it with a friend who needs a nudge, and hit follow so you never miss a new drop. Got your own comeback rule? Tell us—your best lesson might save someone’s season.

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
And we're back, ladies.
Shout out to the sexy shoddiesand dapper dudes out there.
Hope y'all are doing swiggityswell.
It's your boy back for anotherweek recap and some yep.
Um doing decent.
Uh went to the doctor this week.
Foot still cracked.
My bone is still in pieces.
Got the fifth metatarsal in likethe tip of it.

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Just the tip is cooked.
It's in like three pieces.
Broke a few months ago.
Um haven't been treating it thenicest.
It probably should be healed bynow.
But after the most recent x-ray,uh, things ain't quite together.
Doesn't really bother me, whichis partially why it's not been,

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you know, babied like it shouldbe, like the doc recommends.
But well, we'll see, we'll see.
It is making progress at least.
That's the good thing.
But I should maybe be a littlemore careful.
Like, I'm not been doing the theCrip Old Walk too hard recently.
Uh, but I might have to bust outa big old boot again.
We'll see, we'll see.
Um to recap a lot on that.

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Uh I busted my my fifth metatarson the tip.
It was rolling.
I rolled my ankle pretty hard.
It was over the summer, thefourth, it was it wasn't the day
after the fourth thing.
I think it was July 5th.
Just, you know, out for anevening run.
It was a pretty good run.
I was getting a good clip.
And, you know, finishing up, itwas like maybe it was a decent

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run.
It was like 10 miles.
And I was really cooking at theend of it.
And I was about good hundredyards from where I was about to
stop.
And I don't know what I did.
I was just kind of dodged, dug,dip, diving, and dodging around
people.
Because I was kind of cooking atthat point, and there's like a
lot of walkers.
And right with the the end insight, took a step and all hell

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broke loose.
So I rolled my ankle reallyhard.
And I've done this plenty oftimes.
Like it's kind of like it feelsreally bad.
Like I step and you know, juststep on the something funky on
the outside, and you roll itreally hard, and it was like uh,
you know, swerves bends thatcorner.
Um, and this time it was reallya whoa, because I'm like, oh,
that shit felt a little bitcrunchy.

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Like normally it happens, andI'm like, that that didn't feel
good.
Keep running a few steps, keepgoing, and then it hurts for a
minute, and then it goes away.
And I'm like, okay, sick, wewe're good.
I feel like I could have brokemy ankle that way.
Uh this this happened, uh, and Iwas like, that felt a little bit
different.
Felt a little bit crunchy.
This I'm gonna sit down for asecond.
I mean, miraculously, I didn'teat shit.

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I kept running, like I rolled myankle hard, but like was able
to, you know, keep my composure.
I didn't eat shit, didn't fallover, just kept running.
Only made it a few more steps.
It was like right before likecrossing the street.
So I crossed the street and thenI sat in the grass and just sat
there for a minute and it kindof set in.
I'm like, ooh, it kind of hurts.
I was probably there for 10minutes, and I'm like, doesn't
it feel that great?

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It's still kind of hurting.
And after maybe like 10-15minutes, I decided to stand up.
That didn't go well.
I went right back down and stoodup, and I was like, I started to
get lightheaded.
I thought I was gonna pass out,I thought I was gonna yak.
Um and like, you know, maybemaybe this is not my foot.
You know, I was running hard andI sat down.
I've just been like laying onthe grass.
Maybe I was just like moving toofast and giving myself enough

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time to get up.
You know, when you kind of beenlaying and you stand up too
fast, too quick, the blooddoesn't quite get to the head,
you know, you know.
I thought that maybe happened.
I was like, you know, noworries, we're gonna we're gonna
sit for a second, we'll try itagain.
It wasn't even better the secondtime.
I mean, it it was the pain, it'sdifferent, it's different.
Like you just you would like tothink you can, you know, man up
through it, but it's like bodyjust goes control, delete, power

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down, shut that shit off.
Um uh I did stay up the secondtime, I'm like, okay, file
through that.
Then there's like the the nauseawave of like, well, I'm gonna
yak.
This is this is not good.
Um, and mind you, I was like twomiles from my my crib at this
point.
A lot of times there's like abig ass hill that sometimes I'm

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lazy, and like I'll run to it,and then I'll kind of like do a
cooldown walk up this hill, thenmaybe jog back because it's like
where I like to run, I have togo up a big hill from my
apartment and then back downthis hill to this this place
where I run some loops, and so Iwas planning to walk up that,
but it was like a good twomiles, and it's what I could
best describe as you know, uh aspiritual experience, uh a

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religious journey that I wenton.
Because good lord, I had to hadto leave my body at that point.
Uh it was, I don't know.
I mean, I don't even know iflike I feel like saying I
hobbled back home is like kindof offensive to people that
hobble around.
I don't know what I was doing.
I don't I don't know how I madethat journey back.

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Is is just putting one foot infront of the motherfucking other
and like I don't know.
It was it w it was rough.
It I don't know.
I just I eventually got there.
I just kept doing it.
This was like one of the fewruns where I didn't have my
phone, otherwise your boy wouldhave probably Ubered there, or
probably should have just Uberedstraight to the ER or urchin
care, whatever you call it, atthat point.

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But it was like I think by thetime I got home, it was maybe
six or seven at the point.
And this was a whatever,whatever the day the fifth of
July was, you can you can lookit up maybe I think it was it
was a weekend, so I think it wasSaturday.
I don't think it was Sunday,because I think I went.
Yeah.
Anyway, so I made it back.
Made the mistake.
Um, my girl, my dog, I shouldhave taken her out immediately,

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she should have hobbled aroundthe block, but I made the
mistake of stopping.
I took off my running shoes.
Um it was it was tough gettingthem off because my well, it was
okay relatively to what was tocome, not not bad at all.
But it was still like tougher toleave these things off.
They're not like should it,they're pretty easy to get off.
And I mean actually startingthis run, I was wearing some the

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uh the Nike Alpha Fly shoes,those big chunky monkeys, as my
dog likes to call them.
Um, and I think that's part ofthe reason I just totally fucked
my foot is because those likethey got this big cushion, so
they got like a I think this isthe stack height, it's pretty
tall, whatever.
So when I rolled my ankle, Ireally rolled it hard.
But I was running in those.
I mean, normally it's kind oflike corny to not be doing a

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race in them or like a workout,but I was running in them
particularly because it was likesome tension on the top of my
foot were sore, and I was like,you know, I'll try to be nice to
them and run in these cushiershoes for today's run.
I maybe shouldn't have beenrunning because it kind of
bothered me like in the week ortwo prior.
So I was kind of trying to babyit, but trying to baby it just
totally fucked it.
So I don't know.

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I don't know what the moral ofthe story is there, but yeah, I
don't know.
Foot just got fucked.
That's it.
But they're just like a like afly knit-ish, I think it's
called.
I don't know if it's a fly knit.
It's like a little bit more, notas stretchy, but kind of a
similar texture.
It's like a little bit moreplasticky, these ones.
But it's like it's kind of likesocky when you like pull it on
and off.
It's not hard.

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But it was it was gripping thatthing when I was taking off my
my foot.
And once I got out, oh, itreally started to hurt and
started to puff up.
My foot got so fat pretty quick.
It was pretty, I was still likein the dial, not so bad.
You know, maybe I just rolled myankle, it's just gonna be a
little irritated.
But it was it it it did not feelgood, did not feel better
sitting, and once the swellingshad in, and I was like, I really

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needed to get her out to gopotty, and that that walk, that
was honestly, even though it wasa shorter walk, that one was way
worse than the two-mile walkhome on the freshly cracked
foot.
Um, I mean, I didn't know it wascracked at this point.
I was still like trying to belike, uh, just you know,
whatever.
So maybe it's brain days, justit'll need a little bit.
I'll walk it off.

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I said something, put it up forthe night, hopefully it's good.
But after like sitting for itwas probably longer than it I
intended.
I was because she'd only beeninside for quite a while before
she was like kind of lazy beforethe run.
I probably should have taken herout before, but she was you
know, couch payable belly up,totally saw on logs, it was
pretty cute.

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I'm like, okay, whatever.
You are clearly in no rush toget out to go to the bathroom,
so I'm gonna go run and I'll doit when I get back.
Uh that was a mistake, but itwas I I don't even know that
because like the pain was likeup by like 10 when I was trying
to walk in at this point, soit's like just inching along.
Like I would like take half astep and she'd give the leash

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length.
We normally walk pretty decent,at least if it's cold out.
Uh, she gets toasty quick ifit's any sun or if it's like
above like 50 degrees.
She'll get like exponentiallylazier and want to like stop and
hide in the shade.
But she was like, What the hell?
Why'd you turn into like a supergrandpa?
Like it was I felt bad.
She she kind of like take stepslike in elegant, like look back

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and be like, what the fuck'swrong with him?
Um but we made it around theblock.
Um and then I I I think I had todo it twice that night because
it like by the time I went tobed, I was like, you probably
should go one more time becauseI don't know when I'm gonna get
up out of bed in the morning.
Uh and I was like, I wasoptimistic going to bed that you
know it would all be better inthe morning.
Uh and yeah, that didn't happen.

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I woke up and she it was itdidn't actually okay.
I mean it looked like swollen ashell, but it didn't look like
too black and blue yet.
But I was like, I can hardly putany weight on it.
I really shouldn't have been.
Uh and I ended up taking myselfto the urgent care.
I I had to like try every shoethough, because it was like my

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foot was so goddamn tender tothe touch, like even like
tickling it with a feather waslike just sh excruciating.
Um I had to, you know, reallyjust get a spatula like those
hormones where they're diggingout a bullet to put on
eventually just a pair of Uggs,like those fluffy Uggs.
What are they?
I don't know what they'recalled.
Tasman maybe Tasmanian devil.

(09:44):
I don't know.
I don't I'm not up on my Ug.
Ug model names.
And that was the one that waslike the loosest on me and that
required less like stretchingaround the my swollen ass foot
to get to get it on.
Um I tried everything, like evensome some slides, the Gucci
slides, that that that wasn'tworking.
It was too tender to the touchto even put those on.

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But I managed to get these on.
I think it was maybe becausethese are like a balance of like
snug but loose, because I thinkwhat hurts worse about the
slides is like there was like alittle bit of space when I take
a step, it would like then retapthat like super tender area.
And that like that was that wasworse.
I think even though it was maybelike more painful wearing the

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tighter shoes, at least that orthey're not even tight, but
they're the the ones that Icould actually get on.
Um there's kind of like always alittle bit of pressure on that
sort of spot, so like I feellike your brain just kind of
like forgets about the pain alittle bit, but with the slides
like you forget, and then youlike move and you attach it, and
you're like, oh fuck.
And then so that that didn'twork.
So uh took the Uber to theurgent care, chilled there, did

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a bunch of x-rays.
They I wasn't I really had noidea what was up at this point.
I mean, I knew shit was bad.
I was like, I didn't know whatwas the the worst part.
I was kind of worried about likeI think you got some like ankle
ligaments and stuff and theankle was what they did.
I mean, they just did somex-rays, I guess.
That was all they do.
I don't know if they do anythingtoo involved in urgent care,
especially on like a Sundayafternoon.

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But they extra my ankle and myfoot.
Um, and they're like, yeah, thatshit broke, or just the foot is
at least.
The ankle's all good, so I don'tI don't know what's better, but
I guess it's a common thing,like rolling your ankle really
hard.
It's like you got like the thefifth metatarsal, which I guess
is like analogously on your handto be like this part of your
foot.
Um when you roll it, and it'slike I guess one of the tendons

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or ligaments.
Which one?
Which one connects bones?
I think tendons, muscle?
I think ligaments connect bones.
So I think one of those.
It could have been tendon, too.
I don't know.
Something when you roll reallyhard, it just you know really,
really jerks your bone and tookthe top off the Maybach for
real, for real.
Um, and then they gave me thislittle boot, which is like,

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okay, sick.
I walked out on that.
That shit just still hurt like abitch to walk in.
That boot was horse shit.
Uh and I was I was onlysurprised they didn't put me in
crutches the way I was walkingin there.
Uh, and then I eventually, youknow, got home, took the ride,
got a ride back, and then like Isaw the thing on like the chart
thing online thing about mything.

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Or remember like the doctor'snot from that.
It's like mildly mild limp orwhatever, mild change in his
walking, and I'm like, bro, didyou not see like how bad I was
hobbling?
I guess I was really selling it,so kudos to me for I don't know
what playing myself.
I guess I was like not likeexcited about doing crutches,
but I felt like I was like kindof starting to accept that this

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is this might be the newreality, at least for a short
while.
Uh and uh yeah, I hobbled out,but I I it was better than what
anything else I had for shoes towalk in.
It still hurt pretty fuckingbad, but I was like, okay, we
can do this.
Um once I got back, took the dogfor another little walk around

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the block.
And each step hurt, but not asbad.
And I was like, you know, Ithink as long as I keep moving
and like keep call like thispain stays kind of steady, you
kind of like can tone it out alittle bit.
So I just keep walking.
It's like harder if you stop andstart again.
I don't I don't know if you canrelate, but uh when you kind of
like yeah, just stop and kind offorget about it and like start

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moving, and like, oh so long asI kept going, it's like okay, we
can we can get through this.
I can manage to walk my dog.
I mean, I I'm shit out of luck,I don't got anyone to help, so
I'm gonna have to, you know,suck it up and get this bitch
out, make sure she's taken careof, get her potty breaks,
because you know, single dadlife, got that grind set.
Um but also the night beforewhen I was like kind of just in

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damage control, I tried to wellI tried, I was hoping to get her
that morning.
I uh Amazon Prime, like a bigold like walking boot.
It seemed like a little bitoverkill to me because it's like
one of those big, like allaround your ankle, like halfway
up your shin.
I was like, well, this seemsoverkill if it's just my foot.
But I think it's got like arounded bottom.
So it's like it got delivered,and I was like, shit, I'll at

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least just try it on.
And it was like a million timesbetter walking.
It still hurt, mind you though.
It's like it didn't this didn'tfeel good, but it was a large
improvement from anything else.
So I guess it's like all allthis pain is relative.
Like compared to walking, it'sstill I mean, give me hot colds
probably over that.
But I was like, oh wow, this issick.

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Okay, we're good, we're good.
Um then I think I got like areferral to see the podiatrist.
So I saw him maybe it was a Idon't know, it was a week later,
I don't know.
It wasn't too long.
I got into it quicker than Ithought I might.
Um, and then he just I don'teven that was like a 30-second
appointment.
He's like, Yep, you fucked.
Um just wear this boot and we'llcheck in a month.

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So I well, I I think it was likemaybe like five or six weeks
that my appointment was, butafter like four weeks, I was
like, okay, I'm gonna show thisboot.
Because at that point, did itreally hurt to walk?
I mean, although I don't know.
I guess kind of going back tothe relative stiff pain thing,
and maybe there was some pain,but it was so much better than
what it had been.
Um the pain though, it was not Idon't know.

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After a few days, it kind oflike leveled out, but then I
think after like a week,probably because I think the
recommendations don't walk morethan like five minutes at a
time, but I was definitelyprobably going for like
hour-long walks in the boot withthe dog.
I was like, you know, it'ssummertime.
I don't want to just sit insideall day.
So I think partially that, and Ithink too, when you're walking

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around, especially when it'slike really broken and tender, I
think I was like cranking, likelike trying to like hold your
like foot up like this.
Like, oh no, I can't get it inthe frame, but just like holding
my foot like at like a 90-degreeangle like this as walking, so
it wasn't like moving at alllike this.
But that really like I think itmade my top of my foot tend to

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my whole shin, they just likeburned.
So I like had like a six-pack onmy shin after like a week, and
it kind of hurt.
My foot really looked realfunky.
It was pretty bizarre.
Like I had like a ring of justlike purple around it, but then
it was just like just like anoutline of my foot that was like
purple and funky looking, but itit lasted for a few weeks.

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Um, then it kind of went away,and then I was like, okay,
hopefully this is all good.
And I was like walking around itfor a month and got an x-ray,
and it was still broken, stillpretty broke broke.
Um honestly, I was concerned.
I'm like, oh dang, was I reallyfucking it by like walking on it
when I first saw the the x-ray?
Because the honestly, in theinitial x-ray, right after I

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broke it, it was like, I mean,you could see small cracks.
Like, I wouldn't have been thatconcerned about it if I were
like looking at my own x-ray,um, my untrained medical ads,
but I was like, you could youcould see like these like small
cracks in the bone, but on thislike one after like five or six
weeks, these were like big gapsin the bone, and they're like,
okay, it's healing.
And I'm like, what?
This looks so much worse.

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There's like huge gaps, but Iguess what happens.
I was like, it was explained tome that like when you break it,
I think like your body reabsorbsall like the jagged messed up
bone in that area.
Um, so you you kind of like losethat part on the x-ray, or like
at least the calcium you youslurp back up into your blood.
Um, and then eventually you likestart building other stuff

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that's more temporary inbetween, and that's gotta kind
of like you know, stiffen up,you know, get bricked and turn
to bone eventually.
So there's stuff in between it,and that's why it doesn't hurt
to walk.
But um, even though you can'tsee anything, it's still there's
still something there that'sholding it together, like it'd
probably hurt if it was justtotally flopping around, but

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it's not bone yet, so it's notlike real stable stable solid.
So I did go back to wearing theboot for a few more weeks, um,
and then I ended up travelinghome to see family, and then was
on vacation in Hawaii, and I waslike, nah, fuck it, I'm not
wearing this big old boot.
I brought the little one, theshitty one that they gave me at

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the urgent care, and not my notmy Amazon big old boot.
That was honestly so muchbetter.
I was like, I don't want tobring this to Hawaii.
And I was like, you know, fuckit, even if it's like delays my
healing, I'd rather, you know,be able to walk barefoot in the
sand.
Um, okay, that was probably notthe wisest thing, but I was
like, you know, if it sets meback a few weeks, I'd rather
enjoy this time and then just,you know, be laid up for a

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little bit longer when I getback or not get back to running.
Uh so I did that, came back inthe fall, got another x-ray.
Um, well, I I just got the x-raybecause I guess I was supposed
to get it when I get back, butthen the homie was on vacation
or something for two weeks, so Iwas like, whatever.
Uh I don't care.
Give it more time to, you know,heal.

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However, another x-ray I saw it.
I'm like, oh, this looks nobetter.
Uh it is slightly better, soit's it's still healing.
But I think I need to be morecareful.
I don't have the boo yet.
I was I did kind of uh I did puton the the Lil Boot in the week
or two prior to kind of walkinga little bit more.
That shit hurts though.
Like it's got these like anklestraps, not very well padded, so

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I was like, my foot and heel aregonna get are starting to get
blistered as shit.
And I was like, yeah, I don'twant to wear this.
And then he was kind of like atthat appointment, he's like, uh,
do you why are you walking in?
Like a post up boot, I thinkthat's what it's called.
I'm like, this is the shit theygave me at the urgent care
brody.
The other one was like stuff Ibought with my yo, my
hard-earned moolah.
I mean, the other one cost melike a dollar, I guess, after

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insurance.
The other one was not cutcovered because I just ordered
off Amazon.
I mean, maybe you can getreimbursed.
I don't know how that works.
Uh, but he was like, Yeah, uh,don't wear that.
Well, he didn't say don't wearthat one, but he like implied
that I should be wearing theother one.
Well, he said I should wear thatone.
He didn't flam the limit toohard, but I could definitely
tell from his tone, like, whythe hell are you wearing that?

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That ain't doing shit.
Um however, I was hardly wearingthat.
I've hardly been wearinganything.
Even in like Hawaii, I was doingway too much.
Like, I mean, I definitely wenton like there's definitely one
day where I went on like a10-mile walk in flip-flops.
And maybe it was a little bitsort of for that.
Sometimes sort of walking on thebeach, but I'm like, it doesn't

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hurt hurt.
At least I don't know.
And maybe my tolerance, mythreshold hurt hurt is too high.
Uh so I'm should be getting backin the boot.
I did have I left the big bootwith my family because I was
hoping I was like graduate fromthat, but they sent it.
So it's on the way, so I mightbe returning to that for a

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little bit.
I don't know.
Like, I don't know how much ithelps healing.
So if there's you know anydoctors out there, hit me up,
tell me, give me, tell me toquit being a dumbass.
Because I'll like the way I seeit, it's like more of insurance
at this point.
Because like, it doesn't hurtwalking around, but I guess
maybe it just moving around somuch when I'm walking lots.
And I maybe it's just the factthat I'm like walking so much

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with my dog around.
I definitely walk a few miles aday on my broken foot, just raw
dogging it with nothing.
I did also take a climbing classthis week, which is also
probably a pretty bold call,like jamming the shit and the
things on the wall.
That was fun.
Maybe talk more about thatlater.
But it's you know, I've beenI've been living life, I just
really haven't been running.
That's the one thing.
Okay, well, I I I gotta admit,I've gone like on some little

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like jogs up for a block when mymy pup gets hyper.
It's when she gets like a littlepepner stip and crazy eyes.
She does a cute thing where likeher ears like get really cocked
up and she wants to run, so wedo a tiny bit here and there.
And I must confess that Ipartake in the shenanigans,
which I should not be doing, butI can't help it.

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But we'll see, we'll see.
Um yeah, I just need to dobetter.
Uh he talked about getting thesethings called like a bone
stimulator.
Honestly, if I came across thisanywhere else, I think it's a
little bit of some snake oilstuff.
Like, I think it's justsomething that basically it's
like a foot, a vibrator for yourfoot.

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Low-key.
I mean, not like, you know, notlike vibrator, vibrator, but
it's like something you wraparound your foot and it like
does some ultrasounds, ultras,yeah, ultrasound waves.
And I think he told me it waslike an hour, but I got called
by these people that like do thedelivery of it, and I think it's
like you gotta wear it likethree hours a day.

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So it's kind of a chore.
Although they just Chaudi on thephone just told me people
normally just wear it to bed.
I'm like, okay, sick.
Though um then they called meagain today, and I don't even
know what they were saying, butI think long story short,
insurance like denied that.
Um, so yeah.
That you know, usual story.
Uh this is I guess why Luigiwent wild, but uh luckily this

(22:59):
is my case is not that bad.
I mean, I don't even know.
I mean, I think it I feelskeptical of it a little bit of
like how useful it is, but I waslike, I mean, I'll try it.
If you know you give it to me,sure, I'll sleep with the thing
on my foot, foot let it buzz,see if it helps.
I mean, I don't it's not gonnahurt, I don't think.
But so I'm not I'm not tooheartbroken that I'm not gonna
get it.

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At least not for on theinsurance time yet.
I guess I think they said maybeat the next x-ray, if his things
are still cooked, if it's stilldelayed healing or something,
maybe they do it.
I don't really know.
I don't know how the processworks.
It's nothing about a diagnosis,and I'm like, what do you mean?
The foot's broke.
Could you I see?
But you know, it is what it is.

(23:40):
We'll see, we'll see.
Um, I just need to be better andbehave a little bit more.
It's just hard.
I'm like, kind of think of it.
But the the the prospects of meuh running, you know, 2028
Olympics in uh LA are looking alittle bit bleaker.
Not that it ever looked anythingbut bleak, but you know, every
once in a while I get crazy.

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I'm like, yo, what if I uh wentin grind mode for like a year?
And like because I used to runtrack in college and I kind of
stopped, I kind of did somemarathon stuff.
And doing that, I kept breakingto well, okay.
I guess it's been a a series ofinjuries.
Well, I guess two main ones.
This one's a little bit moreprior.
I I guess it was this summerbefore last a year ago.

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I was running.
I I guess my goal was just uh torun the Boston marathon with
some homies, so I needed to runthe qualifying time to get into
that marathon.
And I was kind of doing sometraining.
I was in good shape.
Like I basically ran one like amarathon and just like a
training run, like a workout.
That I mean, it wasn't exactlyas fast enough, but uh I did

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have to take a few emergencyshifts on the run where like I
stopped the time.
So give or take, I mean, I waspretty confident, especially on
this course that was gonna run,is like mostly downhill one.
So I was like, okay, this shouldbe easy to get the time.
However, like two weeks out,okay.
I mean, more just me being dumb.
Like I went, I think actually itwas one of the hard runs I did.

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My my hip was a little bit soreat the end of it.
And then I was like, it felt alittle bit off, like a little
bit more painful.
And I guess when I say a littlebit more painful, that probably
means it's pretty painful inreflection for me.
However, that did not stop mefrom the next morning getting up
at like also the thing is it washot around here, and I was like

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waking up at like 3 45.
I don't know if it's that early.
I mean, I think I was startingsome of the runs before five, so
I mean 4 45 at the latest, butsomething had to early to get on
these runs before it got reallyhot.
And I was in pain, but thatdidn't stop me for just limping

(25:50):
for like three hours on a run,like to go 20 more miles.
And and I'm like, this feelspretty bad.
And I'm like, well, I'm justgonna take a week off, and then
you know, because the marathontwo weeks is like I should be
like the fitness should bethere, so just making sure I'm
healed up for that.
And I was honestly, it wouldhurt pretty bad, even to walking
around at that point, just likeeverything.

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And like a few days before themarathon, and like two weeks had
gone by, I was like, I'm I can'trun, like this hurts.
I was like trying to like youknow, gaslight myself and like
this isn't hurt that bad.
And I did, I think it was liketwo days before the marathon,
I'm gonna come and try like alittle baby run just to see.
Because like I'll go try to rundown the hill around my
apartment.
Um, because this this marathon'smostly downhill, and I was like,

(26:37):
you know, it maybe just hurtsgoing uphill or something.
The muscles a little bit off,and it did not go well.
Maybe like the first few steps,I'm like, okay, this isn't a bad
then it hits you, and I'm like,oh gosh.
And I was like stubborn.
I had to look like a like awounded gazelle around my
apartment, just kind of likerunning up or like hobbling up
this hill and like sadly likerunning down, like all like

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wonky because it hurt.
And I was like, you know, maybeit's gotta warm up, and I kept
trying it, and it kept gettingworse and more ugly to see.
And I'm like, then I eventuallythrew in the towel.
And I just stopped runningthere.
I think I was there was anotherone like a month a few weeks
later, yeah.
And then I was maybe like, okay,maybe I can do this one.
But I was like, luckily I heldoff on signing up for this one

(27:23):
because it did not get better bythen.
Um I was, I mean, I would havesigned up, but marathons are
kind of expensive as shit.
Like it's like 150 bucks for alot of them, especially if
you're not signing up early.
I was like, I don't want tothrow that much bread on
something that I'm not confidentI can run.
I don't know why it's soexpensive, some of them.
Like I guess there's theconvenience of having like water

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at aid stations and setup coursethings, but sometimes it seems
kind of tax.
Although aid stations and gelsare nice, I will say.
I like underestimated how mucheasier like some nutrition makes
running.
I was, I mean, I not I was, I amstill a head-ass, but I just did

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more head-ass things in the pastwhere I just was like didn't not
at all interested in tryinggels.
I think I tried a homies likerunning gel at one point.
He like had a bunch, and I waslike, I'll try one.
I'm like, oh it tastes like ass.
Um, however, I did a marathonfor the first time probably the
fall before that, and just kindof raw dogged on, and like not

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had anything.
I did bring some uh those liketake five candies.
I'm like, well, I hate gels, butI'll have some candy.
But it was like 40 degrees.
That was like the high for themarathon, I mean, uh, that I
ran.
And so I mean, it was maybe inthe 30s for most of it.
I don't really remember.
It was at an awful temperaturewhere it was like really foggy

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and like around freezing, sothere's some really sketch hills
where it's like starting to getfrosty, and I was like, I don't
even know.
Like, you could I don't I don'tknow what the phrase is, but
something with I was clenchingmy asshole running down this
hill because I was like, this issteep, and if I if I slip, I'm
just gonna eat shit and havehella road rash, and that's not

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gonna go good.
But apart from the ice, thatbeing sketchy on the slippery
things, and just even on theflats is scary when you have
slick surfaces and you don'tknow what's what you might eat
shit on.
I tried, I was like gettinghungry, which is not a good
sign.
Normally I don't get hungry atall.
I think it's also part of why Ilike wasn't interested in
jellous.
Like, I got feel like I kind ofhave sensitive gut, so my tummy

(29:36):
can get a little bit unhappy anda little bit hurdy uh eating
stuff when I'm running.
But I'm like, okay, shit, I'mhungry.
I've been running hard though,like faster than a normal run
because it was like themarathon, it's race day, it was
game time, it was showtime,baby.
Um, okay, shoot, I'll try toeat.
But these take fives were rockhard.
Although I looked realdegenerate also because I had

(29:59):
some like Shooter alcoholbottles that I filled up with
like electrolytes and caffeinepills and made my own, like
whatever uh homemade crackhead,you know, me half pots.
Shout out Fortnite.
But I popped those and slammedthem.
I probably looked people aroundme in the race were like, what
is this guy doing?
Uh, because it still had likethe the the pink Whitney wrapper

(30:22):
on these little shooter bottles,but you know, reduce reducer
cycle, um you know, take care ofthe mama earth and whatnot.
Although um I don't know.
It was it's better than nothing,you know, uh, and repurposing it
kind of those little bottles fitin my shorts nice.
But I think it was like mile 22or something, it was like the

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last uh the last stretch of thismarathon.
And it was like these last fewmiles are like uphill too when
my legs are fried.
I haven't like eaten anything.
And then I think just like allof that adding up and the run,
like on this just runningstraight uphill for the last few
miles, my legs just started tolike stop working and cramping
up.
And at one of them I stoppedthese eight stations, and I

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finally came like, okay, yeah,where are these gels at?
Um, and I got this bop blueberrypomegranate or something like
that, Huma gel.
And that that was divine.
I swear I busted at least a halfnow when that shit hit my
tongue.
Like, I don't know.
Like, I think there was somebias of like how whatever
depleted I was of everything atthat point, but it was it was so

(31:27):
good.
Um, and then I ended up copyingmore of those and trying them
around since I've tried to welllike a few other just so those
Huma ones, top tier gas, um interms of flavor.
There's like Huel, I thinkthat's how I used to say it.
Huel.
It's like these like hydrogelones.
Those they don't taste as good,but those are top tier if you're
like focused on like performancebecause they're kind of like a

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weird jelly texture.
It's not quite one that likecolds your mouth and stuff.
It's harder to get down.
It's kind of like like a jelloin a tube.
So it's kind of easy to do whenyou're running.
That's sometimes the hard thingabout I don't I have not gotten
the form down, even those littlecups.
Like I try I have to like stopand snip it a little bit because
normally if I try to keeprunning, I either like I A, it
either just like dumps all overme, or B, I just choke on it and

(32:12):
I'm just like coughing while I'mrunning.
It's just like I shouldn't havehad this little bit of water.
How much what what is this bitof water gonna do for me in
these little Dixie cups?
Um but the the human ones workpretty good for that, they're
just kind of expensive if you'retrying to do it for training.
So I did incorporate those inthe training the following that,
and it was a game changer,honestly, how much better I felt

(32:35):
and like was able to run.
Like normally, I mean, I think Ithought it just felt normal like
that after you run 20 miles umwithout eating anything, it was
like I thought it was just partof running, or just I I assumed
that you know once you run 20miles, you start to get dizzy,
and you kind of it's you kind ofit's kind of a trip, like
especially when I lived in Caliaround LA.
Like I go on some like summerruns when it's stupid hot.

(32:59):
And then like, yo, the lastafter 20 miles is kind of a
vibe.
Like you could any any distanceafter that is kind of all the
same because like you're so outof it.
It's like you gotta you probablywant to make sure you're in like
familiar turf because it's likeI feel like kind of like a blur.
It's kind of like you know whenyou drive somewhere and you zone
out and you're like, How did Iget here?
I don't remember that.
That's how the running is afterlike mile 20 when you don't have

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anything, although it's notoptimal for performance.
Uh and then when I finish theseruns, like I'll eat a shit ton,
and then like I go, I go throughit, man.
I like I'll take a shower andthen just like lay down for a
few hours, and I feel like I getchills, and like uh my body goes
through all sorts of stuff whereI think it just got so drained
dry, then it's like when I eat abunch, then it's like it just

(33:40):
has fuck everything else.
We're going all in on digestion,the rest of the body can fuck
off.
We we gotta get that bread, um,we gotta get that money, and it
doesn't feel that great.
Like, there's some like highvery, I don't know, big swings
of like I feel like trash orlike oh feel so good to be done,
you know.
The the endorphins maybe.

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I don't know when those hit therunners high.
I'm not quite sure what that is.
I mean, I guess I've had thatprobably at some point, but when
I like incorporate gels, like ifI had a few while running 20
miles, even though it's not thatmany calories, I'm like, wow, I
like am not totally out ofcommission for a few hours after
running.
So like this is like this islike too easy.
This is cheating.
Um, although that does notfactor in if you just fuck up

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your the rest of your body andmuscles, anyways.
Um, so I think where I left offbefore that tangent was I had
been trying hoping to run thesemarathons, and then eventually
just turned it to I was like,yeah, I'm not gonna because I
think the like the cutoff wassometime in September for the
marathons.

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And I was doing some travel, Iwas doing this like studying
abroad thing to go to Morocco.
Um, and I was like, Yeah, I'mnot gonna, I'm not gonna be in
any condition to run a marathon.
Or and if even if I am, I'm notsure I'm gonna be in the shape
to run it fast enough.
But so it was a little bitbummer.
I mean, I wasn't too bum, butlike actually, whatever.

(35:07):
Well, we'll get him next time,boys.
Uh anywho, I'm like hiking inMorocco to some like waterfall.
Uh I don't even think we got thewaterfall because it's like with
uh my professor in Shahdi's gotsome like knee pain, so we
weren't going far.
But I was like walking, I'mlike, my hip still kinda hurts.

(35:27):
Even just like walking throughall the cities, all the Medinas
and the Souks, um, or likewhenever I walked through this,
like walked to like this likelittle building where we had
some like language classes inthe mornings.
I was like, my hip still hurtspretty bad just walking, and
it's been like two months atthis point.
So I figured it was I shouldprobably get checked out.

(35:49):
So I did talk to my parents,talked about getting like uh a
doctor's point when I get backto the states, um, just to get
checked out at least, see what'sgoing on.
And oh also, I don't know whythis happened.
We're like visiting one of thecities in Morocco, I forget, and
my one of my Arabic teachers,shout out Khadijah.

(36:10):
She I don't know, she was like,why this was she's like race me,
Kellen, and I'm like, okay.
Um I'm like, whatever.
I was like, she wants to smoke.
Um, she did have wheels though,I will say, shout out her.
She she was faster than Iexpected.
Like, she was she was reallygoing for it.
I thought we were just gonna dolike a little like run.
And I started out, it was fine.

(36:31):
I'm like, oh, this isn't so bad.
Um, I mean, I got the dub barelythough.
Like, she made me work for alittle more than I expected.
But after that, it reallyfucking hurt.
I'm like, okay, this is notgood.
I'm not doing any more running.
Or playing, oh, we did playvolleyball on the beach with
some of my boys, but I'm like,on some of these times to run
for the ball, I'm like, oh, thatreally hurt.
This is not good.
It's been two months, so whydoes it still hurt this bad?

(36:52):
I haven't like not been running,although I guess just being
active on it at that point for awhile.
Um, and then eventually,whenever get back, get back to
the good old USMA, have mydoctor's appointment.
I mean, the first one with Idon't know, some more I don't
think it was an orthopedicdoctor.

(37:12):
Well, I guess maybe like anorthopedic PA.
I don't know.
Chauddy just like whipped my hiparound, made me do things, and
like nothing hurt, like justmoving it around.
So it's a good sign that Ididn't have like something torn,
but then they did have an MRIand I had a fucking broken femur
or like a stress fracture, andmaybe a torn labrum.
And they were like, oh yeah, youshould you should probably be in
crutches for the next month.

(37:34):
And I'm like, oh hell not.
At that point, it didn't hurt towalk anymore.
I was like, I've been walking onthis for now for like three
months at this point, and it hasimproved.
Maybe not a lot, but it'simproved, so I was like, I don't
I do not want to be like crutchhandicapped for like a month and
a half.
I think there's like six weeksthey said maybe what they

(37:56):
recommended.
I'm like, yeah, miss me withthat bullshit dog.
I mean, I guess I mean well,apart from just the whole hassle
of all that, like also thelogistics of having a dog and
like being the only one.
Like, I guess I could have lefther at home with my parents
temporarily, but then I'd haveto like figure out getting her
cross-country again.
And that was like, even all thatis how I'd I'd miss my shoddy,

(38:19):
my main beach.
Um, and I was like, uh, I'llfigure it out, I'll just behave.
And I did, I was careful.
Like, I just I did cut back alot of my walking and whatever.
Um, and then eventually, I guessit was like the Christmas break,
and saw the doctors, and they'relike, okay, I mean, your bones
should be good at this point ifyou're not running.

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And the labrum thing, I thinkbasically what they said is that
if it's not causing problems,and they didn't really think it
was, and they weren't even superconvinced it was torn, maybe.
I think it was maybe a littlebit of question.
Um, they didn't want anysurgery.
I'm like, okay, sick.
Because I was also kind ofdreading that.
I was like, that woulddefinitely put me in crutches.
I have to get like some labrumsurgery on my hip.

(39:02):
So I avoided that.
So I was actually pretty hypedabout that.
Um, but I still kind of laid lowfor a while.
Um, and then it was kind ofstarting again that spring is
where I started ramping up foruh, or I guess that was this
past spring where I've starteduh running more again.
Although, in short order forrunning up, my hips are hurt bad

(39:22):
again.
Quite similarly in the sameways.
Now I was like, oh no, is mylabor is totally cooked?
I was kind of reading about itand seeing like lots of things
where there's like and the onething the doc said too is like
it might be as many as like 20%of people have torn lab rooms
and don't even know it if theyjust like grabbed the Rachati
off the street and threw her anMRI.

(39:43):
Um and then reading things islike a lot of times uh people
get the surgery and it doesn'treally make things better, or
people have no problems and theyhave torn lab rooms if they like
do scans of them.
So it doesn't seem like surgerywas like the greatest option.
And like a lot of things whatI've seen were like and I'd have
experience with this.
A lot of things is just likesort of rehab exercises.

(40:06):
Like the biggest thing I thinkI've learned in running from all
sorts of weird aches and painsis you can never have too much
cake, like those glutes arenever gonna be too strong.
Like a lot of times you havelike there's like all sorts of
like weird little muscles,especially like the glute medius
and minimus, I think are them,kind of like higher up on you
butt cheeks, kind of by yourhip.
If those get weak, like allsorts of funky stuff happens.

(40:28):
I've had some like really badknee pain in the pain in the
past, and it's kind of like fromyour IT band, but I think at the
end of the day, what it is islike a weak glute muscle, like
one of those.
And like you try everythingelse, like massaging your your
IT band and like try to dostretches, but never goes away.
But then the second like you dosome like uh booty work, it's

(40:52):
like crazy how much a differencethat makes and how quick it
works.
So I was like, okay, I shouldtry this.
So the biggest thing is like,well, I guess like some like
weird hip raises and things likethat to like kind of target
these, and some loop bridgeswhere you're just laying on the
laying flat on your back in theground and just you doing doing
air humps, you know, practicingthat stroke game from the

(41:12):
bottom, you know, learn how totreat cowgirl right, you know,
you know.
Uh but that miraculously likemade things feel really much
better and such shorter.
That was kind of insane.
So do your glute bridges, gang.
Anyways, that was great.
I was running.
Um, things were going well untilI just totally fucked my foot.

(41:33):
And that's that's where we'reat.
So yeah.
Like 2028 not looking so hot.
I don't that that's kind of mebeing a crackhead, or I don't
even know, just high in the skythoughts.
Like sometimes I get like hype,you know.
You know how you have those likerandom, like I'm him moments
later tonight where you'rewalking around, you just get
hyper for no reason to have likeexcessive self-confidence.

(41:55):
You just feel like you thatmotherfucker, you know, you
know, normally it requires meblasting some demo and you know,
dancing with my dog.
But you know, it's one of thoselike think about, you know,
could I could I, you know, runtrack more, do some racing
around here and marathon stuff.

(42:16):
I feel like I kept fuckingmyself.
Maybe this was also influenced,I should add, by a few months
prior.
This is actually a crazy story.
I downloaded Tinder and I wasswiping and got some match from
I mean, it was there was nothingthat crazy.

(42:37):
It was just some chicks seemedlike she was running like into
running from a profile, which isall the green flag for me, and
seemed I mean I think a lot oftimes my problem, I guess, at
this point was like I mean ingeneral, like I feel like for me
to actually feel attracted to ashoddy in terms of I mean, more
than just like thinking likeshoddy's fine, looks good, she's

(43:00):
hot, like I always think thatbut I should like kind of be
more pulled in.
I feel like I normally have tolike ha know more about a person
or like like their vibe, youknow, to be more interested in
more than, you know, somethingthat like you'd have a longer
desire that would last, youknow, through the post-not
clarity, you know, you know,where it's like uh if you're my

(43:21):
clear head, I'm like, no, I haveno interest.
But from the profile, which issaying nothing.
It just seemed like she seemedcute and entertaining.
But this is the point too wherelike it just I mean, I don't
know if y'all played around itthat much.
Where I at this point I likejust downloaded it and it was
like one of the first fewmatches I got, and we're like,

(43:41):
oh wow, and like you're likecare more about what like when
that happens, and you don'trealize like before you realize
how uh little any of them likeever amount to anything, like
most of them you just gonowhere, send a message, and
maybe they'll just respond,maybe not.
Or if they do, if it usuallydies out.
Not a lot happens, at least inmy case.
Maybe I gotta you know get theriz up.

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But I was it was like doing alittle bit of like a creeping on
a shoddy because I cared more atthis point, like seeing like oh
what I don't know, a little bitcreepy, I will admit, but it was
I I don't know, I'm past thatanyway.
I typed in from her profiles,like sometimes try to find more
about the shoddies, you know,when you're curious, you know,

(44:23):
when you're crashing on someonelike, oh, what's more?
What is this person?
And I typed in the most basicGoogle search, not like
expecting computing.
Sometimes, like, if there's moreinformation or profiles, like
you can find something, but itwas just her like basic first
name, and she said like uh likeAustralian Irish.
I typed that up, and Wikipediablew up, and I'm like, oh okay,

(44:48):
whatever, someone must havethese things.
And uh it turns out it was hershoddy had I'm pretty sure her
on Wikipedia and whatnot.
Um turns out Shadi ran at thegoddamn Olympics.
So your boy fumbled in Olympian.
Although I don't even note thatI fumbled because nothing ever

(45:08):
there was legit no interaction.
That was just a trip realizing,whoa, this this chick actually
ran in Paris.
And and I pulled up the gram andfound out.
I mean, this was uh you know,really, really got spoke to my
heart.
She had like a post about it anda like post of her running at

(45:30):
it, and the the the IG music,the beat that she had was The
Fellows in Paris by you knowKanye G, Jay-Z.
And I was like, oh damn, damn.
Made me made me feel harder, butit didn't go anywhere.
I tried some like head-as banterline.
I think there was somethingabout hating slow walkers, even

(45:54):
though I feel like normally I'mactually not a slow walker, but
I was like, you know, justtrying to get be bantery on the
on the DMs.
And there's never a response.
And then I went to like someheadass strategy that has not
panned out.
Maybe, maybe it will.
I never continue this, or Inever resolved this where I like
over it's it was over likeseveral months where like, you

(46:17):
know, maybe we started off likeevery few days, then every
couple days, I was like writingout a story of emojis where I
think it was like like akangaroo and a turtle are like
racing, and then an egg fallsinto their path, the turtle
stops in time, the kangaroo justobliterates that thing, and then

(46:38):
um the the turtle one well, Iguess the the mom bird comes
back and finds the one egg, andthen you know, pulls it up on
the kangaroo, hits it with allthe smoke, uh, R.A.P.
kangaroo.
But the turtle, where it isstopped and saved the egg, uh
joined the bird again, joinedthe bird army, and I don't think

(46:59):
I ever went further than that.
I don't know what happened, justthat egg hatched.
But I just wrote this out inexclusively emojis because I was
like, I can't be like doubletext anymore, and that's like
over a few months.
I thought it was entertaining.
It's probably in hindsightpretty head-ass, one of the more
head-ass things I've done.
Actually, no, it's not.
I wish that was one of the morehead-ass things I've done.
I've done so much Stuitchia, butbesides the point, I think it's

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still there.
I don't I feel like I checked atone point to see, and I think
it's that she's still like threemiles away, which I don't think
so, because I think she likelives not in the US, so I think
it's just either been deleted ornever opened.
So maybe maybe someday she'llopen this masterpiece and you

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know come calling.
Not optimistic, but that's that.
But that gave me like more, youknow, running motivation.
I was like, she can run fastertrack times than me.
I'm like, damn.
That's like my goal is like, yo,I just gotta be as fast, you
know.
Not not looking good at themoment.
I I'm still I'm still broken.
But that was that was aninteresting trip.

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Maybe it gave you extramotivation.
Um, so we're here.
We'll see, we'll see.
Especially I was I was kind ofhyped to like lock in for the
summer.
Like I was like, I should domore like weight training for
running.
I really don't ever do any likeactual lifting stuff like in the
gym.
I kind of just do like a sort oflike caldenic-y work.

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Is that what it's called?
Like where it's like just yourown body weight.
I guess I had some weights whereI do like some like glute
things.
Uh, what is it called?
There's a Bulgarian splitsquash.
Those things torch your ass.
Like, hit it like no other.
And I also bought um one ofthose big uh hex bars for

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deadlifting and like a bunch oflike 55-pound plates that I just
like loaded up and put on my mybalcony.
Luckily, my balcony is likeconcrete, so it like holds them.
But I was like, I'm gonna do getlocked in on this, and we're
gonna yo get the booty right,um, do all those hip exercises
so that my hip don't bother me.

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And I was like gonna try to joinsubtract club, do some races,
but we didn't now make it farinto the summer.
Like by the time I got all ofthat, I was like starting to do
everything, and then just ripcracked my foot.
That was kind of got stoppeddead in the water.
I mean, we still got time, youknow.
Who knows?
Who knows what will happen?
When is it?

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So it's 2020.
It's only 2025, it's 2028.
There's a lot that's good tohappen.
I mean, I'm washed though,washed as hell.
Although I will say it isimpressive how much just walking
like maintains your fitness.
Like, I mean, walking with mydog, and I guess in a big city,
I feel like you just like walk alot more like for commuting
without taking like the trainand stuff.

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I don't really take the bus, butmostly train, like going to and
from campus, things like that.
Because I feel like, especiallyin the past few years, I guess
it's been holy sheesh.
It's been at least three yearssince I've actually like really
raced college likecompetitively.
Um, and there's been like longperiods of time where it's been
like a few months where Ihaven't really done a proper run

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and go for one.
I mean, you still feel like ass,but on the first one, but it's
like only like a few where I'mlike really like my lungs hurt
just breathing, not even justlike spillwinded.
There's like I don't I don'tknow what what parts of you
toughen up to kind of make allthat better, but it's I've been
amazed at like relatively howshort that phase lasted, like

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how quick I can like be runningagain and like in shape, even
though I haven't been running.
And I think it's legit just fromwalking.
Because I know even in like whenI was like racing more and like
running more competitively, if II was a little bit more lazy in
my like off periods where I likedidn't run for a few months,
especially during like thepandemic and COVID, like when I
stopped and like ran for the fewtime, like how did I ever get

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good at this?
Like, how did I just hateexisting right now because
everything just hurts, breathinghurts, your legs hurt,
everything just it's not a goodtime.
But walking, I mean, that's theonly thing that I can think of
that's changed.
And I do walk a few miles a day,and it's not always that fast,
honestly, because like sometimesthe dog wants to sniff around

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and you know, get shenanigans.
We walk a little bit more briskin the winter when she will walk
brisk, but she's pretty lazy inlike anything, not even anything
not cool weathered.
Especially even if it's coolweather, the sun comes out, she
gets she got a big black fluffycoat, and I think it's toasty
quick, and she gets hot andlazy.

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So most of our walks are notjust not not at all uh you know
an aerobic challenge or a goodyou know workout.
Like it's not even like my myheart's really pumping.
I don't got my heart sayingsaying thank you.
That's what my my mom you'resupposed to always say when I
was like little and be likegoing for walks with them and be

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like, what the hell, mom?
This hill's too big.
She's like, nope, your heart'ssaying thank you, thank you,
thank you.
That's what I'm saying when youhear your your heart pounded in
your chest.
So I don't got that even on thelocks.
Um that's how she know, youknow, talks into fitness.
Well, not really.
She wasn't trying to, it waslegit just like the most basic
walks, but you know, it's justlike little and you know, like

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to whine.
But not even that.
And walking or running, evenwithout much like training, it's
so I feel like I've likeretained much more fitness
because of that, or some likeboard baseline.
I mean, I don't I'm guessingit's like based on the prior
work.
Like I don't think just walkingyou'd get good at running, but
like if you had some likebuilt-ups at some point and then

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keep walking in your off times,it can't maintain cardio.
There's probably research on it.
I don't know.
But if there's an expert outthere, let me know.
Let me know what the the bestride is.
And also the best ways to heal abone.
I've been like abusing likecalcium pills.
I mean, I don't think I've beenabusing, but I've been grinding
like some calcium pills orcalcium gummies, trying to make

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sure I get a bunch.
Um, because I'm not I mean Ifeel like I don't know how a
grim of a diet is of calcium.
I don't know what you really getit at.
I mean, I always tell you likemilk as a kid, like go drink
your milk so you get strongbones and whatnot.
But I feel that, especially notat home in the Midwest, like it

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was normal to have like milkwith every meal, that's just
what you'd be sipping on, butliving on my own, especially
just solo, no low.
I don't ever go through a gallonof milk, at least not regularly
on my own, so it's like I don'talways want to buy it and don't
always want to drink it, so Ifeel like I probably could be
lacking a little bit in thecalcium.

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And I feel like there's liketimes I was like paranoid about
things being broken, so I waslike, I'm just gonna slam the
calcium so you know have bigstrong bones.
Um but now I'm trying to makesome new bone.
It's not maybe that's the onething that's making progress.
Maybe on top of my just notbabying the foot.

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Uh having a little bit ofcalcium is helping it actually
do something.
So I'm I'm sticking on thecalcium grind set.
But if there's any other anythings I should be you know
taking, is there any other boneboosters?
Is there bone steroids I cantake to get thick bones?
Although I don't know.
I feel like if you got reallythick bones, it'll make you
heavy and harder to run.
That's actually a big thing,too.
I know like I feel like it wasmy freshman year uh of like

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college, and I was like, forwhatever reason, I kind of this
is like the only time I've everlike tried to be in the gym more
than like I guess the the gymlifting that we had to do for
like tracking cross country,which is like twice a week for
like 20 minutes do some likelifts and pull-ups.

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I remember the first time I didthat, I was like, I'd never done
a pull-up before.
I had to use so many bands tolike do the saddest pathetic
pull-ups.
I now I can't do them, but itwas a long road.
Um, but then I was like, Iwanted to do some, you know, I
was trying to, you know, getthat aesthetic build.
Actually, I didn't even know, Ijust wanted to get strong.

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And I mean I think I did getstrong pretty quick, but I mean
it probably wasn't almost a lot.
But I feel like what I was ableto lift in short order, just
like doing all these likemachines in the gym at home over
a few months, like went up veryquickly.
Although I feel like I put on alot of weight in short order.
I mean, not I it wasn't crazy,but I probably put on at least

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10, somewhere between like 10 to20 pounds, and then like
starting the track practice inthe winter with like that weight
difference felt god awful.
I was like, okay, never again.
No, this is not worth so shoutout to those like whatever
hybrid athletes that do lift alot, and there's like pretty big

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dudes running.
I mean, they're not like bigdudes, but there's like there's
like a lot of mess, and I mean Iguess as far as like
cross-country runners go, like Iwas like by far like the the
biggest dude on the team.
Not that I was like a jacked oranything, but uh just your your
typical cross-country build isnot mine.
But maybe, maybe if I you knowslim down, I'd be like real

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aerodynamic.
Maybe I just got that I got thatbig frame, but I got that that
V12 under the hood.
So if I you know, you know,strip down, uh could really
really go zoom.
But that's this is allhypothetical or whatever the
word is.
We to be determined if I've everin one piece um and start to
run.
Maybe, maybe, maybe you'llyou'll see me, you know,

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twerking on the ops at theOlympic Games in LA.
That'd be that'd be sick.
That'd honestly maybe I don'tknow.
I it would be sick to like tryto go.
I just at least I'd be contentif I made it to the the trials.
I mean, actually, because likewhat I'd want, I mean, what I
would what I would want to andwould like the my best shot
would be at uh 800.

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But uh the US got some speedy800 dudes.
Um so you know, it's fun todaydream, but not very
practical.
But even just do the trials.
That that actually be a biggoal.
Maybe I will.
I don't know.
We'll see where I'm at in lifeand see if my foot heals.
Maybe lock, try to lock in forthe third time in a row, third

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summer, and pray to God that wedon't break something this time.
Don't got a good track record.
Um I've just got to stay maybestand calcium every time.
Um take care of everythingeverything else, eat right,
sleep.
Sleep, I think, is alsoimportant.
Well, okay, I know it isimportant.
I mean, I guess what I'm sayingis that I don't know if I was

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also sleeping enough in some ofthese times.
Cause I didn't have like AC inthe summer as I was waking up.
I mean, okay, the foot one Ifeel was a fluke.
I feel like this summer was justshitty bad luck.
I feel like this summer beforethat, there were things I was
maybe not doing so great.
And I mean, I probably wasn'tmaking every decision great, but
this is the first time it's likebeen like a traumatic break, as

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opposed to like something whereyou just like my prior injuries
injuries have just been like,you know, going a little bit too
head-ass um and really rampingstuff up and not uh having the I
guess like building up your bodyfor it, like because like
there's like all sorts of thingswhere like you gotta even if you
aerobically can, because it'skind of insane, honestly, when I

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run, it's like after a fewweeks, at least with the base
that I've probably built overthe years or whatever.
I mean, I think the analogy isthat like one of my specific
coaches that shout out to himwas he'd be like, you know, and
I think it's like even any anyother like physical exercise in
general, even like lifting, it'slike once you blow up the blunt
once and kind of you knowstretch that hole out, it's

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easier to re-inflate later.
But I think like after like afew weeks of running, if it's
not at like a super fast pace,just a comfortable pace, I feel
like quickly it can run for likehours without like being like
out of breath or winded, it'sjust I just like run until like
I like legit my leg muscles arelike fried and they don't want
to move anymore.

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But even though you aerobicallycan do that, if you haven't been
running, like the all therunning kind of like strengthens
your bones.
So if you just like really hitthe gas on that without too much
buildup, you just can you knowwear stuff down and break stuff
out.
But I've been able to do somelike head-as stuff in past
summers.
I think like the most I run atone point.

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I mean, I think in particularthis was especially stupid
because I had like hardly runanything before it, maybe a few
like 30 miles a week, and thenmaybe like 160, and then I like
at one point did just raw dog130 miles in a week.
I think I remember looking atthe Strava for that week, and it

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was like I'd been running like18, 19 hours.
hours of the whole week.
It's it's fun.
It's it's a good time, butrunning that much, like the
people that do like ultras, Idon't I just don't know how you
have a life because it's like itit consumes everything.
There's like even like just thethe boring shit of it.
Legit shit actually like when Irun even though it's like okay

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sure it's 18 hours do the methit's like two plus a day.
So like you know there's lots oftime left in the day.
But you gotta sleep so much ifyou want to stay healthy doing
that.
Like I there are times where Iprobably didn't sleep as much
but then like even timing itlike eating and you gotta eat so
much I would like have to belike making myself like every

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meal eat till like I like feltsick and I'd still be like
shedding weight running thatmuch.
But it's like I'm trying to eatthese like fat turkey sandwiches
where like just buy a pack ofturkey and just put it between
bread with a bunch of creamcheese.
That was one of the moreheadache things that I do.
A lot of the a lot of the mealsI eat are kind of a little bit
out there but that's like youknow we chunk your stuff down

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but time and like trying to eatenough or drink enough I would
like definitely blew some racksat uh Target buying juices one
time.
It was like I'd run like I don'tknow probably like it was
probably a day where I like ranlike 20 miles and it was like
one of the weeks in LA it waslike 100 degrees and I was like

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super dehydrated going to Targetand I like basically I like
deadass was like just on theshelf of like body armor just
slid into my car because I wasjust like totally fried at that
point and just didn't give ashit and I was like yo I want
this and then bought like abunch of juice I think I legit
just spent a hundred dollars onjust drank alone and when I was

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doing that some guy's like ifyou good you you run or
something I don't even know whathe said but it was I like turned
around like I thought it was along day out when I like slided
onto the cart and I turned andthere's this guy just like
giving me like the the look andI'm like mind your business G
but this this tells you to runthat much and I like I do like

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okay that's probably my favoriterunning my favorite okay my
favorite running is just do likelike last like long vibey miles
you know in pretty places but Ireally do not love racing long
distances.
I really love racing like shorttrack races like 800 um but also
then on the flip side I fuckinghate those workouts I mean okay

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that's like maybe strong way toput it but like those ones are
just so brutal when you're doinglike 400 meter repeats.
I know there's like this one myfreshman year track uh I think
it was just like basically anall-out 400 and then you had
like seven minutes of rest whereit's and like at that point it's
like that's like a long breakfor like an aerobic thing but

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it's not even aerobic it's legitfor your muscles because like
you're fine after a few minutesum then it was like 350 and then
300 so I did the 400 and the 350and like my ass was feeling it
and as Tom came to do the 300 orwhatever the next seven minutes
and I started and I tried tolike push off I just felt so

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tight and then I just legit justate shit face blinded um my legs
just like weren't gonna movethere like my booty was not
having it and then like my coachjust walks up and he's like oh
you got got by the good oldbooty lock and I'm like uh is
that what you call it I meanthat's a very fitting name
because it's like your whole asscheek just like a lockup and

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they don't want to move and Iguess booty lock is the term and
it's it's pretty uh apropos orfitting.
Is that what apropos means?
I don't know.
Big word photosynthesis.
I'm not sure I think it might beit's it's kind of fun to say
apropos Edgar Allen apropos umbut yeah so we'll see we'll see

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um lots lots of grinding to dowell kind of the opposite
grinding at the moment bonebuilding you don't want to grind
that down and spin ground downenough it's got a ways to go uh
got another extra in a few weekshopefully it's all cleared up by
then all looking better alllooking spickin' span sturdy and
strong and then we can't getback to the lab or well the

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streets you know running thestreets I don't know how people
do like the the cross training.
I did just well I you knowbootlegged a bike some like road
bike that hopefully I'll beusing more um it was my dad's
that I don't think he ever Iknow actually for a fact he

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never rode it once because itstill had all like the stickers
and tags and like some likecardboard things in the pedals
that like would not like last abike ride.
And one of these motherfuckingstickers said it was from 2006.
So that's actually been justhanging out in the garage for
dead ass 20 years.
Seems like a nice bike but yeahI guess 19 years has just been

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sitting there so it's it's fine.
And he's not gonna he's notgonna take it out now for a
spin.
So he was happy I bootlegged it.
I haven't actually taken it fora spin yet but I'll maybe try to
since I'm gonna be you know hungup with the the bump foot for a
little bit longer.
But I don't I don't want to doany other I mean I guess I was

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more referring to like some liketreadmill stuff.
I don't I despise treadmills Iwill I will run in anything
outside I will suffer I mean inMinnesota winter's running out
there uh that anything indoorsprobably better you go through
some stuff like the air is justso brutal and like I sound like

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I smoke a pack a day I feel likethe first run I do in cold uh
winter air there like your lungsare just fried but then they do
toughen up.
So it's probably I don't know Imean I don't know if it really
hurts you.
It's probably not benefit butit's just at least for me
mentally easier than atreadmill.
Although I wonder if like atreadmill is like in some sense

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is nicer because I know somepeople like swear by running
under and hate pavement.
I kind of myself like pavementum at least you I like that you
get better traction sometimes Iget like annoyed running on
gravel and stuff when you likeyou feel yourself like slipping
around and you know like whenyou're pushing off each step
you're like not getting the allthe gas out of that out of that

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step you're not getting the fullgiddy up going like because
you're trying to run fast butthen these steps you're just
slipping the sliding um but Iguess if you're running like uh
lots and lots some people sayit's much harder or much at
least well it's like a lotbetter to run on dirt and things
like that.
Which I mean I do believe I justyou know like you know need for

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speed but because if you havesome more cool to run that helps
under um so I guess some of thethings I have are maybe like
contradictory because I feellike probably some other dirt
trails are more pretty if you'rerunning on that but sometimes
you know I'm I'm a fan ofconcrete you know put me on the
track maybe run on like a justgive NASCAR track.

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I've done some like headasstrack runs where I'm I'm pretty
sure I've done at least 15 mileson the track if not 20.
So what is that 60 laps?
I don't know if there's I did 69at one point.
I maybe did that just for thememe.
There was a time where um I gotsome I told some girl on the
track team that she was runningwith me I was like I got a new

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route and I did uh a route thatwas basically a big old dick
bust in a load um and like itwas required some like total
like 180s on the run and like onlike the last one Shadi was so
pissed like why are we juststopping?
I don't know.
She was like a little bit highstrung at that point.
Uh and then I don't know if itmade it better at the end or

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worse when she got back as honorstrive that she just had a a a
big old busting uh schlong onher on her feed but it it was
worth it so I was I was anartist for the day it was kind
of a fun route to plan out um itwas it was entertaining to to do
some like just like run straightup a road we know when we were

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working on the the cum shot partof the the masterpiece and then
just 180 back and some uh youknow our other arcs we did that
uh but it did it turned outpretty well I will say it was it
was it's got to be up there Ifeel like I've seen some pretty
intricate ones though as ofrecently this was about this
maybe was five years ago almostat this point.

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That's making me feel old.
But maybe I'll have to get backto someraba art.
So if you have any othersuggestions for other
masterpieces you'd like to seemaybe once I'm uh back at it
back in the saddle as they sayI'll have to uh get that
whipping up some masterpieces gohard in the paint without paint
you know you know but I thinkthat's all I got for now um hope

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y'all take care and you knowwe'll be back with more
shenanigans and shit I've beenup to and hopefully a little bit
more bone but for now peacepeace