1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of my Heart Radio. 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted. This 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: podcast is one of my race reports. I have done 4 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: several now, including my report about my run across the 5 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: Grand Canyon and back the Rim to Rim to Rim run. 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: I did one on my fifty k race up in Vermont, 7 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: and I think that's it as of now. As of 8 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: today's episode, which is about the Base State Marathon, which 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: is a marathon I have never run. This is my 10 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: first time and it is part of my training for 11 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: an upcoming iron Man. And when I do a race report, 12 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: I want to do it with sore legs, with a 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: sore body, with the experience fresh in my mind, so 14 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: fresh that as I stand here as I do when 15 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: I do the podcast, I don't I don't sit very often. 16 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: It's more uncomfortable than actually running a marathon. Sitting for 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: three hours is truly more painful to me than running 18 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: for three hours, as crazy as that sounds. So today 19 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a race report of that Base 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: State Marathon. It is two days ago, and as I 21 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: have talked about and as you have experienced, that delayed 22 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: onset muscle soreness. It's generally two days after you do 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: something different or hard or both. And so yeah, it's 24 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: a perfect day and still fresh in my mind, still 25 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: freshen my legs. And I have to start by saying, 26 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: I'm surprised, pleasantly surprised at how good I feel. I'm 27 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: fifty two, I've done a lot of races, and I 28 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: feel really good and you can too. And that goes 29 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: to my three goals for all race reports for you. Okay, 30 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: I bring you so many different things on Fitness Disrupted 31 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: for reasons, to bring you different information because there's not 32 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: just one. I can't just bring you the science. Oh 33 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: I could. I could just bring you the science, it's 34 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: really boring and it's not just about the science. I 35 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: could just bring you the motivation, but it's not just 36 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: about that. I could just bring you the nutrition, but 37 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: it's not just about that. It's about all of the above. 38 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: And that's why when I started in this industry decades 39 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: and decades ago, I said, yes, you know, most people 40 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: focus on one thing. They're nutritionist or they're a fitness 41 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: person or psychologists. I said, I think I need, I 42 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: know I need, and I will get experience and education 43 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: in all three of those areas, because it's crucial if 44 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: I'm truly to make a huge difference like I want 45 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: to and to separate myself, I need the fitness, the 46 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: exercise side, the nutrition side, and the motivation side. And 47 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: so that goes to my three goals with a race 48 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: report for you, first and foremost, to educate. I'm gonna 49 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: give you my experiment of one. And that's not to 50 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: say that what I tell you and my methods are 51 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: going to work for you. But I'm gonna give you 52 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: my techniques, and you're gonna learn from my successes and 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: from my mistakes as well. You're gonna say, hey, I'm 54 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: gonna try that, or hey I don't want to try that, 55 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: or hey that might work for me. But we learned 56 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: from people who have been successful, and we emulate them. 57 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: I just talked about that recently on the podcast how 58 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: I lost thirty one pounds and counting for this upcoming 59 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: iron Man and how did I do that? Many different ways, 60 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: but studying those people who have done it and doing 61 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: what they did, not making excuses, but also finding what 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: works for me, and I've done it many times now. 63 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: Number two. Second goal is to empower you to challenge yourself, 64 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: whatever that is. Most of you won't run a marathon 65 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: or do an iron Man, and that is more than okay. 66 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: But we need to get out of our comfort zone. 67 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: I know you see it all the time on Instagram, 68 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: on social media. It is so essential. I have an 69 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: upcoming podcast and interview with Michael Easter who wrote a 70 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: book called The Comfort Crisis, and as I will tell 71 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: him and I don't want to give it away yet, 72 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: it is an awesome book. It is amazing and I'm 73 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: so aligned with it, and a huge part of it 74 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: is that being comfortable is really not good. If that's 75 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: all that we We didn't evolve to sit. We didn't 76 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: evolve to not challenge ourselves. The stress response, the fight 77 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: and flight systems we have are out of whack. Our 78 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: nutrition is out of whack thanks to artificial sweeteners and 79 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So The Comfort Crisis what an 80 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: amazing book and I can't wait to interview him, and 81 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: so yes, my second goal is to empower you to 82 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: get outside your comfort zone, whatever that is. And it 83 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: can't be too far. As I will talk about with Michael, 84 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: it should be super challenging, but you have to be successful. 85 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about self efficacy as I often do. 86 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: One of my favorite topics in psychology situational confidence building 87 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: and building that confidence over time by going outside your 88 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: comfort zone and being successful and yes, failing sometimes, but 89 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: it is not failing. I really don't like the term 90 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: but for lack of a better word to explain it 91 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: right now, missing, coming up short, but then you know what, 92 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: you do it again and then you're successful and finally 93 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: hopefully to entertain you, because yes, oftentimes my mistakes are 94 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: your entertainment. And in my marathon books, in my triathlon books, 95 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: and back when I coached people, I would say that 96 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: I have made all the mistakes, so you don't have 97 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: to now. Now you're gonna have trial and error on 98 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: what works for you and doesn't work for you. But 99 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: they're there are mistakes. There's things you shouldn't do that 100 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: you'll learn and you learn from. You know, fool me once, 101 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: fool me twice. Right, so hopefully entertain you as well. 102 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: All right, quick break when we come back, and then 103 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,799 Speaker 1: get it right into it bas date marathon race report, 104 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: just did it two days ago. Iron Man coming up 105 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: in three weeks. Some of you who do race. Might 106 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: say that's nuts. I'll explain to you why it's not. 107 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: We'll be right back all right, talking about the base 108 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: date marathon. Just ran it two days ago. Legs are 109 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: still sore, but not as sore as I would have expected. 110 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: And by the way, yesterday getting ahead of myself. But 111 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: you know, for most people who have done a marathon 112 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: or two or four, yeah, you know, it's that's the goal. Well, 113 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: that was not the goal for me. It was part 114 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: of my goal. It was a B race, a C 115 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: race as they call it. It's part of my training. Okay, 116 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: So yesterday, instead of taking the day off as most 117 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: people do because they're super sure, I got in an 118 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: hour bike ride indoors, low level because I am still training. 119 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: But when I decided to do this iron Man, that 120 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: has changed. By the way, I was supposed to do 121 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: iron in Brazil thanks to COVID. It got moved and 122 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: then I got moved again. Life happens. Do I complain 123 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: about it? No. I hedged my bets the second time 124 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: it got moved and I said, is there another race? 125 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's a race in in Florida on 126 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: that's the very same day. Now I had to pay 127 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: the race fee, and they had not yet moved the 128 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: iron Man in Brazil, but sure enough I signed up 129 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: for that race, which normally wouldn't be available, but thanks 130 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: to COVID, the Florida one was, and sure enough Brazil 131 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: got moved again, and so now I can do Florida. 132 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: But life happens, Things move. It is never a linear 133 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: route to our goals, and you have to be ready 134 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: to pivot. And so I need smaller races because I 135 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to go out and run twenty miles 136 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: by myself. I do, but if I can avoid doing 137 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: that and add some race day elements into it as well, 138 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: that's hugely beneficial. So I did a handful of half 139 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: marathons in preparation for this iron Man, and then I 140 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: built this marathon in Now, normally I wouldn't have a 141 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: marathon before an iron Man, but I have done a 142 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: lot of races. I have, you know, significant base of training, 143 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: and I did the Ultra a couple of weeks ago 144 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: as well. You go, that's crazy, You're you're gonna be 145 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: too tired. I'm gonna not gonna get super deep into this. 146 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: But what I have found over the years and This 147 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: is really important when we are experiments of one and 148 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: when you're listening to people who have experience, it changes 149 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: over time and things get easier. And what I have 150 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: found personally, and many of my friends who do the 151 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: same thing will say the same, it's not the distance, people, 152 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: it's the speed. So in other words, I'm going to 153 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: talk about how, yeah, most people would run twenty miles 154 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: in preparation for an iron Man or a marathon. I 155 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: did twenty six, but I went slower. I went slower. 156 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: It was a training day. It's a huge part of 157 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: this whole race report. I wanted something fun, another experience. 158 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: I wanted to do it with people to make it 159 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: more enjoyable. And by the way, there's eight stations things 160 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: built in and so yeah, I got a bunch of 161 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: long runs in on my own, but I also found 162 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: this perfect three week out marathon close enough by to 163 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: build into the schedule as well. Right now, I'm not 164 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: even sure I have to go back and count seventy marathons. 165 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it depends if you count the Iron Man. 166 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: So I I have a lot of races behind me, 167 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: and every single one of them, people is meaningful, every 168 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: single one build even more self efficacy, even more confidence. 169 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: Every single one makes me fitter. And I am not 170 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: as proud of what I have done or how fast 171 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: I've done, what I gone. What I am proud of 172 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: is that I am injury free, and a lot of 173 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: I a lot of the people I have raced with 174 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: over the years, can't say as much because they didn't 175 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: have the balance and they didn't put ego aside, and 176 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: some wanted to go fast, and that's fine, and you know, 177 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: I don't want to have knee issues, hip issues. I 178 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: want to be injury free, pain free when I'm a 179 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: hundred doing everything I want to do, and you can 180 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: if you follow the excessive moderation. As crazy as that 181 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: sounds when you talk about doing a marathon and iron Man's, 182 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: but it's true. When you balance and you do the 183 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: strength training and the swimming and the biking and the 184 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: running and you mix it up and you go slow 185 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: when you have to. They sound in't significant. It is 186 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: absolutely not. It's essential, alright. So one thing I want 187 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: to talk about for I jump into the specifics of 188 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: this race was, you know, there's those articles that you've 189 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: read and you may ask if you're someone who competes. 190 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: How frequently can you do a marathon races? There is 191 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: absolutely no formula, and I've read over the years. You 192 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: know it's a week for every mile. So other words 193 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: like you gotta take twenty six weeks off after doing 194 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: a marathon before you do another garbage. This is one thing. 195 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: They absolutely can't give you. A heart and fast number 196 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: four not even close. It's totally contingent on so many 197 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: different things. Your fitness level, your biomechanics, your genetics, you 198 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: know you're injury everything. And I always throw in that, yes, 199 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: I'm an experiment of one. I was also someone who 200 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: had shin splints, couldn't run my entire childhood, ankle issues, everything. 201 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: But when I got into the business, figured it out, 202 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: did what I had to do, went slowly, built up slowly. 203 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: My fastest marathon to day won a small marathon two 204 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: weeks after doing an iron Man. Now, going into that marathon, 205 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I said, this is either probably 206 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: gonna go really well or it's not well. It went 207 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: really well. So if I had listened to someone say 208 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: you're crazy doing a marathon two weeks after an iron Man, 209 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: not do you know it was up in the air, 210 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: what would happen, what my body would do, what my 211 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: body would give me. But those of you who have 212 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: race frequently, who know your body, that's what we focus on. 213 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: What is my body going to give me that day? 214 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: And you listen to your body, all right, So the 215 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: whole how often can you do something? There's too many factors, 216 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: So don't listen to the quote unquote experts. Know your 217 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: body and experiment and be smart. That's that's where I'll 218 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: leave it, all right. So as I said, this is 219 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: a training day, as crazy as that sounds, and I know, 220 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: but you can also build up from the kid on 221 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: the bench. If I had listened to people and the 222 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: coaches back then, I wouldn't have scratch the surface of 223 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: what I could accomplish and how I could feel and 224 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: how healthy I could be. And I'm gonna get into 225 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: in a second a guy I met. And so when 226 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: you go, you know, anyone who thinks they've done a lot, 227 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: there's always so many people who have done more and 228 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: gone faster. So I'm not not an outlier of sorts. 229 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: There are many people, and you can achieve so much 230 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: more then you think you can. There's a huge part 231 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: of fitness disrupted, and a huge part of what I 232 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: do is showing that to you, and part of that 233 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: is my experiment of one. All right, so training day 234 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: had to go slowly, had to constantly remind myself, but 235 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: not that constantly because I've done this enough times. All right, 236 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: So you have to leave ego aside as people are 237 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: going past you. All right. Let me get right into 238 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: it though. So this was challenging first and foremost, it's 239 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: family for me. Now this is part of my job, racing, 240 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: writing books, all this fitness stuff. Do I have to 241 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: do it? No? But I want to do it. And 242 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: it's part of my ability to show those of you 243 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: who care that I'm not just someone talking about it 244 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: or someone who has just studied it, but I'm doing it. 245 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: So all the information, all the ad ice I give you, 246 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: I put into practice myself, every single piece fast. Majority 247 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: of fitness people can't say that. Okay, they're they're either 248 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: the the person who does it, but you know if 249 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: you actually saw what they did behind closed doors, not 250 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: necessarily what they're telling you, or they are studying it, 251 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: but I've never really done it. I want to bring 252 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: you a mix of the two because that is the 253 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: best information I have found and those are the people 254 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: I followed, and there's not many, alright. So family first though, 255 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: so kids hockey. You know, I had to go down 256 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: to Jersey and I don't want to give in get into, 257 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: you know, the specifics of the logistics, but it was crazy. 258 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: So I'm down in Jersey for hockey tournament Friday night, 259 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: and then I was going to trade off so I 260 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: could see my kid play hockey and get into that. 261 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: Then trade off jumping the car, drive up to Connecticut, 262 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: jump on the train because that's how it had happened. 263 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: Literally like trains in Automo shields planes trains and automobiles, 264 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: but no planes for this one, and figure out crazy 265 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: logistics so I could be with the family and then 266 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: pull this off. And so logistics and I love that 267 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: part and I don't even plan everything out. Literally got 268 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: off the train. I knew, you know that a hotel, 269 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: but I wasn't sure if I was going to take 270 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: another train or jump in uber. That's part of the fun, 271 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: the unknown and building that confidence because a huge part 272 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: of this people is to travel the unknown and it 273 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: all coming together. And so family first, crazy, no excuses, 274 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: driving three hours just to get back to Connecticut, getting 275 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: on the train instead of driving. I could have driven first, 276 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: I couldn't. Again life got in the way, and then 277 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: it changed. Things change. But rather than spend three hours 278 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: in the car and spend it in a on the train, 279 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: getting work done, reading in the book for the interview 280 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: with Michael Easter on the Comfort Crisis, and so packed 281 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: everything for Jersey and then everything for the race before. 282 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: Controlled what I could clothing, the nutrition, and the nutrition 283 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: as I put on Instagram, I bring oatmeal and I 284 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: bring a cargo force powder. I control what I can 285 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: because I'm gonna be in a hotel and I don't 286 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: know what I can get. Now this world has changed. 287 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: When I started doing this, whatever hotel you were in, 288 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: that was the food you were going to get. There 289 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: was no Uber Eats, there was no door dash. I 290 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: remember doing iron Man Texas years ago and ending up 291 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: at this hotel and asking what restaurants delivered to the hotel, 292 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: and the front desk person said, of course all of them. 293 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 1: You got Uber Eats. So that's different. But who knows 294 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: who knows what's available. So you control as much as 295 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: you can, and so I bring a baggy filled with 296 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: so I get pulled out of airport lines all the time, 297 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: every time, oatmeal a carbo powder as well. Huge part 298 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: of my carving up for this race. And again the travel, 299 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: the things Kennon will go wrong with all of these things. 300 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: It's part of the process. The race is just a 301 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: part of all of it. But it's the planning, it's 302 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: the travel, it's dealing with you know, the family and 303 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: the friends and the job and figuring it out. I've 304 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: done it hundreds and hundreds of times now all around 305 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: the world. All right, let's take a final break and 306 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: when we get back and get right into the specifics 307 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: now of the race, starting with the night before, then 308 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: the race itself and just how it's about you, not 309 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: about the time, not about the other people. You executing 310 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: your plan and not competing, comparing yourselves to others because 311 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: training is messy, so that you can have your performance 312 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: on race day. Alright, final raak, We'll be right back. Alright, 313 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: So talking about the Base State Marathon. A race report. 314 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: Did it two days ago, Still sore, still feeling good, 315 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: though beating up a little bit. Don't get me wrong, 316 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: you know I have the last this is my last 317 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 1: hard week of training. I'm gonna do a two week 318 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: taper for those of you who don't know. Usually it's 319 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: three to four weeks for these big races for many people. 320 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: But you decrease your training three to four weeks out 321 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: and then each week you do a little bit less 322 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: and a little bit less so that you are fresh 323 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 1: for a race day. Many people screwed up and they 324 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: do too much and they try to cram training in, 325 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: and you know what, it's it's an experiment of one 326 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: and the more you do, the more you figure out, 327 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: and maybe the shorter the taper can be. But for me, 328 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a two week taper, so one more 329 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: big week of training. But that goes to this race too. 330 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: By the way, when I talk about being a training day, 331 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: I did not taper down for the race. Most people 332 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: do it for the marathon, right, So four weeks out 333 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: from this marathon, they would have done less and less 334 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: and less so they were fresh for race day. Didn't 335 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: do it because part of my training, so I can't 336 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: expect my body to go as fast as I wanted to, 337 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: and I have to be okay with that, and I 338 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: am because I'm not running against those people there that day. 339 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm actually using them to motivate me to be out 340 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: there on this gorgeous day. It ended up being perfect again, 341 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: just like the Vermont Race. No excuses with weather. Amazing 342 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: October northeast, fifty degrees at the start, little chili, but 343 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: that's what you want. And so as I talked about packing, 344 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: before you bring everything, you look at the weather just 345 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: for ideas about what I'm gonna need as far as packing. 346 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: But I don't care if it rains. I don't care 347 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: if it's hot or cold. I am prepared and everyone 348 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: that day will be dealing with the same thing. So 349 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: I never am concerned complaining about the weather. I'm prepared 350 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: for it and I've trained in it alright. But getting 351 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: it all on one backpack that can be challenging. But 352 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: I also love that. And not only do I have 353 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: the clothing, but I have that nutrition. As I talked about, 354 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: I could have brought a bigger bag, but no need alright. 355 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: So trip went awesome. Jersey hockey, watched my son play hockey, 356 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: jumped in the car, drove up to Connecticut, jumped on amtrack, 357 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: got to Boston, jumped into Uber, got to the hotel, 358 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: asked the front desk best Italian restaurants that delivered gave 359 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: me a couple of menus, and again Uber Eats was 360 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: an option, and I found it really simple. I think 361 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: it was bar two cheese. Usually don't throw it, you know, 362 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: names brands, but hey, it was good. I got, you know, 363 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: spaghetti and meatballs and bread. Good to go, perfect hotel 364 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: room by the way, from one Marriott to the next, 365 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: hockey to you know this race. But let me say 366 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: this to as I talk about like topic for another day. 367 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: But I spend the least amount of time away from 368 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: home even with these races. Even when I go to 369 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: places like New Zealand and China and South Korea, people 370 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: will say, well, you're gonna stay for ten fourteen days. 371 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: Now they stay just long enough to race get a 372 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: sense of where I am. Not be ridiculously stupid about 373 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: in and out, but I'm going to travel to a 374 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: lot of places and have over the decades, and I 375 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 1: family comes first part of my job. But I'm out 376 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: as soon as I can. I'll talk about that at 377 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: the end of this, all right, So get to the hotel, 378 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: order that spaghetti and meatballs, bread boom comes awesome, carve up. 379 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: Now I also have that powder I talked about, and 380 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: it's about that's not about. It's two collies for two 381 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: scoops straight cards. Now, I used to have this in drinks. 382 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: They used to have it in a pre made drink 383 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: years ago. Secret to my success. Shipped it all over 384 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 1: the world in those bottles. When I shipped it to China, 385 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: they got confiscated. That was a lesson learned, and I 386 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,400 Speaker 1: had no race nutrition or pre race nutrition. And now 387 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: it's in a powder form. They don't make it in 388 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: the drink form, which is fine, actually almost easier. It's 389 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: it is easier. So I fill up a water bottle 390 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: with six colories worth. It's a little thick, but I 391 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: sip on that. So I had my dinner. Then I 392 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: put that water bottle by my bed because I tend 393 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: to wake up in the middle of the night. As 394 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: I've talked about, if I'm home, I go downstairs and 395 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: raid the cookie cabinet, but don't and don't want to 396 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: have that option in the hotel room, and I want 397 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: to carve up as much as possible, So in the 398 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: middle of the night I wake up a couple of 399 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: times boom, I take some big drinks off of that 400 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: carbo Force water bottle, and now I've got even more 401 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: carbs in my body because that's our energy people, our 402 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: preferred energy source. I'm gonna get into the whole fact 403 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: thing either going to leave it at that, all right. 404 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: The other essential thing for me, for all of you, 405 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: is I controlled everything I could tonight before what I 406 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: was gonna wear. The coffee ready to go in the 407 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,239 Speaker 1: coffee maker, water in the coffee maker, my oatmeal in 408 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 1: the cup. I bring with me water ready to go 409 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: for that. Everything that I needed was out and ready 410 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: to go. Everything. I'm not going to forget anything, and 411 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: I'm making it as easy as possible. So when I 412 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: wake up at five in the morning, I'm good to go. 413 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: All right, woke up, I like to shower coffee oatmeal. 414 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: It's about four dred calories of oatmeal. I don't want 415 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: much in my stomach, and I will drink some more 416 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: of that carbo force a couple hundred more calories. I'm 417 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: good to go. I wanted to be as plain as possible, 418 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: plain oatmeal and a little bit of protein powder mixed 419 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: in as well, and that carbo force I don't want 420 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: to want in my g I tracked when I'm doing 421 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: a race, okay, and this is something you experiment with. 422 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: The hardest book I've written was my sports nutrition books 423 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: Swim by Runny, because there is so much individuality to 424 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: all of this, but carbs, a car protein, fats, those 425 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 1: all have purposes and uses, and so that's what we 426 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: need to know, all right, First mistake, I have three stakes. 427 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: Always gonna tell you my mistakes. So five forty five, 428 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: get up, good to go. At six fifteen, I weighed out, 429 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: I'm only about twelve minutes from the race start, which 430 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: is at University of Lowell, Massachusetts, really close book the 431 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: hotel for that reason, and I thought, I'm gonna get 432 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: uber and twelve minutes, let's make it fifteen. Race starts 433 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: at eight. I'm gonna get there around seven and have 434 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: an hour to pick up my BIB number, which is 435 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: rare that you can pick it up at a race 436 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: the morning of which is awesome. Small race, and give 437 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: myself plenty of time, which was good because I'm in Lowell, 438 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: Massachusetts at five in the morning when I paying Uber, 439 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: searching for driver, searching for driver, searching for a driver, 440 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: five minutes later, searching for driver. Now plan B. Go 441 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: to the front desk, call a taxi. How long is 442 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: that going to take? Long story short. Finally, Mark, my 443 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: Uber driver picks up and and I'm good to go. 444 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: But that was a mistake. Luckily I gave myself enough time, 445 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: which is so cliche, But it's not a matter of if, 446 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: but when. Things will go wrong iron Man triathlons, bikes, 447 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: bike tires exploding, forget things, so many things. Not a 448 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: matter of if, but when. So you build that in 449 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: the first mistake, assuming that I could get an Uber 450 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: driver it right away. But it was fine. I said. 451 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: His name was Mark. One of the coolest things for 452 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: me about traveling, whether it's two places like South Korea 453 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: with you know, iron Man people there and you meet 454 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: the coolest people not only racing but along the way. 455 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: And Mark, my Uber driver from Lowell. What a perfect 456 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: start to today, given me the history of the race 457 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: and the history of Lowell, and how great the the 458 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: marathon was for the community. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Then I 459 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: get to the race event site, University of Lowell. Smartest 460 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: place for a race to have the bib number pick 461 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: up inside the arena where they have the hockey and basketball. 462 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: Huge place, warm, not that it was that cold. Out 463 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: and lots of bathrooms, which anyone who's race knows is 464 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: the most crucial thing before a long endurance event. And 465 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: I met a guy named Tom and he was seventy 466 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: nine and we talked and talked. He was a streaker, 467 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know what a streaker is, 468 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: someone who has run every day. And he there's different 469 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: rules for streaking. And it's not the streaking you know, 470 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: naked running. No, this is running every day. And he said, 471 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: you know some people have to have a minimum of 472 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: a mile, but a mile is enough. No, he said 473 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: he was three miles had to be a minimum of 474 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 1: three and he had run minimum of three miles a 475 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: day every day for well over fifteen years. He had 476 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: been hit by a car and that had slowed him down, 477 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: but had it not crazy? And he said that he 478 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: also traveled, was trying to do a marathon in every 479 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: state before he got hit. And he said, if he 480 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: ran a marathon and knew that he was gonna be 481 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: traveling and unable to run because he'd be on a 482 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: plane or in cars and things like that, he would 483 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: set his alarm clock for twelve oh one am and 484 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: get up and run his three miles. Now many of 485 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: you will say that's crazy, little little nutty for me, 486 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: even though I'm sure many people will think of what 487 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: I do as nutty. It's all relative topic for another 488 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: day as well. But he had run a three forty 489 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: at the Boston Marathon at age seventy two, the year 490 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: of the bombing, seventy two, three forty shocking to me. 491 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my days off. I'm gonna cross train. 492 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: But amazing, an amazing experience. What a pleasure to meet 493 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: this guy and talk shop. All right, okay, race itself, 494 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: perfect weather, as I said, small. Coolest thing about these 495 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: smaller races is picked up my bib number morning of 496 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: unheard of. Usually it's a day before. I am a 497 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: thousand yards from the race start, so I could stay 498 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: in that arena until walk out. I'm right there for 499 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: the eight o'clock start. And as I said about the bathrooms, 500 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: and this sounds so like again insignificant. Not only are 501 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: their bathrooms inside, but I went to one side of 502 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: the arena and there was a line not really long, 503 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: but a line for you know, the stalls in the 504 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: your whatever, the line for the bathroom. I thought, there's 505 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: gotta be bathrooms on the other side too, and this 506 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: was on the right side, and most people go right. 507 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: I went and left, sure enough, same arena literally two 508 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: minutes away, maybe a minute walking wide open bathroom pretty much. 509 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: And then when you walked outside, that's where they have 510 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: the porta potties, the hundred you know, line of porta potties, 511 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: hundred people in line ten minutes before the race, if 512 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: they just walked inside that arena, asked someone. I asked 513 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: people who look like they've done it before, and they 514 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: will tell you. So. Just a small yet such important 515 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: lesson that don't just follow the crowd. There's oftentimes solutions 516 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: right around the corner, right around the corner, and then 517 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: maybe a bathroom, which is so helpful. Um gun goes off. 518 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: I'm right with the three forty. There's pace groups, and 519 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: I don't care how fast I go people, this is 520 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: a training day. Truthfully. My goal is to keep my 521 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: heart rate low, to go slowly, because, as I said, 522 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: I have an iron Man in three weeks. If I 523 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: go too fast, I'm gonna pay on race day. And 524 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: I've watched this so many people when I did the 525 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: local races. Do the local races as training days. The 526 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: younger guys especially go hard every race because of ego, 527 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: and then when race day comes they don't have the 528 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: performance they want. And what do they often do they 529 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,959 Speaker 1: blame something else because they went too hard, because they 530 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: left their best race in training things to ego. And 531 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: this is a huge lesson for life. This is a 532 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: huge lesson for getting better at anything. It has to 533 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: be messy and you have to not be perfect, and 534 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: you have to go slower to go faster to get better. 535 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: And that doesn't just apply to fitness, place to everything. 536 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: You've gotta make mistakes, you've got to try things that 537 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: are challenging, you have to screw up. And so for 538 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: this race, I just went slowly. I did a walk 539 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: break every mile and every aid station ten to thirty seconds. 540 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: Now I will do this and have done it. As 541 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: I've talked about in the podcast, why you should run 542 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: walk even when I go fast. But this is about 543 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: getting the training in and not beating up my legs 544 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: going the distance, but going slowly enough and so walk 545 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: breaks every mile, which is great. I don't run twenty 546 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: six miles. I run one mile six times. And when 547 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: you chunk at the way, anything is possible. K fifty miles. 548 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: You don't earn fifty miles actually just in the moment, 549 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: and so probably stopped six times for porta potty stops 550 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: as well. Mistake number two. I go into a porter 551 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: potty and there's a shelf that I've never really seen, 552 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: kind of in a porter potty, and I'm carrying my 553 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: phone with music, and I put the phone up on 554 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: that shelf and I looked down for one second to 555 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: hear a loud thump, and I go, oh, my gosh. 556 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: And I look down and my phone is teetering on 557 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: the side of the toilet. Had that fallen in? No 558 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: uber home, no digital train ticket on amtrack. I haven't 559 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: been that frightened in a very long time. Don't put 560 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: your phone up high in a porter potty. Second lesson 561 00:32:54,080 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: learn simple one. Thank goodness, Thank goodness, it didn't go 562 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 1: where could have? All right, So there you go. Second 563 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: lesson learned. These are small lessons, but really crucial ones. 564 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: People again learned from my mistakes. Uh. The entire time 565 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm running, I'm doing body checks, how do I feel 566 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: and when I feel good? Which I did little eggs 567 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: and pains and things got tight, but I felt good 568 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: and then you appreciate that, and you internalize that, and 569 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: you say you are grateful, and every mile that you 570 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: progress in the race, you're grateful. And here is what 571 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: I haven't read in my notes for this podcast. Endurance 572 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: racing teaches you one of the greatest lessons that no 573 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: matter how maybe bad you feel in the moment, if 574 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: you're open to the possibility that you can feel better 575 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: hours later, it almost always happens. So you stay in 576 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: the moment, you take your focus off of that pain. 577 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: And the most incredible lesson you learn is because it's 578 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: counterintuitive people, you go, how can I possibly I have 579 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: more to go if I have a really tight hamstring 580 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: at mile eight? It can only get worse? Right, Absolutely not, 581 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: And that takes so much training and so much experience. 582 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: And this is why you get outside your comfort zone. 583 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: And it goes for everything emotional, physical. The way you 584 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: feel in that moment, it's not how you are going 585 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 1: to feel later, even when there's so much ahead of 586 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: you that you think can only make it worse. But 587 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: you have to be open to that possibility. And I 588 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: like to say inevitability. And one of my mantras in 589 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: my head that I have used for decades is As 590 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: the race gets longer, I get stronger. I repeat it 591 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: over and over, swim, bike and run for triathlons. As 592 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,720 Speaker 1: the race gets longer, I get stronger, and I usually 593 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: wait until the run. It's the final thing, and I'm 594 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: starting to get tired. Things are starting to go wrong, 595 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: but I know that those things that are going wrong 596 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 1: will be right, and something else will go wrong, and 597 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: it will it will constantly move. In other words, you 598 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 1: have that hamstring pain goes away of a sudden, you're 599 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: Achilles starts to hurt, and you go okay. Focus Achilles 600 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,959 Speaker 1: goes away, and you get a little cramp, abdominal crap 601 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: goes away, keep moving forward, and you focus on being 602 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 1: in the moment, all right. Third mistake. I didn't actually 603 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: bring gaels. Now I did the carbon up and everything, 604 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: but I generally have three or four gels different ways 605 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: I take them in. I didn't bring them, and I 606 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,279 Speaker 1: assumed what you never do, that I could him on 607 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: the course. I ended up being able to do that. 608 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: So they had one aide station that was giving out jails. 609 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: Was eight of a two lap course, so that was okay. 610 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: But before I even got there, I saw a guy 611 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: just randomly handing out a gel, gave one to a 612 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: person along the way. I wasn't sure if it was 613 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: a friend or not, but as I was running by, 614 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: I said, you have another reach into his pockety through 615 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 1: onto me and then I hit that aid station, I 616 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: grabbed a couple more mistake, and that was actually just 617 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: I packed a lot and I just forgot. So not 618 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,959 Speaker 1: good because if I fell behind with that, that's a problem. 619 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: But I drank gatorade or whatever the drink was at 620 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: every aide station minimum of two. Now I'm not gonna 621 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: get into the whole gatorade thing, people, but fluids, electrolytes, carbohydrates, energy, fluids, 622 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,720 Speaker 1: electrolytes really important, all right, But that was a third mistake, Okay, 623 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: forgot the jails luckily figured it out. I would have 624 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,800 Speaker 1: just had to take in way more carbohydrate through the liquid, 625 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: and I found that that doesn't generally do it for me. 626 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: I can't take in enough that way, and you're gonna 627 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,800 Speaker 1: oftentimes have g I stress. All right, let's start wrapping 628 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: this up. So it was amazed at how good I felt, 629 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,439 Speaker 1: even though this was a fast group people. Holy cow, 630 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: I didn't say that when I looked out. When I 631 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 1: was talking to Tom seventy nine year old looking at 632 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 1: the people walking and picking up their bib numbers and 633 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 1: milling about, I said to him, this is the fittest 634 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 1: group I have seen and a marathon, especially as smaller 635 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 1: marathon like this like there was. It was just super fit. 636 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: And a lot of these people are there to qualify 637 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: for Boston, to use it as as that race. And 638 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 1: so when I was doing my walk breaks and everything, 639 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: people are passing me by. But it's okay. I don't care. 640 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: It's not my goal race. And if I were to 641 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,319 Speaker 1: run as hard as I could and try to run 642 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:55,320 Speaker 1: my fastest, best marathon that day, that Iron Man is done, 643 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: you know, stupid enough for most people to schedule a 644 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: marathon in Now I know, I actually take it back. 645 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: I don't know that it's it's going to work out. 646 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: I have a good feeling and my past history and 647 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 1: my training, and it's always a chance, and I'm always experimenting. 648 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: But I do know that if I went too fast, 649 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,919 Speaker 1: that's no good alright. So felt good, felt good enough, 650 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,359 Speaker 1: and was always just checking my heart rate. Don't care 651 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: how fast I was going. It was always about keeping 652 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: the heart rate under one thirty, and I averaged the 653 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: entire marathon, so goal achieved. And the last two miles though, 654 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: I saw that, hey, I got a chance of, like, 655 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:40,440 Speaker 1: you know, making it right around with a handful of 656 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 1: miles to go. So I said, I'm gonna pick it 657 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,360 Speaker 1: up a tiny bit. And I was shocked that I 658 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: had that, but also not shocked because I had gone conservatively, 659 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: had put in a lot of training, but again I 660 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 1: didn't taper down. So yeah, I picked it up for 661 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 1: the last two miles and they ran at which, you know, 662 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 1: some is amazing for others, is slow for me, was 663 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: perfect for race day for my goals. That was perfect, 664 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 1: all right and amazing. Now let me throw in a 665 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: fourth mistake. Finished the race felt great, you know, like's 666 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: got a tiny bit tired about mile eighteen, but felt 667 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: better at I was open to that, as I said, 668 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 1: final mistake, and I cut it super close with the 669 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 1: hotel and uh late check out and and my Amtrak 670 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,320 Speaker 1: train home. I'm not gonna bore you with all the tails, 671 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: but suffice it to say that Uber couldn't get to 672 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 1: me because of all the road closures. So Uber was 673 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: my major issue. Not a big deal. Race is over. 674 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: I don't care. And that's another thing. You let the 675 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: stuff go. I have never missed a flight in my life, 676 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: even the amount of times I've traveled. I've traveled like 677 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 1: crazy for work and racing. I missed my train just 678 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 1: barely by seconds, and I did a whole host of 679 00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,720 Speaker 1: things to try to make it. But when I finally 680 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: got in and finally got an uber which was crazy, 681 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 1: get it to run and go to a bunch of 682 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 1: different spots just to finally get it. But I didn't stress. 683 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, There'll be another train behind it. 684 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,319 Speaker 1: And in the time I had to kill in About 685 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 1: an hour after I missed the train, I went out 686 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: and I refueled. This is where I'm gonna leave you. 687 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: It's the little things people that go so far. I've 688 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: earned this for myself and with my clients over the years. 689 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,040 Speaker 1: So walking around Boston trying to find food Sunday, not 690 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 1: a lot open in that business e district. It's Taco Bell, 691 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 1: though there's a lot of fast food McDonald's. But I 692 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,479 Speaker 1: found some healthy look to be, you know, a chain 693 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: salad type place, and got an enormous salad, not what 694 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 1: I was craving. But it's the little things that go 695 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,759 Speaker 1: so far. I rehydrated, I ate this enormous salad. I 696 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,120 Speaker 1: had a whole another bottle of carbo force, putting more 697 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,799 Speaker 1: carbs back into my body. Got on the train, went 698 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 1: to a bar car. They had wine and beer. I 699 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 1: haven't had a lot. I'm not all or nothing. I've 700 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: had some. But dropping the weight, as I said, and 701 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:12,440 Speaker 1: how I've lost pounds for the race and counting. I 702 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: cut back on my red wine and cut it out, 703 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,839 Speaker 1: but cut way back. But work hard, play hard. Life 704 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: is short. But not in the train ride. I needed 705 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,600 Speaker 1: to refuel, needed to give my body what it needed 706 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 1: to rest, to stretch, to move around, and to replace 707 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,000 Speaker 1: because I got a couple more weeks of training and 708 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,400 Speaker 1: a big race coming up. So yeah, I was craving 709 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,360 Speaker 1: fat and sugar. And after the race, my a race, 710 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: the iron Man, all you whatever. I darn't please, but 711 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: not yet delayed gratification. Huge salad didn't even have the 712 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 1: dressing I wanted. Really bummed, wasn't hugely satisfied, but it was. 713 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,439 Speaker 1: You know why it was because I know how good 714 00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 1: it was for me and for my goals, And it's 715 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,080 Speaker 1: all those little things that my most successful clients when 716 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,120 Speaker 1: I was a trainer, they did all these things too, 717 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 1: and it seems insignificant. And it's a control thing on 718 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: one hand, so you know the psychological, but it's also 719 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:21,640 Speaker 1: an incredibly physiological obviously. I guess what incredible train ride home, 720 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: read that book prepared for that interview, reading all about 721 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:29,960 Speaker 1: getting outside your comfort zone. And I had wine that 722 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,280 Speaker 1: night when I got home, and then the legs felt 723 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,200 Speaker 1: good enough, and hour long bike the next day, and 724 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: so there you have it. Takeaways from this whatever you want, obviously, 725 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: it's whatever resonates with you and whatever questions you had, 726 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 1: and whatever methods and things you want to implement. But 727 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,880 Speaker 1: this applies to everyone, regardless of if you compete in anything. 728 00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:00,879 Speaker 1: It's setting goals, it's challenging yourself. It's knowing that you're 729 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,640 Speaker 1: gonna have all these excuses thrown in your way. Relatively, 730 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,799 Speaker 1: you can ah, this came up. I can't do it 731 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 1: because there's always a way around it. There's always another bathroom, 732 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,759 Speaker 1: there's always gotta look, getta ask, gotta be open, and 733 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 1: that in bold red font take away that I said, 734 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 1: it's it's just crucial and it's a huge part of 735 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,879 Speaker 1: my entire philosophy. I have to be open to no 736 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: matter how you feel at the moment, be in the moment, 737 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,200 Speaker 1: use all the psychological tools that I talked about in 738 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:42,719 Speaker 1: the other podcast, self talk things like that to get 739 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,279 Speaker 1: through those moments and know that you can not only 740 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:50,400 Speaker 1: feel better but incredible when you don't think you have 741 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,120 Speaker 1: a shot because there's more ahead of you and it's 742 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,600 Speaker 1: supposed to fatigue you and make it worse. Nope, all right, 743 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,919 Speaker 1: and get excited by the way for that podcast with 744 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:10,480 Speaker 1: Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Zone. It's all about 745 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: challenge and how that's what we were born to do 746 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,759 Speaker 1: and that's why when you actually study it and he's 747 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: going to bring the science, gosh, I love this stuff. 748 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,680 Speaker 1: And be happier. You're not happy, you're sitting on the couch. 749 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: You're not happier indulging all the time. And it's not 750 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:36,360 Speaker 1: about deprivation and it's not about suffering all the time. 751 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: It's about choosing to suffer though, because there is incredible 752 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,600 Speaker 1: confidence and happiness that comes from that. Thank you for listening. 753 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: If you haven't yet followed the show, please do so 754 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,920 Speaker 1: you can comment rate it. That's always greatly appreciate it again. 755 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,160 Speaker 1: If you want to reach out, go to Fitness disrupted 756 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,080 Speaker 1: dot com. You can go to Tommy fit is Instagram 757 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,879 Speaker 1: and Twitter, comments, questions, love to hear from you, Tom 758 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: h Fit, Instagram and Twitter Fitness disrupted dot com. The 759 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: newest book is The Micro Workout Plan. If you're looking 760 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: for truly those short workouts and all the signs behind 761 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,200 Speaker 1: the cardio and everything I talked about here what I 762 00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,160 Speaker 1: have done for years, Why at fifty two I can 763 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 1: do all of these things. It's the Micro Workout Plan. People. 764 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 1: I do everything that I talked to you about because 765 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,239 Speaker 1: I want you to have what I have, which is 766 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,200 Speaker 1: the ability to feel good all the time and to 767 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,160 Speaker 1: not deprive yourself and to live your longest, happiest, healthiest life. 768 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: Because we control three things. How much we move, what 769 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 1: we put into our mouths, in our attitudes. That's awesome. 770 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:54,800 Speaker 1: I'm Tom Holland. This is Fitness Disrupted, Believing yourself. Fitness 771 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,000 Speaker 1: Disrupted is a production of I Heart Radio. For more 772 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,640 Speaker 1: podcasts from my heart Radio the to the I heart 773 00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,120 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 774 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:04,920 Speaker 1: favorite shows.