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(crickets chirping)

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(slow country music)

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- My mom had everything.

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She had a huge network of friends.

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She had an incredible family.

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But the one thing she
didn't have was her health.

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You guys, this is gonna come as a surprise

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but I have not always been this athletic

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and sexually appealing.

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(audience laughing)

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Yeah, its kind of a new
thing for me (laughing)

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I grew up in a super
rural area of Missouri

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on a pig farm.

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(upbeat country music)

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In elementary school, I was the epitome

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of the chubby, funny best friend.

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I made everyone laugh so hard
that they didn't have time

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to make fun of how chubby I was.

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(laughing)

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That was my game plan and it worked.

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(laughing)

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I was chubby as a kid and
I've tried a gazillion diets.

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At one point I decided
I would have vegetables

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with every meal but eventually I got tired

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of eating french fries three times a day.

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(audience laughing)

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So I joined a gym and you guys,

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it went really, really well.

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After the first two weeks,
I went to the locker room,

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I stepped on the scale and you guys,

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I had lost 17 pounds.

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-  Woo!

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- Thank you.

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(audience claps)
Thank you, yeah.

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So I decided to celebrate so
I stepped off of the scale,

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I put the out-of-order sign back on it.

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(audience laughing)

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And I went to the Dairy Queen.

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- Jeffrey was not athletic as a kid.

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I can remember one specific
incident about Jeffrey

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that he played on a basketball team

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at our small elementary school

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and he really was putting out no effort

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to run up and down the court.

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So the coaches had told him that they were

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taking him out of the
game until he was ready

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to put out some effort
and he said, "Okay".

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And he never went back in the game.

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- I tried wearing a bro,
which is a bra for men.

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But I had to stop wearing
that because it was obvious

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I was wearing a bro.

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I mean, people could see the
indentation in my back fat.

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(audience laughing)

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They could see the straps
anytime I wore a tube top.

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(audience laughing)

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And it was a dead giveaway
anytime I pulled cash out of it.

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- Always hilarious.

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Great at musical theater.

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Not athletic at all.

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He wasn't really an outdoor
kid from what I could grasp.

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He tried a few crash diets
in college, I can remember.

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He did Atkins once which
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included going to McDonald's and ordering

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two double cheeseburgers sans the bread.

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And that didn't go, actually
I think he did lose weight

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but it didn't last for very long.

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- And nobody ever said,
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"put those Ho-Hos down."

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Like it wasn't a thing.

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"You're hungry?"

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"Yeah, eat something.

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"You're not hungry?

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"Should you eat?"

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Probably.

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I read somewhere that eating spicy food

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speeds up your metabolism so
I learned to like jalapenos.

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So I watched an instructional video

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on how to properly chop up jalapenos.

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And it went really well and
then I went to the bathroom.

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And that did not go as well.

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(audience laughing)

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It took about 30 seconds
and y'all my man business

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was on fire (laughing).

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So I threw it in the sink, I
started splashing water on it.

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That didn't work.

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So I called poison control
and they hung up on me.

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(audience laughing)

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So I called my mom and I
said, "Mom, there's a problem

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"with my naughty place."

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(audience laughing)

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So I called my dad and I
said, "Dad, I've gotten

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"jalapeno juice all over Buford."

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(audience laughing)

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And he said, "Well hell Jeff,
you gotta put it in milk."

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I didn't know.

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So I went to the fridge, I
grabbed a carton of milk,

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I took it to the bathroom, and you guys,

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it totally, totally works.

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But then, get this you guys, my roommate

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has accused me of being, of
all things, inconsiderate.

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-  No.

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- So I did the right
thing, I funneled the milk

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back into the jug, put
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Inconsiderate.

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- I would say that in
all of my descriptions of

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Jefferey Binney, I would
never, ever have used

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the term athletic before
maybe a year and a half ago.

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He was a lot of things but
he was never an athlete.

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He, I can remember being
in marching band with him

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and him running all over the
place to do marching band stuff

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but not necessarily running
in a way that would inspire

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other people to think that he was

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actually running somewhere, so.

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He, yeah, he's come a long way.

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- You guys, I grew up on
a pig farm in Missouri.

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(crowd cheers)
I know, right?

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Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
(crowd cheers)

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There came a point when I had to sit

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my father down and have a really, really

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uncomfortable conversation with him.

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I sat him down and I said,
"Dad, I'm sure this isn't going

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"to come as a surprise to you.

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"As a kid, I was very sensitive.

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"I was very, very involved in the theater

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"and I never really dated
girls but I am vegan."

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(audience laughing)

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And he said, "Well hell, Jeff.

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"I thought you were gonna
tell me you were a gay."

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And I said, "Oh girl, please."

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(audience laughing)

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My dad, she is totes ridic.

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You guys, substantially less funny.

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When I was 11, my mom was
diagnosed with heart failure.

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And they gave her, you know, maybe two,

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three, threeish years.

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She pulled out 17 more years.

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-  Woo!

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- Yeah, right?
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Absolutely.

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But I think because she
knew her time was limited,

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she made the most of it.

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And she was super caring,
super giving, super generous,

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very philanthropic and a
lot of the stuff she did

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we didn't even know happened.

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And one of those times was
actually at her funeral.

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This woman came up to me and she said,

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"Hey, I bet you don't even know this story

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"but years ago, in the
middle of the night,

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"my family's house burned to the ground.

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"I got out.

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"My husband got out.

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"My kids got out.

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"Everything was destroyed
but we all got out.

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"But this is while your mom owned

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"her children's clothing store.

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"And in the middle of the night,

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"somehow she found out
that our house was on fire

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"and she went to the store and before

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"those firetrucks had
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"she showed up with boxes and
boxes of clothes for my kids."

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(audience claps)

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But she said, "There's more.

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"Not only did she bring us
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"but she gave us 20% off."

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-  Woo!

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- Like super generous, my mom, right?

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Well she was just like the
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I mean, she would protect me at all costs

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if she thought something
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But at the same time, if
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I mean there was no patience.

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There was no patience for turds.

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ Which nobody can deny ♪

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♪ Which nobody can deny ♪

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♪ Which nobody can deny ♪

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ For she's gone over the hill ♪

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♪ And so we say bye bye ♪

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But I was spending all this
time in the waiting room,

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slowly, slowly kind of like,
kind of going mad (chuckles).

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Like losing it a little bit.

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I mean, just sitting with nothing to do.

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Just desperate to not end
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To not be saying goodbye to
my family at the age of 58.

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And the doctors made no bones about

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why she was in this
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She was overweight by a
lot and she tried so hard,

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she tried really hard to change that

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but she just couldn't,
she couldn't understand

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why asparagus wasn't still healthy

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after it had been breaded and fried.

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(audience laughing)

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So I'm spending all this
time in the waiting room

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and I look over one day in a particularly

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dark, dark moment in our ICU story

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and I see this, a "Trail Runner" magazine.

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Apparently this is a magazine
that people buy and pay for.

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(audience laughing)

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And I start flipping, I
guess I can count them

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out as a sponsor, right?

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(laughing)

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Sorry "Trail Runner" magazine.

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So I start going through this magazine

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and I mean, its just, you know,

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all these like gorgeously, athletic people

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just bounding, bounding over mountains

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and I get to this hilarious article,

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this one right here.

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The title's amazing, "Is
the 100 Mile Ultramarathon

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"The New Marathon?" (laughs)

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You guys, I'm pretty
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But I start reading and it says this,

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"So the Leadville 100, one
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"and most difficult ultramarathons.

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"Set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado,

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"runners face some of
the longest and steepest

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"climbs in America with
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"of over 15,000 feet, the equivalent of

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"six times the Empire State Building.

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"Runners must stave off
blisters, hypothermia,

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"hyperthermia,
hyponatremia, hypernatremia,

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"hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, exhaustion

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"and runners are in a constant battle

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"to eat enough food to prevent

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"their body's natural tendency

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"to shut down its digestive system

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"in order to divert resources

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"to more critical body systems."

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And I thought what anyone desperate

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to lose weight would think.

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You guys, I should do this.

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(audience laughing)

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(upbeat cheerful music)

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(heavy breathing)

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And then, then I look over and I was like,

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"Hmm, who is this tall,
British drink of water?"

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(audience laughing)

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Ian Sharman, Ian, okay who is this?

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Okay, "Ian Sharman is one of the world's

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"preeminent ultrarunning
legends, a London native

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"who left a financial
career to pursue running."

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- I'd always used to play loads of sports

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but I just wasn't doing that anymore

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so I decide I need to do something

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and while I was in that mindset,

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I saw a TV documentary about a race

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in the Sahara Desert so I became a runner.

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And when I first started, I was training

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for a desert race but I
included a few marathons

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and one ultra in the buildup to that.

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And I just found I was
gradually enjoying it more

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and then got a little
bit addicted to racing

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so I was doing about 30 marathons a year

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for about three years.

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- "In addition to being
the fastest ultrarunner

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"in the country, Ian also
runs a wildly successful

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"training business and
trains some of the world's

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"fastest, elite ultrarunners."

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You guys, "he trains some of the world's

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"fastest, elite ultrarunners".

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I bet, I bet he wants to train me.

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(audience laughing)

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(laughs)

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So you guys, I called up Ian Sharman

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and I said, "Look dude, here's the deal.

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"I'm a 6'2", 340 pound lumberjack

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"and I'm gonna run the Leadville 100.

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"Don't you want to train me?"

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And he said, "Uh, maybe."

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You guys, I went to acting school

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and so I'm really good with dialects.

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They're kind of my thing.

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I also have a really good Australian.

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It's kind of like, uh, maybe.

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I don't know, someone
else call out a dialect.

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Anything, like somewhere, a country.

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-  German.
- German, um, uh, maybe.

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(audience laughing)

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Yeah.

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- What's kinda, you know
we have like six weeks,

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seven weeks, what's the kind
of bigger picture game plan,

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when, what really big weekends
do you want me to get in

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and when will we kind of
start to lay off and taper?

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Will we?

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- Well you got seven and a half weeks

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so it's a little bit longer
than you thought there.

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(laughing)

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So the idea being that we'll
have at least one big weekend

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of back-to-back runs.

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We're gonna have plenty of long runs,

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still most weekend will be longer runs

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especially to just
explore your new location

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because you're gonna
have maybe five weekends

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where you can just try out new places,

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new trail areas, ideally
doing a couple of races

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around the 50K distance would be great

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because that's a good distance
that you can recover from

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fairly quickly and that
you're just getting

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to have enough time on your feet

317
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but with aid stations
and all the logistics

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taken care of for you.

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- I told my family.

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They thought I was ridiculous.

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I told my friends.

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They were certain I was mad.

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But there was one friend
who is a triathlete,

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super fit like this is totally his thing.

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And I called him up and I told him

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what I was planning to do.

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And he said, "Look Jeffrey.

328
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"I don't want to be unsupportive,

329
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"but when you go to the horse races

330
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"there's a reason why you
don't see any Clydesdales."

331
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(audience laughing)

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The best way to get me to do something

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is to tell me I can't do it.

334
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My mom used to use it all the time.

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She'd be like, "I bet you
can't do that laundry."

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I'd be like, "I bet I can."

337
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(audience laughing)

338
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"Bet you can't rub lotion on my feet."

339
00:17:29,174 --> 00:17:31,564
"Oh yes I can.

340
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"You just watch me."

341
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(audience laughing)

342
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Y'all, if you have to do hill repeats,

343
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I think this is the place to do 'em.

344
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What?

345
00:17:45,687 --> 00:17:47,967
When I was a little kid, I
was really, really confused

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as to where babies came from.

347
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My family used to tell me this story

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about how out of all of our baby pigs

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there was one baby piglet that they liked

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more than all the others.

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They liked him so much that they had him

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turned into a little boy.

353
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And that's where I came from.

354
00:18:04,354 --> 00:18:07,354
(audience laughing)

355
00:18:08,977 --> 00:18:12,537
No, I know but you guys
now I'm a 33 year old man

356
00:18:12,537 --> 00:18:16,387
and I am very well aware
of where babies come from,

357
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your mom's butt.

358
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(audience laughing)

359
00:18:20,817 --> 00:18:22,934
-  Yeah.

360
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- But when I was a little kid you guys,

361
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I totally believed it because I thought

362
00:18:26,297 --> 00:18:31,037
that's where I got my tiny,
pink, spiral-shaped penis.

363
00:18:31,037 --> 00:18:34,037
(audience laughing)

364
00:18:39,478 --> 00:18:41,478
-  Wow.

365
00:18:43,557 --> 00:18:46,073
- I always wished my parents
had been donkey farmers.

366
00:18:46,073 --> 00:18:49,073
(audience laughing)

367
00:18:50,587 --> 00:18:54,087
- When my mom passed away,
I think it was probably

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the hardest on Jeff because
they were extremely close.

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- Jeffrey is not a person who wears

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his emotions on his sleeve.

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He internalizes a lot and
then when Deb passed away,

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Jeffrey sort of disappeared.

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Jeffrey went off the grid
a lot and he went running

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and he was in the woods
or he would go camping.

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- I think the running
was a therapy for Jeff

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after my mom passed away.

377
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We all have something that we turn to

378
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when things are that
bad and I think running

379
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was just a way to distract his mind and,

380
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not only for a distraction,
I mean we'd watched

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our mom die, lay there
day after day suffering,

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and it was all obesity
heart disease related

383
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and I think he turned it
into something positive.

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- So I started training for this.

385
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Of course, it was easier in the beginning

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and then it got worse.

387
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My typical week looked like this.

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On a Tuesday, I would
do a medium-length run,

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somewhere between eight and 18 miles

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with some speed work in the middle.

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Wednesday, a really low-key
recovery day, just five miles.

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On Thursday, another medium-length run

393
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with speed work in the middle.

394
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No running on Friday.

395
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Saturday, long run,
usually marathon distance.

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Sunday, another long run,
usually another marathon.

397
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At the end I was averaging
just above 70 miles per week.

398
00:20:25,273 --> 00:20:28,523
(upbeat intense music)

399
00:20:39,747 --> 00:20:41,755
I guess a lot of things can go wrong.

400
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(laughing)

401
00:20:42,588 --> 00:20:43,807
A lot of things can go
wrong when you're trying

402
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to run that far.

403
00:20:45,327 --> 00:20:48,417
For me, my toenails are a big issue.

404
00:20:48,417 --> 00:20:51,077
When your toenails hit
against the end of your shoe

405
00:20:51,077 --> 00:20:56,077
2,337 times, they slowly
die and then they fall off.

406
00:20:57,621 --> 00:21:01,177
I have a lot of problems eating enough.

407
00:21:01,177 --> 00:21:04,267
If you run out of enough
energy, which you guys,

408
00:21:04,267 --> 00:21:07,017
up until this point, I had no idea

409
00:21:07,017 --> 00:21:09,429
what it felt like to truly be hungry.

410
00:21:09,429 --> 00:21:10,447
(laughing)

411
00:21:10,447 --> 00:21:13,937
I had never once let myself get
to the point of true hunger.

412
00:21:13,937 --> 00:21:14,770
- There's a lot of
things that can go wrong

413
00:21:14,770 --> 00:21:16,767
in a 100 miler, no matter how fit you are.

414
00:21:17,987 --> 00:21:19,217
Just starting out, I mean altitude

415
00:21:19,217 --> 00:21:21,027
is probably the biggest factor here.

416
00:21:21,027 --> 00:21:22,817
So he could get altitude sickness

417
00:21:22,817 --> 00:21:24,347
or it could just slow him down so much

418
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that he doesn't manage
to reach the cut-offs.

419
00:21:27,107 --> 00:21:28,377
He could easily pick up an injury,

420
00:21:28,377 --> 00:21:31,977
you just twist an ankle,
fall over, pull a muscle.

421
00:21:31,977 --> 00:21:33,707
Anything like that which
then makes it very difficult

422
00:21:33,707 --> 00:21:35,487
to keep moving at a good pace.

423
00:21:35,487 --> 00:21:37,377
He could have trouble with his stomach,

424
00:21:37,377 --> 00:21:39,677
which is particularly
bad when it's at altitude

425
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and especially if it's a hot day.

426
00:21:41,237 --> 00:21:43,117
And if he's vomiting all over the place,

427
00:21:43,117 --> 00:21:44,837
it's gonna be really
difficult to keep moving.

428
00:21:44,837 --> 00:21:46,617
But you can usually
pull it back from there.

429
00:21:46,617 --> 00:21:49,517
Not always, but you can usually
find a way to get through.

430
00:21:50,437 --> 00:21:54,257
He could just wear himself
out, go too fast early on,

431
00:21:54,257 --> 00:21:56,787
push too hard on either the
uphills or the downhills

432
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and trash his legs.

433
00:21:58,087 --> 00:22:00,267
And that, again, is probably
the number two thing

434
00:22:00,267 --> 00:22:02,277
after altitude that would slow people down

435
00:22:02,277 --> 00:22:04,017
and cause them to drop here is if they run

436
00:22:04,017 --> 00:22:07,107
the downhills too hard and
then their legs are toast

437
00:22:07,107 --> 00:22:09,207
and then even the easy
stuff, they can't run

438
00:22:09,207 --> 00:22:11,127
and they get timed out.

439
00:22:11,127 --> 00:22:12,507
There's probably a number of other things

440
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that could go wrong,
medial issues potentially,

441
00:22:15,327 --> 00:22:16,957
getting hit by a car.

442
00:22:16,957 --> 00:22:18,237
You know, there's a lot of
things that can happen out there.

443
00:22:18,237 --> 00:22:20,350
He could get attacked by a bear.

444
00:22:22,667 --> 00:22:23,947
Depends on how extreme you want to go

445
00:22:23,947 --> 00:22:26,327
but it is out in the mountains

446
00:22:26,327 --> 00:22:28,257
and mountain weather can be very bad.

447
00:22:28,257 --> 00:22:30,107
And actually that's one
other thing, lightning.

448
00:22:30,107 --> 00:22:32,057
If there's storms, that can force people

449
00:22:32,057 --> 00:22:34,767
to have either stop and then waste time

450
00:22:34,767 --> 00:22:36,487
because they're waiting
for the storm to go

451
00:22:36,487 --> 00:22:39,377
or they go through it and
then they either get very cold

452
00:22:39,377 --> 00:22:41,667
or wet or something else
that happens like that

453
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and they end up going to hospital.

454
00:22:43,047 --> 00:22:45,647
So this is not an easy race.

455
00:22:45,647 --> 00:22:48,117
And it's really extreme
conditions out there.

456
00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:49,657
- Well at the finish line of the 50

457
00:22:49,657 --> 00:22:52,187
when I was crewing in San Francisco,

458
00:22:52,187 --> 00:22:55,007
when Jeff crossed the finish line,

459
00:22:55,007 --> 00:22:57,027
I didn't immediately know
that anything was wrong.

460
00:22:57,027 --> 00:22:58,057
He seemed fine.

461
00:22:58,057 --> 00:22:58,890
He got his medal.

462
00:22:58,890 --> 00:23:00,817
We started to go get something to drink

463
00:23:00,817 --> 00:23:04,157
and then I realized that
he was either delirious

464
00:23:04,157 --> 00:23:06,277
or something else was seriously wrong.

465
00:23:06,277 --> 00:23:08,367
He needed food and I tried to give him

466
00:23:08,367 --> 00:23:10,207
some broccoli with
hummus and he was unable

467
00:23:10,207 --> 00:23:11,947
to get that to his mouth.

468
00:23:11,947 --> 00:23:14,327
I had to find him a chair and lay him back

469
00:23:14,327 --> 00:23:16,287
and I was feeding him as he laid there

470
00:23:16,287 --> 00:23:18,807
like a bird with his mouth open.

471
00:23:18,807 --> 00:23:20,767
- The scary truth is that people have died

472
00:23:20,767 --> 00:23:24,787
while ultrarunning and
that's terrifying for me

473
00:23:24,787 --> 00:23:28,387
and for Jeffrey's sister
and you know for Kevin

474
00:23:28,387 --> 00:23:31,617
and for anyone involved with the race, so.

475
00:23:31,617 --> 00:23:33,787
- If it comes to the
point that we think Jeff

476
00:23:33,787 --> 00:23:37,977
is in a situation where
maybe it's going to cause him

477
00:23:37,977 --> 00:23:40,747
some kind of physical
damage, or it's no longer

478
00:23:40,747 --> 00:23:42,057
healthy for him to continue on,

479
00:23:42,057 --> 00:23:44,447
you know, we'll have to come together

480
00:23:44,447 --> 00:23:48,417
and look at all the factors
and maybe even seek some advice

481
00:23:48,417 --> 00:23:49,827
from the professionals
that they have there

482
00:23:49,827 --> 00:23:51,227
and make a decision then.

483
00:23:51,227 --> 00:23:53,257
- I think the thing
that excites me the most

484
00:23:53,257 --> 00:23:55,437
about being on the crew
is that Jeffrey's been

485
00:23:55,437 --> 00:23:56,387
working on this for awhile.

486
00:23:56,387 --> 00:23:58,827
I knew I was gonna be
on his crew for awhile

487
00:23:58,827 --> 00:24:00,867
and he's been working so hard

488
00:24:00,867 --> 00:24:04,527
and when he finishes
this 30-hour, 100-mile,

489
00:24:04,527 --> 00:24:08,977
crosses the finish line,
I'm gonna be so excited

490
00:24:08,977 --> 00:24:10,150
'cause I can go to bed.

491
00:24:10,150 --> 00:24:12,883
- I can't say that I totally
understand ultrarunning.

492
00:24:12,883 --> 00:24:15,207
I can't say that I understand why Jeffery

493
00:24:15,207 --> 00:24:18,157
would want to do something
so extreme to his body

494
00:24:18,157 --> 00:24:22,617
or something that scares
his family and friends.

495
00:24:22,617 --> 00:24:25,257
But I can definitely understand

496
00:24:26,547 --> 00:24:29,391
the wanting to make a change in your life.

497
00:24:29,391 --> 00:24:32,641
(upbeat country music)

498
00:25:03,304 --> 00:25:04,748
(laughing)

499
00:25:04,748 --> 00:25:07,998
(upbeat country music)

500
00:25:19,217 --> 00:25:22,537
- 1988 when I came to Colorado,

501
00:25:22,537 --> 00:25:26,677
I had never seen an ultra
of any type or distance.

502
00:25:26,677 --> 00:25:28,547
But I had read about it in a magazine

503
00:25:28,547 --> 00:25:30,387
about guys running a hundred miles

504
00:25:30,387 --> 00:25:32,237
and I had to see it.

505
00:25:32,237 --> 00:25:35,207
So I came to Leadville
to see the race in 1988.

506
00:25:36,138 --> 00:25:38,487
Didn't know one runner.

507
00:25:38,487 --> 00:25:42,057
Didn't know one mile of the
course but I came anyway

508
00:25:42,057 --> 00:25:45,927
and I slept in my car right
near the starting line

509
00:25:45,927 --> 00:25:50,657
for the first race and I've
seen every one since 1988.

510
00:25:50,657 --> 00:25:53,127
- I chose the Leadville 100 because

511
00:25:53,127 --> 00:25:56,777
it is one of the most
beautiful 100 milers.

512
00:25:56,777 --> 00:25:59,857
We're gonna be running
through the Rocky Mountains.

513
00:25:59,857 --> 00:26:03,737
I also love the energy of the town.

514
00:26:03,737 --> 00:26:06,867
It has such a cool story and history

515
00:26:06,867 --> 00:26:09,697
and I've always been
fascinated with the run.

516
00:26:09,697 --> 00:26:13,815
And also, they take anybody (laughing).

517
00:26:13,815 --> 00:26:15,677
I didn't have to have a qualifying time.

518
00:26:15,677 --> 00:26:17,777
So that was important too.

519
00:26:17,777 --> 00:26:20,167
I have 30 hours.

520
00:26:20,167 --> 00:26:22,307
There's a 30 hour cutoff.

521
00:26:22,307 --> 00:26:27,307
So if I'm not done in 30
hours, I don't finish.

522
00:26:27,947 --> 00:26:29,107
I didn't finish.

523
00:26:29,107 --> 00:26:30,757
I didn't officially finish.

524
00:26:30,757 --> 00:26:33,377
Like I don't count.

525
00:26:33,377 --> 00:26:34,210
It didn't happen

526
00:26:34,210 --> 00:26:35,097
It's not only that I have to be

527
00:26:35,097 --> 00:26:36,777
at the finish line in 30 hours,

528
00:26:36,777 --> 00:26:39,507
I also have to be at each
of the eight stations

529
00:26:39,507 --> 00:26:41,437
by their cutoff times.

530
00:26:41,437 --> 00:26:45,160
So if at any point, I fall
behind the cutoff time,

531
00:26:46,757 --> 00:26:48,627
I get pulled from the race.

532
00:26:48,627 --> 00:26:51,397
No naps, no sleeping.

533
00:26:51,397 --> 00:26:53,850
I gotta run.

534
00:26:54,717 --> 00:26:56,417
So, I mean that's it.

535
00:26:56,417 --> 00:26:58,924
There's six major climbs.

536
00:26:58,924 --> 00:27:02,674
(marker scratching on board)

537
00:27:03,577 --> 00:27:05,607
This one's probably gonna be,

538
00:27:05,607 --> 00:27:09,707
well both of these, are probably gonna be

539
00:27:09,707 --> 00:27:14,167
real total mind-fucks
because this really seems

540
00:27:14,167 --> 00:27:16,194
like the big, you know, kinda like,

541
00:27:16,194 --> 00:27:17,564
"Oh cool, I'm over halfway done

542
00:27:17,564 --> 00:27:19,837
"and I'm done with the biggest climb."

543
00:27:19,837 --> 00:27:24,327
But actually I have two
more pretty rough ones.

544
00:27:26,777 --> 00:27:28,927
So I mean really, when I
get to each aid station,

545
00:27:28,927 --> 00:27:31,437
this will be the most, I mean basically

546
00:27:31,437 --> 00:27:32,567
when I get into each aid station,

547
00:27:32,567 --> 00:27:35,757
I will have just done
a really terrible climb

548
00:27:35,757 --> 00:27:38,577
except for the first one and this one,

549
00:27:38,577 --> 00:27:42,101
I will have had a ways before.

550
00:27:42,101 --> 00:27:45,851
(marker scratching on board)

551
00:27:49,177 --> 00:27:51,527
-  Can you put a
heart around all that?

552
00:27:53,148 --> 00:27:53,981
(laughing)

553
00:27:53,981 --> 00:27:56,844
Just, (laughing)

554
00:27:56,844 --> 00:27:59,949
-  Now draw a penis
where you are afraid.

555
00:27:59,949 --> 00:28:03,637
(Annie laughing drowns out Kevin speaking)

556
00:28:03,637 --> 00:28:04,663
Okay.

557
00:28:04,663 --> 00:28:07,057
-  Oh, wow.

558
00:28:07,057 --> 00:28:08,495
(laughing)

559
00:28:08,495 --> 00:28:09,328
-  Yep, keep going.

560
00:28:09,328 --> 00:28:10,497
I'm catching it all.

561
00:28:10,497 --> 00:28:12,848
-  I don't think
this is going in the film.

562
00:28:12,848 --> 00:28:14,819
(laughing)

563
00:28:14,819 --> 00:28:17,902
(slow serious music)

564
00:28:37,962 --> 00:28:40,212
(slapping)

565
00:28:42,232 --> 00:28:44,449
(slapping)

566
00:28:44,449 --> 00:28:47,532
(slow serious music)

567
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,280
- This morning, Leroy
was asleep on my feet.

568
00:29:08,237 --> 00:29:10,397
When he heard me wake up, he like slowly

569
00:29:10,397 --> 00:29:11,837
inched under the covers up to me

570
00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:13,547
and just like laid down next to me

571
00:29:13,547 --> 00:29:16,450
and gave me this look like, "Don't do it."

572
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:17,283
(laughing)

573
00:29:17,283 --> 00:29:19,302
"Don't go, what are you doing."

574
00:29:19,302 --> 00:29:20,802
I'm like, "I don't know buddy.

575
00:29:22,217 --> 00:29:23,940
"I don't know."

576
00:29:23,940 --> 00:29:26,697
(door squeaks)

577
00:29:26,697 --> 00:29:27,941
- Good morning.

578
00:29:27,941 --> 00:29:29,024
- Oh morning.

579
00:29:30,347 --> 00:29:31,967
Are you ready for this?

580
00:29:31,967 --> 00:29:33,272
-  I'm ready, are you?

581
00:29:33,272 --> 00:29:34,522
- I don't know.

582
00:29:36,405 --> 00:29:37,690
Do I have a choice?

583
00:29:37,690 --> 00:29:39,317
-  No, it's too late now.

584
00:29:39,317 --> 00:29:40,460
- I don't know if I'm the mood

585
00:29:40,460 --> 00:29:42,820
to run 100 miles today?

586
00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:43,653
We can do it next week.

587
00:29:43,653 --> 00:29:44,899
- I'll run part of it for you.

588
00:29:44,899 --> 00:29:45,732
- Okay.

589
00:29:46,901 --> 00:29:48,651
- Everyone ready.

590
00:29:51,477 --> 00:29:52,310
We ride.

591
00:29:53,337 --> 00:29:54,170
Let's go.

592
00:29:54,170 --> 00:29:57,377
And at 5 a.m., in the dark, I stood

593
00:29:57,377 --> 00:30:00,867
at the starting line of
one of the most difficult

594
00:30:00,867 --> 00:30:03,897
and most storied
ultramarathons in the world,

595
00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:07,537
surrounded by 800 people who are

596
00:30:07,537 --> 00:30:10,594
substantially more fit than I.

597
00:30:10,594 --> 00:30:14,436
-  Nine, eight, seven, six

598
00:30:14,436 --> 00:30:16,769
five, four, three, two, one.

599
00:30:19,125 --> 00:30:19,958
(starting gun fires)

600
00:30:19,958 --> 00:30:23,625
(crowd cheers and whistles)

601
00:30:25,444 --> 00:30:29,865
- And we started the race
and it went all right.

602
00:30:29,865 --> 00:30:33,115
(upbeat intense music)

603
00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:21,710
I made it to mile 17 I guess

604
00:31:24,754 --> 00:31:26,507
and I had a problem.

605
00:31:26,507 --> 00:31:29,007
I almost missed the cutoff
at the last aid station

606
00:31:30,671 --> 00:31:32,521
because I was about to crap my pants.

607
00:31:34,157 --> 00:31:39,157
And I waddled two miles to the aid station

608
00:31:39,157 --> 00:31:41,407
with my cheeks clenched like a vice

609
00:31:43,347 --> 00:31:45,947
trying to convince myself that I could run

610
00:31:45,947 --> 00:31:48,670
another 70 miles without pooping.

611
00:31:50,736 --> 00:31:54,707
And I finally gave in and
pooped in a porta-potty

612
00:31:54,707 --> 00:31:56,520
for the first time ever.

613
00:31:58,097 --> 00:32:01,817
And it was devastating.

614
00:32:01,817 --> 00:32:05,207
I got poop on my hands twice.

615
00:32:05,207 --> 00:32:06,207
The smell was awful.

616
00:32:09,437 --> 00:32:11,484
I'm never ultrarunning again.

617
00:32:13,622 --> 00:32:15,047
Waa!

618
00:32:15,047 --> 00:32:16,307
(radio crackling)

619
00:32:16,307 --> 00:32:19,756
You guys I'm really weird about pooping.

620
00:32:19,756 --> 00:32:21,547
(audience laughing)

621
00:32:21,547 --> 00:32:23,857
I don't think I'm weird about pooping

622
00:32:23,857 --> 00:32:26,207
but other people think
I'm weird about pooping.

623
00:32:27,147 --> 00:32:29,617
For instance, I only
poop in my own toilet.

624
00:32:29,617 --> 00:32:30,810
That's not that weird.

625
00:32:31,737 --> 00:32:34,507
But I also, I won't poop unless I can

626
00:32:34,507 --> 00:32:36,948
immediately afterward, take a shower.

627
00:32:36,948 --> 00:32:39,637
(audience laughing)
Yeah.

628
00:32:39,637 --> 00:32:41,287
Oh cool, you think that's weird.

629
00:32:44,627 --> 00:32:46,087
You know what I think is weird?

630
00:32:46,087 --> 00:32:50,747
Grabbing a wad of the
thinnest paper known to man

631
00:32:50,747 --> 00:32:55,747
and smearing it up your
butt, pulling up your pants

632
00:32:57,527 --> 00:33:01,486
and saying, "Yeah, I'm good."

633
00:33:01,486 --> 00:33:04,167
(audience laughing)

634
00:33:04,167 --> 00:33:05,780
Savages.

635
00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:08,780
(audience laughing)

636
00:33:14,007 --> 00:33:15,667
But I think I know why
I ended up this way.

637
00:33:15,667 --> 00:33:18,297
When I was a little kid, I
refused to wipe my own butt

638
00:33:18,297 --> 00:33:20,257
and I would make my mom do it

639
00:33:20,257 --> 00:33:23,467
and I remember very vividly
sitting on the toilet.

640
00:33:23,467 --> 00:33:25,277
I remember exactly how I would say it.

641
00:33:25,277 --> 00:33:29,498
I would scream, "Mom, come wipe my butt."

642
00:33:29,498 --> 00:33:30,727
(audience laughing)

643
00:33:30,727 --> 00:33:32,570
And she would, every time.

644
00:33:35,927 --> 00:33:39,117
It went on way too long but
eventually she had to stop

645
00:33:39,117 --> 00:33:42,437
because it was a four-hour
drive to my college,

646
00:33:42,437 --> 00:33:47,367
so I couldn't ask her to
do that three times a day.

647
00:33:47,367 --> 00:33:50,367
(audience laughing)

648
00:33:54,607 --> 00:33:56,557
Tragically, that is half true (laughs).

649
00:34:01,107 --> 00:34:02,447
You guys, where to go to the bathroom

650
00:34:02,447 --> 00:34:03,887
is one of the biggest concerns

651
00:34:03,887 --> 00:34:05,347
when you're running an ultramarathon.

652
00:34:05,347 --> 00:34:07,777
A number one, not that big of a deal.

653
00:34:07,777 --> 00:34:10,267
You just, especially for
men, just pop off the trail,

654
00:34:10,267 --> 00:34:13,277
take care of your
business and keep running.

655
00:34:13,277 --> 00:34:16,200
For women, a number one
is a little more involved.

656
00:34:17,727 --> 00:34:21,097
About mile 17 of the Leadville 100

657
00:34:21,097 --> 00:34:23,217
I met this girl who was running beside me,

658
00:34:23,217 --> 00:34:26,107
we were about keeping
up about the same pace.

659
00:34:26,107 --> 00:34:26,940
So we were chatting.

660
00:34:26,940 --> 00:34:29,727
Turns out she's from St.
Louis so we had tons of stuff

661
00:34:29,727 --> 00:34:34,727
in common but all of the sudden, she stops

662
00:34:34,987 --> 00:34:38,747
and she pulls down her pants
in the middle of the trail

663
00:34:38,747 --> 00:34:41,827
and squats down and starts peeing

664
00:34:41,827 --> 00:34:45,594
and she says, "I am so
sorry, please, please,

665
00:34:45,594 --> 00:34:48,187
"go on without me, I'll
catch up with you."

666
00:34:48,187 --> 00:34:52,577
And you guys, I am a nice,
nice farm boy from Missouri

667
00:34:52,577 --> 00:34:55,014
so I did the polite thing and I said,

668
00:34:55,014 --> 00:34:57,523
"That's okay, I'll wait."

669
00:34:57,523 --> 00:35:00,899
(audience laughing)

670
00:35:00,899 --> 00:35:02,899
-  Woo!

671
00:35:11,147 --> 00:35:14,800
- You guys, I had never seen that.

672
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,843
I mean I hadn't seen that
but I also hadn't seen that.

673
00:35:21,843 --> 00:35:24,587
(audience laughing)

674
00:35:24,587 --> 00:35:28,607
My mom totally lied to me
because that looked nothing

675
00:35:28,607 --> 00:35:30,869
like a freshly-baked peach cobbler.

676
00:35:30,869 --> 00:35:33,869
(audience laughing)

677
00:35:36,167 --> 00:35:39,320
-  We've got a gingerbread
man coming up the road.

678
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,157
He's still a ways out though

679
00:35:41,157 --> 00:35:42,967
so you can relax.

680
00:35:42,967 --> 00:35:43,940
- A gingerbread man.

681
00:35:44,916 --> 00:35:46,763
Oh it's too loud.

682
00:35:46,763 --> 00:35:47,846
Woo, Jeffrey!

683
00:35:49,561 --> 00:35:53,144
-  Oh yeah, he
totally was looking.

684
00:35:54,643 --> 00:35:56,115
- Good job.

685
00:35:56,115 --> 00:35:57,067
- I don't know if he's
looking at the cow bells

686
00:35:57,067 --> 00:35:59,490
or your loud mouth (laughs)

687
00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:02,487
- Woo!

688
00:36:02,487 --> 00:36:04,667
Wait, I was looking at that guy.

689
00:36:04,667 --> 00:36:05,500
(man laughs)

690
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:06,333
- Where?

691
00:36:06,333 --> 00:36:07,166
- I thought it was him.

692
00:36:07,166 --> 00:36:08,249
Oh he's there.
- He's right there.

693
00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:09,519
- Oh.

694
00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:12,186
(serious music)

695
00:36:18,207 --> 00:36:19,040
Yeah!

696
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,986
(cow bells ringing)

697
00:36:20,986 --> 00:36:22,901
-  I should of
made up time and I didn't.

698
00:36:22,901 --> 00:36:23,859
-  It's all right.

699
00:36:23,859 --> 00:36:25,067
You're still doing good.

700
00:36:25,067 --> 00:36:26,517
-  Good job man, that was good.

701
00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:29,517
(slow quirky music)

702
00:36:37,347 --> 00:36:38,222
-  Yeah!

703
00:36:38,222 --> 00:36:43,222
Woo!
(cow bells ringing)

704
00:36:43,397 --> 00:36:44,516
- How are you guys?

705
00:36:44,516 --> 00:36:45,571
(laughing)

706
00:36:45,571 --> 00:36:47,404
-  We're great.

707
00:36:48,412 --> 00:36:49,288
Bye, love you.

708
00:36:49,288 --> 00:36:50,802
-  Get it.

709
00:36:50,802 --> 00:36:51,985
-  Woo hoo!

710
00:36:51,985 --> 00:36:52,856
(clapping)

711
00:36:52,856 --> 00:36:56,023
(upbeat quirky music)

712
00:36:58,389 --> 00:37:01,472
(slow serious music)

713
00:37:07,422 --> 00:37:10,066
-  You can do it!

714
00:37:10,066 --> 00:37:11,951
- I'm really close to missing the cutoff.

715
00:37:11,951 --> 00:37:12,784
-  It's okay.

716
00:37:12,784 --> 00:37:13,617
-  Hey buddy, keep working.

717
00:37:13,617 --> 00:37:14,450
Keep pushing.

718
00:37:14,450 --> 00:37:17,952
-  You got this.
(clapping)

719
00:37:17,952 --> 00:37:19,133
- It's been about 20 minutes on checkpoint

720
00:37:19,133 --> 00:37:20,290
every one, so.

721
00:37:20,290 --> 00:37:24,232
- Yeah, and its a lot of downhill, so.

722
00:37:24,232 --> 00:37:25,859
Ah, come on Jeff!

723
00:37:25,859 --> 00:37:29,798
(upbeat cheerful music)

724
00:37:29,798 --> 00:37:33,201
(heavy breathing)

725
00:37:33,201 --> 00:37:36,534
(upbeat cheerful music)

726
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,950
(clapping)

727
00:37:50,970 --> 00:37:53,220
(clapping)

728
00:38:00,389 --> 00:38:01,863
-  Woo hoo!

729
00:38:01,863 --> 00:38:04,113
(clapping)

730
00:38:08,747 --> 00:38:10,440
-  You're good.

731
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:11,273
- Yeah.

732
00:38:11,273 --> 00:38:13,978
-  You want some soup?

733
00:38:13,978 --> 00:38:14,878
Potatoes?

734
00:38:14,878 --> 00:38:15,711
- I think I'm good.

735
00:38:15,711 --> 00:38:16,878
Thanks though.

736
00:38:20,816 --> 00:38:22,064
- How's your phone?

737
00:38:22,064 --> 00:38:24,897
(Jeffrey mumbles)

738
00:38:27,051 --> 00:38:28,134
-  Yeah.

739
00:38:30,225 --> 00:38:32,128
-  It was awful.

740
00:38:32,128 --> 00:38:33,191
-  Okay, where do you want taped?

741
00:38:33,191 --> 00:38:35,487
-  Not pooping, just
the ball of my right foot.

742
00:38:35,487 --> 00:38:36,964
-  Jeffrey, do I need to
push the button on this thing?

743
00:38:36,964 --> 00:38:39,179
-  Yeah, right
button right there.

744
00:38:39,179 --> 00:38:40,310
You're good, you're good.

745
00:38:40,310 --> 00:38:42,397
-  Okay, all
right, you're charging.

746
00:38:42,397 --> 00:38:45,052
(upbeat cheerful music)

747
00:38:45,052 --> 00:38:47,752
-  Bill Dooper was
talking up a storm about you.

748
00:38:51,757 --> 00:38:52,857
-  You're good, want some more?

749
00:38:52,857 --> 00:38:54,468
- John, how are you?

750
00:38:54,468 --> 00:38:55,301
-  Doing good, Jeff.

751
00:38:55,301 --> 00:38:56,501
- What are you here for?

752
00:38:57,653 --> 00:38:58,497
-  To watch the race?

753
00:38:58,497 --> 00:39:00,179
- I mean in Colorado.

754
00:39:00,179 --> 00:39:01,427
(man mumbles)

755
00:39:01,427 --> 00:39:02,947
- Just came here for me?

756
00:39:02,947 --> 00:39:04,301
- You're worried about time.

757
00:39:04,301 --> 00:39:05,277
Probably not a good time for the weight.

758
00:39:05,277 --> 00:39:06,324
-  Take it off.

759
00:39:06,324 --> 00:39:07,507
- No, no I think I should rolling

760
00:39:07,507 --> 00:39:08,340
if I have time I'll...

761
00:39:08,340 --> 00:39:09,173
- You can't go down this way.

762
00:39:09,173 --> 00:39:10,447
You gotta go up.
-  To the right.

763
00:39:10,447 --> 00:39:11,560
-  Okay, bye guys.

764
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:12,393
(clapping)

765
00:39:12,393 --> 00:39:13,712
-  All right, don't worry about us.

766
00:39:13,712 --> 00:39:14,756
Worry about your time.

767
00:39:14,756 --> 00:39:16,414
Don't think about pooping.

768
00:39:16,414 --> 00:39:17,361
-  What?

769
00:39:17,361 --> 00:39:18,194
-  Don't worry.

770
00:39:18,194 --> 00:39:20,967
- The hardest part of
the trail is Hope Pass.

771
00:39:20,967 --> 00:39:24,137
You go over and down and
then you go a few miles,

772
00:39:24,137 --> 00:39:26,117
turn around and do it again.

773
00:39:26,117 --> 00:39:28,647
If you're successful on that part,

774
00:39:28,647 --> 00:39:30,877
there's a pretty good chance
you're gonna be successful

775
00:39:30,877 --> 00:39:35,230
in the race but that's the
toughest part of the course.

776
00:39:36,657 --> 00:39:38,387
- It's already brutal.

777
00:39:38,387 --> 00:39:39,230
Like brutal.

778
00:39:40,367 --> 00:39:41,727
It's the most miserable feeling.

779
00:39:41,727 --> 00:39:46,007
It's like you literally can't breathe.

780
00:39:46,007 --> 00:39:48,016
I mean, you can try.

781
00:39:48,016 --> 00:39:52,297
But it's like you can't
get air no matter how,

782
00:39:52,297 --> 00:39:54,530
not matter how...ugh!

783
00:39:55,660 --> 00:39:56,677
I knew that it was close.

784
00:39:56,677 --> 00:39:58,827
I knew that I was really,
really, really close

785
00:39:58,827 --> 00:39:59,927
to missing the cutoff.

786
00:40:01,250 --> 00:40:02,083
(cheering)

787
00:40:02,083 --> 00:40:05,147
- Do you know if it was a
medical or 'cause of timeout

788
00:40:05,147 --> 00:40:08,237
- I don't mean to be, these
were mostly were timing

789
00:40:08,237 --> 00:40:10,450
because they got past there at 4;15.

790
00:40:11,487 --> 00:40:12,397
And they were turned back.

791
00:40:12,397 --> 00:40:14,645
-  Okay, there's no other way

792
00:40:14,645 --> 00:40:16,730
to tell, find that out
other than just going?

793
00:40:16,730 --> 00:40:18,737
- None that I know of
or that I'm aware of.

794
00:40:18,737 --> 00:40:21,347
I mean, the only way to
transport somebody out

795
00:40:21,347 --> 00:40:23,557
the top of Hope is by helicopter.

796
00:40:23,557 --> 00:40:27,567
So, yeah, there'd be a
flurry of activity (laughs)

797
00:40:27,567 --> 00:40:28,577
if that was happening.

798
00:40:28,577 --> 00:40:30,067
-  Sorry, his
sister's freaking out.

799
00:40:30,067 --> 00:40:31,296
We just said we'd ask (laugh).

800
00:40:31,296 --> 00:40:32,747
Yeah, my suspicion is

801
00:40:32,747 --> 00:40:35,254
they just turned back
and he's walking back.

802
00:40:35,254 --> 00:40:36,087
- Okay.

803
00:40:36,087 --> 00:40:41,087
(clock ticking)
(wind blowing)

804
00:40:45,390 --> 00:40:47,700
(wind blowing)

805
00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:51,417
- I just talked to the guy on the radio

806
00:40:51,417 --> 00:40:55,807
he confirmed Jeffery was, in
fact, sent back at Hope Pass.

807
00:40:55,807 --> 00:40:58,147
His time was 4:15.

808
00:40:58,147 --> 00:41:01,017
It was after 4:15, the cutoff was 4:15.

809
00:41:01,017 --> 00:41:03,600
So they sent him back to Twin Lakes.

810
00:41:05,387 --> 00:41:06,220
Sucks.

811
00:41:08,197 --> 00:41:09,030
Feel bad.

812
00:41:09,030 --> 00:41:10,187
He had a lot going right, you know,

813
00:41:10,187 --> 00:41:11,487
a lot working against him.

814
00:41:14,087 --> 00:41:15,963
- I just feel so bad.

815
00:41:15,963 --> 00:41:16,796
I'm being so emotional.

816
00:41:16,796 --> 00:41:18,277
I just feel like
everything he's worked for.

817
00:41:18,277 --> 00:41:20,627
He's gonna be so bummed
and he tried so hard

818
00:41:20,627 --> 00:41:21,460
and he trained so hard.

819
00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:22,760
- I know.

820
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:23,593
He's still gonna be proud.

821
00:41:23,593 --> 00:41:24,426
- I know.

822
00:41:24,426 --> 00:41:25,259
He just needs to be proud.

823
00:41:25,259 --> 00:41:26,407
I just don't want him to be really upset

824
00:41:26,407 --> 00:41:27,997
and I just want him to be okay.

825
00:41:27,997 --> 00:41:29,697
Which they said he was
because there would be a

826
00:41:29,697 --> 00:41:31,282
helicopter to a mountain if

827
00:41:31,282 --> 00:41:32,920
anything was terrible, so.

828
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,753
(heavy breathing)

829
00:41:41,707 --> 00:41:43,305
- I didn't make it.

830
00:41:43,305 --> 00:41:46,138
(heavy breathing)

831
00:41:59,042 --> 00:42:00,459
I didn't make it.

832
00:42:02,767 --> 00:42:06,487
I missed the Hope Pass
cutoff by 14 minutes

833
00:42:08,457 --> 00:42:09,457
and so I got pulled.

834
00:42:10,302 --> 00:42:13,135
(heavy breathing)

835
00:42:22,851 --> 00:42:27,097
I don't know what to
say to this dumb thing.

836
00:42:27,097 --> 00:42:27,930
-  Nice job guys.

837
00:42:27,930 --> 00:42:28,780
- I'm like numb.

838
00:42:29,627 --> 00:42:31,927
I've never been in this much pain.

839
00:42:31,927 --> 00:42:34,000
That was the hardest thing I've ever done.

840
00:42:39,437 --> 00:42:41,190
I don't know, I don't
want to talk to this.

841
00:42:47,183 --> 00:42:49,433
(laughing)

842
00:42:50,980 --> 00:42:55,543
-  I was like, "Okay" (laughs).

843
00:42:55,543 --> 00:42:58,293
(engine running)

844
00:43:15,246 --> 00:43:16,357
(somber music)

845
00:43:16,357 --> 00:43:18,307
- Instead I'm sitting here on the sofa,

846
00:43:20,377 --> 00:43:22,347
literally shoving pasta in my mouth.

847
00:43:22,347 --> 00:43:25,994
So that's a decent consolation, isn't it?

848
00:43:31,121 --> 00:43:33,871
(spoon clanking)

849
00:43:36,373 --> 00:43:37,206
I don't know, it's so weird.

850
00:43:37,206 --> 00:43:38,507
It's like it's still sinking it.

851
00:43:38,507 --> 00:43:40,345
It's like a slow burn.

852
00:43:40,345 --> 00:43:43,607
(spoon clanking)

853
00:43:43,607 --> 00:43:46,107
Even when I was climbing
Hope Pass, like you know.

854
00:43:47,817 --> 00:43:50,244
It's not like you get there and it's like,

855
00:43:50,244 --> 00:43:51,814
"Oh, did I make it, did I not make it?

856
00:43:51,814 --> 00:43:53,164
"Oh, I didn't make it, aw."

857
00:43:54,827 --> 00:43:57,047
You know you're not making it.

858
00:43:57,047 --> 00:43:59,367
You can see the minutes going by

859
00:43:59,367 --> 00:44:01,430
and you can see how far you have to go.

860
00:44:04,501 --> 00:44:05,733
(spoon clanking)

861
00:44:05,733 --> 00:44:08,770
And you get there and you're like praying,

862
00:44:11,004 --> 00:44:12,840
"Oh maybe my watch is off.

863
00:44:14,124 --> 00:44:16,094
"Maybe they're just not making people

864
00:44:16,094 --> 00:44:18,127
"follow the rules, today." (laughs)

865
00:44:18,127 --> 00:44:19,890
I don't know, maybe, something.

866
00:44:21,378 --> 00:44:24,067
(spoon clanking)

867
00:44:24,067 --> 00:44:24,900
But no.

868
00:44:26,887 --> 00:44:27,720
I was late.

869
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:31,167
So.

870
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,070
(spoon clanking)

871
00:44:40,257 --> 00:44:41,370
I'm kinda fine with it.

872
00:44:41,370 --> 00:44:42,837
I mean, I'm not fine with it.

873
00:44:42,837 --> 00:44:47,807
I'm really disappointed
but the harder thing

874
00:44:47,807 --> 00:44:49,270
is everybody else, you know?

875
00:44:51,144 --> 00:44:55,027
I made such a big f-ing deal (laughs)

876
00:44:55,027 --> 00:44:57,004
about running a hundred miles.

877
00:44:57,004 --> 00:44:59,587
(somber music)

878
00:45:00,437 --> 00:45:01,720
Never again.

879
00:45:03,711 --> 00:45:06,547
You know I'm trying to
figure out what thing

880
00:45:06,547 --> 00:45:08,847
I should have done differently

881
00:45:08,847 --> 00:45:11,907
and I can't think of one thing

882
00:45:11,907 --> 00:45:12,857
that I should have done differently

883
00:45:12,857 --> 00:45:14,897
because there are a million things

884
00:45:14,897 --> 00:45:16,267
that I could've done differently.

885
00:45:16,267 --> 00:45:20,887
And I don't know, I
don't know what it was.

886
00:45:20,887 --> 00:45:25,247
I don't know, I mean I just don't know.

887
00:45:25,247 --> 00:45:27,155
And I probably will never know.

888
00:45:27,155 --> 00:45:27,988
(computer beep)

889
00:45:27,988 --> 00:45:29,277
Hi Ian.

890
00:45:29,277 --> 00:45:30,110
- Hi.

891
00:45:30,110 --> 00:45:32,677
How's it going and how are
you feeling after Leadville?

892
00:45:32,677 --> 00:45:37,097
- Oh, I'm fine (laughs)

893
00:45:37,097 --> 00:45:39,977
- We went into it knowing
it was gonna be very tough.

894
00:45:39,977 --> 00:45:41,847
Especially living at sea level

895
00:45:41,847 --> 00:45:43,917
doing an altitude race and
I think that was probably

896
00:45:43,917 --> 00:45:47,987
the largest single factor
that made it difficult.

897
00:45:47,987 --> 00:45:49,817
But you still got a hell of a long way,

898
00:45:49,817 --> 00:45:51,317
longest run you've ever done.

899
00:45:51,317 --> 00:45:52,957
And there was some very
good running in there.

900
00:45:52,957 --> 00:45:54,617
So there's a lot that we
can take away from that.

901
00:45:54,617 --> 00:45:55,870
- Mm-hmm.

902
00:45:56,807 --> 00:45:58,797
- I bet it doesn't feel like that

903
00:45:58,797 --> 00:46:01,987
but you do tend to learn
more from the races

904
00:46:01,987 --> 00:46:04,417
that don't go well than
the ones that go perfectly

905
00:46:04,417 --> 00:46:06,867
and we weren't expecting,
no one ever would,

906
00:46:06,867 --> 00:46:09,417
at a race like a
hundred-miler like Leadville

907
00:46:09,417 --> 00:46:11,317
to just breeze through it and it to be

908
00:46:11,317 --> 00:46:13,647
relatively easy and everything go well.

909
00:46:13,647 --> 00:46:16,157
But I think that realistically,

910
00:46:16,157 --> 00:46:18,107
we've got a lot of positives
that came away from that,

911
00:46:18,107 --> 00:46:19,817
some really good running, some really good

912
00:46:19,817 --> 00:46:22,487
buildup to it as well
and we can definitely

913
00:46:22,487 --> 00:46:25,077
take that on to things in the future.

914
00:46:25,077 --> 00:46:27,587
So I wouldn't be too down-hearted by that.

915
00:46:27,587 --> 00:46:30,617
Just even starting it is a big deal.

916
00:46:30,617 --> 00:46:32,177
And the fact that it didn't go perfectly

917
00:46:32,177 --> 00:46:35,717
the first attempt, that is no negative

918
00:46:35,717 --> 00:46:39,107
or thing that you should
just think you've failed

919
00:46:39,107 --> 00:46:41,447
because really, if you look at the race,

920
00:46:41,447 --> 00:46:43,687
I think less than half
the people finished it.

921
00:46:43,687 --> 00:46:46,287
- You guys, I was in
the depths of despair.

922
00:46:46,287 --> 00:46:47,500
I was so over it.

923
00:46:48,577 --> 00:46:52,647
I finally pulled myself
up by the bootstraps

924
00:46:52,647 --> 00:46:55,524
and said, "You know what? (sighs)

925
00:46:55,524 --> 00:46:56,930
"Let's do this again."

926
00:46:56,930 --> 00:47:00,263
(upbeat cheerful music)

927
00:47:21,913 --> 00:47:24,047
I'm vegan but I'm not an
obnoxious vegan, you guys.

928
00:47:24,047 --> 00:47:26,947
I'm like a cool vegan,
you know I mean like

929
00:47:28,477 --> 00:47:29,461
I eat meat, you know.

930
00:47:29,461 --> 00:47:32,461
(audience laughing)

931
00:47:33,477 --> 00:47:37,867
- He's now vegan which is, if
he hasn't told you, he will.

932
00:47:39,321 --> 00:47:42,654
(vibrant country music)

933
00:48:20,029 --> 00:48:21,564
- You know there's so
much buildup to Leadville

934
00:48:21,564 --> 00:48:24,157
and then I had been
planning and training for it

935
00:48:24,157 --> 00:48:26,980
for over a year, kinda feels like

936
00:48:26,980 --> 00:48:29,713
I've been planning a wedding. (laughs)

937
00:48:29,713 --> 00:48:30,546
- Yep, yep.

938
00:48:30,546 --> 00:48:31,379
- It just didn't happen.

939
00:48:31,379 --> 00:48:32,757
In the end, just everyone got there.

940
00:48:32,757 --> 00:48:33,617
Everyone arrived.

941
00:48:33,617 --> 00:48:36,163
We started the wedding
but it just didn't happen.

942
00:48:36,163 --> 00:48:37,934
And so, I definitely--

943
00:48:38,997 --> 00:48:41,087
- The bride ran off but lucky
you found another bride, so.

944
00:48:41,087 --> 00:48:42,447
- I found another bride.

945
00:48:42,447 --> 00:48:43,630
- Very soon afterwards, yep.

946
00:48:43,630 --> 00:48:44,463
(laughing)

947
00:48:44,463 --> 00:48:46,057
- Yeah, yeah exactly.

948
00:48:46,057 --> 00:48:49,474
(cheerful country music)

949
00:48:54,251 --> 00:48:55,682
- I'm just a chubby ginger on the verge

950
00:48:55,682 --> 00:48:57,950
of heat exhaustion and I need some shade.

951
00:48:57,950 --> 00:49:01,367
(cheerful country music)

952
00:49:11,496 --> 00:49:14,582
Supposed to run 21 miles today.

953
00:49:14,582 --> 00:49:15,832
Quitting at 15.

954
00:49:17,464 --> 00:49:19,769
One of those runs.

955
00:49:19,769 --> 00:49:23,019
(upbeat country music)

956
00:49:45,427 --> 00:49:46,890
I started training again.

957
00:49:48,217 --> 00:49:50,477
Six months later, I am
in Huntsville, Texas

958
00:49:50,477 --> 00:49:54,887
to run the Rocky Raccoon
100-mile ultramarathon.

959
00:49:54,887 --> 00:49:58,220
(cheerful quirky music)

960
00:50:02,467 --> 00:50:07,390
It's the day before the
race and my crew is jazzed.

961
00:50:10,406 --> 00:50:11,489
- I'm jazzed.

962
00:50:12,431 --> 00:50:13,557
She's ready.

963
00:50:13,557 --> 00:50:14,457
She's ready to go.

964
00:50:16,142 --> 00:50:16,975
- I don't know.

965
00:50:16,975 --> 00:50:18,447
The one thing I know from Leadville

966
00:50:18,447 --> 00:50:20,427
is that I don't know what's
gonna happen tomorrow.

967
00:50:20,427 --> 00:50:21,607
I have no idea.

968
00:50:21,607 --> 00:50:23,507
Like, no clue.

969
00:50:23,507 --> 00:50:27,847
Like I'm ready, I've
trained but I don't know.

970
00:50:27,847 --> 00:50:30,269
I mean literally, anything could happen.

971
00:50:30,269 --> 00:50:33,352
(slow pensive music)

972
00:50:44,502 --> 00:50:45,934
Oh, did you want to come in with me?

973
00:50:45,934 --> 00:50:48,017
(cameraman mumbling)

974
00:50:48,017 --> 00:50:50,037
- These feet done been taped.

975
00:50:50,037 --> 00:50:53,380
These feet done went and been taped.

976
00:50:54,919 --> 00:50:57,752
Mm, oh, these Pro Bars are amazing.

977
00:51:00,737 --> 00:51:03,087
I love Pro Bars.

978
00:51:03,087 --> 00:51:05,839
If it wasn't for Pro Bars, I
don't think I'd be able to run

979
00:51:05,839 --> 00:51:07,715
at all, ever.

980
00:51:07,715 --> 00:51:09,715
Mm, mm, Pro Bar, mm, oh.

981
00:51:14,794 --> 00:51:16,235
Okay.

982
00:51:16,235 --> 00:51:17,068
-  What's that?

983
00:51:17,068 --> 00:51:18,882
- A little Hair Club for Men.

984
00:51:18,882 --> 00:51:19,815
-  Oh, really?

985
00:51:19,815 --> 00:51:22,982
(upbeat quirky music)

986
00:51:26,557 --> 00:51:28,697
I've got party all around but

987
00:51:30,637 --> 00:51:32,537
if you're coming in from a helicopter,

988
00:51:35,537 --> 00:51:36,495
-  Watch out.

989
00:51:36,495 --> 00:51:38,595
- The party stops (laughs) pretty quickly.

990
00:51:42,727 --> 00:51:44,777
I think I'm doing this because

991
00:51:48,967 --> 00:51:53,030
while she couldn't change
her life, I can, you know?

992
00:51:55,017 --> 00:51:57,127
I finally pulled it together and I decided

993
00:51:57,127 --> 00:51:58,957
I was going to run another ultramarathon,

994
00:51:58,957 --> 00:52:00,957
another 100-mile ultramarathon.

995
00:52:00,957 --> 00:52:03,047
So I talked to Ian and we finally decided

996
00:52:03,047 --> 00:52:06,690
that the best next option
was the Rocky Raccoon 100.

997
00:52:06,690 --> 00:52:11,330
A 100-mile ultramarathon
just north of Houston, Texas.

998
00:52:13,327 --> 00:52:15,180
I don't know, I guess I'll feel fine.

999
00:52:16,227 --> 00:52:17,607
It's really dark and it's gonna be dark

1000
00:52:17,607 --> 00:52:20,297
for the first 45 minutes
so I get a little taste

1001
00:52:20,297 --> 00:52:23,777
of what the 13 hours of hell

1002
00:52:23,777 --> 00:52:26,117
in the middle of the night
are going be like (laughs).

1003
00:52:26,117 --> 00:52:27,977
So I kinda kept this one on the down-low

1004
00:52:27,977 --> 00:52:32,977
just because I was, I don't know.

1005
00:52:33,857 --> 00:52:35,667
I just, after Leadville, I'd made

1006
00:52:35,667 --> 00:52:38,144
such a big fricking
to-do about it, you know.

1007
00:52:38,144 --> 00:52:40,757
It was like, just made it that much harder

1008
00:52:40,757 --> 00:52:44,277
to tell everyone I failed.

1009
00:52:44,277 --> 00:52:47,337
So, nobody knows about this one.

1010
00:52:47,337 --> 00:52:51,507
I'm doing this one in secret, sort of.

1011
00:52:51,507 --> 00:52:53,377
My close friends know but other than that,

1012
00:52:53,377 --> 00:52:57,376
nobody knows that I'm here
doing this this weekend.

1013
00:52:57,376 --> 00:52:59,397
I don't have to deal with
the barrage of text messages

1014
00:52:59,397 --> 00:53:01,467
asking me how it went and how it felt

1015
00:53:01,467 --> 00:53:04,650
to cross the finish line
(laughs), when I didn't.

1016
00:53:07,247 --> 00:53:10,105
So, we'll see what happens, I don't know.

1017
00:53:10,105 --> 00:53:12,544
I don't know, I don't know.

1018
00:53:12,544 --> 00:53:14,389
(slow pensive music)

1019
00:53:14,389 --> 00:53:17,306
(crowd chattering)

1020
00:53:37,393 --> 00:53:41,032
(slow pensive music)

1021
00:53:41,032 --> 00:53:43,367
I'm heading into the end of my second loop

1022
00:53:43,367 --> 00:53:45,807
and shit's officially
starting to fall apart

1023
00:53:46,737 --> 00:53:49,647
and my body is officially
starting to fall apart.

1024
00:53:49,647 --> 00:53:50,480
My feet hurt.

1025
00:53:53,127 --> 00:53:53,960
Not that guy.

1026
00:53:54,997 --> 00:53:55,897
He's looking good.

1027
00:53:57,193 --> 00:53:59,079
(deep breath)

1028
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:01,684
But, on the bright side, I only have,

1029
00:54:04,503 --> 00:54:06,807
I only have 65 miles to go.

1030
00:54:06,807 --> 00:54:09,630
So, I should probably start running.

1031
00:54:16,609 --> 00:54:21,192
-  Do you want to try
a little something to eat?

1032
00:54:23,284 --> 00:54:24,117
- I'm okay.

1033
00:54:24,117 --> 00:54:24,950
-  You look great.

1034
00:54:24,950 --> 00:54:27,000
Keep your bag?

1035
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:27,833
- Yeah it's okay.

1036
00:54:27,833 --> 00:54:29,916
-  Can I keep your jacket?

1037
00:54:29,916 --> 00:54:30,836
- Yeah.

1038
00:54:30,836 --> 00:54:34,419
(slpw inspirational music)

1039
00:54:40,247 --> 00:54:41,092
-  You want it on now?

1040
00:54:41,092 --> 00:54:44,675
(slow inspirational music)

1041
00:55:28,466 --> 00:55:30,928
- Okay, this is good.

1042
00:55:30,928 --> 00:55:32,011
No it's okay.

1043
00:55:33,102 --> 00:55:34,679
-  We can be
there, we can be there.

1044
00:55:34,679 --> 00:55:38,262
(slow inspirational music)

1045
00:55:48,355 --> 00:55:51,272
(crowd chattering)

1046
00:55:55,247 --> 00:55:56,839
-  We, ugh...

1047
00:55:56,839 --> 00:56:01,797
somewhere between 60 and 63.

1048
00:56:01,797 --> 00:56:04,727
- And as I was falling in slow motion

1049
00:56:04,727 --> 00:56:06,780
I had a decision to make.

1050
00:56:07,877 --> 00:56:12,877
Do I break my fall with
my chest and save my food?

1051
00:56:13,207 --> 00:56:18,120
Or do I let my food go and
use my hands to break my fall?

1052
00:56:19,757 --> 00:56:23,401
Well anyone who knows
my relationship to food

1053
00:56:23,401 --> 00:56:25,507
(audience laughing)

1054
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:29,840
knows that I chose to break
my fall with my chest.

1055
00:56:31,647 --> 00:56:34,107
It did not hurt that bad at the time.

1056
00:56:34,107 --> 00:56:37,617
But it would turn out 36
hours later at urgent care

1057
00:56:37,617 --> 00:56:39,947
that I had fractured a rib.

1058
00:56:39,947 --> 00:56:43,617
- So he didn't have enough
calories so we left him

1059
00:56:43,617 --> 00:56:46,587
at checkpoint at 63 and we have hiked

1060
00:56:46,587 --> 00:56:47,927
a mile and a half.
- A mile and a half.

1061
00:56:47,927 --> 00:56:49,687
- Through the woods at mock speed.

1062
00:56:49,687 --> 00:56:51,167
- After-
- In Ugg boots.

1063
00:56:51,167 --> 00:56:54,687
- Yeah, in Ugg boots after
picking up at a meal at camp.

1064
00:56:54,687 --> 00:56:55,637
- And incubating it.

1065
00:56:55,637 --> 00:56:57,868
- And incubating it in the AC.

1066
00:56:57,868 --> 00:56:58,701
- In her coat.

1067
00:56:58,701 --> 00:57:00,437
- In the AC crock pot over here.

1068
00:57:00,437 --> 00:57:03,537
It's in here which is pretty great.

1069
00:57:03,537 --> 00:57:05,487
I'm feeling like it might be too hot

1070
00:57:05,487 --> 00:57:07,037
for him to eat when he gets here.

1071
00:57:07,037 --> 00:57:08,387
Here's start/finish.

1072
00:57:08,387 --> 00:57:09,627
He came out here.

1073
00:57:09,627 --> 00:57:11,297
This is where we saw him
at the nature center,

1074
00:57:11,297 --> 00:57:12,548
right here where these stars are.

1075
00:57:12,548 --> 00:57:13,381
-  Okay.

1076
00:57:13,381 --> 00:57:16,547
-  Then he has to
come all the way down here,

1077
00:57:16,547 --> 00:57:20,247
this, all this orange
trail and this is where

1078
00:57:20,247 --> 00:57:21,367
we got on, here.

1079
00:57:21,367 --> 00:57:22,977
This is the trail head where we got on.

1080
00:57:22,977 --> 00:57:25,077
So then he's gonna come
down exactly where we were,

1081
00:57:25,077 --> 00:57:27,327
hit this trail, come all the way out here.

1082
00:57:27,327 --> 00:57:28,160
-  No, he didn't have time.

1083
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:29,097
-  I don't think he woulda.

1084
00:57:29,097 --> 00:57:30,057
-  So here's over here.

1085
00:57:30,057 --> 00:57:31,927
- He's gonna come from
this direction then.

1086
00:57:31,927 --> 00:57:34,777
I said at 11:59, "Found my
phone, see you at Damnation."

1087
00:57:34,777 --> 00:57:35,747
And it was delivered.

1088
00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:36,580
- Okay mine hasn't been delivered yet.

1089
00:57:36,580 --> 00:57:38,767
- I don't know, does he do read receipt?

1090
00:57:38,767 --> 00:57:40,927
- No.
- Okay, okay.

1091
00:57:40,927 --> 00:57:41,897
So now we just wait.

1092
00:57:41,897 --> 00:57:42,877
- He has that shut off.

1093
00:57:42,877 --> 00:57:43,857
He's sneaky like that.

1094
00:57:43,857 --> 00:57:44,690
- That's okay.

1095
00:57:46,957 --> 00:57:47,974
- You know what?

1096
00:57:47,974 --> 00:57:48,807
- What?

1097
00:57:51,273 --> 00:57:53,147
- I'm just gonna take this,
sorry if you're already

1098
00:57:53,147 --> 00:57:55,097
there, I'm just gonna take this headlamp.

1099
00:57:55,097 --> 00:57:57,830
- Okay, you don't want any
batteries in this then?

1100
00:57:57,830 --> 00:57:59,557
Want new batteries?

1101
00:57:59,557 --> 00:58:00,930
-  We got 'em laid out for ya.

1102
00:58:01,817 --> 00:58:02,927
-  There we are right here.

1103
00:58:02,927 --> 00:58:06,335
- Um, I need to be out of here by 20.

1104
00:58:06,335 --> 00:58:07,168
-  20?

1105
00:58:07,168 --> 00:58:08,001
You got 4 minutes.

1106
00:58:08,001 --> 00:58:08,834
We can do this.

1107
00:58:08,834 --> 00:58:09,937
Your breakfast is ready.

1108
00:58:10,887 --> 00:58:14,057
- Yeah I need a NoDoz
and can you put a NoDoz

1109
00:58:14,057 --> 00:58:17,057
in the top, left front zipper?

1110
00:58:17,057 --> 00:58:17,917
-  Sorry, do you want me

1111
00:58:17,917 --> 00:58:18,837
to wash your face or anything?

1112
00:58:18,837 --> 00:58:19,670
- No, it's okay.

1113
00:58:19,670 --> 00:58:21,504
-  Okay, how are your feet?

1114
00:58:21,504 --> 00:58:22,907
You need tape?

1115
00:58:22,907 --> 00:58:24,440
- Do you want ibuprofen again?

1116
00:58:26,218 --> 00:58:27,051
- Yeah.

1117
00:58:28,258 --> 00:58:31,200
-  Do you want any
cramp stuff in your bag?

1118
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,271
- Yeah and I want one now.

1119
00:58:33,271 --> 00:58:35,680
- You want one now?

1120
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:37,666
-  I'm pretty sure you
just drank one, didn't you?

1121
00:58:37,666 --> 00:58:40,749
(slow mellow music)

1122
00:58:42,827 --> 00:58:45,490
- Oh my God guys, what am I doing?

1123
00:58:46,687 --> 00:58:48,032
It's really cold.

1124
00:58:48,032 --> 00:58:49,067
-  Yeah, we know.
-  It's very cold.

1125
00:58:49,067 --> 00:58:51,370
- It's really, really cold and I'm sweaty.

1126
00:58:54,686 --> 00:58:56,370
-  You didn't take these?

1127
00:58:56,370 --> 00:58:57,203
- No.

1128
00:58:59,213 --> 00:59:01,067
-  All right, Jeff, breakfast.

1129
00:59:02,604 --> 00:59:04,084
- Okay.

1130
00:59:04,084 --> 00:59:06,627
-  You got 2 minutes 15 to go.

1131
00:59:06,627 --> 00:59:09,068
Are you leaving the blue coat on then?

1132
00:59:09,068 --> 00:59:10,807
- I gotta put my pack on underneath it.

1133
00:59:10,807 --> 00:59:13,833
-  Okay, all
right, here we go, grab.

1134
00:59:13,833 --> 00:59:14,747
- It's gonna be a big one, one.

1135
00:59:14,747 --> 00:59:15,867
-  Okay, let's do it.

1136
00:59:15,867 --> 00:59:16,940
-  Two, three.

1137
00:59:17,941 --> 00:59:19,418
(Jeff groans)

1138
00:59:19,418 --> 00:59:22,501
(slow pensive music)

1139
00:59:25,893 --> 00:59:29,220
- Make sure your phone stays in.

1140
00:59:29,220 --> 00:59:30,053
You've got one minute.

1141
00:59:30,053 --> 00:59:33,136
(slow pensive music)

1142
00:59:36,150 --> 00:59:37,307
-  Can't see it
there in the darkness.

1143
00:59:37,307 --> 00:59:40,390
(slow pensive music)

1144
00:59:43,327 --> 00:59:44,160
Take this.

1145
00:59:45,999 --> 00:59:46,832
I got it.

1146
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:54,883
-  You got your gloves?

1147
00:59:54,883 --> 00:59:56,669
- Yeah, I should.

1148
00:59:56,669 --> 00:59:59,598
(Jeff groans)

1149
00:59:59,598 --> 01:00:00,431
- Sorry.

1150
01:00:00,431 --> 01:00:03,098
-  Nope, don't be sorry.

1151
01:00:05,937 --> 01:00:07,397
-  Okay what about
the lightweight black one?

1152
01:00:07,397 --> 01:00:09,198
Are we tucking it in somewhere?

1153
01:00:09,198 --> 01:00:10,964
- On my hose.

1154
01:00:10,964 --> 01:00:12,714
-  Your hose?

1155
01:00:14,722 --> 01:00:17,294
- No I don't know if that one.

1156
01:00:17,294 --> 01:00:18,279
-  Hey, you're looking good.

1157
01:00:18,279 --> 01:00:19,112
- Oh yeah.

1158
01:00:19,112 --> 01:00:19,945
-  He's looking great, isn't he?

1159
01:00:19,945 --> 01:00:21,307
-  He's looking great,
he's coming back out.

1160
01:00:21,307 --> 01:00:22,767
-  So proud, he's on his way.

1161
01:00:22,767 --> 01:00:23,600
All right.

1162
01:00:25,075 --> 01:00:26,758
- Oh there's one in there too.

1163
01:00:26,758 --> 01:00:29,841
(slow pensive music)

1164
01:00:34,265 --> 01:00:35,899
I don't care, punch it.

1165
01:00:35,899 --> 01:00:37,512
(Jeff groans)

1166
01:00:37,512 --> 01:00:38,345
Okay

1167
01:00:38,345 --> 01:00:39,178
-  Do you want me to meet you with

1168
01:00:39,178 --> 01:00:41,057
the rest of your breakfast
at the nature center?

1169
01:00:41,057 --> 01:00:41,947
- It doesn't matter, i don't care.

1170
01:00:41,947 --> 01:00:44,187
- You gotta have these
calories to keep you

1171
01:00:44,187 --> 01:00:45,299
enough heat going.

1172
01:00:45,299 --> 01:00:46,132
- Okay.

1173
01:00:46,132 --> 01:00:46,965
- Okay.

1174
01:00:46,965 --> 01:00:47,798
- What time is it for real?

1175
01:00:47,798 --> 01:00:48,631
-  For real, for real?

1176
01:00:48,631 --> 01:00:49,464
-  Yeah.
-  22.

1177
01:00:49,464 --> 01:00:50,607
-  Okay.

1178
01:00:50,607 --> 01:00:51,440
-  All right, love you.

1179
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:52,777
We'll see you at the next stop.

1180
01:00:55,953 --> 01:00:57,317
(laughing)

1181
01:00:57,317 --> 01:00:58,807
Bye, we love you.

1182
01:00:58,807 --> 01:00:59,817
-  Love you more.

1183
01:00:59,817 --> 01:01:01,617
-  20 more, you've got this.

1184
01:01:03,208 --> 01:01:07,733
-  Holy shit!
-  So fucking jazzed.

1185
01:01:07,733 --> 01:01:08,812
-  Okay so he's
been there, so that's good.

1186
01:01:08,812 --> 01:01:09,645
-  Okay.

1187
01:01:09,645 --> 01:01:10,478
Do you want to take that bag up?

1188
01:01:10,478 --> 01:01:11,311
Yeah.

1189
01:01:11,311 --> 01:01:15,246
(rising music drowns out women speaking)

1190
01:01:15,246 --> 01:01:19,079
(women cheering and clapping)

1191
01:01:21,127 --> 01:01:22,567
-  Come on Jeff, you got it!

1192
01:01:22,567 --> 01:01:23,400
Woo!

1193
01:01:25,070 --> 01:01:28,153
(slow pensive music)

1194
01:01:35,447 --> 01:01:37,030
-  Good job.

1195
01:01:43,065 --> 01:01:44,185
- Do you?

1196
01:01:44,185 --> 01:01:45,213
-  Yes.

1197
01:01:45,213 --> 01:01:46,292
(laughing)

1198
01:01:46,292 --> 01:01:48,574
- You looks like you had just woke up.

1199
01:01:48,574 --> 01:01:49,553
Can we help you?

1200
01:01:49,553 --> 01:01:50,884
See you in a little bit.

1201
01:01:50,884 --> 01:01:53,967
(slow pensive music)

1202
01:02:01,368 --> 01:02:05,118
(rising inspirational music)

1203
01:02:14,357 --> 01:02:18,440
- She was my safety net,
if anything went wrong,

1204
01:02:19,284 --> 01:02:24,284
ugh, she was always there
no matter what happened

1205
01:02:24,307 --> 01:02:28,077
I knew like, well sure that sucks

1206
01:02:28,077 --> 01:02:29,787
but I'll call my mom.

1207
01:02:29,787 --> 01:02:31,594
She'll take care of it.

1208
01:02:31,594 --> 01:02:35,177
(slow inspirational music)

1209
01:03:01,498 --> 01:03:03,627
Like I just don't have
the words to describe

1210
01:03:03,627 --> 01:03:08,027
what it feels like to
have that net pulled out

1211
01:03:08,027 --> 01:03:09,277
from under you, (sniffs).

1212
01:03:12,799 --> 01:03:13,632
(laughing)

1213
01:03:13,632 --> 01:03:14,817
You think I was a mama's boy?

1214
01:03:14,817 --> 01:03:15,704
Look at me.

1215
01:03:15,704 --> 01:03:17,770
(laughing)

1216
01:03:17,770 --> 01:03:19,234
But, I miss her a lot.

1217
01:03:20,566 --> 01:03:24,149
(slow inspirational music)

1218
01:03:32,661 --> 01:03:35,411
(crowd cheering)

1219
01:03:41,695 --> 01:03:43,470
-  Oh, no, but he's behind them.

1220
01:03:43,470 --> 01:03:44,803
- Come on, Jeff!

1221
01:03:47,617 --> 01:03:48,450
- Yeah!

1222
01:03:48,450 --> 01:03:50,179
- He's gonna make it. He's gonna make it!

1223
01:03:50,179 --> 01:03:51,596
Jeff, let's go!

1224
01:03:51,596 --> 01:03:55,346
(rising inspirational music)

1225
01:03:57,352 --> 01:04:00,519
(crowd clapping)

1226
01:04:00,519 --> 01:04:04,269
(rising inspirational music)

1227
01:04:31,417 --> 01:04:36,047
-  Time, 29
hours, 50 minutes, 16 seconds.

1228
01:04:36,047 --> 01:04:39,857
Previous mile in 20 minutes, 13 seconds.

1229
01:04:39,857 --> 01:04:42,367
Distance 100 miles.

1230
01:04:42,367 --> 01:04:44,040
Distance 100 miles.

1231
01:04:46,298 --> 01:04:48,375
(electronic zoom)

1232
01:04:48,375 --> 01:04:51,458
(slow pensive music)

1233
01:05:31,027 --> 01:05:32,190
- That was really hard.

1234
01:05:32,190 --> 01:05:33,023
-  Yeah.

1235
01:05:33,023 --> 01:05:34,086
(laughing)

1236
01:05:34,086 --> 01:05:35,919
Well yes it was hard.

1237
01:05:45,940 --> 01:05:47,500
- Why did I do that?

1238
01:05:48,357 --> 01:05:49,758
-  We've been
wondering that all night long.

1239
01:05:49,758 --> 01:05:51,387
(laughing)

1240
01:05:51,387 --> 01:05:53,290
-  We wondered why
did we agree to do this?

1241
01:05:53,290 --> 01:05:54,877
(laughing)

1242
01:05:54,877 --> 01:05:55,757
- When you're running these things,

1243
01:05:55,757 --> 01:05:58,017
thy have professional
photographers along the trail.

1244
01:05:58,017 --> 01:06:03,017
And at mile 97, I see a photographer.

1245
01:06:06,357 --> 01:06:07,607
He's in a bush.

1246
01:06:07,607 --> 01:06:09,707
Up until this point,
in every ultramarathon,

1247
01:06:09,707 --> 01:06:12,487
I have refused to pose for these photos.

1248
01:06:12,487 --> 01:06:15,667
I want people to see me,
I want it to be real.

1249
01:06:15,667 --> 01:06:18,977
I want them to see me how
I am an when I'm running.

1250
01:06:18,977 --> 01:06:23,970
But at this point, I
decided I just ran 97 miles.

1251
01:06:24,947 --> 01:06:26,725
Imma a pose for this.

1252
01:06:26,725 --> 01:06:30,187
(audience laughing)

1253
01:06:30,187 --> 01:06:31,527
And this it, you guys.

1254
01:06:31,527 --> 01:06:35,823
This is me, this is me at mile 97.

1255
01:06:35,823 --> 01:06:36,656
(crowd cheers)

1256
01:06:36,656 --> 01:06:37,785
Thank you.

1257
01:06:37,785 --> 01:06:39,957
(crowd applauds)

1258
01:06:39,957 --> 01:06:42,547
I was falling apart, you guys.

1259
01:06:42,547 --> 01:06:44,257
You can't see my feet, but my feet,

1260
01:06:44,257 --> 01:06:47,067
I had blisters upon blisters which would

1261
01:06:47,067 --> 01:06:50,780
have to be lanced at the
urgent care the next day.

1262
01:06:52,167 --> 01:06:55,547
Two toenails would fall
off in the following weeks.

1263
01:06:55,547 --> 01:06:58,917
My feet, every muscle in my foot was,

1264
01:06:58,917 --> 01:07:01,377
foot and ankles, was completely shot.

1265
01:07:01,377 --> 01:07:03,997
This, impossible.

1266
01:07:03,997 --> 01:07:06,900
It was like I was running on two nubs.

1267
01:07:07,734 --> 01:07:10,607
Like completely useless.

1268
01:07:10,607 --> 01:07:12,867
My calves, my calves were fine.

1269
01:07:12,867 --> 01:07:15,107
My calves are always fine.

1270
01:07:15,107 --> 01:07:16,540
They're always good.

1271
01:07:16,540 --> 01:07:19,123
(crowd cheers)

1272
01:07:21,087 --> 01:07:22,867
I know, like it's not a huge deal.

1273
01:07:22,867 --> 01:07:24,917
It's just whatever, you know, it's like

1274
01:07:24,917 --> 01:07:26,865
(audience laughing)

1275
01:07:26,865 --> 01:07:27,788
You can touch it.

1276
01:07:27,788 --> 01:07:30,788
(audience laughing)

1277
01:07:36,267 --> 01:07:37,303
You're welcome.

1278
01:07:37,303 --> 01:07:38,136
(audience laughing)

1279
01:07:38,136 --> 01:07:40,757
This cup, apparently I
thought I knew to hold onto

1280
01:07:40,757 --> 01:07:43,047
this styrofoam cup in
case I stumbled across

1281
01:07:43,047 --> 01:07:45,431
some food in the woods or something.

1282
01:07:45,431 --> 01:07:48,947
(audience laughing)

1283
01:07:48,947 --> 01:07:51,027
And it's slightly ironic that I was eating

1284
01:07:51,027 --> 01:07:54,497
this vegan, organic, non-GMO food

1285
01:07:54,497 --> 01:07:57,227
out of a styrofoam cup (laughs).

1286
01:07:57,227 --> 01:07:59,990
The vegans are not gonna
be happy about that.

1287
01:08:02,222 --> 01:08:05,977
And my brain, you guys, my
brain was like a disaster.

1288
01:08:05,977 --> 01:08:10,527
Your brain can only use
sugar, carbohydrates as energy

1289
01:08:10,527 --> 01:08:12,787
and the thing you are lacking most

1290
01:08:12,787 --> 01:08:15,377
when you're doing something
like this is sugar.

1291
01:08:15,377 --> 01:08:20,024
And your brain, like
you're just not all there.

1292
01:08:20,024 --> 01:08:23,894
You can go from crying
to hysterical laughter

1293
01:08:23,894 --> 01:08:25,067
(snaps) like that.

1294
01:08:26,517 --> 01:08:28,567
So I'm gonna go to the
doctor in a little bit.

1295
01:08:28,567 --> 01:08:31,137
See what they have to say about it.

1296
01:08:31,137 --> 01:08:32,240
Get some drugs.

1297
01:08:33,107 --> 01:08:37,017
But, other than that,
I'm fairly unscathed.

1298
01:08:37,017 --> 01:08:38,650
I think.

1299
01:08:38,650 --> 01:08:42,740
I mean, I finished so, I'm
on top of the freaking moon.

1300
01:08:44,107 --> 01:08:45,737
Over the moon, I'm over the moon,

1301
01:08:45,737 --> 01:08:48,515
I'm on top, I don't
know, I'm really happy.

1302
01:08:48,515 --> 01:08:49,348
(laughing)

1303
01:08:49,348 --> 01:08:54,127
But three miles later, I
crossed the finish line

1304
01:08:55,647 --> 01:09:00,647
in 29 hours, 52 minutes and 16 seconds.

1305
01:09:03,057 --> 01:09:04,932
Across crossed the finish line, limped.

1306
01:09:04,932 --> 01:09:05,765
(crowd cheers)

1307
01:09:05,765 --> 01:09:06,598
Thank you.

1308
01:09:07,666 --> 01:09:09,666
-  Woo!

1309
01:09:12,157 --> 01:09:17,157
- Across the finish line,
limped this Clydesdale.

1310
01:09:17,607 --> 01:09:19,127
I was running down the final stretch

1311
01:09:19,127 --> 01:09:23,227
and all these people cheering
and screaming for me.

1312
01:09:23,227 --> 01:09:25,947
It's amazing, like amazing.

1313
01:09:25,947 --> 01:09:29,087
It's totally worth, you
know, not being able

1314
01:09:29,087 --> 01:09:31,530
to walk and having a fractured rib.

1315
01:09:32,897 --> 01:09:33,797
You should try it.

1316
01:09:35,547 --> 01:09:37,822
The running part, not the fractured rib.

1317
01:09:37,822 --> 01:09:39,247
(laughing)

1318
01:09:39,247 --> 01:09:40,637
I had a good cry.

1319
01:09:40,637 --> 01:09:43,441
I was crippled for a few days.

1320
01:09:43,441 --> 01:09:44,750
But I survived.

1321
01:09:45,746 --> 01:09:50,120
And I think the moral of the story is,

1322
01:09:51,157 --> 01:09:54,787
as cliche as it is, we only
live, we only live once

1323
01:09:54,787 --> 01:09:56,567
and we have to make the most of our time.

1324
01:09:56,567 --> 01:09:59,207
You know my mom would have given anything

1325
01:09:59,207 --> 01:10:00,480
to have been here longer.

1326
01:10:01,337 --> 01:10:03,367
You know, we don't have control

1327
01:10:03,367 --> 01:10:04,507
over how long we're here.

1328
01:10:04,507 --> 01:10:08,857
We don't have control over how we leave.

1329
01:10:08,857 --> 01:10:11,267
But if going for a few hundred-mile runs

1330
01:10:11,267 --> 01:10:14,857
and eating a few less Doritos

1331
01:10:16,137 --> 01:10:18,167
is going to improve the odds of me

1332
01:10:18,167 --> 01:10:22,907
not leaving the way she did, yeah,

1333
01:10:22,907 --> 01:10:25,027
let's run a hundred miles, for sure.

1334
01:10:25,027 --> 01:10:26,617
It's totally worth it.

1335
01:10:26,617 --> 01:10:27,817
If there something you want to do,

1336
01:10:27,817 --> 01:10:29,860
there's like the crazy thing
you've always wanted to do,

1337
01:10:29,860 --> 01:10:33,717
like this is the time, like now.

1338
01:10:33,717 --> 01:10:35,017
Like right now.

1339
01:10:35,017 --> 01:10:36,227
-  You wanting
to do another one ever?

1340
01:10:36,227 --> 01:10:37,450
- No I didn't say that.

1341
01:10:38,487 --> 01:10:39,497
-  I'm asking.

1342
01:10:39,497 --> 01:10:40,415
- Not right now.

1343
01:10:40,415 --> 01:10:41,248
(laughing)

1344
01:10:41,248 --> 01:10:43,242
-  I didn't mean right now.

1345
01:10:43,242 --> 01:10:45,307
- Not right now, I don't ever
want to do another one, but

1346
01:10:45,307 --> 01:10:47,898
I'm sure I will at some point.

1347
01:10:47,898 --> 01:10:51,648
(upbeat inspirational music)

1348
01:10:58,694 --> 01:11:02,607
But all of this was inspired by a quote

1349
01:11:02,607 --> 01:11:06,307
by Mae West that I have always
loved since I was a kid.

1350
01:11:06,307 --> 01:11:10,734
Mae West said, "You only live once

1351
01:11:10,734 --> 01:11:15,734
"but if you do it right, once is enough."

1352
01:11:26,894 --> 01:11:30,144
(upbeat country music)

1353
01:11:38,163 --> 01:11:40,920
♪ Ain't gonna fight with a raging fire ♪

1354
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,724
♪ Ain't gonna walk with the same ♪

1355
01:11:43,724 --> 01:11:46,493
♪ Courage comes from my own desire ♪

1356
01:11:46,493 --> 01:11:48,671
♪ Leaving myself with the blame ♪

1357
01:11:48,671 --> 01:11:52,838
♪ But a spark turns into flames ♪

1358
01:12:00,461 --> 01:12:03,183
♪ It's hard to run from
the endless worry ♪

1359
01:12:03,183 --> 01:12:05,940
♪ Lonely times are so cold ♪

1360
01:12:05,940 --> 01:12:08,686
♪ You left me with a fighting fury♪

1361
01:12:08,686 --> 01:12:10,920
♪ Burning deep in my soul ♪

1362
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,128
♪ And a spark ♪

1363
01:12:13,128 --> 01:12:18,128
♪ turns into flame ♪

1364
01:12:22,050 --> 01:12:26,862
♪ And the fire ♪

1365
01:12:26,862 --> 01:12:29,612
♪ begins to rage ♪

1366
01:12:39,522 --> 01:12:42,286
♪ Fighting the devil in and out ♪

1367
01:12:42,286 --> 01:12:45,070
♪ On my own I'll lose ♪

1368
01:12:45,070 --> 01:12:47,846
♪ I know without a single doubt ♪

1369
01:12:47,846 --> 01:12:50,074
♪ I'm gonna win if I choose ♪

1370
01:12:50,074 --> 01:12:54,157
♪ And a spark turns into flame ♪

1371
01:13:13,148 --> 01:13:15,648
♪ Uh oh mm mm ♪

1372
01:13:24,243 --> 01:13:26,928
♪ I've had to fight with a raging fire ♪

1373
01:13:26,928 --> 01:13:29,704
♪ I had to walk with the same ♪

1374
01:13:29,704 --> 01:13:32,538
♪ It burns from my own desire ♪

1375
01:13:32,538 --> 01:13:34,888
♪ Strength I don't want to tame ♪

1376
01:13:34,888 --> 01:13:38,555
♪ And a spark becomes a flame ♪

1377
01:13:45,759 --> 01:13:50,588
♪ And a fire ♪

1378
01:13:50,588 --> 01:13:55,588
♪ begins to rage ♪

1379
01:13:56,795 --> 01:13:59,082
♪ Becomes a flame ♪

1380
01:13:59,082 --> 01:14:01,582
♪ Oh oh mm mm ♪