Rucking Until You Quit: Inside Last Rucker Standing with Brad Rooks

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Two miles every hour for two days. How long could

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you go? That's the idea behind Last Rucker Standing,

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a new 48 -hour endurance event that combines

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the format of a backyard ultra with rucking.

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Competitors compete two miles every hour, and

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as the event progresses, the challenge changes.

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The goal is to keep going while the field gets

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smaller and the physical and mental demands continue

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to build. Today I'm talking with Brad Rooks,

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the creator of Last Rucker Standing and the founder

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of Buffalo Mentality, about how this event came

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together, what competitors can expect, how they

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should prepare, and the mindset he hopes people

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take away from this experience. You're listening

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to the Rucker's Edge podcast, a show all about

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rucking that is designed to help you improve

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your rucking routine, lose weight, and ultimately

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gain your strength and energy back. Each episode

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dives into the science, stories, and strategies

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behind rucking. You'll learn from top ruckers,

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coaches, health experts, and performance specialists

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who break down what it takes to train smarter,

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recover faster, and stay ready for the next challenge.

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So whether you're new to rucking or an experienced

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rucker that's already logged hundreds of miles,

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this is the show for you. I'm your host, Spencer.

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Thanks for listening in. Before we get going

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into today's episode, I want to take a brief

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second to explain what's been going on with the

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Rucker's Edge. Because a number of you have reached

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out to check on me and make sure everything's

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okay. First of all, I really appreciate the wellness

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checks. One of the things I've come to love about

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this community is that you genuinely seem to

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care about the people who are a part of it. And

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I genuinely care about you guys too. That's a

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big part of why I started this podcast in the

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first place. I want to help people get healthier,

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get moving, and hopefully get some of their strength

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and energy back. So yes, I'm doing great. Thanks

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for all the check -ins. I appreciate it, guys.

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The reason you haven't heard a new episode in

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a few months, it's pretty simple. When I started

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this podcast, one of my goals was to publish

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an episode every week for an entire year. I hit

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episode 52, and once I got there, I decided I

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needed to take a bit of a break. There's no team

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behind this podcast. It's just me. And getting

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an episode from idea to a finished podcast takes

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a lot of time and a lot of work. You know, I've

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got a family, you know, that always comes first

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to me. I have a full -time job and I'm trying

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to make sure I'm staying on top of my health

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and physical fitness in between. The Rutgers

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Edge podcast is important to me, but it has to

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fit into all those other priorities of mine.

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Could I keep putting out an episode every week?

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Maybe someday if I had a team helping me, but

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right now I just, I don't have the time, the

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energy, financial resources to maintain that

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schedule. So moving forward. I'm going to publish

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one episode a month. I'm committed to that. That's

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what we're going to do moving forward. I thought

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about doing seasons. I've thought about publishing

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more frequently than just once a month, but monthly

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feels like a good spot for me right now. It gives

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me enough time to create episodes that I'm excited

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about while still keeping the podcast going and

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continuing to bring some of the stories, ideas,

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and lessons that I think are worth hearing. So

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this podcast isn't about to podfade. I'm going

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to be shifting gears a little bit and I actually

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have a few episodes already in the bank that

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I'm really excited to share with you. And the

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first one is today's episode with Brad Rucks.

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Man, Brad is one of those guys where I hear everything

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he's got going on and I think, when does this

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dude sleep? He's got a family. He's running businesses.

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He's involved in multiple communities. He stays

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on top of his health and fitness. He's building

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Buffalo Mentality, Ruck90, and now Last Rucker

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Standing. I mean, come on, Brad. When do you

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sleep, dude? I wanted to have him on the podcast

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because The Last Rucker Standing is a really

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interesting new rucking event coming up in October.

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Yeah, it just popped out of nowhere. He explains

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that in this episode. He's really expedited putting

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this thing together. Really cool. Like I mentioned

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before, this thing has elements of a backyard

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ultra and Brad has put a lot of thought into

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making it more than just a rucking event. So

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welcome back to the Rutgers Edge podcast. It's

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good to be back. I hope you enjoy this conversation

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with Brad Rooks from Buffalo Mentality. Brad

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Rooks, thanks so much for joining me here on

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the Rutgers Edge podcast. We just, we caught

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up a little bit, introduced ourselves prior to

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hit and record. I'm just, I'm happy that you're

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here. I've been following you on Instagram and

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seeing this new event pop up, was curious about

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it. So happy to have you here to talk about it,

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educate some people out there about this new

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event, the Last Rutgers Standing, which is, I

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think, scheduled for October 9th, that weekend.

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Is that accurate? Absolutely. Okay. Very good.

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Yeah. Thanks for being here. Super excited to

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be here, man. Thank you so much as well. I'm

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curious, what has your rucking journey been like?

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When did you start? What were you doing before

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rucking? So before rucking, man, I was honestly

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kind of wavering a little bit in my fitness.

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I go to the gym, hit the sauna, we'll do some

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stuff like that, but there was nothing super

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consistent and nothing that was giving me the

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ability to really process any thought. right

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and i had a buddy he was talking about rucking

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and he had this ruck vest and he's like man this

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thing's like uncomfortable i'm thinking get rid

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of it and uh i was like don't get rid of it like

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i'd like to try it you know i didn't want to

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go out and buy anything right then um and so

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i put it put in some plates i put it on i started

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rucking and after a few days realized like hey

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this is this is a different type of thing um

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it's not super hard to do but it ends up being

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hard if you continue in you know putting yourself

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under time but the the mental clarity and the

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the things that started being birthed just while

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putting time on my feet um was just night and

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day comparison to anything i've ever experienced

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in a physical activity and so i was hooked i

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was hooked like you know two weeks in i'm like

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i found something here and so i just started

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creating programs around it to keep me into it

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that's cool yeah so i i similar experience on

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my end the the The mental clarity I get from

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rucking compared to nothing else, any other type

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of exercise, I guess, I was doing. What were

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you doing? You just hitting the gym? Did you

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do any endurance training as well? I hit the

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gym. Man, I would try running. I hate running,

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man. I've really tried to be a runner so many

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different times, and I'll probably continue to

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try to be a runner after this. But something

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about rucking, I mean, it's very similar in movement.

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i can i can do this and then i don't feel like

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i'm just walking i've got a little bit of you

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know a little bit of weight on it to make a little

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bit harder but other than that was just going

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to the gym um was meditating you know sauna stuff

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nothing but nothing that kept me away from the

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noise long enough to really make an impact yeah

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okay so one of the main benefits that you're

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getting from rucking is uh the mental clarity

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and how well it benefits your mental health.

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You went on to create Buffalo Mentality. I'm

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curious about its inception. Was there a specific

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moment or in Iraq or some sort of life event

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that kind of spurred that thought? Maybe I should

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start sharing this with people. Yeah, absolutely.

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So Buffalo mentality came out of a conversation

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inside of an accountability group that I'm in.

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There was a guy that was having a hard time with

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something that he had done in his past. We'll

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say IRS or whatnot. And it's coming back. He's

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changed his he's changed his ways today. But

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that thing from way back then is coming and coming

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and showing itself. And he's like, I don't know

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what I'm going to do. Like my wife is going to

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leave me this other. And I remember this story

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about the cow versus the buffalo. and how in

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in storms and in nature you know they're they're

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similar size they they're in the same weather

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but they essentially respond very different to

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the weather through the storm that's coming a

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cow will try to bed down get away from it you

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know hide wait for it to come a buffalo goes

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directly into the storm usually in its herd and

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you know they're not taking any less damage they're

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just going through it quicker and because they're

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doing it they're building resilience and ultimately

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becoming bigger stronger you know animals along

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the way and so i thought about that and told

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this story to this guy that's this experience

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in this you know this hardship and i'm like hey

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like the only other option is to run away it's

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going to get bigger if you run away we have to

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face it and i said you know that's that's buffalo

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mentality and it kind of just kind of came out

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right then i was up to like 3 a .m that night

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designing and i'm a i'm a creative graphic designer

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type in a type personality um and so i just started

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building kind of building the brand and trying

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to put some legs to it because it's like the

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thing is is we all have a tendency to just want

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to run and turn away from that thing right and

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it never turns out any better when we do it but

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if we'll stick to it if we'll put our heads down

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if we'll just do the hard thing eventually the

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storm will be gone and we'll be much better for

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it Yeah. Oh man, that's fantastic. What a cool

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story. So what, if you could, could you describe

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what Buffalo Mentality is and who it serves?

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bettering your life because you've you know figured

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your mental stuff out that's awesome yeah i i

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feel like a lot of people could benefit from

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programs like that so thanks for creating that

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i'm sure you've helped numerous people footprint

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wise is it in person is it virtual So Buffalo

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Mentality is the mindset, is the brand behind.

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I'm building an ecosystem of challenges underneath

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the brand because if we're not challenging ourselves,

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if we're not holding ourselves to a standard

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and to a container, then we'll flip and we'll

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wander around. And so my first challenge underneath

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Buffalo Mentality is Ruck 90. And so Ruck 90

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is a 90 -day rucking challenge to where I tell

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you to put on 20 pounds and ruck 100 miles in

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90 days. easy gotcha easy if you show up every

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day exactly it's 1 .05 miles a day if you show

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up every day if you don't those miles start stacking

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up and they become hard then they all turn into

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the things that we've all done in our lives where

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we spin spin spin spin try to get the thing done

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and then move and spin spin spin trying to get

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the thing done versus just being consistent over

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time and and building a consistent lifestyle

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um ruck 90s all virtual So you could go to ruck90

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.com and you sign up. It's 50 bucks. Essentially,

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you text in your miles to me. I've got an automated

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system that I've built out that'll iterate your

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miles, tell you where you're at in your progress,

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give you some motivation over time. One of my

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big things is if I expect action, then I can

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measure inaction. And the best way to hold someone

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accountable is through visibility. And so I use

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data and... the understanding that you've committed

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to doing this thing to say, Hey, when you haven't

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shown up, I just let everybody know that you

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haven't shown up. I have a, I call it the stagnant

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Rucker report. I like that. And you, after four

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days to where you have just sat on your butt

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or you got busy or you went on vacation or whatnot,

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you're going to get a text from me. Hey, just

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letting you know. At day eight, so you have seven

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days, but at day eight, you'll be disqualified

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from the challenge because you're not being active.

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This is an active challenge, and we're not going

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to give people permission not to be active. And

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so if you don't want to be active, you won't

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be here type of thing, right? And it normally,

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people normally get, you know, I don't want to

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do it as being like a mean thing, but part of

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this, part of the $50, so to speak, is me holding

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you accountable to the thing that you thought

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was a good idea at that one time, right? We all

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think things are a good idea when we say them.

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And then we're like, hey, back away from that

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thing, you know? Yeah. But the coolest part of

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it is that you stay active, you go 90 days, you

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cross 100 miles, you get a t -shirt. And then

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on the back of your t -shirt, you get the number,

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you get your mileage category that you hit. Nice.

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100 miles is just the barrier to get your t -shirt.

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I've had people do 200, 300, 400. This last quarter,

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a guy hit our record, which is 1 ,000 miles in

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90 days. In 90 days? In 90 days. Whoa. Yeah.

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Good for him. Yeah. I wish I had the time to

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do that. Yeah, he put in a lot of effort. Good

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for him. My record before that was 901. Wow.

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Yeah. That's phenomenal. But yeah, I mean, going

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back to the accountability. portion you know

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you know numbers don't lie so it's easy to track

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and accountability is a great driver so that's

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a that's a good motivator there and yeah you're

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just you're you're doing your job as a facilitator

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like let's let's keep going let's get back on

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the back on the trail yeah um what i like about

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ruck 90 is it you mentioned you know um like

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records and stuff, but it's not really necessarily

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like a leaderboard. Like you're not really competing

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with other people. It's like, it's for yourself.

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It's for your own personal development, for your

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own accountability. So that's a pretty cool aspect.

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You're kind of, you're not really competing with

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yourself, but you're, you're trying to do something

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for the benefit of your professional or your,

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your personal growth. That's awesome. I feel

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like it's got, it's got kind of a 75 hard type

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of mentality. Like you can do it by yourself.

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Um, but I do actually have a leaderboard. Oh,

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you do? Oh, yeah. Sorry. No, there's an app that

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you'll have, that you'll have access to. There's

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technology. You can see yourself. You can see

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your projected number of miles you're doing based

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on where you're at. It doesn't necessarily have

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to be a competition. It could be a very isolated

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challenge. There's some smack talking going on.

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Don't worry. That's Evan's. Cool. And that's

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also another good motivator for me. Well, that's

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how we got our guy to the last 900 record. It

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was him and one other guy that were going back

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to back. He would do a rock, submit it. And he's

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like, no, you're not being in front of me. And

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they would just leapfrog each other every day.

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And they just drove each other like they push

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each other hard. I was very impressed. I was

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very impressed. Yeah. That's cool. Man. Okay.

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Okay. So, so what are the most common reason

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that maybe some people won't complete the challenge?

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I don't know if you're willing to go there or

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not, but I'm just curious. No, there's a lot

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of reasons. Yeah. Yeah. There's, there's many

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reasons. People, the reasons that I hear is,

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ah, man, I've got, I got vacation and vacation.

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We're going to be out of, we're going to be out

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of the country for seven days. I'm like, what

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does that mean? Why does that matter? You can't,

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you can't find a book bag. You can't figure out

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how to get 20 pounds on your shoulders and walk.

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Like this is not, I came to this solo excursion.

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I forgot my ruck. It was the most embarrassing

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thing, right? Like I ruck every day. I forgot

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my ruck, but I have my laptop bag and I've got

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plenty of things that I can stuff inside of it

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to get it up to weight and we'll go do it. You

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know, it's, if you want the excuse, you'll make

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the excuse. right if you want to figure out how

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to do it you'll figure out how to do it um so

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vacations one people say um people get bored

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right they think they're like oh i hit 100 miles

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it was too easy like some of my super athlete

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type of people they're like they're like oh well

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i crushed it dude i hit 100 miles okay but then

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they stopped and they got disqualified well that's

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that's the point of this challenge is that we

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don't do the hard thing and we stop We do the

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hard thing and then we continue to see how far

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we can go. Right. Right. I built this essentially

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Ruck 90 as the anti weekend race, the anti last

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trucker standing, if you will. Right. Because

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I'm the type of personality that I want to train

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for the last trucker standing event. And then

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I do the event and then I go back and I have

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a few beers and I'm not really worried about

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anything fitness because I just did this really

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successful thing. Right. Right. But yeah. that's

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not good that's not a good way to to operate

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and so that's why i built things like rook 90

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to kind of counteract that so that we're battle

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ready all the time right Oh, that's great. Okay.

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So you did mention Last Rocker Standing. Let's

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get into that. So this is the other challenge.

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Outside of Last Rocker Standing and Rock 90,

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do you have any other challenges? There's going

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to be about 15 90 -day challenges coming out.

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Like Run 90 is already out. It's a running challenge.

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We'll have Hike 90. We're going to have some

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lower barriers like Walk 90 for people that don't

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feel like they can rock, right? So I'm trying

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to create essentially a 90 -day ecosystem. Not

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all fitness. Right. That you can look at and

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you're like, I want to plug into these directions

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this quarter and I'm going to go and better myself

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in that direction this quarter. And that's great.

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OK, so lack of last record standing. We kind

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of talked about the the one of the purposes for

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this. But was there a specific moment or a specific

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time that you were like, you know what we're

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going to do? We're going to do the last record

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standing. So we get into the format because the

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format is really cool. Yeah. So. Because I run

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in an accountability group where I have guys

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that I'm talking to every single week about my

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goals, my dreams, the things that I, the things

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that I'm just, I won't even call out to, you

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know, other people in my life. And they're like,

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hey, they'll catch it. I'm like, hey, that thing

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that you said, like, we got to do that, right?

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And so then they'll point those things back to

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me. And I was with a few buddies two years ago.

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It was right after the Go One More Backyard Ultra.

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the bpns first first go one more backyard ultra

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and i was talking my buddy chris i was like man

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that's that's really cool if i ran like that

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would be something that i really want to do and

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we're like what like what could we do could we

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do this for rucking like would that even be exciting

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you know i'm like you're just walking you know

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what would anybody even care about that and uh

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and i kind of just it was just kind of that we

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talked about a little bit and then kind of left

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it alone um well this year it came back up a

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conversation through my accountability group

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they're like hey brad when are you going to do

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this thing that's really cool that we need to

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bring to life? And I was like, well, I guess

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it's going to be Q3. And so we decided that at

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the end of Q2 this past quarter, made it a three

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-month goal. And I said, hey, 25 people and a

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friend's backyard is my minimum goal. And then

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I'm going to nail that and then just try to make

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it as big as I can make it. And so my buddies

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have said, hey, I got your back. A few of them

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have given me some money to help me. I mean,

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this stuff's costing some real dollars here.

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I can imagine. Yeah. Like we've got, this is

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an actual production. I mean, it probably total

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cost value is over 60 grand. Logistics involved.

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Yeah. Yeah. Now, but a lot of this has been given

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to me. Like I've got a lot of like great people

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that are, they're helping to financially support

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this to get this off the ground the first year.

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And it is super cool. Super, super excited to

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bring this to life. It did pop up. And seemingly

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for me, at least, it was like Ruck90 wasn't on

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my radar. Buffalo Mentality wasn't on my radar.

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But like I kept seeing like Last Rucker Standing.

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I was like, man, this looks really cool. And

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I kept seeing it grow and grow online. So, man,

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I'm happy for you. This is great. OK, so let's

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talk about the format because it does borrow

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some elements from like a Backyard Ultra. Can

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you go into the format real quick? Yeah. I call

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it a Backyard Ultra with a twist. Right. I truly

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believe if we put on 20 pounds of weight. went

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two miles and went as far as we could go it would

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go 10 days i really believe it i don't have 10

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days to invest into that i don't have 10 days

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worth of cash to supply yeah yeah so i was like

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what is a format that i can create that would

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limit us to a 48 -hour event a 48 -hour endurance

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event is still an incredibly hard endurance event

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right but something that could use the backyard

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style um format but then at a certain point start

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creating an escalation that makes it hard for

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everyone. I think it's going to work. I think

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it's going to work. I think it's going to work.

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So I've got Mark Jones. I'm not sure if you've

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heard the name Mark Jones. He is the world record

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holder for rucking with a 40 -pound ruck, 24

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hours. He did 88 .67 miles. He's one of the first

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people to talk to me about this event. He's been

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talking to me about it for a few months now.

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he's kind of come to the to grips that like he's

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going to get to 48 and he's going to bypass that

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48 and then my conversation to him is I'm not

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going to let you do it man you know and so I

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was like as hard as you're coming I'm going to

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come back even harder for you and everybody else

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to make sure we don't get there but it is a delicate

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balance right because I could make it extremely

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hard from the very very beginning and really

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only have super athletes out there that are pushing

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hard and and maybe it goes 48 hours or We can

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try to limp the field along to get it all the

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way to 48 hours, right? My goal for this is that

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guys like you, guys like me, but guys like Mark

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can come out, be in the same container, be in

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the same box, walk through the same corral together.

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Me hit my personal records because I'm next to

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guys like Mark who are pushing, you know, harder

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than I can ever imagine. But also have, you know,

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my mom in the ring that she just did two laps

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and she's like, this is the best thing I ever

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did. you know yeah and so the opportunity is

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that the field will naturally start dwindling

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at some point and when they do we've identified

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who are the real super athletes in the group

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and now we turn the heat on yeah so it's uh it's

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that uh is that a farm i think with two open

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fields so yes it's at the gathering farm um which

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they're normally a wedding venue i've actually

00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:06.880
joked with them that They've not really been

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able to share much of my content because it's

00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.740
so off -brand with what they're doing. So they'll

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show some stories every once in a while. But

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I'm like, there's no real way to get you guys

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to be able to share some of what we're doing.

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But it's normally a wedding venue. Maybe you

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could rock in a tuxedo or something. I don't

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know. That would be amazing. Maybe next year

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promo. That would be fun. But they've got a beautiful

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space. They've got some elevation. And it's 140

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acres of land. I can create basically a perfect

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two -mile loop going in some of the woods, around

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some perimeters, down some gravel, around an

00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:47.920
old house. I mean, it's big open fields. It's

00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.039
some other tight little areas of the woods, but

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it's going to be a good time. Yeah, that's awesome.

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I like the open field concept because you'll

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be able to see your competitors. I remember like

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back in my cross -country days, there was a race

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around some farms and like you could see exactly

00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:06.579
where everybody was in the race. That was cool.

00:23:06.579 --> 00:23:08.579
It was like really unique. So I think that's

00:23:08.579 --> 00:23:10.180
going to be a fun element to the competition,

00:23:10.339 --> 00:23:12.599
being able to see people, maybe people pretending

00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:16.119
to be straggling back, but saving something for

00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:18.640
the last couple of hours. I don't know. It's

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going to be interesting. It'll be interesting.

00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:23.640
Yeah, sure. Yeah. So what's the field looking

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like? You said you got Mark Jones signed up.

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Any other big ruckers in the space? Um, there's

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definitely some, definitely some strong competition

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that I think is going to, uh, to give Mark, um,

00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.140
some good work. Uh, but we also have man, just,

00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:39.420
just average people that are showing up that

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are like, I don't know if it's going to be a

00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:43.400
five laps. I don't know if it's going to be 12

00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:45.299
laps, but I'm a, I'm a push, you know, as far

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as I can. And that's really what I wanted for

00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:51.980
this man is like these style of events are so

00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:54.799
intimidating to so many people, right? Like they,

00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:57.859
and they're normally. Not hidden, but this is

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not normally something that's like really put

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out there. Like you're not really until last

00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.420
all this this year. Like, I don't I don't know

00:24:04.420 --> 00:24:06.420
if there was ever really a production around

00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:11.539
a backyard ultra style event. And so, yeah, man,

00:24:11.619 --> 00:24:13.619
like just just motivating and inspiring people

00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:15.759
to to do things that they didn't think they could

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.740
do. More with Brad in just a moment, including

00:24:17.740 --> 00:24:20.819
what to expect between each hourly ruck and a

00:24:20.819 --> 00:24:23.059
little on how they'll turn the heat up as the

00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:25.779
field begins to dwindle. But I want to take a

00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:27.480
quick break to say thanks for listening to this

00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:29.900
podcast. Really appreciate you tuning back in.

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00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:34.660
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00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:43.799
health and lives. Okay, back to it. So, okay,

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:50.900
it's two miles every hour, 48 hours. What's going

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to be happening between people finishing and

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:57.130
waiting to start? their next loop like is there

00:24:57.130 --> 00:24:59.029
like a staging area or is it everybody bring

00:24:59.029 --> 00:25:00.809
your own stuff whatever you need you got to support

00:25:00.809 --> 00:25:04.369
yourself situation or what's that so the way

00:25:04.369 --> 00:25:07.630
that i've designed it because again this is a

00:25:07.630 --> 00:25:11.430
three -month road map um and i'm trying to create

00:25:11.430 --> 00:25:15.069
you know the best product i can in that time

00:25:15.069 --> 00:25:17.250
right so the way that i've designed it it's a

00:25:17.250 --> 00:25:21.869
100 self -supported race okay so everything that

00:25:21.869 --> 00:25:25.119
you need to support yourself for the 48 hours

00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:29.539
you need to bring if we have space spaces for

00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:31.740
10 by 10 canopies you can bring a cot you can

00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:34.359
bring a tent you can bring chairs you can bring

00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:39.180
two crew members to help you food water i mean

00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:41.539
bring everything that you could possibly need

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:44.700
for this style of event but what i will say is

00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:47.460
i'm trying to figure out ways to support and

00:25:47.460 --> 00:25:50.720
do some things Out of the like the abundance

00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.660
of things that are coming in. If we've got if

00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:54.440
we've got other resources, I'm going to try to

00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:55.980
provide them. And I don't want to talk about

00:25:55.980 --> 00:25:58.440
them because. Yeah. So they'll be exciting. That's

00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:00.059
if we're able to pull it off. Yeah, that's great.

00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:01.480
And I've seen. Yeah, you've got a lot of buy

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:03.920
in from pretty substantial sponsors, which is

00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.380
amazing. And just a short span of time to pull

00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:08.099
in some sponsorship like that. That's awesome.

00:26:08.140 --> 00:26:12.079
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. It's I I've just

00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:15.460
got a great network of people that really believe

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.759
in what we're doing. And they've they put us

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:19.750
in front of the right people. to make your connection

00:26:19.750 --> 00:26:23.589
yeah uh Is there a space for RV parking? Because

00:26:23.589 --> 00:26:26.289
I had a friend of mine compete in an event similar

00:26:26.289 --> 00:26:28.009
to this and they brought an RV and they set up

00:26:28.009 --> 00:26:29.750
shop. They were watching college football games

00:26:29.750 --> 00:26:32.269
in between runs and everything like that. Yeah,

00:26:32.289 --> 00:26:34.890
that's cool. There should be. I mean, there's

00:26:34.890 --> 00:26:36.710
a lot of space out there. There should be some

00:26:36.710 --> 00:26:38.869
space for RV. I know I've got a couple of guys

00:26:38.869 --> 00:26:41.170
like my medic. He's going to have his RV out

00:26:41.170 --> 00:26:43.529
there and be on standby the whole time. And I've

00:26:43.529 --> 00:26:44.849
got a few other guys that have talked about bringing

00:26:44.849 --> 00:26:47.849
RV. And so we'll cross those bridges as they

00:26:47.849 --> 00:26:50.009
come in. But yeah, we should have plenty of room

00:26:50.009 --> 00:26:52.779
to park it. If you don't mind, let's move into

00:26:52.779 --> 00:26:57.920
the competitor's mindset because you mentioned

00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:01.240
previously the story of the cow and the buffalo

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:04.960
and reading the copy on the landing page for

00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:06.940
Last Rocker Standing, you talk about the storm.

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:11.920
Can you kind of go into what you think that storm

00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.819
would be for an event like this? When do you

00:27:13.819 --> 00:27:15.259
think it's going to happen? What do you think

00:27:15.259 --> 00:27:20.160
the competitors are going to be thinking? not

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.519
only am I trying to build a cool event, not only

00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:23.980
am I trying to build something that's hard, but

00:27:23.980 --> 00:27:25.920
I'm also trying to build an experience, right?

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:30.539
And so the storm represents things that we all

00:27:30.539 --> 00:27:34.140
face literally through our lives. Every year

00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.759
we're dealing with something. It could be big,

00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:38.319
it could be small. And when those things hit

00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.039
and when life becomes harder, we don't necessarily

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.500
just get to walk away from it, right? And so

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:46.539
that's what the storm represents in this capacity.

00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:51.930
I cannot. give out any as far as details of like

00:27:51.930 --> 00:27:55.269
what and when and how it's going to happen but

00:27:55.269 --> 00:28:00.089
um it will happen um the field may be responsible

00:28:00.089 --> 00:28:02.710
for when it happens um it could be time based

00:28:02.710 --> 00:28:05.970
you know it could be when um our most average

00:28:05.970 --> 00:28:08.369
athletes are are falling off and you know the

00:28:08.369 --> 00:28:11.210
the stronger people left um it could just be

00:28:11.210 --> 00:28:15.130
at an hour mark um and so i i'm building that

00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:19.759
kind of as a suspense mechanism. One, people

00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:21.380
like to know what they're walking into always,

00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:24.160
right? But that's not life. Life doesn't give

00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:26.460
you that. And you have to roll with the punches

00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:30.740
as things come. And so I will say, things that

00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:34.220
are on the table are pace, like how fast we do

00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:38.200
the lap, distance, however we could figure that

00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:42.000
out, right? Adding weight, which is... 100 the

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:43.619
first thing that people think we're gonna do

00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:47.160
i'll tell you it's not um and then and then movement

00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.799
how how we move our bodies right that could be

00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.259
brutal if you really think about it and so i'll

00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:55.279
let your mind take you to what those uh those

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.059
things could be but i have a strategy and it's

00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:01.099
not what you think um and it's not as brutal

00:29:01.099 --> 00:29:03.079
as what you think but i think the way that we

00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:05.079
do it over time is just going to wear you out

00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:09.420
yeah physically definitely and i think um just

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:12.240
doing loop after loop after loop for two days

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:13.940
straight mentally, it's going to be like, oh

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:16.700
my gosh, like, are you going to have like a horn

00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:19.420
or a bell or something to signify that? So yeah,

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.299
we'll have, we'll have horn. We'll have three

00:29:21.299 --> 00:29:22.740
minute, three minute, two minute, one minute

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:25.500
warnings, 30, 30 second, 10 second countdowns.

00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:28.880
I'm planning for some tech and some, some coolness

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.880
around some of that. Oh, cool. Yeah. So we're

00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:33.420
going to try to automate that. We're building

00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:35.960
it. We're building an app for everybody online

00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.980
that can. Yeah. That can watch and follow their

00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:42.980
favorite Rucker. We're going to have Rucker profiles

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:46.779
so you can see, you know, my name, who I am,

00:29:46.859 --> 00:29:49.059
how old I am. Hell yeah. A couple of little different

00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:52.059
details about me. Right. And that way, like,

00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:53.960
hey, I want to follow Brad. Like he's a guy.

00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:56.619
Yeah. Yeah. Some buy in. And then when and then

00:29:56.619 --> 00:29:58.119
when I tap out, like they're going to be like,

00:29:58.200 --> 00:29:59.880
well, now I want to follow Mark. I'm not going

00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.400
to let this thing go. Right. And so not only

00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.880
building community that way, but also getting

00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:08.480
some buy in because. My major thing, my main

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:10.859
thing is to impact people. And if I can use people

00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:13.900
like Mark to, to hear his story and to be like,

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:16.119
man, that guy's cool. And if I can inspire you

00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:18.519
to walk out and grab some weight tomorrow, man,

00:30:18.619 --> 00:30:20.940
like that, that's, that's a win. That's really

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:23.359
cool. And so we'll, we'll be live streaming for

00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.299
48 hours, um, along with the app and everything.

00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.579
Um, the big thing for me is wanting to get people

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:31.599
from the outside that would never have an experience

00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.059
to see anything like this, to see it, to hopefully

00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:36.099
get sparked to do something cool. That's awesome.

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:39.440
So I'm just, I'm going back to like the, the

00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:42.640
mental aspect of, of braving the storm. I'm just

00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:46.380
picturing, you know, I don't know, 36 hours into

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:50.220
it. The rocker just finished a loop just in time

00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:53.279
and is already hearing like the two minute. warning

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:55.319
bell and just like oh my gosh i gotta get back

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.099
out there that's gonna be hard that's gonna that's

00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:00.000
definitely lying in the sand you're gonna cross

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.900
it again or what's gonna happen so right really

00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:05.519
intrigued such a cool concept i'm glad that you're

00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:07.960
hosting this i'm glad that yeah you have so much

00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.720
support doing this is really cool uh i will definitely

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.380
be logging in to to view it where can i go to

00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:16.720
do that just uh the landing page Yeah. Last record

00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:19.559
standing .com. Um, we will, we will have everything

00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:21.680
there. Um, there's, there's still spots there

00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.160
for free to sign up if you'd like, um, volunteer

00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:26.359
opportunities. Um, but yeah, we'll have the live

00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:27.740
stream there as well. And you can sign up right

00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:30.180
now to get on the watch party and that's where

00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:32.279
we'll, we'll send you the live stream link as

00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:34.519
soon as it's live. Awesome. Moving in towards

00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:36.559
the, the, the last couple of sections here of

00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:41.180
our, of our episode, uh, strategy. Um, has anybody

00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:44.730
shared their training strategy? for the last

00:31:44.730 --> 00:31:48.890
record standing um do you know i i just am thinking

00:31:48.890 --> 00:31:51.109
about doing like repetitive things over and over

00:31:51.109 --> 00:31:53.170
clearly people want to get down that like two

00:31:53.170 --> 00:31:56.269
mile mile rhythm um but again they don't know

00:31:56.269 --> 00:31:58.829
what to expect necessarily right has anybody

00:31:58.829 --> 00:32:00.849
shared with what sort of training strategy they're

00:32:00.849 --> 00:32:04.049
doing or um anything like that so yeah so um

00:32:04.049 --> 00:32:06.890
actually i have a buddy joe baker he's uh he's

00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:10.809
actually a a go rock um an instructor he he teaches

00:32:10.809 --> 00:32:13.029
you know people for, you know, go ruck events

00:32:13.029 --> 00:32:15.210
and things like that. And he actually built us

00:32:15.210 --> 00:32:19.369
a last rucker standing, uh, guide. And so if

00:32:19.369 --> 00:32:22.109
you, if you sign up, you get a link and it's

00:32:22.109 --> 00:32:24.470
got his guide in there and you just start at

00:32:24.470 --> 00:32:27.009
the week that you're on. Um, but it's, it's definitely

00:32:27.009 --> 00:32:29.049
rucking, but it's also some other movements and

00:32:29.049 --> 00:32:31.970
things like that to, to help build a little bit

00:32:31.970 --> 00:32:34.150
of strength and hopefully some resilience before

00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:36.970
they get out there. But just getting on your

00:32:36.970 --> 00:32:40.059
feet and moving is your best bet right now. Yeah.

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:43.079
Do some mock trials at home, walk around the

00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.980
block, you know, wait 30 minutes, do it again,

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:47.660
wait 30 minutes, do it again, see how your legs

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:50.619
feel. Yeah. Because the lactic acid is going

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:53.420
to be a big component to this in the later rounds.

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.660
Oh, for sure. Yeah, maybe add some extra weight

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:58.539
instead of just the 20 pounds, throw maybe 30

00:32:58.539 --> 00:33:00.859
or 40 pounds in there, train with that. That

00:33:00.859 --> 00:33:03.279
way when you get to race day, it feels a little

00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:06.380
lighter. Sure. So, okay, someone wants to sign

00:33:06.380 --> 00:33:08.519
up, they go to lastrockerstanding .com. Is that

00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:11.279
accurate? Yes, sir. Okay. They go there. There's

00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:13.440
all the information that you could ever need

00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.660
on there. If there's information that's not there,

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:17.500
you can always reach out to me on our Instagram,

00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:20.000
lasttrackerstanding .com. But yeah, everything's

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.759
there. The rules are there. Information of what

00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:26.140
you need to bring is there. So read it all. Don't

00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:27.539
say it wasn't there. Don't say you didn't know.

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.839
Yeah. Yeah. Come prepared. Yeah. And it's in

00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.539
Moore, South Carolina, which is near Greenville,

00:33:33.619 --> 00:33:35.460
if I remember correctly. It's a little north

00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:37.420
of Greenville, right outside Spartanburg, South

00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:40.180
Carolina. Yes, sir. Moore. Okay. Good deal. Well,

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:42.400
awesome. Brad, again, really appreciate you taking

00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.359
the time to have this chat. I'll include links

00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.940
in the episode description for The Last Worker

00:33:47.940 --> 00:33:50.000
Standing where you can go to sign up. But again,

00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:51.680
appreciate your time. This was a lot of fun.

00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.119
Yeah. Thank you, man. Thank you. So glad to be

00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:56.319
on here. All right, that wraps up my conversation

00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.680
with Brad Rooks. If you are interested in learning

00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:01.720
more about Last Rucker Standing or competing

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.619
in it or watching it as it unfolds, head on over

00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:07.740
to lastruckerstanding .com. If you're interested

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:11.019
in Joe Baker's program, the coach that put together

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:13.480
the training program for the Last Rucker Standing,

00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.239
you can head over to his website. That website

00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:19.630
is joebakerfitness .com. If you want to reach

00:34:19.630 --> 00:34:21.690
out to me, head on over to theruckersedge .com

00:34:21.690 --> 00:34:24.469
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00:34:24.469 --> 00:34:26.309
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00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.659
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00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.019
She endured some injuries, had some surgeries,

00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:45.179
overcame them, and recently competed in a 100

00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:48.599
-mile rucking event. Really great story. Can't

00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:50.719
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00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:53.639
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