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It'd Take Me At Least A Month! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: It'd take me at least a month. It's One More Thing.
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
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  Speaker 2: One More Thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're welcoming a special guest to the Armstrong and Getty
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  Speaker 1: One More Thing podcast today. It's radio salesman extraordinaire Darren. Darren,
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  Speaker 1: who's here. I have been in the radio business for
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  Speaker 1: 43 years. And you are definitely in the top couple
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  Speaker 1: salespeople I've ever known.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, at this business.
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  Speaker 4: How kind of you to say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: And we don't hate you, so that's why. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there's that, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Hate is never a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, we salute you for both professional and personal.
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  Speaker 4: And I have to say that I don't hate you
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  Speaker 4: guys either.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't this a love fest?
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  Speaker 3: I try not to be hateable, but I often fail. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason we have Darren, Darren's well known around
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  Speaker 1: the radio station as a guy who is athletic and pretentious.
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  Speaker 1: participates in triathlons, which I know just barely anything about.
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  Speaker 1: But the biggest triathlon you told me in North America
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  Speaker 1: is happening in Sacramento this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: That is correct.
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  Speaker 1: You're participating. Tell us what the events are for this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So a triathlon is an event where it includes swimming, biking,
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  Speaker 4: and running in that order. And this is what they
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  Speaker 4: call an Ironman. So Iron Man originated in Hawaii in
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  Speaker 4: 1978 and is now a big thing across the entire world.
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  Speaker 4: Iron Man is the largest event company in the world,
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  Speaker 4: which is sort of a crazy stat.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't know that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty nuts. There's, you know, on this very weekend,
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  Speaker 4: there's probably, I don't know, six different Iron Mans going
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  Speaker 4: on on different continents and different things. But this one
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  Speaker 4: here in California is the largest in North America and
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  Speaker 4: I think the second largest in the world behind Barcelona.
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  Speaker 4: So there'll be about 3,500 athletes out there swimming 2.4 miles,
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  Speaker 4: then getting on their bike and cycling for 112 miles
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  Speaker 4: and topping that off and finishing it off with a
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  Speaker 4: 26.2 mile marathon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, often known as a marathon. So in that order,
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  Speaker 1: it's swim, bike, race.
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  Speaker 3: You anticipated my first question because that was going to
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  Speaker 3: be in what order is it? Because I was really
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  Speaker 3: hoping to hear it was the bike riding last because
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  Speaker 3: at least you can coast a little bit. But no,
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  Speaker 3: the death trudge of the marathon is the last part.
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  Speaker 4: And it can be a death march for a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people.
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  Speaker 1: Like right now, I've got scheduled for my triathlon the
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  Speaker 1: drive donut nap that I'm going to do this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And then I asked you yesterday because I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: How long does it take to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it varies.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us have never done. I ran one marathon once.
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  Speaker 1: It almost killed me. Right. But most of us have
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  Speaker 1: never ridden a bike 112 miles, run a marathon. And
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  Speaker 1: then I have no concept of the swimming. That's the
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  Speaker 1: one I'm most at sea about. The other two, I
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  Speaker 1: have a really good idea how hard that would be.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long way to swim.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And swimming is probably the most difficult for most people
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  Speaker 4: just because.
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  Speaker 1: That's the hardest one. Why wouldn't I guess that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, unless you. grow up a swimmer, we have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people that what we call adult onset
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  Speaker 4: swimmers that, you know, aren't that, aren't that great at it. But, um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's, it's pretty easy to train yourself to
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  Speaker 4: become a decent cyclist and a decent runner just by putting,
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  Speaker 4: putting the miles in and putting the hours in. But
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  Speaker 4: swimming is so technique oriented that if you don't start
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  Speaker 4: as a kid, it's, it's very difficult. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't have the technique, it probably, it
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  Speaker 1: just takes you so long to go that cause you're
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  Speaker 1: not propelling yourself very fast. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So, Yeah, to get back to your original question, it's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for the best in the world, like the pros,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that are, I think the world record, it's like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, seven and a half hours or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, for the best people, you got to be at
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  Speaker 1: it for seven and a half hours. That's a long
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  Speaker 1: time to keep your heart rate at that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And, you know, the thing about the Ironman is
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  Speaker 4: it's an aerobic event, right? So, you know, the shorter
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  Speaker 4: the race, the harder the intensity. So this is just,
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  Speaker 4: it's a fitness build that, you know, takes months and
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  Speaker 4: years to train for. Um, to get to that level.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, once you're out there, you're not like
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  Speaker 4: redlining the whole time, um, which a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: think that might be the case, but, um, for the
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  Speaker 4: average age grouper, you know, you could classify it as
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  Speaker 4: like a computer. So you have in the age group categories,
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  Speaker 4: you have like people that are competing and people that
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  Speaker 4: are completing, you have 17 hours to complete the event.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And you have a lot of people out there that
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  Speaker 4: are bucket listers, you know, they want to go out,
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  Speaker 4: they want to do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it was for me when I ran a marathon,
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  Speaker 1: I was a completer. I just wanted to run a marathon.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And then the computers, you know, depending on your age
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  Speaker 4: group and gender and all that kind of stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: anywhere from shoot eight and a half hours.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as gender. So please don't mention it.
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  Speaker 3: Social construct.
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  Speaker 4: We do not have a binary category yet or non-binary
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  Speaker 4: or however you say it category. Thank God in triathlon. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so anywhere from eight and a half to
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  Speaker 4: 10 and a half hours, depending on age.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll take you roughly how long?
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping to be in that nine to nine and
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  Speaker 4: a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: That's a long time. Is that like personal best-ish?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be.
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  Speaker 4: My personal best is a 940. This is a pretty
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  Speaker 4: fast race. It's mostly downriver swim. It isn't a downriver swim.
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  Speaker 4: The bike is pretty flat and the run is pretty flat.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sorry, the swim is first? Correct, swim, bike, run. Okay, see,
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  Speaker 3: that would be good for me because I would drown.
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  Speaker 3: And then I.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't have to do the other two things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're all good. And you wouldn't drown sweaty because
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  Speaker 1: you're in the water.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always wondered about the.
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  Speaker 1: What are you wearing your bicycle shoes when you swim?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how does this whole thing work?
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  Speaker 4: No. So you're wearing a wetsuit that's designed specifically for swimming. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and then you have what they call a race kit
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  Speaker 4: underneath that, which is what you're like, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: look at guys in tour de France or just cyclists
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  Speaker 4: on the road that are serious. They have more of
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  Speaker 4: like a, you know, like, like her spandex type suit on, um,
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  Speaker 4: that's underneath the wetsuit. So you get out of the water,
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  Speaker 4: you peel the wetsuit off. Um, they actually have a
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  Speaker 4: whole line of what they call wetsuit strippers. So you
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  Speaker 4: will be running up the, the, um, the ramp as
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  Speaker 4: it is in this race out of the Sacramento river.
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  Speaker 4: And then there'll be a bunch of people standing there.
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  Speaker 4: You sort of lay on the ground and they grab
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  Speaker 4: your wetsuit and peel it off you.
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  Speaker 1: Good work if you can get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Then you continue on your way.
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  Speaker 3: Like immediately. I mean, you go from event to event
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  Speaker 3: as quickly as you can.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I asked him yesterday. I said, do
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  Speaker 1: you take any breaks? Cause I thought maybe you like
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  Speaker 1: rested and he laughed like that's hilarious. The idea of
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  Speaker 1: taking breaks.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, some people do. I mean, it just
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  Speaker 4: really depends on what your goal is. I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: people that are trying to finish it and get it
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  Speaker 4: done by midnight, which is the cutoff at 17 hours,
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  Speaker 4: then yeah, I mean, shoot, they'll sit down and have
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  Speaker 4: a sandwich and, you know, relax for a bit. But the,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the people, most people are, are trying to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: accomplish a certain goal in a certain time.
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  Speaker 1: And nine and a half hours, don't you have to
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  Speaker 1: pee or worse?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you do with that situation?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there, there are people that have been known to just.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you thought the stripper job, let it go with
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  Speaker 1: a little, you know, behind you.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons that in some cases you
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  Speaker 4: got to keep an eye, keep an eye out and
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to follow too closely on the bike.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes. Oof.
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  Speaker 1: Um, what, which, which part is most difficult for you?
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  Speaker 4: Um, probably, I don't know. I enjoy the run the most,
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  Speaker 4: but it's probably the most difficult just because it's at
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  Speaker 4: the end.
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  Speaker 1: God, I can't imagine. I ran that one marathon. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was going to die doing that after all
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  Speaker 1: that other stuff. What, uh, like body prop blisters. I
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  Speaker 1: remember my nipples got rubbed raw when I ran my marathon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I remember running CIM and I had duct tape over
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  Speaker 4: my nipples and it was raining.
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  Speaker 3: Jack was really into clamp play though for a while.
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  Speaker 3: So he, you know, he started a little chafed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Whatever works for you. But luckily I haven't had
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  Speaker 4: any issues. I mean, it is an issue for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people. I mean, one of the great things
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  Speaker 4: about the sport is it's very... I mean, if you
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  Speaker 4: ever go out and watch one of these races, you'll
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  Speaker 4: see just about every body type, every body shape out there.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was amazed by when I ran the marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I ran by people that looked like the super stud
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  Speaker 1: at the gym and I got run, people ran by
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  Speaker 1: me that looked like eggs.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that the, yeah, it's bizarre. I mean, you go
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  Speaker 4: out there and you look at these people and they're like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, this guy's so fit.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot tell by looking at someone.
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  Speaker 4: No, no. Um, so it's, uh, you know, people of, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, all shapes and you know, it's, uh.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a community, it's a family out there. It's like, everybody's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's like do hard things, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm sure there's a lot of rooting for each other. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so you, you mentioned to me yesterday how inspirational you
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  Speaker 1: like the people that finish that are trying to finish
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  Speaker 1: under the maximum 17 hours before I close the course
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  Speaker 1: that that that's a pretty cool scene.
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  Speaker 4: That's the most inspirational part of the race in my opinion. Um,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we've ever missed a, uh, uh, uh, midnight. finish. Um,
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  Speaker 4: typically we try to get out there by 10 PM
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  Speaker 4: and watch the last couple hours.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not there to point and say, look how
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  Speaker 1: long it took you.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: It's just, you're here to, you're there to cheer these
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  Speaker 4: people on that are in their, you know, in their
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  Speaker 4: seventies and some of them in their eighties that are
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  Speaker 4: accomplishing this event that, um, and like I said, all
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  Speaker 4: shapes and sizes and disabilities. Um, you know, if you
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  Speaker 4: ever want to really get an inspirational story, just Google, um,
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  Speaker 4: Rick and Dick Hoyt, um, Kona. I mean, these guys,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's, you know, father and son that drags
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  Speaker 4: his son that has CP throughout the entire swim and
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  Speaker 4: then has a specially made bike that is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: has his, his son sitting on front of him in
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  Speaker 4: the bike. And then he's pushing his son for a
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  Speaker 4: stroller and the guys, they, they accomplished a crazy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: amazing times doing this. It's, uh, it's very inspirational. And,
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  Speaker 4: and like, like they say, I mean, the whole motto
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  Speaker 4: for Ironman is anything is possible. And it's, it's completely true.
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  Speaker 4: So many people are held back by, their thought process and, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I can never do that. But you know what? You
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  Speaker 4: can do it. You just have to put your mind
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  Speaker 4: to it. You have to become comfortable being uncomfortable. um
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  Speaker 4: and uh it does it does when you when you
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  Speaker 4: finish your first one it changes your life it does
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  Speaker 4: you're just you feel different like it's just like i
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  Speaker 4: can accomplish anything i.
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  Speaker 3: Got inspired i'm gonna start walking out to the mailbox.
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  Speaker 2: To get the mail all the way in one go
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  Speaker 2: so having your servant go get the mail we're yeah
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  Speaker 2: no driving stop to rest but uh i know i
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  Speaker 2: felt that just after when running a marathon it felt
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  Speaker 2: like you know, like I can do things or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, it's, it's quite amazing. Um, I actually, I,
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  Speaker 1: I am like, uh, not a crier at all about anything.
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  Speaker 1: I cried after I ran my marathon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was weird. It's like, where did this come from?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it is funny because that happens to a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people and the emotions just sort of well up,
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  Speaker 4: especially when.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: What, what is it driving you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think, I think it's, Partially very happy that it's
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  Speaker 4: over and partially happy that, you know, you've, you've put
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  Speaker 4: your mind to something. You've accomplished this goal that you've trained.
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  Speaker 3: For and worked hard for.
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  Speaker 1: My take, and I think this is also a positive thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just had to, you had to clamp down on like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, enduring the pain or you have to clamp
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  Speaker 1: down on like so much of your thoughts and emotions. Right.
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  Speaker 1: To do it, which has got to be a good thing,
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  Speaker 1: a muscle to exercise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes in life, as we all know, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're a parent, you have to clamp down on things
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  Speaker 1: because you got to go through a difficult time. Day, week, month, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Discipline, right?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: That's wild.
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  Speaker 4: Daily discipline.
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  Speaker 1: So how much do you exercise every day? I actually
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  Speaker 1: know the answer to this, but this is pretty stunning
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  Speaker 1: for anybody who's thinking, I wonder what it'd take for
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  Speaker 1: me to do this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, every day. I mean, in an Ironman build, like
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  Speaker 4: Thursdays are my big day, and it's like people call
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  Speaker 4: you crazy and everything. I'm like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: Like the normal person doesn't get up at 3.30 and
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  Speaker 4: run 21 miles before they go into the office? I mean, that's–
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  Speaker 4: You know, uh, in an iron man mill the last
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  Speaker 4: few weeks, I mean, that's pretty standard practice is getting
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  Speaker 4: up super early. And then a lot of times, you know,
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  Speaker 4: logging 20, 22, 23 miles.
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  Speaker 1: Like today's Thursday, did you run that far this morning?
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  Speaker 4: No, because the race is in three days.
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  Speaker 1: So it's, you have a taper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're sort of resting at this point. They say, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the hay is in the barn, so you're not going
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  Speaker 4: to get any more fit in the last, in the
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  Speaker 4: last week or so before the race.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: The hay is in the barn. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The work is done.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll start doing this, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: You should.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you know, we could do a whole, you know,
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  Speaker 4: podcast series on it, you know, or you can follow
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  Speaker 4: Joe and Jack on their, their triathlon journey.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get the insurance policy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. We may be able to just substitute, you know, your,
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  Speaker 4: you know, three different activities instead of swim, bike, run,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just, you know, like, you know, Joe can
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  Speaker 4: do a, I don't know, golf, sip bourbon and do
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  Speaker 4: something else.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And I will endure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I will gut it out, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: And how many of these have you done?
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  Speaker 4: This would be number 11.
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  Speaker 1: 11 times you've done this. And do you exercise year round?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I try to. I try to keep fit.
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  Speaker 1: I go to the gym every day, but nothing like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like how many hours, your minimum days you do?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. Minimum day might be an hour,
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  Speaker 4: but my.
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  Speaker 1: Typical weeks are 15, 17 hours.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't have to say you listen to the
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  Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty show, but how do you occupy your
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  Speaker 3: mind when you're working out? Do you listen to something? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Music usually. Music. Okay. Yeah. Do you enjoy it? That's
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  Speaker 3: what makes me insane about the gym. I just, I
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  Speaker 3: just find it so boring.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So my cycling is typically done indoors on a trainer.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll throw up YouTube or you know, watch a
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  Speaker 4: show on Netflix or something while I'm doing, uh, everything's
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: sort of ran by an AI computing system. So all the,
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: the resistance on the bike interval, all that stuff is
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: sort of like set it and forget it. And then
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: you just complete the workout. And then the running, I mean,
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: for me is, is the most, um, I don't know, therapeutic,
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: I guess to say, uh, you know, getting up in
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: the morning, especially in the winter, you know, it's pitch
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: black outside, you have a headlamp and I'm running along
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: the American river bike trail. all alone listening to music
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: and my thoughts. And it's just a, it's just a
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: great space and, uh, something I've really learned to love
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: over the years.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Learn to love it. Cause, um, cause I was going
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: to be my last question is just the people to
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: get a runner's high or like enjoy running. I've never
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: enjoyed one step of running in my life and I've
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: done a fair amount. I used to run a couple
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: of miles every single day. I did that for years,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: but I've never enjoyed one step in my life.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Is that just a personality thing or can you, can
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: you get there?
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: I think you can get there.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's not too late.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: You know, again, sort of maybe a little bit of
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: a mindset. If you tell yourself you hate this, then
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: maybe you're going to hate it. Mindset. If you embrace
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: it a little bit.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: You know, just to generalize this for people who might
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: not be very fit or this might be an impossibility
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: for them. I just like the idea of doing something hard,
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: doing something you weren't sure you could do. And what
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: that does for your confidence in all your life, I
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: believe in that a hundred percent.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely. It's, it's, you know, I like to say,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: stop thinking, do hard things. Like just shut your brain off.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Like cold plunge is a good example, right? Like everybody
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: hates doing that. If you've ever, if you've ever done it,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: it's not very pleasant, but if you just shut your
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: brain off and sort of zombie walk into it and then,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: you know, you get through it and you feel like
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: a million bucks.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm guessing that there aren't a lot of people
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: that do this that are unsuccessful in the other parts
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: of their life.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It's probably not a lot of people on the government
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: dole watching daytime television.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: We were talking about that the other day. And I
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: think if I think that the sport of triathlon, especially
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: on the Ironman side of things, like it's probably the
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: highest household income of probably any amateur related sport. Um,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe golf golf is up there, but.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Um, yeah, but in a different way, different reasons. Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: When was the last time you ate a potato chip?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, like last week. So one of the great things
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: about training this so much is you get to pretty
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: much eat whatever the hell you want within reason.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Because we went to a client lunch, it wasn't that
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: long ago, and Darren ordered like a big cheeseburger and
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: was eating french fries. And I was like, wow, I
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: was surprised by that. But you just do burn so
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: many calories.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: You know, when you're burning 3,000 calories a day, it's like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: That's why former athletes get fat.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Because you're used to working out so much.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: And you have eating habits.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Right, right, right.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: You'd think after 40 years, I'd have gotten over that,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: but no, still working on it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for coming in and good luck on Sunday.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Appreciate it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: And, um.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Where, your nine hours, where will you finish in the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: pack of 3,500? Will you be toward the front, toward
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the back, in the middle?
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: So that will probably put me in the top 50.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Oh really? Yeah. Good for you.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Wow. Overall.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: And wow. The goal is to, so we have this,
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: you know, race in Kona, which sort of started everything
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: in the entire sport and everybody strives to get there.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: It's a top 1% in the world that qualified to
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: race in Kona. I've been lucky enough to do it
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: twice and I'd love to get back there.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Um, so.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: So you've been in the top 1% in the world
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of Ironman people.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: In my age group. Yeah. Right. So, um, That's the
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: way they classify it. This year is going to be
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a tougher putt just because I'm
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: 54 and my age group is 50, 54. So I'm
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: like racing against these youngsters.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: But next year. Yeah, but next year I'm.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Going to be 55 and I'm going to kick their ass.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Take that, great beard.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Enjoy your social security.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, thanks for coming in. We appreciate it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: No worries. Thanks for having me.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.