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Thank you. Yeah, man, dude, that the race was, the race was wild. So I mean, we showed up. They had just done the national anthem, I believe. They were getting ready to, I don't remember what it was, but essentially shoot the gun, right? So everybody starts taking off. Um, got to hug you the first time I saw you in person. And then like three seconds later, y'all were trekking down the road and, we were walking to find the tent and it was wild because it was the first time I've ever been to a race, right?
It was so much less intense than I thought it was going to be. And I mean, it's a hundred miles, which is a long way, right? But I don't know in my head, I figured it was going to be like this, like aggressive, like arena-style thing. And I don't, I had, I have no paradigm. That's all I like contrived of in my brain, but it was so relaxed. Like every time you guys came back, it was just like jokes and everybody's like, what's up? And then dudes were stretching a little bit drinking something and then running back out.
Yeah, I'll tell you, it was epic that you came out there with us because during the nighttime and sharing those stories and we had the GoPro and we're celebrating Colin's success of running his first marathon and it was awesome. I mean, to have you with us in the journey throughout the night kept us going more because it was like you were an energy ball. You really were.
But I could tell Colin was suffering, right? Like I know that look, I've been there before, I've seen it on people before and I asked him, hey, how is your body feeling? And you immediately were like, do not answer that question. And it was done and it was like, okay, like I asked the wrong question and that question could like end up putting some negativity into this whole thing. Okay, I can't do that, like I can't be doing that, which for me, was a really good lesson.
And it, you know, it just, I don't, I don't know. Like it just, it was like we were just hanging out, but everybody was really paying a price to be out there having that conversation. You know, and even for me, even like nine miles, the most I've ever run in my life was four. And I did that once. Other than that, I do like two or three-mile runs and that's it. And so to have gone nine miles and have not run at all recently, you know, I was feeling it. Like I was hurting a little bit. My feet were sore. It was just cool to be out there and like, yeah, there's no quitting. There wasn't like nobody had to really hype anybody up.
There's a couple of people left on the trail, you know, and through the night we were watching all the headlamps and just crowds and crowds and crowds of lights and they just started dwindling and dwindling and dwindling every single lap. But there were a few people, there were you guys, there were a couple of old ladies, there were a couple of dudes and they were just consistent. And then eventually there were only a few lights left. Right? One thing I want to share too is how cool it was. People like there were some groups right there were some runners that would kind of like link up shoulder to shoulder and run with somebody else or a couple of other people for a while but they're all staggered but every single time, especially at night when you guys you would make a certain turn where your headlamps were oriented toward our base.
I'm just like, I was just so thankful, man. Just so thankful to just be out there and to see it. Thankful to have been able to go out there and finish those last nine miles with you guys.
