1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,180 Rob Simmelkjaer: New York Road Runners is a non- profit organization with 2 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:06,540 Rob Simmelkjaer: a vision to build healthier lives and stronger communities through 3 00:00:06,540 --> 00:00:10,200 Rob Simmelkjaer: the transformative power of running. The support of members and 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,830 Rob Simmelkjaer: donors like you helps us achieve our mission to transform 5 00:00:13,830 --> 00:00:17,100 Rob Simmelkjaer: the health and well- being of our communities through inclusive 6 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:21,360 Rob Simmelkjaer: and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential. 7 00:00:21,810 --> 00:00:25,950 Rob Simmelkjaer: Learn more and contribute at nyrr. org/ donate. 8 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:34,350 Speaker 2: Thank you, New York. Today, we're reminded of the power 9 00:00:34,350 --> 00:00:39,210 Speaker 2: of community and the power of coming together, athletes, on 10 00:00:39,210 --> 00:00:39,779 Speaker 2: your mark. 11 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 3: The first woman to finish for the second straight year 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 3: here in the New York City Marathon is Miki Gorman, a smiling 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:53,490 Speaker 3: Miki Gorman, and why not? 2: 29: 30, the time for motorbikes. 14 00:00:53,850 --> 00:00:56,490 Soeaker 4: Look at the emotion of Shalane Flanagan as she comes 15 00:00:56,490 --> 00:00:59,820 Soeaker 4: to the line. Pointing to his chest, pointing to the 16 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:03,660 Soeaker 4: USA, he's so proudly wears across his chest. A great 17 00:01:03,660 --> 00:01:05,039 Soeaker 4: day for (inaudible) McCluskey. 18 00:01:10,110 --> 00:01:13,440 Rob Simmelkjaer: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of Set the 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,560 Rob Simmelkjaer: Pace, the official podcast of New York Road Runners. We 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,980 Rob Simmelkjaer: are presented by Peloton, and I'm your host, Rob Simmelkjaer. 21 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:22,980 Rob Simmelkjaer: I'm the CEO of New York Road Runners. With me 22 00:01:22,980 --> 00:01:27,000 Rob Simmelkjaer: here, still recovering, I've got to imagine from her unbelievable 23 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,709 Rob Simmelkjaer: world adventure, Becs Gentry from Peloton. Hi Becs, how are you? 24 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,730 Becs Gentry: Hi. I am doing very well, thank you. Aside from 25 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,300 Becs Gentry: calling myself a bear who wants to be in hibernation 26 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:44,430 Becs Gentry: with this gray sky right now. Otherwise, I'm rolling. 27 00:01:45,150 --> 00:01:47,610 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yeah, we finally got some rain around here the last 28 00:01:47,610 --> 00:01:50,580 Rob Simmelkjaer: few weeks. It'd been so sunny for so long, but so 29 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:53,490 Rob Simmelkjaer: dry. So the rain's a good thing, but yes, it 30 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:55,950 Rob Simmelkjaer: can definitely lead to some days that make it hard 31 00:01:55,950 --> 00:01:59,100 Rob Simmelkjaer: to get up and motivate hard even to get up 32 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:02,730 Rob Simmelkjaer: and motivate to run. I'm really curious, Becs, to hear 33 00:02:02,730 --> 00:02:06,150 Rob Simmelkjaer: about what you've been doing since the Great World Race. 34 00:02:06,150 --> 00:02:09,120 Rob Simmelkjaer: And by the way, today's the day that we're going 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,359 Rob Simmelkjaer: to really go in deep with Becs to hear all 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,919 Rob Simmelkjaer: about this incredible adventure. That's right. Becs is our interview guest today, 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,980 Rob Simmelkjaer: so I can't wait, Becs, because there's so many questions 38 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:23,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: I've been wanting to ask you about that trip, about 39 00:02:24,030 --> 00:02:28,620 Rob Simmelkjaer: those runs, about just how you feel coming out of 40 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:31,019 Rob Simmelkjaer: that. So a little bit later on in the show, 41 00:02:31,019 --> 00:02:33,419 Rob Simmelkjaer: it's going to be all about Becs and the Great World 42 00:02:33,419 --> 00:02:35,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: Race. I can't wait to hear it. Are you ready? 43 00:02:35,790 --> 00:02:36,630 Rob Simmelkjaer: Are you ready for me to grill you? 44 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:39,269 Becs Gentry: I am, actually, I feel like I am. It's starting 45 00:02:39,269 --> 00:02:42,090 Becs Gentry: to become something that is being processed in my mind, 46 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:45,389 Becs Gentry: so of all the people to ask the questions first, 47 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:48,180 Becs Gentry: this is the best podcast for it to be on. 48 00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:53,340 Rob Simmelkjaer: Appreciate that. Thank you. And I know our listeners are so curious. 49 00:02:53,490 --> 00:02:56,669 Becs Gentry: They are. And we have a little extra as well, Rob, 50 00:02:56,669 --> 00:02:59,430 Becs Gentry: as well. We are not just going to be hearing 51 00:03:00,030 --> 00:03:03,989 Becs Gentry: from me today, though, a little surprise for you. Joining 52 00:03:03,990 --> 00:03:07,020 Becs Gentry: us later in place of our usual member moment interview, 53 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,210 Becs Gentry: we are going to be joined by the woman who 54 00:03:09,210 --> 00:03:13,829 Becs Gentry: claimed the crown in this year's Great World Race, my 55 00:03:13,830 --> 00:03:17,370 Becs Gentry: wonderful friend Hillary Kupish will be joining to help with 56 00:03:17,370 --> 00:03:18,450 Becs Gentry: this debrief. 57 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:22,290 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow. Can't wait to hear from her and what it 58 00:03:22,290 --> 00:03:26,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: took to beat you and so many others over those 59 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,360 Rob Simmelkjaer: seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. So that 60 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,340 Rob Simmelkjaer: sounds awesome. So we'll talk to Hillary a little bit 61 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:35,130 Rob Simmelkjaer: later on as well. And then Meb will still be with 62 00:03:35,130 --> 00:03:37,530 Rob Simmelkjaer: us later in the episode for our weekly Meb minute. 63 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,860 Rob Simmelkjaer: Today's tip from Meb is all about hydrating during those 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,580 Rob Simmelkjaer: winter runs, whether you're up here in the northeast or just 65 00:03:44,580 --> 00:03:47,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: running in temperatures colder than you're used to. That's actually 66 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,220 Rob Simmelkjaer: something I sometimes have to remember is just because it's 67 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:52,830 Rob Simmelkjaer: cold doesn't mean you don't need to drink water. So 68 00:03:52,830 --> 00:03:56,040 Rob Simmelkjaer: Meb will give us some tips on that. Before we 69 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,980 Rob Simmelkjaer: dive into our conversations with Becs and Hillary, this past 70 00:03:58,980 --> 00:04:02,940 Rob Simmelkjaer: Saturday, we hosted the Ted Corbitt 15K in Central Park 71 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:06,180 Rob Simmelkjaer: honoring one of my predecessors and the first ever president 72 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:08,400 Rob Simmelkjaer: of New York Road Runners, they call him the father 73 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,700 Rob Simmelkjaer: of American long- distance running Ted Corbitt. We were joined 74 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:14,460 Rob Simmelkjaer: by more than 4, 000 runners who braved a very 75 00:04:14,460 --> 00:04:17,789 Rob Simmelkjaer: cold morning to celebrate the life and legacy of Ted 76 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:21,120 Rob Simmelkjaer: Corbitt. And Becs, we thank them every week, but this week, I 77 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,029 Rob Simmelkjaer: think a special and big thank you to our staff 78 00:04:24,029 --> 00:04:27,060 Rob Simmelkjaer: and our volunteers who went out in some very cold 79 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:30,450 Rob Simmelkjaer: temperatures and they didn't get to run. And I went out 80 00:04:30,450 --> 00:04:32,940 Rob Simmelkjaer: and I ran just to frankly stay warm, Becs. And 81 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:35,370 Rob Simmelkjaer: that really did help, although, it took a while. But 82 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,409 Rob Simmelkjaer: thanks to everybody out there because it was a chilly 83 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:40,410 Rob Simmelkjaer: day and we had a nice crowd on hand. But 84 00:04:40,950 --> 00:04:43,560 Rob Simmelkjaer: thanks again to all of our folks who helped put 85 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,289 Rob Simmelkjaer: this race on. Big congrats to our winners, by the 86 00:04:46,290 --> 00:04:49,680 Rob Simmelkjaer: way, from last Saturday. For the women, it was Erin 87 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,770 Rob Simmelkjaer: Gregoire with a time of 53:02 from the Brooklyn Track 88 00:04:52,770 --> 00:04:57,539 Rob Simmelkjaer: Club. The non- binary winner was Abdoulaye Sow from the 89 00:04:57,540 --> 00:05:00,839 Rob Simmelkjaer: Bronx Burners and the men's winner was Owen Ritz with the time of 46: 90 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,310 Rob Simmelkjaer: 53. Owen hailing from the New York Athletic Club. 91 00:05:05,580 --> 00:05:09,330 Becs Gentry: Wow, what incredible times on that cold day, I was 92 00:05:09,330 --> 00:05:11,070 Becs Gentry: thinking of you all whilst I was here teaching my 93 00:05:11,070 --> 00:05:15,150 Becs Gentry: Peloton class in the warmth of the Treads studio, but 94 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:18,270 Becs Gentry: it did look like everyone was smiling and had the 95 00:05:18,270 --> 00:05:22,080 Becs Gentry: festive fun with them in those miles. So yes, big 96 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,570 Becs Gentry: thanks to those volunteers. It's something that I always say 97 00:05:24,570 --> 00:05:28,110 Becs Gentry: to runners whenever people ask me about tips for their 98 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:31,200 Becs Gentry: first races, no matter what distance, one of the things 99 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,320 Becs Gentry: I always tell them is thank the volunteers while you're 100 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,480 Becs Gentry: running. If you forget while you're running, thank them at 101 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,430 Becs Gentry: the finish line. Just make sure you get a thanks 102 00:05:38,430 --> 00:05:41,010 Becs Gentry: out there because those people show up, they stand in 103 00:05:41,010 --> 00:05:44,790 Becs Gentry: the cold, the wet, the hot sun, and they make 104 00:05:44,790 --> 00:05:46,800 Becs Gentry: sure that we're all safe to do the runs. So 105 00:05:47,220 --> 00:05:47,001 Becs Gentry: big (inaudible) . 106 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,460 Rob Simmelkjaer: A 100% our head of volunteers at New York Road 107 00:05:50,460 --> 00:05:53,640 Rob Simmelkjaer: Runners, a woman named Donna Finney always says, " When you 108 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: see a volunteer, thank a volunteer." And that was definitely 109 00:05:56,790 --> 00:05:59,159 Rob Simmelkjaer: a good day to thank them on Saturday and those 110 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,240 Rob Simmelkjaer: frigid temperatures. 111 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:04,200 Becs Gentry: Ready to elevate your running, the Peloton app is your all- in- 112 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,620 Becs Gentry: one training partner, offering on- demand and live classes in 113 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:12,150 Becs Gentry: running, strength, meditation and more. To become a better, faster 114 00:06:12,150 --> 00:06:15,419 Becs Gentry: runner, you need more than just miles. You need a 115 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:19,529 Becs Gentry: balanced approach. Strength training builds the power to push harder. 116 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,710 Becs Gentry: While meditation helps you stay focused and build mental strength 117 00:06:22,830 --> 00:06:27,000 Becs Gentry: to push further. 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And so if you listen to us 125 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:57,180 Rob Simmelkjaer: here or you follow her on Instagram or take her classes, you know 126 00:06:57,180 --> 00:07:00,420 Rob Simmelkjaer: that my true beast of a co- host, Becs Gentry, 127 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:04,320 Rob Simmelkjaer: has just completed an incredible physical and mental test, seven 128 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,000 Rob Simmelkjaer: marathons in seven days on seven continents. And now, we 129 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,080 Rob Simmelkjaer: finally get to hear all the skinny on Becs's incredible 130 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,501 Rob Simmelkjaer: adventure. So, Becs, first of all, again, congratulations. 131 00:07:16,501 --> 00:07:16,502 Becs Gentry: Thank you. 132 00:07:16,502 --> 00:07:20,130 Rob Simmelkjaer: I'm so in awe of you. I have been ever 133 00:07:20,130 --> 00:07:23,820 Rob Simmelkjaer: since you even said you were taking this challenge on. 134 00:07:24,330 --> 00:07:27,000 Rob Simmelkjaer: And so the first question I want to ask you 135 00:07:27,390 --> 00:07:30,690 Rob Simmelkjaer: is why, and I don't think we really ever dug 136 00:07:30,690 --> 00:07:34,140 Rob Simmelkjaer: into the why you decided to do this and take 137 00:07:34,140 --> 00:07:36,840 Rob Simmelkjaer: this on. So when you were first approached about it, 138 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:38,850 Rob Simmelkjaer: what was the thing that made you want to do this? 139 00:07:39,990 --> 00:07:44,760 Becs Gentry: I was essentially inspired by David Kilgore, who we had 140 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,820 Becs Gentry: on as a guest on Set the Pace a while 141 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:50,790 Becs Gentry: ago to discuss the Great World Race. So he was 142 00:07:50,790 --> 00:07:55,350 Becs Gentry: my kickstarter of, can I do this? Should I do 143 00:07:55,350 --> 00:08:00,120 Becs Gentry: this? But my why is I'd say twofold, Rob, it 144 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,840 Becs Gentry: is my daughter. I want to be able to tell 145 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,160 Becs Gentry: her the boundaries that were put in place for women 146 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,760 Becs Gentry: before my time and the boundaries that were broken through 147 00:08:12,030 --> 00:08:14,970 Becs Gentry: during my time as a female athlete, as a female 148 00:08:14,970 --> 00:08:18,720 Becs Gentry: in this world. And to show her that no matter 149 00:08:18,750 --> 00:08:22,560 Becs Gentry: how you identify, you can do anything that you put 150 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,490 Becs Gentry: your mind to, but you have to work for it. 151 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:29,730 Becs Gentry: And this to me was a prime example. It hit 152 00:08:29,730 --> 00:08:33,360 Becs Gentry: my other why, which was me. And some people may 153 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,800 Becs Gentry: say that's selfish, but in order to inspire other people, 154 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,140 Becs Gentry: to light up other people, I have to make sure 155 00:08:40,140 --> 00:08:43,590 Becs Gentry: that my light is still bright. And in order to 156 00:08:43,590 --> 00:08:48,600 Becs Gentry: do that, I am not necessarily somebody who goes shopping 157 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,840 Becs Gentry: and that fills up my cup. I want to adventure, 158 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:55,290 Becs Gentry: I want to experience things. I want to create personal memories 159 00:08:55,290 --> 00:08:59,250 Becs Gentry: and anecdotes and experiences that I can share with my 160 00:08:59,250 --> 00:09:04,650 Becs Gentry: family and friends and beyond. And weirdly, it's running. And 161 00:09:04,650 --> 00:09:08,160 Becs Gentry: so I've always loved adventure running. That's where I started 162 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,350 Becs Gentry: going around the world to do funny races here and 163 00:09:10,350 --> 00:09:15,300 Becs Gentry: there, unheard of races. And so I thought, what better 164 00:09:15,390 --> 00:09:18,090 Becs Gentry: than the Great World Race to go around the world 165 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,020 Becs Gentry: in seven days and take on the challenge of running 166 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:25,110 Becs Gentry: a marathon in every single continent? 167 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,819 Rob Simmelkjaer: Becs, we sometimes have guests on the podcast, female runners, 168 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:34,079 Rob Simmelkjaer: moms who run marathons and do it really well. And 169 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,240 Rob Simmelkjaer: one of the challenges I know is just fitting all 170 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:41,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: this stuff in, the training, the actual race. I'm curious what 171 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,880 Rob Simmelkjaer: it was like when you first brought this idea home 172 00:09:45,690 --> 00:09:48,929 Rob Simmelkjaer: to your husband, to your young daughter, like, " Hey, I'm 173 00:09:48,929 --> 00:09:52,410 Rob Simmelkjaer: going to do this crazy thing." And not only obviously 174 00:09:52,410 --> 00:09:54,480 Rob Simmelkjaer: the time you'd be traveling for the race, but I 175 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,240 Rob Simmelkjaer: mean, the amount of time you have to be training. 176 00:09:57,809 --> 00:09:59,670 Rob Simmelkjaer: How much of a team effort did this have to 177 00:09:59,670 --> 00:10:02,700 Rob Simmelkjaer: be to even get ready for this for you and your family? 178 00:10:03,030 --> 00:10:06,750 Becs Gentry: Oh, golly. This was a huge team effort. So Austin 179 00:10:06,750 --> 00:10:12,090 Becs Gentry: was actually the nudge to my acceptance of doing this 180 00:10:12,210 --> 00:10:16,230 Becs Gentry: race. I wanted to do it, but he is my 181 00:10:16,230 --> 00:10:19,140 Becs Gentry: biggest cheerleader. He believes in me more than I believe 182 00:10:19,140 --> 00:10:23,700 Becs Gentry: in me most of the time. And he was so 183 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,679 Becs Gentry: encouraging for me to do this race. And we sat 184 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,270 Becs Gentry: down and I said, " You understand that if I do 185 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:33,600 Becs Gentry: this for most of this year, I'm going to be 186 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:39,390 Becs Gentry: stepping back from parenting duties on an equal level to 187 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:41,459 Becs Gentry: you. You're going to have to do a little bit 188 00:10:41,460 --> 00:10:44,520 Becs Gentry: more for me to be able to succeed in the training. 189 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,670 Becs Gentry: I can't half- ass this in the long." That was the long and short of it. 190 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:52,800 Becs Gentry: And he's super dad, he's an absolute super dad. He's 191 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,370 Becs Gentry: born to be a father. He's incredible with Tallulah. So at 192 00:10:56,370 --> 00:10:59,910 Becs Gentry: the start of the training, it was difficult. I hate 193 00:10:59,910 --> 00:11:02,610 Becs Gentry: missing wake up time. I hate missing bedtime. There's the 194 00:11:02,610 --> 00:11:04,350 Becs Gentry: two things in my life that I think are going 195 00:11:04,350 --> 00:11:07,110 Becs Gentry: to disappear very soon. She's going to be an independent 196 00:11:07,110 --> 00:11:09,330 Becs Gentry: woman who doesn't want me to wake her up, doesn't 197 00:11:09,330 --> 00:11:12,209 Becs Gentry: want me to cuddle her and read her books to 198 00:11:12,210 --> 00:11:15,270 Becs Gentry: bed. And so I cherish those times and even missing 199 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:18,630 Becs Gentry: one a week really plagues me with guilt. So I had 200 00:11:18,630 --> 00:11:22,559 Becs Gentry: to get through that by myself of it's temporary, this 201 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,470 Becs Gentry: is something that's going to be a very good example 202 00:11:25,470 --> 00:11:30,540 Becs Gentry: for her in the long run. And then Austin just 203 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,170 Becs Gentry: is a very good at getting up early, which is 204 00:11:34,230 --> 00:11:37,800 Becs Gentry: fantastic. So the days when I went out even earlier, 205 00:11:37,980 --> 00:11:40,500 Becs Gentry: he's great at getting up, getting himself his coffee and 206 00:11:40,890 --> 00:11:45,000 Becs Gentry: starting his daily routine before Tallulah wakes up because thank 207 00:11:45,179 --> 00:11:49,440 Becs Gentry: whoever above this child loves to sleep. So she goes 208 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,559 Becs Gentry: down easy and more often than not, she will sleep 209 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,500 Becs Gentry: till 7: 00, 7:30. Yesterday, she slept till eight o'clock, gone 210 00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:55,829 Becs Gentry: eight o'clock. 211 00:11:55,830 --> 00:11:57,420 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow. Wow. What a gift. 212 00:11:57,929 --> 00:12:00,390 Becs Gentry: Yeah, we can actually get some work done. We can 213 00:12:00,390 --> 00:12:04,679 Becs Gentry: actually both start our days relatively well before Tallulah's normally 214 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,620 Becs Gentry: up. And there were days because I trained through spring 215 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:10,950 Becs Gentry: and summer in New York, there were days where actually 216 00:12:10,950 --> 00:12:13,439 Becs Gentry: I'd got my workout done by the time she was up 217 00:12:13,830 --> 00:12:15,600 Becs Gentry: and running so I could still drop her off at 218 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,790 Becs Gentry: school or spend an hour with her before our nanny 219 00:12:17,790 --> 00:12:23,640 Becs Gentry: arrived. So the daylight being longer hours was really in 220 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,240 Becs Gentry: my favor to still be a mom on a level that 221 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,500 Becs Gentry: made me feel happy. 222 00:12:28,860 --> 00:12:32,309 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yeah, that's a good time of year to be able to do this in the fall 223 00:12:32,309 --> 00:12:34,530 Rob Simmelkjaer: when you've got those long summer hours to work with, 224 00:12:34,530 --> 00:12:37,260 Rob Simmelkjaer: it's so much harder to train over the winter months 225 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:38,040 Rob Simmelkjaer: when there's no light. 226 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:38,189 Becs Gentry: It is. 227 00:12:38,970 --> 00:12:41,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: So before we even get to the start backs, the 228 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,880 Rob Simmelkjaer: journey to the starting line, I always tell people the 229 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,710 Rob Simmelkjaer: hardest thing about running a marathon is getting to the 230 00:12:46,710 --> 00:12:49,770 Rob Simmelkjaer: starting line. You had to get to seven starting lines. 231 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,339 Rob Simmelkjaer: And I'm just wondering, and I know you had some bumps 232 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:56,250 Rob Simmelkjaer: along the way in training, you had the incident with 233 00:12:56,250 --> 00:12:57,540 Rob Simmelkjaer: your bed post. 234 00:12:59,010 --> 00:12:59,011 Becs Gentry: For the natural bump. 235 00:12:59,011 --> 00:13:00,960 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yes, where you banged your foot on the bed and that 236 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,470 Rob Simmelkjaer: set your foot back quite a bit. But how many 237 00:13:04,470 --> 00:13:06,780 Rob Simmelkjaer: doubts did you have along the way as to whether 238 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:07,770 Rob Simmelkjaer: you could pull this off? 239 00:13:08,250 --> 00:13:12,120 Becs Gentry: Oh gosh, at the start, there was a lot, because 240 00:13:12,210 --> 00:13:15,839 Becs Gentry: I had sort of said yes to it along the 241 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,400 Becs Gentry: same time that I ran Tokyo Marathon, should I say, 242 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,580 Becs Gentry: and I got my six star medal and I felt very 243 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:27,840 Becs Gentry: good about it. However, I didn't enjoy running the Tokyo 244 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,679 Becs Gentry: Marathon. I don't know whether I was just falling out 245 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,410 Becs Gentry: of love with marathon road racing or whatever was going 246 00:13:34,410 --> 00:13:38,400 Becs Gentry: on. Also, I've admitted this on many of platform, I 247 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,730 Becs Gentry: didn't train to the extent I'm used to training for 248 00:13:41,730 --> 00:13:44,309 Becs Gentry: Tokyo Marathon. I went into it in my personal opinion 249 00:13:44,309 --> 00:13:48,570 Becs Gentry: rather undertrained, so therefore underprepared, which leads me to understand 250 00:13:48,570 --> 00:13:53,970 Becs Gentry: why I didn't enjoy it. So I think once I 251 00:13:53,970 --> 00:13:56,610 Becs Gentry: started getting into the routine, I sort of felt like, " 252 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,520 Becs Gentry: Oh my gosh, this isn't enough because this is what 253 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,250 Becs Gentry: I should be training for one marathon, not seven, as 254 00:14:02,250 --> 00:14:06,915 Becs Gentry: you said." And I think just as the mileage started 255 00:14:06,915 --> 00:14:09,750 Becs Gentry: to increase and I was really tired or I was 256 00:14:09,750 --> 00:14:12,809 Becs Gentry: searching for ways to just add in mileage in my 257 00:14:12,809 --> 00:14:17,460 Becs Gentry: day, it was quite overwhelming at the start. And I did 258 00:14:17,460 --> 00:14:20,790 Becs Gentry: have to sit down and just think, okay, what can 259 00:14:20,790 --> 00:14:25,680 Becs Gentry: I do to make this " easier" for myself? Even though 260 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,720 Becs Gentry: it's going to get harder, I just had to make 261 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,430 Becs Gentry: it more manageable, more doable because the more obstacles that were 262 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:35,460 Becs Gentry: in the way, the easier it is for me as 263 00:14:35,460 --> 00:14:38,130 Becs Gentry: an Aries to just go, I'm good, I'm just going 264 00:14:38,130 --> 00:14:40,800 Becs Gentry: to step back and not do this because it's not 265 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,450 Becs Gentry: the way I want it to be. So I sat down and I looked at my 266 00:14:45,450 --> 00:14:50,070 Becs Gentry: work schedule, I looked at my social schedule and I 267 00:14:50,070 --> 00:14:54,960 Becs Gentry: carved out ways to add in miles. Now, I'm very 268 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,940 Becs Gentry: lucky, I live in New York. New York is one 269 00:14:56,940 --> 00:15:02,609 Becs Gentry: of the most highly populated cities for runners. Everyone runs, 270 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:04,170 Becs Gentry: and I know a lot of our listeners might be 271 00:15:04,170 --> 00:15:06,780 Becs Gentry: based in locations where it possibly isn't that safe to 272 00:15:06,780 --> 00:15:10,440 Becs Gentry: run to work, to the grocery store, to whatever appointment. 273 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,380 Becs Gentry: I am very lucky, I choose to live here, so 274 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:17,520 Becs Gentry: it's not all luck, but I am able to redirect 275 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:23,100 Becs Gentry: my commute to foot and that's what I did. I'd 276 00:15:23,310 --> 00:15:25,920 Becs Gentry: send my Peloton outfits or anything I needed for the 277 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,320 Becs Gentry: rest of the day. I used to send my laptop 278 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,860 Becs Gentry: here in an Uber car on a Tuesday morning. So 279 00:15:31,860 --> 00:15:34,980 Becs Gentry: I'd run here, set up my laptop, then we'd record 280 00:15:34,980 --> 00:15:40,710 Becs Gentry: the podcast. And it was all very manipulated for my 281 00:15:40,710 --> 00:15:43,860 Becs Gentry: success. And I don't mean success is in my win, 282 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:46,020 Becs Gentry: but in my success to me in that time was 283 00:15:46,020 --> 00:15:49,950 Becs Gentry: just happiness and feeling that I had done what I 284 00:15:49,950 --> 00:15:52,620 Becs Gentry: could do the best I could do day by day, 285 00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:55,440 Becs Gentry: week by week to get my training in. And that's 286 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,870 Becs Gentry: where it had to be on a sort of daily 287 00:15:57,870 --> 00:15:59,790 Becs Gentry: basis. I wanted to make sure when I went to 288 00:15:59,790 --> 00:16:03,870 Becs Gentry: bed and I looked at my Coros app that I 289 00:16:04,050 --> 00:16:06,450 Becs Gentry: was like, " Yeah, I made the most out of that 290 00:16:06,450 --> 00:16:08,760 Becs Gentry: day." And that was a really good lesson for me to 291 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,979 Becs Gentry: learn in the long run of, okay, make the most out 292 00:16:10,980 --> 00:16:13,680 Becs Gentry: of your day really, especially in summer in New York 293 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,710 Becs Gentry: City, nobody cares if you turn up sweaty because everybody 294 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:21,600 Becs Gentry: is turning up sweaty. So again, train for ultras in summer. 295 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,840 Rob Simmelkjaer: I couldn't agree more. All right, so you get on 296 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,820 Rob Simmelkjaer: the flight, you get yourself to South Africa, Cape Town, which 297 00:16:29,820 --> 00:16:32,609 Rob Simmelkjaer: is your first staging ground for the first race in 298 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,470 Rob Simmelkjaer: Antarctica, and the first race started a day early, so the 299 00:16:37,470 --> 00:16:38,910 Rob Simmelkjaer: whole thing started a day early. 300 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:39,030 Becs Gentry: Yeah. 301 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,480 Rob Simmelkjaer: Why did that happen and how did that affect you? 302 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,830 Becs Gentry: Oh my goodness. So let me just say the flight from 303 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:51,030 Becs Gentry: New York to South Africa was so daunting. Austin literally 304 00:16:51,030 --> 00:16:53,790 Becs Gentry: stayed at the security on the other side in LaGuardia 305 00:16:54,210 --> 00:16:56,280 Becs Gentry: until I had gone around the corner. I think he 306 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,100 Becs Gentry: was so worried that if he left, I would just 307 00:16:59,220 --> 00:17:01,620 Becs Gentry: run back out and be like, " I'm not doing it. I'm not doing 308 00:17:01,620 --> 00:17:04,770 Becs Gentry: it." He stood there like a security guard watching me 309 00:17:04,980 --> 00:17:09,690 Becs Gentry: go through. And so once I got there and I 310 00:17:09,690 --> 00:17:11,459 Becs Gentry: had all of this idea that I was going to go 311 00:17:11,460 --> 00:17:13,080 Becs Gentry: sit in the Delta lounge and have a glass of 312 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,040 Becs Gentry: champagne, and then I was like, no, I'm so nervous. I can't even, no. 313 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:18,570 Becs Gentry: I just sat there with a glass of water, sort 314 00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:22,410 Becs Gentry: of shivering with nerves. And then I got to South 315 00:17:22,410 --> 00:17:24,480 Becs Gentry: Africa. I had a wonderful flight. I actually ended up 316 00:17:24,510 --> 00:17:27,929 Becs Gentry: meeting about four other runners from the US that were 317 00:17:27,930 --> 00:17:31,680 Becs Gentry: on the flight from Atlanta to Cape Town, which was 318 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,700 Becs Gentry: lovely because that immediately got the conversation flowing. I think 319 00:17:35,700 --> 00:17:40,619 Becs Gentry: people's nerves were relaxed. I had a wonderful air hostess 320 00:17:40,619 --> 00:17:43,830 Becs Gentry: on the flight who she could not believe what we 321 00:17:43,830 --> 00:17:47,399 Becs Gentry: were all doing. I was, I think, the only mom 322 00:17:47,490 --> 00:17:49,440 Becs Gentry: and I was by myself, and she was a mom 323 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,619 Becs Gentry: of two I think as well, older kids. She just 324 00:17:52,619 --> 00:17:54,510 Becs Gentry: took me under her wing and she kept just bringing 325 00:17:54,510 --> 00:17:58,470 Becs Gentry: me over the nicest champagne to drink. I think I 326 00:17:58,470 --> 00:18:00,658 Becs Gentry: had about four glasses of champagne and was like, " I 327 00:18:00,659 --> 00:18:05,700 Becs Gentry: got to stop." I do not normally. I don't normally drink 328 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,939 Becs Gentry: that much ever and be on a flight. I was like, " 329 00:18:08,970 --> 00:18:12,600 Becs Gentry: Oh geez." But it was a 15- hour flight. So I 330 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,540 Becs Gentry: watched the movies. I had a good cry because we 331 00:18:15,540 --> 00:18:18,510 Becs Gentry: all know we cry more when we're in altitude. That's 332 00:18:18,510 --> 00:18:22,859 Becs Gentry: my excuse, anyway, and I slept and woke up and 333 00:18:22,859 --> 00:18:25,470 Becs Gentry: I was in South Africa and felt, thank goodness, fine. 334 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,650 Becs Gentry: We all got off the flight, got to the hotel, we 335 00:18:28,650 --> 00:18:30,600 Becs Gentry: were supposed to have... So the next day was going 336 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,240 Becs Gentry: to be briefings, and then we'd have Thursday as a 337 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,960 Becs Gentry: free day to organize ourselves. And then Friday morning was 338 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,960 Becs Gentry: takeoff to Antarctica. So I have family in South Africa, 339 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,810 Becs Gentry: my mom's side of the family reside there. I was so excited 340 00:18:42,810 --> 00:18:44,609 Becs Gentry: to see my aunt, my uncle, my cousins who I 341 00:18:44,609 --> 00:18:49,109 Becs Gentry: haven't seen in 10 to 15 years, something like that. So we 342 00:18:49,109 --> 00:18:51,480 Becs Gentry: went for the briefing, and David Kelly, the race director 343 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,410 Becs Gentry: just says, " Okay, great, got some updates for you. We 344 00:18:55,410 --> 00:18:58,590 Becs Gentry: will be leaving for Antarctica at 4: 45 AM tomorrow morning." 345 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:05,280 Becs Gentry: Silence. The whole room went from this buzzy, excitable hum 346 00:19:05,730 --> 00:19:10,950 Becs Gentry: to dead silence, and I think I definitely burst out 347 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:12,750 Becs Gentry: laughing because I thought it was a joke, was like, " 348 00:19:12,750 --> 00:19:16,260 Becs Gentry: Yeah, a way to crack the ice, David, hilarious." I 349 00:19:16,260 --> 00:19:19,800 Becs Gentry: think everyone else was like, " Ha, ha, ha, great joke." And he was like, " 350 00:19:20,130 --> 00:19:24,480 Becs Gentry: No," this is Irish guy. He's very straight down the 351 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,810 Becs Gentry: line. He was like, " No, I'm serious. We're going to 352 00:19:27,810 --> 00:19:30,750 Becs Gentry: Antarctica in the morning. We have to leave early." So there was 353 00:19:31,260 --> 00:19:34,350 Becs Gentry: a huge weather front that come into Antarctica, a huge 354 00:19:34,350 --> 00:19:36,930 Becs Gentry: storm coming in that would've meant if we'd have gone 355 00:19:36,930 --> 00:19:41,369 Becs Gentry: on Friday, we would've risked having almost whiteout conditions for 356 00:19:41,369 --> 00:19:44,040 Becs Gentry: running. But that wasn't the worst. It would've been potentially 357 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:49,020 Becs Gentry: getting stuck in Antarctica, which is the worst, or the 358 00:19:49,020 --> 00:19:51,300 Becs Gentry: options were pull it forward a day or push it 359 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:54,359 Becs Gentry: back by five days. So the logistics team of the Great 360 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:59,040 Becs Gentry: World Race took the good idea of pulling it forward 361 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,510 Becs Gentry: a day. And so that was it. I mean, I 362 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:06,419 Becs Gentry: don't like change like that, but honestly, it was probably 363 00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:09,869 Becs Gentry: since having Tallulah who arrived three weeks early, I've really 364 00:20:09,869 --> 00:20:12,480 Becs Gentry: had to come to terms with the fact that life 365 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,340 Becs Gentry: does throw you curveballs and you have to be able 366 00:20:14,340 --> 00:20:16,679 Becs Gentry: to pivot quite quickly. So thank goodness, the past two 367 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,320 Becs Gentry: years I've really honed that skill in and I just 368 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,740 Becs Gentry: sat there like, " Oh, this is going to be insane. 369 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:24,899 Becs Gentry: The rest of my afternoon is going to be awful." 370 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,600 Becs Gentry: Yeah. But I think in hindsight, having lunch with my 371 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,240 Becs Gentry: cousins and my family was a good distraction for a 372 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,230 Becs Gentry: couple of hours. And then once they left, I was 373 00:20:37,230 --> 00:20:40,470 Becs Gentry: in my hotel room just organizing everything, I had packed, 374 00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:42,300 Becs Gentry: organized and ready to go, but we just had to 375 00:20:42,300 --> 00:20:46,859 Becs Gentry: get one bag ready for Antarctica, and then we had 376 00:20:46,859 --> 00:20:49,830 Becs Gentry: to have everything else ready because once we arrived back 377 00:20:49,830 --> 00:20:54,450 Becs Gentry: from Antarctica, we had a few hours sleep, literally two 378 00:20:54,450 --> 00:20:56,700 Becs Gentry: hours sleep. We ran the Cape Town leg and then 379 00:20:56,700 --> 00:20:59,310 Becs Gentry: we were leaving, then we were going. So everything had 380 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:03,390 Becs Gentry: to be organized and in its place. So that was 381 00:21:03,450 --> 00:21:05,730 Becs Gentry: just, yeah, it was pivoting, it was going with the 382 00:21:05,730 --> 00:21:07,919 Becs Gentry: emotions and getting it done. 383 00:21:08,220 --> 00:21:11,070 Rob Simmelkjaer: So you get to Antarctica, good conditions? 384 00:21:12,690 --> 00:21:14,910 Becs Gentry: Perfect, absolutely beautiful. You know what? It was sunny. 385 00:21:14,910 --> 00:21:17,250 Rob Simmelkjaer: Sunny, beautiful, the pictures looked amazing. 386 00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:20,460 Becs Gentry: Blue sky, it wasn't even that cold. 387 00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:21,000 Rob Simmelkjaer: Like what? 388 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,040 Becs Gentry: When we landed, it was minus 12 Fahrenheit when we landed, so 389 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:32,070 Becs Gentry: it was pretty cold. So below zero for everybody, let's 390 00:21:32,070 --> 00:21:33,990 Becs Gentry: say, let's just call it that, it was below zero 391 00:21:33,990 --> 00:21:36,090 Becs Gentry: for every, whenever you measure your weather in. 392 00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:38,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: Temperature in. Yeah, that's pretty cold. 393 00:21:38,970 --> 00:21:41,850 Becs Gentry: Yeah, it was pretty cold, but there wasn't wind, which was the 394 00:21:41,850 --> 00:21:44,970 Becs Gentry: scary thing is that you could have 40, 50 mile per 395 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:47,850 Becs Gentry: hour freezing winds in your face. So we were layered 396 00:21:47,850 --> 00:21:52,470 Becs Gentry: up and I definitely took off my outer shell layer 397 00:21:52,770 --> 00:21:55,770 Becs Gentry: within the first two miles of the race, and I took off 398 00:21:55,770 --> 00:21:59,460 Becs Gentry: my huge thick gloves within the first four miles of 399 00:21:59,460 --> 00:21:59,609 Becs Gentry: the race. 400 00:21:59,609 --> 00:22:01,320 Rob Simmelkjaer: And you're running on an ice road basically? 401 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:04,590 Becs Gentry: Essentially, yeah. Half of it was actually the runway that 402 00:22:04,590 --> 00:22:06,810 Becs Gentry: we landed on with the plane, and then the other 403 00:22:06,810 --> 00:22:10,080 Becs Gentry: half was groomed around the White Desert. They were the 404 00:22:10,170 --> 00:22:13,410 Becs Gentry: organization company that took us to Antarctica around their sort 405 00:22:13,410 --> 00:22:16,920 Becs Gentry: of base camp because they do expeditions there. And so 406 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Becs Gentry: half of it was, as you say, ice, the runway, 407 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,890 Becs Gentry: it was compact, the other half was running on sand 408 00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:26,669 Becs Gentry: in snow. It was uneven, it was deep and it 409 00:22:26,670 --> 00:22:30,181 Becs Gentry: was not enjoyable. So yeah, that was about a mile. 410 00:22:30,181 --> 00:22:34,050 Rob Simmelkjaer: And you're running laps back, I mean, is it a bunch of laps around a track, four laps? 411 00:22:34,050 --> 00:22:36,959 Becs Gentry: Four 10K laps of that, and I say about a mile and a half of 412 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:42,391 Becs Gentry: it was unpleasant and the rest was pretty good. 413 00:22:42,391 --> 00:22:45,481 Rob Simmelkjaer: And you felt good about your race in Antarctica? I mean, I don't know what- 414 00:22:45,481 --> 00:22:45,482 Becs Gentry: I felt okay. 415 00:22:45,482 --> 00:22:50,910 Rob Simmelkjaer: ... your expectations were in a race, in an environment like that, wearing I'm sure not normal running 416 00:22:50,910 --> 00:22:51,600 Rob Simmelkjaer: shoes, right? 417 00:22:51,750 --> 00:22:53,609 Becs Gentry: I did actually run in my Vaporflies. 418 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:54,660 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow. 419 00:22:54,660 --> 00:22:54,661 Becs Gentry: Yeah. 420 00:22:54,661 --> 00:22:54,662 Rob Simmelkjaer: In the snow? 421 00:22:54,662 --> 00:22:55,202 Becs Gentry: In the snow. Yeah. 422 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:57,959 Rob Simmelkjaer: You had enough traction with those? 423 00:22:57,990 --> 00:23:01,379 Becs Gentry: Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, because it was groomed and it's 424 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,660 Becs Gentry: compact ice. I mean, it's just ice. There's nothing underneath, 425 00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:07,109 Becs Gentry: there's no tarmac anywhere. It's all ice. So it was 426 00:23:07,109 --> 00:23:10,080 Becs Gentry: hard. And they were great. They were absolutely great because 427 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,480 Becs Gentry: it wasn't windy. My feet didn't get that cold, but 428 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,510 Becs Gentry: I did have the layers on, the base layer sock 429 00:23:15,510 --> 00:23:18,480 Becs Gentry: and then the wool sock and then the shoe, and 430 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,760 Becs Gentry: I felt good. My only issue with Antarctica was that 431 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,250 Becs Gentry: it was very difficult to hydrate because when they poured 432 00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:27,330 Becs Gentry: us water, it froze immediately, and I hate drinking cold 433 00:23:27,330 --> 00:23:30,510 Becs Gentry: water even on the hottest of days. So I found 434 00:23:30,510 --> 00:23:34,380 Becs Gentry: it very difficult to take on board hydration. I normally 435 00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:36,449 Becs Gentry: run with my hydration in my hand, but obviously you 436 00:23:36,450 --> 00:23:39,510 Becs Gentry: couldn't do that because it would freeze. Even taking gels 437 00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:42,570 Becs Gentry: was just like, this is so different to everything I 438 00:23:42,570 --> 00:23:45,480 Becs Gentry: know about running. I struggled to take on it, I should 439 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,270 Becs Gentry: have taken on more gels and I got a slight cramp. 440 00:23:48,330 --> 00:23:50,939 Becs Gentry: My stomach, I had GI issues, so that was a 441 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:55,379 Becs Gentry: lot going on, but I was pretty happy with finishing. 442 00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:57,119 Becs Gentry: I think it was around a 3: 30 marathon, something 443 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:58,109 Becs Gentry: like that, which is great. 444 00:23:58,109 --> 00:24:00,780 Rob Simmelkjaer: Which is unbelievable. Yeah, it was incredible. And so Antarctica 445 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:01,650 Rob Simmelkjaer: is a day trip, right? 446 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,010 Becs Gentry: Yes. 447 00:24:02,010 --> 00:24:05,310 Rob Simmelkjaer: You finished that thing, you're right back to Cape Town, night 448 00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:07,680 Rob Simmelkjaer: in Cape Town, and then what's the route you're running 449 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,060 Rob Simmelkjaer: in Cape Town for day number two? 450 00:24:09,150 --> 00:24:13,470 Becs Gentry: So we got into Cape Town at around 3: 30 451 00:24:13,470 --> 00:24:15,359 Becs Gentry: in the morning. We got back and we went to 452 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,600 Becs Gentry: bed and we were starting the South Africa race at 453 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,830 Becs Gentry: around 7: 00 AM, so it was very minimal sleep. 454 00:24:22,830 --> 00:24:23,188 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow, so very little sleep. 455 00:24:25,619 --> 00:24:30,090 Becs Gentry: It was six loops on the waterfront outside of the 456 00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:35,460 Becs Gentry: Winchester Hotel, basically in Cape Town. So it wasn't down at 457 00:24:35,490 --> 00:24:38,520 Becs Gentry: the waterfront in front of the Victoria and Alfred, but all 458 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,090 Becs Gentry: of that, it wasn't anything that you would know really unless 459 00:24:42,090 --> 00:24:44,490 Becs Gentry: you know South Africa, Cape Town very well. But it 460 00:24:44,490 --> 00:24:46,740 Becs Gentry: was fine. It was great. It was unfortunately all on 461 00:24:46,740 --> 00:24:48,929 Becs Gentry: cement, so it was quite a lot of impact on 462 00:24:48,930 --> 00:24:52,409 Becs Gentry: the body, especially after Antarctica. So I sort of felt 463 00:24:52,470 --> 00:24:56,730 Becs Gentry: a little bit of that hamstring cramp effect, the pulling 464 00:24:56,730 --> 00:24:59,070 Becs Gentry: of my muscles. I felt it a little bit in my foot 465 00:24:59,070 --> 00:25:01,859 Becs Gentry: that day, but just sort of brushed it aside as, " 466 00:25:01,859 --> 00:25:05,130 Becs Gentry: Hey, you're running another marathon within 24 hours. This one's 467 00:25:05,130 --> 00:25:07,380 Becs Gentry: on concrete. You're used to running on tarmac, blah, blah, 468 00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:10,170 Becs Gentry: blah, blah, blah." There's so many excuses in your head. 469 00:25:10,770 --> 00:25:15,990 Becs Gentry: But that race was pivotal in my understanding of the 470 00:25:15,990 --> 00:25:19,109 Becs Gentry: friendships that I was going to make on that race. 471 00:25:19,830 --> 00:25:21,750 Becs Gentry: I was already good friends with David Kilgore. You all 472 00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:26,190 Becs Gentry: know that. And for him, he had for him a 473 00:25:26,190 --> 00:25:30,570 Becs Gentry: rougher race. He wasn't blazing it. I can't quite remember 474 00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:34,109 Becs Gentry: what the cause was, but the girls, we'd formed a 475 00:25:34,109 --> 00:25:37,440 Becs Gentry: bond in Antarctica, and we sort of cemented it that 476 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,200 Becs Gentry: day and we picked him up because he was sort 477 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,060 Becs Gentry: of flagging a bit, and I was like, " Kilgore, come on, 478 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:45,030 Becs Gentry: join us, join our group." Then we had another awesome 479 00:25:45,090 --> 00:25:47,909 Becs Gentry: Irish guy called Jeff Pendergrass. He was running with us 480 00:25:47,910 --> 00:25:50,790 Becs Gentry: too. So there were seven of us running in total 481 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,820 Becs Gentry: in that group, and we stuck together. We pulled through 482 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:57,149 Becs Gentry: when we all really had moments in that race where 483 00:25:57,150 --> 00:26:00,540 Becs Gentry: we were like, "Oof, okay, maybe this isn't going to be 484 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:03,840 Becs Gentry: as fun or as easy or as whatever we thought 485 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,560 Becs Gentry: it would be on day two," and we got each other 486 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,450 Becs Gentry: through, and that was when we came over the finish 487 00:26:09,450 --> 00:26:12,060 Becs Gentry: line, all seven of us holding hands in the air 488 00:26:12,420 --> 00:26:17,580 Becs Gentry: and really, really did make me understand, okay, you can 489 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:20,040 Becs Gentry: be friends with somebody. I don't see David and his 490 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,859 Becs Gentry: wife, Molly, a lot in New York. We all travel, 491 00:26:22,859 --> 00:26:25,409 Becs Gentry: we all have very busy lives, but when we're together, I 492 00:26:25,410 --> 00:26:28,200 Becs Gentry: can actually say he's a very good friend, and especially 493 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:33,690 Becs Gentry: after that day, and then that included Hillary, Shereen, Ash, 494 00:26:33,690 --> 00:26:37,170 Becs Gentry: Jenny, it was just, that was it, the ball was rolling on those 495 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,148 Becs Gentry: really deep friendships. 496 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:42,720 Rob Simmelkjaer: I love it. I love it. So cool. If you're going to bond, that's a pretty good way to 497 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,000 Rob Simmelkjaer: bond with someone is traveling around the world with them 498 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,149 Rob Simmelkjaer: running marathons, seven straight days, so I can only imagine 499 00:26:48,150 --> 00:26:50,910 Rob Simmelkjaer: you're all going through the same thing. Okay. Right after 500 00:26:50,910 --> 00:26:55,200 Rob Simmelkjaer: that, you're off to Australia and that's got to be, 501 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,989 Rob Simmelkjaer: I'm guessing, is that the longest flight of the race or- 502 00:26:57,989 --> 00:26:58,080 Becs Gentry: That was the second longest. 503 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,791 Rob Simmelkjaer: ... no, maybe second longest? Yeah. 504 00:26:59,791 --> 00:27:03,390 Becs Gentry: Yeah. It was the second longest. So very similar. It was about a 15 505 00:27:03,390 --> 00:27:06,750 Becs Gentry: or so hour flight. We were all really excited to 506 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:07,980 Becs Gentry: get on that flight. 507 00:27:07,980 --> 00:27:08,370 Rob Simmelkjaer: Sleep? 508 00:27:08,910 --> 00:27:11,880 Becs Gentry: Yes. It was also the first time we were seeing our jet, the charter 509 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,700 Becs Gentry: jet. It was a commercial jet, but a charter jet, 510 00:27:14,790 --> 00:27:16,619 Becs Gentry: the one that the Rolling Stones had used for their 511 00:27:16,619 --> 00:27:17,369 Becs Gentry: last world tour. 512 00:27:17,879 --> 00:27:17,879 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow. 513 00:27:17,879 --> 00:27:21,150 Becs Gentry: I was really excited to get on this plane to 514 00:27:21,150 --> 00:27:23,550 Becs Gentry: find our home for the rest of the week as 515 00:27:23,550 --> 00:27:28,290 Becs Gentry: well. We all coined the phrase our rowmies, whoever we were in 516 00:27:28,470 --> 00:27:30,570 Becs Gentry: a row with, that was our rowmy for the week, 517 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,320 Becs Gentry: and it was kind of cute. I felt really like 518 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,780 Becs Gentry: a kid who'd run away from home and I've got 519 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:42,150 Becs Gentry: my little backpack, my snacks. It was just all surreal. So we all got 520 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:44,940 Becs Gentry: on that flight, we all passed out, all of us 521 00:27:44,940 --> 00:27:49,379 Becs Gentry: in our different recovery boots and face masks and noise- 522 00:27:49,380 --> 00:27:53,459 Becs Gentry: canceling headphones. Everybody had their jam that they had worked 523 00:27:53,460 --> 00:27:56,010 Becs Gentry: for them in training and was there, and then yeah, 524 00:27:56,010 --> 00:28:02,100 Becs Gentry: we got to Australia and it was just so quick. 525 00:28:02,190 --> 00:28:05,879 Becs Gentry: That one to me was the quickest. It was, we 526 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,780 Becs Gentry: landed, and I'll tell you, when we landed that day, 527 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:13,260 Becs Gentry: I felt awful that it was a really bumpy landing 528 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,410 Becs Gentry: and we were on a very big plane, so it 529 00:28:16,410 --> 00:28:19,710 Becs Gentry: felt like I was at Deep Sea fishing boat coming 530 00:28:19,710 --> 00:28:21,540 Becs Gentry: into land, or I've never been on one. That's how 531 00:28:21,540 --> 00:28:25,859 Becs Gentry: I imagine from watching lots of movies. And I felt 532 00:28:25,859 --> 00:28:30,149 Becs Gentry: nauseous, I felt just really off and was like, " Oh God, this is 533 00:28:30,150 --> 00:28:33,060 Becs Gentry: going to be a terrible race." Just thinking in my 534 00:28:33,060 --> 00:28:36,390 Becs Gentry: head, you're starting a marathon again in the next couple 535 00:28:36,390 --> 00:28:36,600 Becs Gentry: of hours. 536 00:28:37,170 --> 00:28:37,711 Rob Simmelkjaer: Right off the plane. 537 00:28:37,711 --> 00:28:42,450 Becs Gentry: Right off the plane. We had a 15- minute journey, so we grabbed our bags, 538 00:28:42,450 --> 00:28:44,850 Becs Gentry: we got on buses and it was all very quick, 539 00:28:44,850 --> 00:28:49,440 Becs Gentry: straight through customs at Perth Airport. We got on the 540 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,490 Becs Gentry: buses, we drove 15 minutes to the track near a 541 00:28:53,490 --> 00:28:55,470 Becs Gentry: stadium in Perth. I completely forget the name of the 542 00:28:55,470 --> 00:28:58,320 Becs Gentry: stadium. Beautiful. It was beautiful. And I will say the 543 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,370 Becs Gentry: people there, the track, the athletics club were incredibly welcoming. They 544 00:29:02,370 --> 00:29:05,670 Becs Gentry: were so vibrant and funny. The Australians are just such 545 00:29:05,670 --> 00:29:09,270 Becs Gentry: funny people and so, so sweet. They had everything laid 546 00:29:09,270 --> 00:29:12,690 Becs Gentry: out for us, and it was all set up wonderfully. 547 00:29:12,690 --> 00:29:16,050 Becs Gentry: There was some Peloton members there, which surprised me, and 548 00:29:16,050 --> 00:29:18,720 Becs Gentry: they came and brought me my favorite Australian biscuits, which 549 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,020 Becs Gentry: are Tim Tams. And so it was all like, I was like, "Okay, I'm starting to feel good, starting to feel 550 00:29:22,740 --> 00:29:26,340 Becs Gentry: better." And then we got to the start line and they changed 551 00:29:26,340 --> 00:29:28,320 Becs Gentry: the course. So it was supposed to be six laps. 552 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,130 Becs Gentry: They turned it to 12. So it was essentially a mile 553 00:29:32,130 --> 00:29:34,260 Becs Gentry: and a bit out and backs, which was the first 554 00:29:34,260 --> 00:29:38,850 Becs Gentry: time that we faced that. And it was difficult to 555 00:29:38,850 --> 00:29:40,980 Becs Gentry: wrap my head around. I'm not a track girl. I 556 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:43,290 Becs Gentry: like running a long way in a straight line. That's my favorite 557 00:29:43,290 --> 00:29:47,160 Becs Gentry: thing to do. So doing these repeats was a little 558 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,990 Becs Gentry: bit concerning, but with the help that was on hand, 559 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,720 Becs Gentry: had an incredible Peloton member called Nancy who worked for 560 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,360 Becs Gentry: the Athletics Club, and she's an ultra runner out there 561 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,100 Becs Gentry: in Perth, and just a big shout- out to her. 562 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,840 Becs Gentry: She was my savior that day. Anything I needed, she 563 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,480 Becs Gentry: was just there with it. She almost like she could read 564 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,300 Becs Gentry: my mind. She knew when my hydration was running out 565 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:11,520 Becs Gentry: and she grabbed my bottle and go and fill it up for me 566 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,810 Becs Gentry: and put my hydration sachet in. And again, the girls, 567 00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:21,480 Becs Gentry: we stuck together. So Hillary, Ash, Shereen, and I, we 568 00:30:22,230 --> 00:30:24,300 Becs Gentry: always took the first few miles to find our grooves 569 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:28,650 Becs Gentry: individually, and then there was never a handshake or whatever you 570 00:30:28,650 --> 00:30:31,200 Becs Gentry: want to call it, an agreement. It was just, let's 571 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,090 Becs Gentry: see how we all feel. If we end up together, 572 00:30:33,090 --> 00:30:35,190 Becs Gentry: great. If not, we're all going to still love each 573 00:30:35,190 --> 00:30:37,410 Becs Gentry: other and have a great run. This one, we stuck 574 00:30:37,410 --> 00:30:40,140 Becs Gentry: together again, and we actually got quite professional, Rob. We were 575 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:44,460 Becs Gentry: doing flying formations, getting in the front, swapping each other 576 00:30:44,490 --> 00:30:47,821 Becs Gentry: in. It just turned into so much fun and as much as I didn't... 577 00:30:47,821 --> 00:30:47,911 Rob Simmelkjaer: Like the Peloton. 578 00:30:48,570 --> 00:30:53,280 Becs Gentry: Exactly, exactly, like the Peloton. And as much as I 579 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,310 Becs Gentry: didn't want to love the 12 out and backs or 580 00:30:56,340 --> 00:30:59,460 Becs Gentry: 10, I can't remember, it was a lot. It was 581 00:30:59,550 --> 00:31:02,310 Becs Gentry: really fun to go through the start and finish that many 582 00:31:02,310 --> 00:31:05,430 Becs Gentry: times and see the people and also to see the 583 00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:09,240 Becs Gentry: other runners. We got to high- five 57 of us, 584 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,250 Becs Gentry: all running together. We got to high- five each other 585 00:31:11,490 --> 00:31:14,490 Becs Gentry: hundreds of times, and that made it really sink in 586 00:31:14,490 --> 00:31:17,310 Becs Gentry: that we are a big team doing this. We're a 587 00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:20,190 Becs Gentry: bunch of individuals who agreed to it, but we've become this 588 00:31:20,190 --> 00:31:23,910 Becs Gentry: team who are doing it together. And yeah, it was 589 00:31:23,910 --> 00:31:26,820 Becs Gentry: really, it was kind of wild. The room that the 590 00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:31,110 Becs Gentry: Athletics Club had us in looked like a housing, like 591 00:31:31,830 --> 00:31:35,100 Becs Gentry: what's they called? Natural disaster housing area. It was just 592 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:38,070 Becs Gentry: mess, suitcases a mess, and people laying on the floor 593 00:31:38,070 --> 00:31:41,100 Becs Gentry: after the race recovering. But it was just part of 594 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:41,880 Becs Gentry: the adventure. 595 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,580 Rob Simmelkjaer: And as I recall from your results, you started to get 596 00:31:44,580 --> 00:31:47,490 Rob Simmelkjaer: better too. I mean, Antarctica was hard obviously, but I 597 00:31:47,490 --> 00:31:51,090 Rob Simmelkjaer: think you did quite well, if I recall, in Perth, which is 598 00:31:51,090 --> 00:31:54,510 Rob Simmelkjaer: surprising given the flight you just got off of, you 599 00:31:54,510 --> 00:31:57,301 Rob Simmelkjaer: turned around right after this race and flew to Istanbul, right? 600 00:31:57,301 --> 00:31:57,511 Becs Gentry: Exactly. 601 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,270 Rob Simmelkjaer: There was no night spent in Australia, am I correct? 602 00:32:00,270 --> 00:32:04,140 Becs Gentry: There was nothing. Yeah, no. So we literally were, as soon as everyone was 603 00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:08,130 Becs Gentry: done, I honestly think the last runners ran from the 604 00:32:08,130 --> 00:32:11,400 Becs Gentry: finish line onto the bus, and we went to the 605 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,500 Becs Gentry: airport, we got straight on the flight. That was the 606 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,750 Becs Gentry: quickest I have ever gotten to an airport. They handed 607 00:32:15,750 --> 00:32:18,540 Becs Gentry: us our boarding passes and we got straight through customs and 608 00:32:18,540 --> 00:32:22,080 Becs Gentry: straight onto an airplane, and we flew to Istanbul. So 609 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,870 Becs Gentry: again, that was about a 14- hour flight. Again, sleep, 610 00:32:25,890 --> 00:32:29,280 Becs Gentry: and Istanbul, we had Asia and Europe, and I would 611 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:36,600 Becs Gentry: say that was just probably the worst arrival was Istanbul 612 00:32:36,630 --> 00:32:39,750 Becs Gentry: when we got there, it was raining, it was dark, it 613 00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:43,980 Becs Gentry: was nighttime. The course looked like a jackhammer had been 614 00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:49,590 Becs Gentry: taken to the pavement. The fishermen who were doing what 615 00:32:49,590 --> 00:32:53,010 Becs Gentry: they do every day, fishing for their food, didn't want 616 00:32:53,010 --> 00:32:55,800 Becs Gentry: to move understandably, but it was unsafe for us all 617 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,690 Becs Gentry: to be running because they were sort of blocking the 618 00:32:57,690 --> 00:32:59,970 Becs Gentry: pathway. So we had to wait, and then it got 619 00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:04,020 Becs Gentry: really cold and it was just a logistical nightmare, not just for 620 00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:06,300 Becs Gentry: us as runners, but for the team as well, the 621 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:08,910 Becs Gentry: logistical team for David Kelly and everybody. They were trying 622 00:33:08,910 --> 00:33:13,260 Becs Gentry: their best to make it function quickly, but every minute 623 00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:17,730 Becs Gentry: we delayed, the start was time away from sleeping. So 624 00:33:17,730 --> 00:33:21,240 Becs Gentry: obviously, there's runners. The girls and I were running around 625 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,370 Becs Gentry: three hour marathons at this point, but you have to 626 00:33:23,370 --> 00:33:25,979 Becs Gentry: remember, we had eight hours to complete the race, and there 627 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,460 Becs Gentry: were runners using every single second of that eight hours. 628 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,880 Becs Gentry: So the longer we delayed the race, especially for those 629 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:38,790 Becs Gentry: runners, they were then risking having little to no sleep 630 00:33:39,030 --> 00:33:43,410 Becs Gentry: at all before their next race. So it was a 631 00:33:43,410 --> 00:33:46,560 Becs Gentry: little bit stressful. Again, the race had to be cut 632 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,380 Becs Gentry: short, so we were... Not the race, the route had 633 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,030 Becs Gentry: to be cut short, so we were doing multiple. 634 00:33:51,030 --> 00:33:51,450 Rob Simmelkjaer: More laps. 635 00:33:51,510 --> 00:33:53,459 Becs Gentry: And this one was the shortest, Rob, it was, I 636 00:33:53,459 --> 00:33:54,660 Becs Gentry: think, a kilometer out of that. 637 00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:59,430 Rob Simmelkjaer: Oh my goodness. So you're doing over 40 of those? 638 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,670 Becs Gentry: Yeah, it was wild. It was really wild. Yeah, 22 639 00:34:02,670 --> 00:34:05,340 Becs Gentry: times we saw the start finish, I think before, it 640 00:34:05,340 --> 00:34:09,660 Becs Gentry: was just so much, and then again, we started together. 641 00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:13,200 Becs Gentry: I had terrible GI issues for this one, so I 642 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,489 Becs Gentry: spent quite the last, I'd say five plus miles running 643 00:34:17,489 --> 00:34:20,580 Becs Gentry: by myself, which again was fine because we had the 644 00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:22,350 Becs Gentry: camaraderie of all the other runners. We were high-fiving. 645 00:34:22,350 --> 00:34:22,620 Rob Simmelkjaer: You've seen them. Yeah. 646 00:34:23,339 --> 00:34:25,710 Becs Gentry: Yeah. So it didn't feel like I was by myself, but 647 00:34:25,710 --> 00:34:27,420 Becs Gentry: in my head I was like, " Oh my gosh, I 648 00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:30,270 Becs Gentry: haven't got my girls, this is suddenly got more difficult. 649 00:34:30,270 --> 00:34:33,600 Becs Gentry: I'm tired. I was wet, it's cold." And then I 650 00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:36,390 Becs Gentry: saw Ash on one of my last turnarounds and she 651 00:34:36,390 --> 00:34:39,690 Becs Gentry: was like, " Go catch me up. Catch me up." And 652 00:34:39,690 --> 00:34:42,360 Becs Gentry: I did crack out a 6: 15 or whatever it 653 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,009 Becs Gentry: was. I think we had 6: 12. Every time she 654 00:34:44,010 --> 00:34:45,480 Becs Gentry: told me to catch her up, I ran a 6: 655 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,140 Becs Gentry: 12. I caught her up and we ran the last 656 00:34:49,140 --> 00:34:52,170 Becs Gentry: couple of loops together and finished together on that race, 657 00:34:52,170 --> 00:34:54,570 Becs Gentry: which was really nice to just finish again with one 658 00:34:54,570 --> 00:35:00,210 Becs Gentry: of my girls side by side. An hour or so 659 00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:04,830 Becs Gentry: later, we got to the hotel in Istanbul, maybe two. It was 660 00:35:04,830 --> 00:35:09,540 Becs Gentry: probably two hours from when we finished, and just, yeah, 661 00:35:09,989 --> 00:35:12,360 Becs Gentry: it's just weird. You're arriving at a hotel in the small 662 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,180 Becs Gentry: hours of the morning knowing you've got to get up 663 00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:16,920 Becs Gentry: and run a race early the next day, but you 664 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,200 Becs Gentry: want to have a shower. Ash and I shared a 665 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,960 Becs Gentry: room and we were just getting our kit out. It 666 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,530 Becs Gentry: was just like being at camp again. We didn't eat 667 00:35:25,530 --> 00:35:28,379 Becs Gentry: that night, which was really not good. We didn't eat 668 00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:32,881 Becs Gentry: after the race. There wasn't food there, and it was so late. 669 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:32,882 Rob Simmelkjaer: That's tough. 670 00:35:32,882 --> 00:35:35,100 Becs Gentry: That was really tough. But we were in a hotel, 671 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:36,870 Becs Gentry: so we knew the next morning there would be breakfast 672 00:35:36,870 --> 00:35:38,101 Becs Gentry: at the hotel. So I think we were all really plowing in the field. 673 00:35:38,101 --> 00:35:38,102 Rob Simmelkjaer: Must've gone crazy for that breakfast, absolutely. 674 00:35:38,102 --> 00:35:45,960 Becs Gentry: Yeah. But again, knowing you've got to run another marathon pretty quickly 675 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:46,259 Becs Gentry: after you eat. 676 00:35:46,259 --> 00:35:48,270 Rob Simmelkjaer: On the other side of the Bosphorus to get the Asian leg in. And was 677 00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:52,260 Rob Simmelkjaer: the route any different, any better over there or more 678 00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:52,739 Rob Simmelkjaer: or less the same? 679 00:35:52,739 --> 00:35:54,989 Becs Gentry: It was longer. It was a little longer. I think 680 00:35:54,989 --> 00:35:57,690 Becs Gentry: it was back to being about two miles out, so 681 00:35:57,690 --> 00:36:00,570 Becs Gentry: maybe it was 10 laps of that one, which was 682 00:36:00,690 --> 00:36:05,430 Becs Gentry: better. But this is the one where my foot really started to give me some 683 00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:06,570 Becs Gentry: pain. So I started... 684 00:36:07,260 --> 00:36:07,620 Rob Simmelkjaer: Your foot, you'd banged on your bed? 685 00:36:07,650 --> 00:36:09,510 Becs Gentry: No, the irony being it was other foot. 686 00:36:09,510 --> 00:36:09,720 Rob Simmelkjaer: Other foot, interesting. 687 00:36:11,010 --> 00:36:13,259 Becs Gentry: This is I'd got cramp in my right leg or just 688 00:36:13,410 --> 00:36:15,359 Becs Gentry: verge on the edge of cramp in Antarctica and what 689 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,650 Becs Gentry: the physio and the doctor on the trip thought was 690 00:36:19,710 --> 00:36:24,510 Becs Gentry: that the posterior fascia in my right leg had tightened 691 00:36:24,510 --> 00:36:28,620 Becs Gentry: up so much in this cramp situation that it had 692 00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:31,469 Becs Gentry: pulled all the way up because I felt it in my hamstring, but 693 00:36:31,469 --> 00:36:33,510 Becs Gentry: I'm used to feeling it in my hamstring. What I'm 694 00:36:33,510 --> 00:36:35,879 Becs Gentry: not used to feeling, it is in my foot. And 695 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,370 Becs Gentry: so that fascia underneath, which is on the outside of 696 00:36:38,370 --> 00:36:41,370 Becs Gentry: your muscle, was pulling, if you imagine this is the 697 00:36:41,370 --> 00:36:43,890 Becs Gentry: underneath, your fingers are underneath of your foot and you clench your fingers 698 00:36:43,890 --> 00:36:46,200 Becs Gentry: up, and that was what was happening, with every step 699 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,410 Becs Gentry: I took, it was just jarring it back, which actually 700 00:36:49,410 --> 00:36:51,899 Becs Gentry: feels like a shooting pain. It feels like someone's stabbing 701 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:55,290 Becs Gentry: your foot. So in my mind, I'm thinking, " Oh my 702 00:36:55,290 --> 00:36:57,600 Becs Gentry: gosh, I have plantar fasciitis." I've never had this. People 703 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,330 Becs Gentry: talk about it's debilitating. Oh my gosh, I'm freaking out. 704 00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:02,400 Becs Gentry: I'm just like, " This is awful. I've got to do 705 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:02,640 Becs Gentry: more races." 706 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,530 Rob Simmelkjaer: That can be a game ender right there, absolutely. 707 00:37:04,530 --> 00:37:07,350 Becs Gentry: Game ender, yeah. And so in my mind I'm like, " Oh, I have 708 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:09,899 Becs Gentry: to get a cortisone shot in my foot in Turkey," 709 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:12,870 Becs Gentry: or I'm like, " No, I can't do this." So I 710 00:37:12,870 --> 00:37:15,420 Becs Gentry: never take any medication. I'm very much a believer that 711 00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:18,480 Becs Gentry: if your body is... You have a headache, lay down, 712 00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:25,080 Becs Gentry: if you can, just weird mindset. And when I asked 713 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,140 Becs Gentry: Ross, one of the physio on the team, he was 714 00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:30,210 Becs Gentry: riding alongside on the bike and the girls had left 715 00:37:30,210 --> 00:37:31,920 Becs Gentry: me and he looked at me, he was like, " You're not 716 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,290 Becs Gentry: okay." I was like, " I'm in so much pain. I 717 00:37:34,290 --> 00:37:36,719 Becs Gentry: can't even explain to you, worse pain than childbirth right 718 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,930 Becs Gentry: now." He's like, " Oh, okay. What's going on?" I explained 719 00:37:39,930 --> 00:37:42,690 Becs Gentry: to him. He gave me some anti- inflammatories and some 720 00:37:42,690 --> 00:37:45,630 Becs Gentry: pain relief, and they kicked in and thank goodness. But 721 00:37:45,630 --> 00:37:49,410 Becs Gentry: I did run about half that race by myself, mainly 722 00:37:49,410 --> 00:37:51,360 Becs Gentry: because I didn't want to hold up the girls. They were so 723 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,069 Becs Gentry: sweet. They were like, " We'll stay, we'll run with you." 724 00:37:53,069 --> 00:37:56,310 Becs Gentry: I'm like, " No, no, no, no, no, you go, you go, you get there." Hillary and Ash, 725 00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:58,920 Becs Gentry: I think ran a sub 3 in that race. So 726 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,950 Becs Gentry: there was no way I was staying with them. But once 727 00:38:01,950 --> 00:38:05,759 Becs Gentry: the painkillers kicked in, I actually felt pretty good and 728 00:38:05,790 --> 00:38:07,800 Becs Gentry: managed to pick up the pace a little bit more 729 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,860 Becs Gentry: and finish well, I mean, I think I ran a 3: 12 or something 730 00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:11,670 Becs Gentry: in that race. 731 00:38:11,850 --> 00:38:12,450 Rob Simmelkjaer: Incredible, incredible. 732 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,180 Becs Gentry: But then the fear was there, Rob, to be honest, 733 00:38:15,180 --> 00:38:17,280 Becs Gentry: that was the first time I just thought, " Okay, I 734 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,880 Becs Gentry: got through that using pain relief, but I need to 735 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,920 Becs Gentry: be a mom. I need to be a Peloton instructor. 736 00:38:22,950 --> 00:38:25,230 Becs Gentry: I don't want to break my foot. I don't want 737 00:38:25,230 --> 00:38:27,989 Becs Gentry: to leave this race in Miami, not able to walk 738 00:38:27,989 --> 00:38:30,570 Becs Gentry: or relying on cortisone injections to get through my job." 739 00:38:31,620 --> 00:38:33,330 Becs Gentry: I was spiraling a little bit. I had a very 740 00:38:33,330 --> 00:38:36,810 Becs Gentry: emotional FaceTime with Austin just crying my eyes out of 741 00:38:36,810 --> 00:38:39,390 Becs Gentry: like, "This is a mistake. I shouldn't be doing this." And you 742 00:38:39,390 --> 00:38:43,230 Becs Gentry: go to the bad spots in those moments. I got 743 00:38:43,230 --> 00:38:45,150 Becs Gentry: some work on my foot. I rolled it with a 744 00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:49,109 Becs Gentry: ball, and then we got on that really long flight, 19 and 745 00:38:49,230 --> 00:38:52,620 Becs Gentry: a half hours, that included a stopover and refueling in 746 00:38:52,620 --> 00:38:57,239 Becs Gentry: Madrid, and we flew from Istanbul to Cartagena, Colombia. When I 747 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,390 Becs Gentry: tell you I got in my bed, well, my chair, 748 00:39:00,390 --> 00:39:02,400 Becs Gentry: I made it into my bed. I put my recovery 749 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,680 Becs Gentry: boots on, we landed and took off in Madrid. I 750 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,489 Becs Gentry: did not move, no idea. I woke up with about 751 00:39:11,489 --> 00:39:14,969 Becs Gentry: three hours to go on the flight. I slept. I 752 00:39:14,969 --> 00:39:16,080 Becs Gentry: was gone, out. 753 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,189 Rob Simmelkjaer: I'm not surprised. I am not surprised. I could totally 754 00:39:20,189 --> 00:39:27,630 Rob Simmelkjaer: see it. Okay, Becs, I watched that race in Cartagena and it looked really, 755 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,460 Rob Simmelkjaer: really hot. How hot was it? 756 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:36,089 Becs Gentry: Well, the real fear was around a 100, 101 degrees, but 757 00:39:36,090 --> 00:39:39,300 Becs Gentry: it was the humidity rub, it was so high humidity, 758 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:44,339 Becs Gentry: I think it was 95, 96% humidity. It was really that 759 00:39:44,340 --> 00:39:46,830 Becs Gentry: kind of you lift your pinky finger and you are 760 00:39:46,830 --> 00:39:51,600 Becs Gentry: drenched with sweat. So we got on a bus from the 761 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,710 Becs Gentry: airport, which took us to a hotel lobby where we 762 00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:59,610 Becs Gentry: got ourselves situated and ready. We had the whole day 763 00:39:59,610 --> 00:40:03,570 Becs Gentry: actually in Cartagena. So the race organizers had booked out 764 00:40:03,630 --> 00:40:06,930 Becs Gentry: a certain number of rooms for groups of people to 765 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,180 Becs Gentry: drop their bags off in so we could shower after. 766 00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:11,489 Becs Gentry: So we sort of dumped our stuff in rooms about 767 00:40:11,489 --> 00:40:15,779 Becs Gentry: five of us per room and headed out. And it 768 00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:18,120 Becs Gentry: was a short walk from the hotel to the start 769 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,270 Becs Gentry: line. And already by the time we got to the start line, you 770 00:40:21,270 --> 00:40:24,450 Becs Gentry: could just see everybody was drenched and the sun was 771 00:40:24,450 --> 00:40:27,330 Becs Gentry: out. So sometimes you can kind of handle it, especially 772 00:40:27,330 --> 00:40:29,460 Becs Gentry: in New York, if it's a little overcast, it's humid, 773 00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:33,090 Becs Gentry: and it's hot. If the sun is not also beating 774 00:40:33,090 --> 00:40:36,120 Becs Gentry: down on you, you feel a little bit more ready 775 00:40:36,210 --> 00:40:39,900 Becs Gentry: to handle it. But when you then feel the seer of 776 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:44,551 Becs Gentry: the sun on your skin too, you're like, " Please, no, this is just torturous." 777 00:40:44,551 --> 00:40:44,641 Rob Simmelkjaer: It looked brutal. It really did. 778 00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:49,170 Becs Gentry: It really was. The saving grace was that we did run 779 00:40:49,170 --> 00:40:53,460 Becs Gentry: along water, which was lovely. There was no breeze whatsoever, 780 00:40:53,460 --> 00:40:55,890 Becs Gentry: but psychosomatically, you look at water and you're like, " Okay, 781 00:40:55,890 --> 00:40:58,170 Becs Gentry: this is a little... I can calm myself down. It's not through 782 00:40:58,170 --> 00:41:04,260 Becs Gentry: a city." Again, a heinous amount of repeats of this short one 783 00:41:04,350 --> 00:41:11,100 Becs Gentry: mile course. And as the irony went, I ended up 784 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:15,810 Becs Gentry: getting not quite sunburned, but the most drastic sports bra 785 00:41:15,810 --> 00:41:19,080 Becs Gentry: tan line on my back. But then I got ice burn 786 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,050 Becs Gentry: on my chest because I was putting ice down my 787 00:41:22,050 --> 00:41:24,330 Becs Gentry: sports bra. I was like, " This is just a juxtaposition 788 00:41:24,330 --> 00:41:24,601 Becs Gentry: right here." 789 00:41:24,601 --> 00:41:27,569 Rob Simmelkjaer: Too hot, too cold, run back. 790 00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:30,840 Becs Gentry: Yeah. But it was all about working together. Even the whole 791 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,290 Becs Gentry: logistical team of the Great World Race, people who weren't 792 00:41:34,350 --> 00:41:38,040 Becs Gentry: medical, just people who were there pitched in to help 793 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,190 Becs Gentry: throw ice on us, throw water on us, make sure that there 794 00:41:41,190 --> 00:41:43,620 Becs Gentry: was enough salt tabs. They went to get some extra 795 00:41:43,620 --> 00:41:46,170 Becs Gentry: salt tabs to make sure people were having enough. And 796 00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:48,300 Becs Gentry: they were also, the medics were running up and down 797 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:50,549 Becs Gentry: being like, " Only take three, no more than three." You 798 00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:52,469 Becs Gentry: can't take a salt tab every time you come past 799 00:41:52,469 --> 00:41:56,550 Becs Gentry: because you're going to get hyponatremia. So it really was a big 800 00:41:56,550 --> 00:41:58,589 Becs Gentry: team effort to get through. And that's why I say 801 00:41:58,590 --> 00:42:01,710 Becs Gentry: sticking with the girls with Hillary, Ash, and Shereen on 802 00:42:01,710 --> 00:42:06,569 Becs Gentry: that one. The conversations we had were so linked to 803 00:42:06,570 --> 00:42:10,800 Becs Gentry: each other's mental strength on that one, points where some 804 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,670 Becs Gentry: of us were just really struggling there. All of us, apart 805 00:42:14,670 --> 00:42:17,219 Becs Gentry: from Hillary on that one, had really bad GI issues 806 00:42:17,219 --> 00:42:21,660 Becs Gentry: and there was nowhere to go. So it was quite 807 00:42:21,660 --> 00:42:23,521 Becs Gentry: a moment to say the least. 808 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,810 Rob Simmelkjaer: Gosh, I'm so sorry for the GI issues, it just 809 00:42:27,810 --> 00:42:29,670 Rob Simmelkjaer: sounds like that was a theme of this whole event 810 00:42:29,670 --> 00:42:29,821 Rob Simmelkjaer: for you. 811 00:42:29,821 --> 00:42:30,031 Becs Gentry: It was. 812 00:42:30,540 --> 00:42:32,820 Rob Simmelkjaer: And that's not a theme you were looking for, I doubt. 813 00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:33,511 Becs Gentry: No, no, no. 814 00:42:33,511 --> 00:42:36,811 Rob Simmelkjaer: But you battled through, truly battled through. 815 00:42:36,811 --> 00:42:36,812 Becs Gentry: We get through. We get through. 816 00:42:36,812 --> 00:42:39,690 Rob Simmelkjaer: So you battled through Cartagena. You said it was one of 817 00:42:39,690 --> 00:42:41,820 Rob Simmelkjaer: the hardest races of your life. 818 00:42:41,969 --> 00:42:42,299 Becs Gentry: Yeah. 819 00:42:42,420 --> 00:42:44,609 Rob Simmelkjaer: And then it was a relatively short hop over to 820 00:42:44,610 --> 00:42:49,560 Rob Simmelkjaer: Miami, and that's where Becs' cheering section was in full 821 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,050 Rob Simmelkjaer: effect. You had Becs Beasts, I believe they were called. 822 00:42:52,050 --> 00:42:52,680 Becs Gentry: We did. 823 00:42:52,710 --> 00:42:55,050 Rob Simmelkjaer: There to cheer you on. That must have felt great 824 00:42:55,050 --> 00:42:56,279 Rob Simmelkjaer: to see everybody in Miami. 825 00:42:56,370 --> 00:42:59,430 Becs Gentry: Oh, my gosh. The anticipation of getting to Miami was obviously 826 00:42:59,430 --> 00:43:01,560 Becs Gentry: there from the minute we got on the flight to 827 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,130 Becs Gentry: Antarctica. So it's building up and it feels like a 828 00:43:05,130 --> 00:43:07,739 Becs Gentry: lot longer than seven days since we got there, actually, 829 00:43:07,739 --> 00:43:13,770 Becs Gentry: it was six days really. And leaving Cartagena was sort 830 00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:18,060 Becs Gentry: of wild because we were all really drained after finishing 831 00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:20,310 Becs Gentry: that race. But we had, as I said, the whole 832 00:43:20,310 --> 00:43:24,060 Becs Gentry: day in Cartagena. So I rallied the troops and said, " 833 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,520 Becs Gentry: When are we going to be back here? Let's go 834 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,650 Becs Gentry: and see the old town. It's supposed to be beautiful." 835 00:43:28,650 --> 00:43:30,450 Becs Gentry: So we all trudged off and did a little bit 836 00:43:30,450 --> 00:43:32,550 Becs Gentry: of sightseeing that day, which I'm really happy we did. 837 00:43:32,550 --> 00:43:35,580 Becs Gentry: But in hindsight, probably should have slept a little bit 838 00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:40,080 Becs Gentry: somewhere because the flight to Miami was slated to be 839 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,840 Becs Gentry: only three and a half hours. It ended up being 840 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,300 Becs Gentry: only two and a half hours. We had some big, 841 00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:48,839 Becs Gentry: big tailwinds, which any other flight you take to any other 842 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,450 Becs Gentry: place, you're like, " Yay, I got there quicker." This one 843 00:43:51,450 --> 00:43:51,541 Becs Gentry: where you're like, "No." 844 00:43:51,540 --> 00:43:55,051 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yeah, but that's your sleep time. That's your sleep time. 845 00:43:55,051 --> 00:43:55,052 Becs Gentry: That was a sleep time. 846 00:43:55,051 --> 00:43:55,053 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yeah. Yeah. 847 00:43:55,052 --> 00:43:59,069 Becs Gentry: So we landed in Miami just before 4: 00 AM. And 848 00:43:59,070 --> 00:44:01,770 Becs Gentry: Rob, there was no... The airport was empty. We flew 849 00:44:01,770 --> 00:44:06,719 Becs Gentry: through customs and it was just like a ghost town 850 00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:09,690 Becs Gentry: and we're standing there, okay, we're not running till 7: 851 00:44:09,780 --> 00:44:12,480 Becs Gentry: 00, so what are we doing? And the race organizers said, " 852 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,880 Becs Gentry: If you have a hotel room, feel free to go 853 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,950 Becs Gentry: to your hotel room." And I was like, " Well, I can't 854 00:44:16,950 --> 00:44:20,700 Becs Gentry: rock up at 4:00 AM, and wake up my daughter and Austin." 855 00:44:20,969 --> 00:44:23,940 Becs Gentry: And also, if I step foot in that hotel room, 856 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,440 Becs Gentry: you think I'm coming back out? 857 00:44:25,950 --> 00:44:28,710 Rob Simmelkjaer: Pandemonium, of course, it'd be nuts. And you would not 858 00:44:28,710 --> 00:44:30,450 Rob Simmelkjaer: want to exactly say goodbye to your family. 859 00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:32,700 Becs Gentry: No, I see massive king- size bed and I haven't 860 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:32,970 Becs Gentry: seen that in days. 861 00:44:32,969 --> 00:44:32,971 Rob Simmelkjaer: Absolutely. 862 00:44:32,970 --> 00:44:38,279 Becs Gentry: So I hung around the airport. Some people stayed there. 863 00:44:38,310 --> 00:44:40,500 Becs Gentry: A lot of people did actually go to their hotel 864 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:44,400 Becs Gentry: rooms who didn't have family members there yet, or if 865 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,399 Becs Gentry: they had an Airbnb, and they got a little rest. And 866 00:44:47,580 --> 00:44:49,620 Becs Gentry: it took me about half an hour of just standing 867 00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:53,010 Becs Gentry: around in Miami airport and getting stressed. I was just like, " 868 00:44:53,730 --> 00:44:56,880 Becs Gentry: I'm getting angry and tense." I said to Hillary was like, " Do 869 00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,790 Becs Gentry: you want to just come to my hotel? We'll organize 870 00:44:59,790 --> 00:45:01,920 Becs Gentry: our bags. We'll sit in the lobby, we'll get a 871 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,569 Becs Gentry: coffee, and it'll be fine." So we did that. We 872 00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:10,170 Becs Gentry: just jumped in an Uber. We went to my hotel and just 873 00:45:10,410 --> 00:45:13,379 Becs Gentry: honestly, there was no one really around. It was quiet 874 00:45:13,530 --> 00:45:16,620 Becs Gentry: and we organized our bags, we threw things out. We 875 00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:20,580 Becs Gentry: got ourselves ready, brushed our teeth, had a coffee. Austin 876 00:45:20,580 --> 00:45:22,320 Becs Gentry: did pop down, so I was happy I got to 877 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,200 Becs Gentry: see him before the race. My uncle appeared out of 878 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,960 Becs Gentry: nowhere. I just suddenly look up and my uncle's standing there. 879 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,489 Becs Gentry: I was like, " What are you doing here?" I didn't 880 00:45:29,489 --> 00:45:31,560 Becs Gentry: even know he was staying in that hotel. And they'd 881 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,230 Becs Gentry: changed their hotel last minute. So I got to see my 882 00:45:34,290 --> 00:45:38,310 Becs Gentry: uncle who actually sponsored me to do this race. So 883 00:45:38,310 --> 00:45:41,340 Becs Gentry: I'm really glad we did that. And then just getting 884 00:45:41,340 --> 00:45:44,580 Becs Gentry: to the start line, the start line location was changed 885 00:45:44,580 --> 00:45:47,430 Becs Gentry: with 20 minutes to go before the race started. So there 886 00:45:47,610 --> 00:45:51,029 Becs Gentry: was a complete pandemonium chaos. Everyone's like, " Where are we 887 00:45:51,029 --> 00:45:51,421 Becs Gentry: going? What are we doing?" 888 00:45:51,421 --> 00:45:56,400 Rob Simmelkjaer: I don't even understand how that can happen and still get 889 00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:01,770 Rob Simmelkjaer: the right distance, but that's another conversation. So Miami, all 890 00:46:01,770 --> 00:46:04,800 Rob Simmelkjaer: I can ask you is how focused were you on 891 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,100 Rob Simmelkjaer: during that race on trying to quote win? Were you 892 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:10,830 Rob Simmelkjaer: and Hillary competing at that point, or was it just 893 00:46:10,830 --> 00:46:11,611 Rob Simmelkjaer: finish and see your family? 894 00:46:11,611 --> 00:46:15,690 Becs Gentry: It was finish. It was finished, see our family, I 895 00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:19,650 Becs Gentry: put up on Instagram earlier this week, a video that 896 00:46:19,650 --> 00:46:23,040 Becs Gentry: somebody caught of the first time I saw Tallulah and 897 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,520 Becs Gentry: it brought me to my knees. I was so, so 898 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,510 Becs Gentry: tired to the point where I hadn't allowed myself to 899 00:46:30,510 --> 00:46:34,109 Becs Gentry: feel it. And you'll hear more from Hillary on that 900 00:46:34,110 --> 00:46:39,030 Becs Gentry: actually in the message with her. We sort of block 901 00:46:39,030 --> 00:46:41,819 Becs Gentry: ourselves from the true emotions when you're doing something like 902 00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:46,109 Becs Gentry: this, and then when you see your true loves, it 903 00:46:46,110 --> 00:46:48,540 Becs Gentry: comes out because you are your most vulnerable in front 904 00:46:48,540 --> 00:46:50,370 Becs Gentry: of the people you love and care about the most. 905 00:46:50,370 --> 00:46:52,650 Becs Gentry: And I fell to my knees when I saw my 906 00:46:52,650 --> 00:46:56,160 Becs Gentry: daughter and the tears just came. I was just suddenly 907 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,570 Becs Gentry: really sobbing because I was so tired. But looking at 908 00:47:00,570 --> 00:47:03,000 Becs Gentry: Tallulah, she's like, " Mommy crying." I'm like, " No, mommy's fine. 909 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,770 Becs Gentry: I'm fine." I didn't want her to see this as 910 00:47:04,770 --> 00:47:08,130 Becs Gentry: a mommy sad or mommy's upset. I was like, " Mommy's fine. 911 00:47:08,130 --> 00:47:12,180 Becs Gentry: She's just a little tired, but she's fine." And then 912 00:47:13,830 --> 00:47:15,960 Becs Gentry: really it was true chaos. That start line. I don't 913 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,180 Becs Gentry: know if any listeners out there who've ever been to 914 00:47:18,180 --> 00:47:23,100 Becs Gentry: the boardwalk of Miami Beach, it's narrow. It's busy. It's 915 00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:25,770 Becs Gentry: a very active place down there. It's gorgeous weather. People are 916 00:47:25,770 --> 00:47:29,820 Becs Gentry: always out exercising in the morning, walking, running, cycling, roller 917 00:47:29,820 --> 00:47:34,680 Becs Gentry: skating. There's everything going on. And then there's 57 runners 918 00:47:34,830 --> 00:47:38,040 Becs Gentry: plus the crew, plus all of our now supporters, family 919 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:44,218 Becs Gentry: and friends. It was wild. As a CEO of, and you got Road 920 00:47:44,219 --> 00:47:46,350 Becs Gentry: Runners, Rob, I think if you'd have seen that at the start to 921 00:47:46,350 --> 00:47:49,530 Becs Gentry: finish, you would've just been like, " Ted would've been losing 922 00:47:49,530 --> 00:47:52,260 Becs Gentry: his mind as a race director." There would've just been 923 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:55,800 Becs Gentry: so many red flags. But that was the theme of 924 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,230 Becs Gentry: this race. We just got on with it and off 925 00:47:58,230 --> 00:48:01,410 Becs Gentry: we went. Hillary, Shereen, and I stuck together. Ash was 926 00:48:01,410 --> 00:48:06,750 Becs Gentry: unfortunately feeling some really bad hip pain after Cartagena and 927 00:48:06,750 --> 00:48:10,650 Becs Gentry: into Miami, and she just said, " Don't wait for me. 928 00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:13,080 Becs Gentry: I'm going to be really pulling the pace back. I 929 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,700 Becs Gentry: don't want to hold you guys back. It's going to 930 00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:19,500 Becs Gentry: be significant change in pace." And so we all hugged 931 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,560 Becs Gentry: and we're like, " All right, let's do this." Jenny had 932 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:27,299 Becs Gentry: also had some issues after Cartagena, I think some norovirus 933 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:29,489 Becs Gentry: or something hit her. So she was sort of walk 934 00:48:29,489 --> 00:48:33,270 Becs Gentry: running the last race, unfortunately. So it was Hillary, Shereen 935 00:48:33,270 --> 00:48:35,520 Becs Gentry: and I set out with a couple of other guys, 936 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:40,950 Becs Gentry: actually, really cool guy, Anders, who runs the athlete blog 937 00:48:41,850 --> 00:48:45,360 Becs Gentry: and then a very fun Italian dude who fast and 938 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,580 Becs Gentry: few silly if you find him on Instagram. Very, very 939 00:48:47,580 --> 00:48:52,260 Becs Gentry: great runner. And we sort of stuck together. And another 940 00:48:52,260 --> 00:48:57,300 Becs Gentry: really fantastic runner called Santosh for a while and then 941 00:48:57,810 --> 00:48:59,940 Becs Gentry: dropped off a little bit, and then it ended up 942 00:48:59,940 --> 00:49:03,330 Becs Gentry: the three girls again, and then Shereen had to drop 943 00:49:03,330 --> 00:49:06,330 Becs Gentry: back. She was feeling a little bit of the GI issues, 944 00:49:06,930 --> 00:49:09,900 Becs Gentry: and then it was just Hillary and I. and we 945 00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:13,200 Becs Gentry: just said to each other, " Are we finishing this together?" 946 00:49:13,469 --> 00:49:16,770 Becs Gentry: And she was like, " Yeah." And neither of us wanted 947 00:49:16,770 --> 00:49:20,610 Becs Gentry: to leave the other one. We'd got so far, not 948 00:49:20,610 --> 00:49:22,800 Becs Gentry: just the seven days, not just that race. It was 949 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,620 Becs Gentry: just like we progressed so far in our lives individually 950 00:49:25,620 --> 00:49:27,870 Becs Gentry: that neither of us was going to break away from 951 00:49:27,870 --> 00:49:32,040 Becs Gentry: the other one. It just felt like a bad juju to do 952 00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:36,000 Becs Gentry: that. So we said, " All right, mom, stick together right 953 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,130 Becs Gentry: here. We're inspiring three kids between us, A, to be 954 00:49:41,130 --> 00:49:46,500 Becs Gentry: bad asses, but B, to commit." You committed to running 955 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:48,570 Becs Gentry: this thing together, and I'm not just going to leave 956 00:49:48,570 --> 00:49:51,390 Becs Gentry: you in the dust for glory. It wasn't either of 957 00:49:51,390 --> 00:49:55,740 Becs Gentry: our vibes. So we stuck it out together and ran 958 00:49:55,890 --> 00:49:58,590 Becs Gentry: all the way in. And again, you'll hear a funny story from 959 00:49:58,590 --> 00:50:00,239 Becs Gentry: Hillary about that moment. 960 00:50:01,020 --> 00:50:06,600 Rob Simmelkjaer: So cool. All right, so Becs, to wrap this unbelievable adventure up, here's what I want 961 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:12,060 Rob Simmelkjaer: to know. How is Becs Gentry different now than she 962 00:50:12,060 --> 00:50:17,400 Rob Simmelkjaer: was before starting this? Whether it's as a runner or 963 00:50:17,460 --> 00:50:20,819 Rob Simmelkjaer: a Peloton instructor or a wife or a mom or 964 00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:24,570 Rob Simmelkjaer: anything? How are you different now or can you even 965 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:25,560 Rob Simmelkjaer: process that yet? 966 00:50:26,219 --> 00:50:28,590 Becs Gentry: I'm starting to really, in the past few days, it 967 00:50:28,590 --> 00:50:33,330 Becs Gentry: started to settle in to me that without sounding dramatic, 968 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,310 Becs Gentry: it was a hugely pivotal point in my life. And 969 00:50:38,370 --> 00:50:42,480 Becs Gentry: I do have to accept that I have changed, not 970 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,250 Becs Gentry: in a big way. You're not going to look at me 971 00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,969 Becs Gentry: and be like, " Well, she's so different these days." But 972 00:50:48,030 --> 00:50:57,359 Becs Gentry: internally, since becoming a mom, a parent, I not lost 973 00:50:57,540 --> 00:51:04,380 Becs Gentry: some of my vibe, but it changed shape. And I 974 00:51:04,380 --> 00:51:10,170 Becs Gentry: think I needed to reformat what my vibe truly is. 975 00:51:10,230 --> 00:51:14,940 Becs Gentry: And before Austin, before Tallulah, before being a Peloton instructor, 976 00:51:14,940 --> 00:51:18,270 Becs Gentry: travel and running were huge parts of who I was 977 00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:22,259 Becs Gentry: and how I filled my cup up. And definitely, since 978 00:51:22,260 --> 00:51:25,739 Becs Gentry: becoming a parent that has gone, when you travel with 979 00:51:25,739 --> 00:51:27,840 Becs Gentry: a kid, you just relocate your life somewhere else. It's 980 00:51:28,230 --> 00:51:29,218 Becs Gentry: not a vacation anymore. 981 00:51:33,450 --> 00:51:33,451 Speaker 2: No, we call it a trip, not a vacation. Yeah. 982 00:51:33,450 --> 00:51:38,820 Becs Gentry: Yeah, it's just a trip. So I really needed to reset and refill my cup 983 00:51:38,820 --> 00:51:41,550 Becs Gentry: because I was feeling like my cup was almost empty. 984 00:51:41,550 --> 00:51:44,880 Becs Gentry: I didn't feel I was that inspiring as a Peloton 985 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,330 Becs Gentry: instructor. So goodness knows, I wasn't inspiring as a partner, 986 00:51:48,690 --> 00:51:52,739 Becs Gentry: as a parent. So doing this trip really did give 987 00:51:52,739 --> 00:51:58,230 Becs Gentry: me the opportunity to relight my fire and allow that 988 00:51:58,230 --> 00:52:05,489 Becs Gentry: bright, bubbly, motivated, inspired human to flourish again. And so 989 00:52:05,489 --> 00:52:07,469 Becs Gentry: by doing that, I truly hope once it really does 990 00:52:07,469 --> 00:52:09,420 Becs Gentry: settle in, I'm going to be able to be a 991 00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:12,180 Becs Gentry: better mom, a better partner, a better friend, a better 992 00:52:12,180 --> 00:52:18,569 Becs Gentry: instructor, and just thrive how I used to thrive. And 993 00:52:18,570 --> 00:52:20,219 Becs Gentry: I know that may sound selfish to a lot of 994 00:52:20,219 --> 00:52:23,910 Becs Gentry: people, but I think we forget and then my job 995 00:52:23,910 --> 00:52:26,010 Becs Gentry: is a lot about giving to other people and making 996 00:52:26,010 --> 00:52:27,840 Becs Gentry: sure other people are doing well. And they get to a 997 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,380 Becs Gentry: point where you think like, " Oh, goodness me, I'm not 998 00:52:31,380 --> 00:52:34,469 Becs Gentry: doing that well, what do I need to do?" And 999 00:52:34,590 --> 00:52:39,180 Becs Gentry: yeah, slightly off the realms of weirdness when you say, " 1000 00:52:39,210 --> 00:52:43,109 Becs Gentry: Okay, I'm going to run seven marathons in seven days in just one week 1001 00:52:43,620 --> 00:52:47,640 Becs Gentry: to do that," but that's who I am. And we're 1002 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,380 Becs Gentry: all different. We're all different. Someone may go and buy 1003 00:52:49,380 --> 00:52:51,002 Becs Gentry: a really expensive handbag. That's (inaudible) . 1004 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,070 Rob Simmelkjaer: Well, I think that these things are so relative, and 1005 00:52:56,070 --> 00:52:58,650 Rob Simmelkjaer: I think what you're saying about how you feel different 1006 00:52:59,070 --> 00:53:02,219 Rob Simmelkjaer: doing seven marathons in seven days on seven continents is 1007 00:53:02,219 --> 00:53:04,110 Rob Simmelkjaer: how a lot of people will tell you they feel 1008 00:53:04,110 --> 00:53:06,631 Rob Simmelkjaer: after running one marathon in their mind. 1009 00:53:06,631 --> 00:53:09,839 Becs Gentry: Exactly. Yeah. It's a challenge. It's pushing yourself again and realizing what 1010 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,280 Becs Gentry: you are capable of by yourself, whether that's one mile, 1011 00:53:14,430 --> 00:53:17,880 Becs Gentry: whether it's seven marathons, it doesn't matter what the actual 1012 00:53:18,210 --> 00:53:23,850 Becs Gentry: quantitative distance time is, it's the feeling, it's the pride, 1013 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,859 Becs Gentry: it's the going to bed at night and being like, " 1014 00:53:26,069 --> 00:53:28,170 Becs Gentry: I did that. I did that." Yeah. 1015 00:53:28,739 --> 00:53:31,680 Rob Simmelkjaer: 100%. I think you nailed it. I think that's what 1016 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,380 Rob Simmelkjaer: it's all about. And you did do that. You did 1017 00:53:34,380 --> 00:53:37,799 Rob Simmelkjaer: it, and man, it was a thrill to watch you do 1018 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,440 Rob Simmelkjaer: it. It was a thrill to talk to you about 1019 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,501 Rob Simmelkjaer: doing it. And again, we're all so proud of you. 1020 00:53:43,501 --> 00:53:43,739 Becs Gentry: Thank you. 1021 00:53:43,739 --> 00:53:47,460 Rob Simmelkjaer: And just thrilled to have had a chance to share 1022 00:53:47,460 --> 00:53:49,710 Rob Simmelkjaer: in this journey with you, even if it was from afar. 1023 00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:51,541 Becs Gentry: Thank you so much. 1024 00:53:51,541 --> 00:53:55,290 Rob Simmelkjaer: So Becs, thank you for regaling us with these stories. They're amazing. And 1025 00:53:55,860 --> 00:53:57,870 Rob Simmelkjaer: once again, congrats. Can't wait to talk to Hillary and 1026 00:53:57,870 --> 00:53:59,521 Rob Simmelkjaer: hear what she says about how you did out there. 1027 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:21,900 Becs Gentry: Let's do it. Growing a business means a lot of audience attracting, a lot of lead scoring and 1028 00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:25,200 Becs Gentry: a lot of long days. But with HubSpot, it's easier 1029 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,140 Becs Gentry: than ever for marketers to boost leads and score customers 1030 00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:31,950 Becs Gentry: fast. Which means pretty soon, your company will have a 1031 00:54:31,950 --> 00:54:37,320 Becs Gentry: lot to celebrate. Visit hubspot. com/ marketers to learn more. 1032 00:54:37,980 --> 00:54:41,219 Becs Gentry: Okay. Joining us now, again, in place of our usual 1033 00:54:41,219 --> 00:54:43,650 Becs Gentry: member moment, we are being joined by one of my 1034 00:54:43,650 --> 00:54:47,399 Becs Gentry: fellow Great World Race finishers from this year. She's not 1035 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,270 Becs Gentry: just a finisher though. She's actually the top person to 1036 00:54:51,270 --> 00:54:55,050 Becs Gentry: finish this challenge this year. By day, Hillary is a 1037 00:54:55,050 --> 00:54:58,350 Becs Gentry: brand strategist, and by night, weekend, and whenever else in 1038 00:54:58,350 --> 00:55:02,040 Becs Gentry: between she can, she's a badass mom and an incredible 1039 00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,589 Becs Gentry: runner. I'm honored to now be able to call her 1040 00:55:04,590 --> 00:55:08,100 Becs Gentry: a friend. And aside from being running moms in common, 1041 00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:11,160 Becs Gentry: Hillary and I have also have one more bond following the challenge 1042 00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,969 Becs Gentry: where we both finished she first, me second overall, we 1043 00:55:14,969 --> 00:55:18,150 Becs Gentry: decided to get matching seven tattoos to commemorate this crazy 1044 00:55:18,150 --> 00:55:22,440 Becs Gentry: bond that we forged over one week and 183. 4 1045 00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:25,830 Becs Gentry: miles. So Hillary, welcome to the show. It is so 1046 00:55:25,830 --> 00:55:27,779 Becs Gentry: good to be reunited with you virtually. 1047 00:55:27,900 --> 00:55:30,030 Hillary Kupish: Yeah, thanks for having me. So glad to be here. 1048 00:55:30,540 --> 00:55:35,310 Becs Gentry: We were just talking through my debrief of the race 1049 00:55:35,310 --> 00:55:38,489 Becs Gentry: with Rob, and obviously your name comes up a lot 1050 00:55:38,489 --> 00:55:42,960 Becs Gentry: in it because we spent a lot of time and 1051 00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:49,050 Becs Gentry: miles together with Ash, Poulsen, with Shereen, with Jenny and 1052 00:55:49,230 --> 00:55:53,550 Becs Gentry: other runners on our trip. But we thought it'd be 1053 00:55:53,550 --> 00:55:55,680 Becs Gentry: fun to have you on today to just talk about 1054 00:55:55,980 --> 00:56:01,320 Becs Gentry: you and your life as a runner, because what a 1055 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,280 Becs Gentry: week, 10 days before was New York City Marathon for you. 1056 00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,680 Hillary Kupish: Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, Jenny as well. 1057 00:56:07,890 --> 00:56:11,850 Becs Gentry: And Jenny as well. Yeah. But outside of the elite 1058 00:56:11,850 --> 00:56:16,080 Becs Gentry: professional running world, there is Hillary who comes in with 1059 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:21,030 Becs Gentry: a steaming 2: 44 at the TCS New York City Marathon and 1060 00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,759 Becs Gentry: then hops on a flight home and then hops on 1061 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,270 Becs Gentry: a flight to Cape Town. So Rob, should we ask 1062 00:56:27,270 --> 00:56:29,040 Becs Gentry: Hillary some questions about how this happens? 1063 00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:32,370 Rob Simmelkjaer: Yeah. I'm really wondering, first of all, how this all 1064 00:56:32,370 --> 00:56:34,950 Rob Simmelkjaer: came about, Hillary, I asked Becs this question, how'd you 1065 00:56:34,950 --> 00:56:38,879 Rob Simmelkjaer: first get roped into this incredible Great World Race? 1066 00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,719 Hillary Kupish: Yeah, it's a great question. I actually was thinking back 1067 00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,810 Hillary Kupish: on this, and I think I was initially targeted with something 1068 00:56:45,810 --> 00:56:48,570 Hillary Kupish: on social. I saw it came up and I think I 1069 00:56:48,570 --> 00:56:51,600 Hillary Kupish: had probably a similar reaction to what I hear most 1070 00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,219 Hillary Kupish: people of being like, " That's wild, that's interesting, that's exciting." 1071 00:56:56,219 --> 00:56:59,610 Hillary Kupish: And in my mind I'm like, " That's for sponsored athletes or people 1072 00:56:59,610 --> 00:57:03,570 Hillary Kupish: with a certain amount of dollars," I had these reactions 1073 00:57:03,570 --> 00:57:06,210 Hillary Kupish: to it, but it popped up multiple times. And then 1074 00:57:06,330 --> 00:57:09,510 Hillary Kupish: honestly, I was on the Tread, it was I think 1075 00:57:09,510 --> 00:57:12,030 Hillary Kupish: the first week of August, and Becs started talking about 1076 00:57:12,030 --> 00:57:15,600 Hillary Kupish: it and I was like, " Oh no, she's doing this." 1077 00:57:17,430 --> 00:57:19,710 Hillary Kupish: And I was like, " Why?" It's one of those things, there's 1078 00:57:20,070 --> 00:57:24,360 Hillary Kupish: moments in life where certain ideas or things come into 1079 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,400 Hillary Kupish: my purview and my mind, and they just have this 1080 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,820 Hillary Kupish: tug. And this was one of those where I'm like, " It's not 1081 00:57:29,820 --> 00:57:31,650 Hillary Kupish: leaving me alone and I need to look at why." 1082 00:57:32,610 --> 00:57:34,740 Hillary Kupish: And so that's what led me to saying yes and 1083 00:57:34,950 --> 00:57:37,410 Hillary Kupish: the first week of August. So it was a short 1084 00:57:37,410 --> 00:57:39,270 Hillary Kupish: runway for me coming into the race. 1085 00:57:39,780 --> 00:57:42,510 Rob Simmelkjaer: Did you guys know each other before this? 1086 00:57:43,830 --> 00:57:44,160 Becs Gentry: No. 1087 00:57:44,220 --> 00:57:47,670 Hillary Kupish: No, no, no, no. I knew Becs because I run on the Tread. I am 1088 00:57:47,670 --> 00:57:52,410 Hillary Kupish: a very loyal Peloton member. I have the Tread, it's 1089 00:57:52,410 --> 00:57:53,790 Hillary Kupish: a part of my training routine. I live in a 1090 00:57:53,790 --> 00:57:55,590 Hillary Kupish: beautiful place where I can do a lot of outdoor 1091 00:57:55,590 --> 00:57:58,740 Hillary Kupish: running, but also, I have smoke in the summer and 1092 00:57:58,740 --> 00:58:01,320 Hillary Kupish: I have ice in the winter, and I have a three- year- 1093 00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,780 Hillary Kupish: old and a six- year- old. So when you have 1094 00:58:03,780 --> 00:58:06,180 Hillary Kupish: them full on as a single mom, there's moments where 1095 00:58:06,180 --> 00:58:09,120 Hillary Kupish: it's like, it's time for a movie and I hop 1096 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,090 Hillary Kupish: on the Tread. And so yeah, that's how, I knew 1097 00:58:12,090 --> 00:58:15,150 Hillary Kupish: of Becs, of course, but we had never met or chatted. 1098 00:58:16,530 --> 00:58:20,100 Becs Gentry: I love that. I love that story. And honestly, I 1099 00:58:20,100 --> 00:58:23,970 Becs Gentry: think it was the funniest and sweetest moment ever was 1100 00:58:23,970 --> 00:58:27,390 Becs Gentry: on Miami when you told me, I'm like, " We were 1101 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,290 Becs Gentry: two laps from the finish together," and we'd stuck together 1102 00:58:31,290 --> 00:58:35,130 Becs Gentry: literally through that whole race of like, " Okay, let's do 1103 00:58:35,130 --> 00:58:36,750 Becs Gentry: this together. We're going to finish, we're going to be 1104 00:58:36,750 --> 00:58:40,740 Becs Gentry: moms who finished this." And there was a point when I was like, " Hillary, 1105 00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:43,890 Becs Gentry: David's dropping back, I think we're actually going to win- 1106 00:58:43,890 --> 00:58:48,870 Becs Gentry: win this race together." It was just a lot going on. And I had 1107 00:58:48,870 --> 00:58:50,040 Becs Gentry: a bit of a moment where I just had a 1108 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:54,030 Becs Gentry: breakdown of tears and emotions overcame me. And Hillary was like, " 1109 00:58:54,030 --> 00:58:56,700 Becs Gentry: Too soon, too soon, we've got more laps. Hold it together, Becs." 1110 00:58:56,700 --> 00:59:00,780 Becs Gentry: And then the next lap in almost the same spot, 1111 00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:06,690 Becs Gentry: she was like, " I got to tell you something." I was like, "Oh no, here we go. 1112 00:59:06,690 --> 00:59:08,820 Becs Gentry: We're both doing it." And that's when she said... 1113 00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,051 Hillary Kupish: I saved my fangirl moment. Yeah. 1114 00:59:10,051 --> 00:59:12,990 Becs Gentry: Yeah, right till the end, which was hilarious. And then 1115 00:59:12,990 --> 00:59:15,930 Becs Gentry: I'm like, she's there having a nice honest moment and 1116 00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,900 Becs Gentry: the roles had reversed. I was then laughing and giggling 1117 00:59:18,900 --> 00:59:20,820 Becs Gentry: and just like, " Yeah, but now, we're friends for life." 1118 00:59:22,470 --> 00:59:23,790 Hillary Kupish: Tell them about that officially. 1119 00:59:23,790 --> 00:59:26,190 Rob Simmelkjaer: So Hillary, and this question is really for both of 1120 00:59:26,190 --> 00:59:30,210 Rob Simmelkjaer: you, but I'm curious, Hillary, what did you learn about yourself? 1121 00:59:30,210 --> 00:59:33,960 Rob Simmelkjaer: You're obviously a very accomplished marathoner, you're running amazing times 1122 00:59:34,530 --> 00:59:38,610 Rob Simmelkjaer: in New York and other places. Do you see yourself 1123 00:59:38,610 --> 00:59:41,940 Rob Simmelkjaer: differently now as a runner having been able to complete 1124 00:59:41,940 --> 00:59:44,550 Rob Simmelkjaer: this and not just do that but win it? Are 1125 00:59:44,550 --> 00:59:47,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: you thinking, wait a second, maybe this should be a 1126 00:59:47,790 --> 00:59:50,190 Rob Simmelkjaer: job for me, maybe I should get some sponsors and 1127 00:59:50,190 --> 00:59:52,140 Rob Simmelkjaer: quit my day job and do this for real? 1128 00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,470 Speaker 3: That is a great question and a very interesting one. I will 1129 00:59:55,470 --> 00:59:57,420 Speaker 3: say one of the things that surprised me about this 1130 00:59:57,420 --> 01:00:00,450 Speaker 3: trip, other than my own performance, how my body held 1131 01:00:00,450 --> 01:00:04,800 Speaker 3: up, the relationships and the connections that were built during 1132 01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,870 Speaker 3: this, and one of the most interesting thing about that is 1133 01:00:06,870 --> 01:00:09,600 Speaker 3: the type of people that this brought were people that 1134 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,750 Speaker 3: obviously were in for a challenge for themselves, but really, 1135 01:00:12,750 --> 01:00:15,720 Speaker 3: really spoken to each other's lives. And I had a 1136 01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,050 Speaker 3: lot of great challenges kind of come my way and 1137 01:00:19,710 --> 01:00:22,530 Speaker 3: push me and pressed me to think about what do 1138 01:00:22,530 --> 01:00:25,350 Speaker 3: I really want this to look like? And so am 1139 01:00:25,350 --> 01:00:27,990 Speaker 3: I going to go for the Olympic trials? No, I've 1140 01:00:27,990 --> 01:00:30,450 Speaker 3: been asked that. I was like, " Absolutely not." I know 1141 01:00:30,450 --> 01:00:33,090 Speaker 3: where my strengths are and I don't know if that's 1142 01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:37,470 Speaker 3: what I want to do and where I would want to play. But absolutely, 1143 01:00:37,470 --> 01:00:41,670 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not done with being competitive. I love the 1144 01:00:41,670 --> 01:00:44,370 Speaker 3: trail space, I love the adventure space. And even seeing 1145 01:00:44,820 --> 01:00:47,430 Speaker 3: runners like David, I'm like, " He's doing it differently." He 1146 01:00:47,430 --> 01:00:50,970 Speaker 3: has these incredible sponsorships and his thing is these stage 1147 01:00:50,970 --> 01:00:55,860 Speaker 3: wild races. And so there's areas I definitely want to explore. Also, 1148 01:00:56,460 --> 01:00:59,160 Speaker 3: I love my day job and I think there's something, 1149 01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,670 Speaker 3: the other thing that surprised me about this was the 1150 01:01:02,670 --> 01:01:05,790 Speaker 3: community that reached out to me, the amount of DMs, 1151 01:01:05,790 --> 01:01:07,950 Speaker 3: the amount of people were like, " How are you doing 1152 01:01:07,950 --> 01:01:09,870 Speaker 3: this as a normal person, as a mom with a 1153 01:01:09,870 --> 01:01:13,200 Speaker 3: job?" And I think there was something that really landed 1154 01:01:13,230 --> 01:01:15,090 Speaker 3: for me there. One, I hadn't posted on social for 1155 01:01:15,210 --> 01:01:20,490 Speaker 3: two years before New York. So, all of a sudden, I'm like, "Oh, I'm starting to understand 1156 01:01:20,490 --> 01:01:23,520 Speaker 3: the value of social in a different way," and thank 1157 01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:25,200 Speaker 3: you to everyone that did send messages because it meant 1158 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,000 Speaker 3: a lot to me. But it was just like there's 1159 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,940 Speaker 3: part of me that I do want to show that these are 1160 01:01:29,940 --> 01:01:33,300 Speaker 3: things you can do and still pursue other passions. It 1161 01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:39,180 Speaker 3: doesn't have to be one extreme. And so absolutely looking 1162 01:01:39,180 --> 01:01:42,300 Speaker 3: into what does sponsorship look like, especially for some of 1163 01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:46,230 Speaker 3: these big ambitious races that require a lot of travel 1164 01:01:46,230 --> 01:01:51,540 Speaker 3: time, funding, et cetera, but still having some conversations or kicking 1165 01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:53,910 Speaker 3: off some conversations and we'll see how that unfolds, but 1166 01:01:53,910 --> 01:01:55,860 Speaker 3: I don't think I'm going to be quitting my day 1167 01:01:55,860 --> 01:01:56,610 Speaker 3: job anytime soon. 1168 01:01:56,850 --> 01:02:00,660 Becs Gentry: Love that. But that's how it should be, I think, 1169 01:02:01,740 --> 01:02:04,350 Becs Gentry: the way you've started is an inspiration, and to change 1170 01:02:04,350 --> 01:02:08,160 Becs Gentry: that would be kind of strange in many ways. So 1171 01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,170 Becs Gentry: fingers crossed, I'm so excited for you. 1172 01:02:11,730 --> 01:02:14,220 Speaker 3: Freed out my authentic self, and there's different facets of 1173 01:02:14,220 --> 01:02:17,190 Speaker 3: me of my life that I really want to love 1174 01:02:17,190 --> 01:02:19,530 Speaker 3: and honor, running is a really big part of that and 1175 01:02:19,530 --> 01:02:21,630 Speaker 3: has been for a while now, but I don't want 1176 01:02:21,630 --> 01:02:27,120 Speaker 3: to just take one route because it's the path that I've 1177 01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:31,530 Speaker 3: seen forged the most. I think the beauty of what 1178 01:02:31,530 --> 01:02:35,010 Speaker 3: I saw through this experience is there's really creative ways 1179 01:02:35,010 --> 01:02:38,280 Speaker 3: to live your life and have meaningful impact in the 1180 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,200 Speaker 3: different areas of passion that you want to pursue. 1181 01:02:40,650 --> 01:02:41,430 Becs Gentry: Absolutely. 1182 01:02:41,669 --> 01:02:44,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: Hillary, what do you think it was that allowed you to win 1183 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,790 Rob Simmelkjaer: this thing? I mean, this is not a normal race. 1184 01:02:47,820 --> 01:02:52,110 Rob Simmelkjaer: This is an endurance event on many levels, running endurance, 1185 01:02:52,110 --> 01:02:56,220 Rob Simmelkjaer: sleep endurance, GI endurance, I'm sure, I mean, so many 1186 01:02:56,220 --> 01:02:59,520 Rob Simmelkjaer: things can go wrong over a week with your body 1187 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,189 Rob Simmelkjaer: and something like this. What do you think it was 1188 01:03:02,190 --> 01:03:03,450 Rob Simmelkjaer: that spelled the difference for you? 1189 01:03:04,290 --> 01:03:09,240 Hillary Kupish: Gee, there's so much complexity and this whole race, seven 1190 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,110 Hillary Kupish: days of teetering on the edge. And I will say, 1191 01:03:13,110 --> 01:03:15,360 Hillary Kupish: I actually made a call (inaudible) messages to Becs 1192 01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,610 Hillary Kupish: yesterday because we listened to the Rich Roll podcast with 1193 01:03:17,610 --> 01:03:20,490 Hillary Kupish: David Roche. I am a massive David- Megan Roche fan, 1194 01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:23,730 Hillary Kupish: and they really do a deep dive into all these 1195 01:03:23,730 --> 01:03:29,250 Hillary Kupish: different areas of fueling... They're really focused on the ultra 1196 01:03:29,790 --> 01:03:33,660 Hillary Kupish: field, and I've nerded out with them for years. And I think 1197 01:03:34,020 --> 01:03:36,660 Hillary Kupish: I really trained for this in an ultra mindset. It definitely 1198 01:03:36,660 --> 01:03:39,570 Hillary Kupish: wasn't any sort of traditional marathoning. And I would say 1199 01:03:39,570 --> 01:03:44,040 Hillary Kupish: some of the differentiators were definitely fueling. I really practiced 1200 01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,250 Hillary Kupish: a ton of fueling. I think I had more during races 1201 01:03:47,250 --> 01:03:51,420 Hillary Kupish: than most people, and that definitely left me maybe a 1202 01:03:51,420 --> 01:03:53,760 Hillary Kupish: little bit more recovered in some ways. But I will 1203 01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:55,440 Hillary Kupish: say I looked down at my legs every day and I was talking to them like 1204 01:03:56,190 --> 01:03:58,620 Hillary Kupish: they're my kids. I'm like, " You look so good today. I'm 1205 01:03:58,620 --> 01:04:03,240 Hillary Kupish: proud of you." And to rip off that, I think the 1206 01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:04,920 Hillary Kupish: other part of it that I spent a lot of time 1207 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:11,310 Hillary Kupish: around was mindset and how I think people don't realize 1208 01:04:11,310 --> 01:04:14,010 Hillary Kupish: how their self- talk impacts them or even what their self- 1209 01:04:14,010 --> 01:04:16,170 Hillary Kupish: talk is. And I spent a lot of time in my 1210 01:04:16,170 --> 01:04:20,370 Hillary Kupish: training reframing, and I think one of the biggest game 1211 01:04:20,370 --> 01:04:23,820 Hillary Kupish: change, things you can do is I can, I get 1212 01:04:23,820 --> 01:04:27,150 Hillary Kupish: to, and I'm grateful for, and if everything is framed 1213 01:04:27,150 --> 01:04:29,190 Hillary Kupish: with I can do this, I get to do this, 1214 01:04:29,190 --> 01:04:31,710 Hillary Kupish: and I'm grateful I get to do this, it changes. 1215 01:04:32,430 --> 01:04:35,040 Hillary Kupish: Of course, throughout the first six races, there was not 1216 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,040 Hillary Kupish: a moment where I was like, " I'm over it, I'm 1217 01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:41,010 Hillary Kupish: done, I can't, I was tired," but when I felt 1218 01:04:41,010 --> 01:04:42,720 Hillary Kupish: tired, I knew what to do because I had practiced 1219 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:44,729 Hillary Kupish: it. I'm like, " This is when the work starts, so 1220 01:04:44,730 --> 01:04:47,880 Hillary Kupish: let's go, you can," and I say six because the 1221 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:51,210 Hillary Kupish: seventh, I remember that morning I woke up after two 1222 01:04:51,210 --> 01:04:52,950 Hillary Kupish: hours of sleep and I was like, it was the 1223 01:04:52,950 --> 01:04:56,820 Hillary Kupish: first time I had cried. I was just in the chair by myself. I'm like, " 1224 01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:02,190 Hillary Kupish: Not enough. It's not enough." It was rough morning for 1225 01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:04,020 Hillary Kupish: me, and it was the first time that I was like, " I 1226 01:05:04,020 --> 01:05:08,370 Hillary Kupish: don't want to run today." But then I was also like, " Okay," 1227 01:05:09,150 --> 01:05:11,760 Hillary Kupish: there were so many days where I staying with the pack, 1228 01:05:12,030 --> 01:05:15,600 Hillary Kupish: running smart, holding back enough, and that was another part 1229 01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:19,020 Hillary Kupish: of this, just like if I would've pushed harder and maxed sooner, 1230 01:05:19,530 --> 01:05:21,510 Hillary Kupish: things could have fallen off. And that's again what you're 1231 01:05:21,510 --> 01:05:25,020 Hillary Kupish: always teetering with. And so being able to hold some 1232 01:05:25,020 --> 01:05:26,880 Hillary Kupish: of that back and get to the point where, thank 1233 01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:28,800 Hillary Kupish: God, it was just the last day that I was like, " 1234 01:05:28,860 --> 01:05:32,940 Hillary Kupish: No, this is a struggle." And then I happened to be on Miami with Becs' 1235 01:05:32,940 --> 01:05:35,940 Hillary Kupish: entire fan club who I'm just like, "I'm going to ride this wave. 1236 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:37,680 Hillary Kupish: I know you're cheering for Becs, but I'm pretending you're 1237 01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,941 Hillary Kupish: cheering for me too." So long- winded answer, but there you go. 1238 01:05:41,941 --> 01:05:46,800 Rob Simmelkjaer: Amazing. Congratulations. It's phenomenal. Are you going to come back and 1239 01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,500 Rob Simmelkjaer: defend it next year? Is this something people defend or do 1240 01:05:49,500 --> 01:05:51,360 Rob Simmelkjaer: they just check that box and move on? 1241 01:05:54,030 --> 01:05:56,610 Hillary Kupish: Becs is not somebody that does races twice. I'll do races 1242 01:05:56,610 --> 01:06:00,090 Hillary Kupish: twice. Something like this, I was like, " I would want 1243 01:06:00,090 --> 01:06:03,150 Hillary Kupish: to, I'd probably run with a different purpose maybe to 1244 01:06:03,150 --> 01:06:06,330 Hillary Kupish: get people..." I mean, I'm happy to go up against 1245 01:06:06,330 --> 01:06:08,670 Hillary Kupish: someone just if they want it, I'm like, " I'll give you a 1246 01:06:08,670 --> 01:06:12,450 Hillary Kupish: run for your money or try to." But also, I really, really 1247 01:06:12,780 --> 01:06:14,820 Hillary Kupish: believe in what David is doing in building here from 1248 01:06:14,820 --> 01:06:17,010 Hillary Kupish: a business standpoint. And if I can support that and 1249 01:06:17,010 --> 01:06:20,490 Hillary Kupish: if being a part of it helps that, then absolutely, I will. 1250 01:06:21,630 --> 01:06:22,110 Rob Simmelkjaer: I love it. 1251 01:06:23,220 --> 01:06:24,810 Hillary Kupish: There we go. Funding part, we have to have. 1252 01:06:28,470 --> 01:06:30,120 Becs Gentry: Sub 3, it's all the way, please. 1253 01:06:30,210 --> 01:06:33,720 Hillary Kupish: Oh my gosh, yes. We could go lower. We could go 1254 01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:34,111 Hillary Kupish: lower, but we'll see. 1255 01:06:34,111 --> 01:06:34,261 Becs Gentry: Yeah. 1256 01:06:34,650 --> 01:06:38,280 Rob Simmelkjaer: Wow. Well, I'm in awe of both of you, but 1257 01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,910 Rob Simmelkjaer: Hillary, congrats, amazing to meet you and can't wait to 1258 01:06:41,910 --> 01:06:42,840 Rob Simmelkjaer: see what you do next. 1259 01:06:42,990 --> 01:06:44,430 Hillary Kupish: Thank you. Yeah, really appreciate it. 1260 01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,090 Rob Simmelkjaer: Thanks again, Hillary. Now, it's time for today's Meb minute. 1261 01:06:48,450 --> 01:06:53,130 Meb: Thanks, Rob. Cold weather training and hydration, in the winter, 1262 01:06:53,130 --> 01:06:56,040 Meb: it is easy to forget about hydration, but it's just as 1263 01:06:56,040 --> 01:07:00,150 Meb: important as a warm month is. Cold weather can mask 1264 01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,390 Meb: thirst, but your body still loses fluids when you run. 1265 01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:07,680 Meb: Make sure you hydrate before, during, and after your runs, 1266 01:07:07,770 --> 01:07:11,130 Meb: even if you don't feel thirsty. Also, don't skip your 1267 01:07:11,130 --> 01:07:15,180 Meb: fueling. Your body still needs energy to perform, carry an 1268 01:07:15,180 --> 01:07:19,020 Meb: energy gel or snack for longer runs, and make sure 1269 01:07:19,170 --> 01:07:22,260 Meb: to eat a balanced meal afterward to help you recover. 1270 01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:25,950 Meb: Remember, it is not what you do only practice time, 1271 01:07:26,100 --> 01:07:27,840 Meb: but how you take care of yourself for the next 1272 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,170 Meb: 22 hours. Hydration is something you can control. Make sure 1273 01:07:31,170 --> 01:07:32,729 Meb: you get your rest and have fun. 1274 01:07:33,210 --> 01:07:35,430 Rob Simmelkjaer: And that does it for another episode of Set the 1275 01:07:35,430 --> 01:07:38,850 Rob Simmelkjaer: Pace. Thanks, Becs, for telling us all the great stories 1276 01:07:38,850 --> 01:07:41,340 Rob Simmelkjaer: of the Great World Race, and thank you to Hillary 1277 01:07:41,340 --> 01:07:45,060 Rob Simmelkjaer: as well for walking us through her incredible and victorious 1278 01:07:45,060 --> 01:07:48,750 Rob Simmelkjaer: World Race experience. Thanks as always to Meb for some 1279 01:07:48,750 --> 01:07:51,570 Rob Simmelkjaer: great insight as well. If you liked our episode today, 1280 01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,390 Rob Simmelkjaer: please go ahead, rate it, subscribe, leave a comment. We'd 1281 01:07:54,390 --> 01:07:56,460 Rob Simmelkjaer: love to hear from you. Hope you guys are having 1282 01:07:56,460 --> 01:07:59,400 Rob Simmelkjaer: a great, great holiday season. Enjoy the miles. We'll see 1283 01:07:59,400 --> 01:07:59,760 Rob Simmelkjaer: you next week.