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Speaker 1: High heart rate, shooting stuff, shooting you know, competition, fitness, competition, ye type stuff. You’ll see more of that type of stuff on the Hunt page from us. We’ll still be working with me Eater and they’re still going to be doing all the podcasts that they’re doing. But this, this show will end. We might every once while to do a round table talk on man Hunt socials and YouTube that type of stuff. It’s just got to where we’re not just sit down and talk type guys. We’re more of like, hey, do it with us type And so just made sense to about a year in I think so kind of sunset this and continue to do back on what we were doing. We’re more well, not very valuable, just to show yeah, show don’t tell out here. The stakes are real. Effective preparation starts with fitness, but it requires so much more. This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. Join me Rich Browning as we apply the decades of wisdom I’ve gained through training and competition to hunting in the back huntry. This is in Pursuit brought to you by Mount Knocks in collaboration with mayhem hunt. I was skeptical, but I’m like, I’m gonna try it. Really good, Yeah, really good.
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Speaker 2: There ain’t nothing worse than cacup coffee.
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Speaker 1: No, makeup coffee is the worst.
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Speaker 2: It’s so bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, these are good. That was I guess a free shout out. Yeah, honestly, because I was thinking it’d be good to take hunting. You’d have to put in I was skin cooler you can Apparently I haven’t tried this, but apparently if you put them in the fridge overnight the next morning and just do ice coffee that way, it’s similar, but that would be great for backwards.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was thinking, like, just from this past weekend, I was saying, Anna, I think we should do just espresso on ice for Leadville, like caffeine. He’s a quick caffeine but cold.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like, these would be pretty good for it. Honestly. Yeah, you could even put one of those in a squirt bottle, right, there’s a drink on it. Speaking of that, Curse said pretty sure all the races are going to get canceled. Thank god I did lead Man last year because of all the fires or something.
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Speaker 3: Oh, really, are you serious?
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Speaker 1: I’m assuming he’s talking about the fifty milers, so you might want.
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Speaker 3: To be careful. Yeah, dude, you’re training hard.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: I will just do a We’ll do a mock.
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Speaker 3: Okay, is he saying the hundred or the fifty because the fifties this weekend and I was going to go to it, but like he texted me that also. But if he’s saying like all of them are going to be canceled, that’s heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: We’re rolling.
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Speaker 4: So I just I mean I figured we were rolling, right, Yeah, I just want to say that Jeff podcast want just to do the hundred mile.
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Speaker 2: Leadville bike race. Yes, what weekend is that?
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Speaker 4: August fifteenth, so we’re just over a month out. Just yeah, how do you feel right now?
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Speaker 3: Man? Like, just I mean we did a little six hour plus WEX hour we some bike this weekend. It was the back half. I mean I definitely like felt a lot more fit than the twelve hour bike just going up the switchback, So I was pretty happy with that. I definitely could have kept biking for a long time after the six hour. That being said, we really didn’t bike that month.
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Speaker 1: YEA three or you did four laps? I did three laps. Yeah, I let Jeff go first, and then it was just like that second lap. The first lap was okay.
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Speaker 3: Well the first lap for me was wet, but also like you didn’t know what you were about to bike into. There’s a bunch of down trees, a bunch of new limbs down, and so like it was a chaos. And then the rain came like oh, okay, like a little bit of rain. People started dropping like flies.
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Speaker 1: Really, oh can’t Field them started running. They were like, we’re just gonna run Canfield.
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Speaker 3: That’s a derailer broke.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he blew up his derailer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jason.
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Speaker 1: Jason did one lap piece half lap. He got there late. You got there seven thirty because.
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Speaker 3: His power was also out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I was telling that and the boys like, man, you think we’ve built this country off of when things got a little muddy, we quit. Come on, it’s America’s birthday people. I learned halfway through the first lap that I was richest partner.
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Speaker 1: You disgusted on Wednesday or Thursdays, Like, yeah, I’ll go with you, give you a little push. And then uh, Kelsey said, you guys were out there about halfway through, and Dodd said, Kelsey, are you richest party. He said, no, you are.
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Speaker 3: Well, but I don’t think I could have gone any faster.
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna wear that backpack?
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Speaker 3: And that this was a test day. Gosh, I just like eight hours, bro, Matt Matt Chan Yeah yeah last year okay. And he had a really good system where his wife, sure you just like had one with all of the everything you need, and they just swapped him.
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Speaker 1: That’s all I did. That’s what I was gonna talk to you about. Is what I did. Was I bought three of the same fanny pack, and I had ziplock bags full of my stuff all pre set out, and so all I would do is take off a fanny pack, put a new one on that already had the stuff in it, and take off see. And so the next one, yeah, had another fanny pack, And so all they had to do was take the fanny pack that I just threw off and put the new plastic bag in.
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Speaker 3: When I came back through that spot, Oh for your stuff, I.
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Speaker 1: Just put a gallon ziplock bag of all my snacks and whatever I wanted switched out, and then I would.
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Speaker 3: Just go because I don’t really like it on my back. I definitely prefer the fanny pack. I think it just puts unnecessary load on your back. So that’s the biggest takeaway I got from trying it.
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Speaker 1: I think, where are the ones that I used are? Because they’re pretty small. I actually thought about using them for hunting too. If you drop your pack because it has a little water bottle thing, you put just enough stuff in cause you know, the only problem is you always got to go back and get your pack eventually. But we thought about it. After doing that, I was like, oh, this might be a good little like if you went on a quick little excursion and when after something, I didn’t want to carry your pack.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I’ll see if I have those fanny.
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Speaker 1: Packs try out. They’re pretty slim, but they carry enough stuff. Well.
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Speaker 3: If the fifty miler gets canceled.
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Speaker 1: To the mountain bike professionals though online on YouTube, it cuts off circulation to your lower half and it makes you worse.
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Speaker 2: Fanny pack a fanny pack, Oh my gosh, how tight are they wearing?
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Speaker 1: Yeah that’s what I was thinking.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I have a pretty loose if I wanted to swivel it around and like.
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Speaker 1: I did at one time the church, I forgot to take one off and just doubled it up. It was on the way back through, right before power.
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Speaker 3: Line, okay, and I’m like, what the and.
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Speaker 1: I had both fanny packs on, so I loosened it and just chucked it in the I have no idea it was in that.
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Speaker 3: Field, but we went back and got it.
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Speaker 1: No, somebody it was in the area, like I hadn’t even less. There were still tents and stuff, so I guarantee somebody had a good good Yeah. No, No, we didn’t just pitch our stuff in the.
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Speaker 3: Middle of the woods. Yeah, fifty miler might be canceled. I’ll save some money on airfare, I’ll have more.
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Speaker 2: You’re going to watch the fifty Oh you’re going to do yeah?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Like Curtis was like, dude, you should just do it, like it’ll be a good take.
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Speaker 2: Can say the fifty mile bike is the hardest bike.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but Matt Chan said otherwise. So I don’t know who really did believe. He’s the only two people that I know that have actually done it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I’d like to do the fifty miler. It’d be good. Midsummer.
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Speaker 3: Curtis did say it’s the hardest one out of the bunch.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, it’s the most climbing in the smallest.
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Speaker 3: Duration and the more technical.
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Speaker 1: Oh see, I like that. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The I’m guessing that mile run is probably had.
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Speaker 3: I texted Curtis when like a week after it’s done, because I’m sure he’s getting blown up right when he did it, Like, dude, like, realistically, how bad was it? He goes, there’s not even a close second place. It’s in a different universe.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you get past I feel like of trail running, you get past like that marathon. Yeah, and then that’s like you’re just in uncharted territory for most humans.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I’ve done one fifty k ultra thirty two miles. Yeah, and through the mountains of Mounttana.
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Speaker 1: Did you do the one here?
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Speaker 3: Uh? No, I was recording it, Oh, recording it. Yeah, it’s filming, but we like I knew how my body felt after thirty two and knowing that I’m only a quarter of the way done would be brutal.
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Speaker 1: Third of the way done, yeah, roughly a third unless it’s Leadville miles, because the one hundred mile mountain bike Grace is like one hundred and five miles. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I learned that. Yeah, because you know, Okay, I’m still mad about this. You know how at like mile ninety nine they have like all of the past champions, Like I think on the sides, I think I was just head down at that point twice, I’m sure, like you said, like ninety something, ninety something, and then like it got to a point where it’s like kegett kee kee keek and Keegan.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I’m like, well, like, okay, clearly we’re close. Yeah we we we still had five miles. Yeah, yeah, but it makes sense because you got to go obviously back into town.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, the hard part was I like somebody’s like as hundred mile race, but it’s one hundred and four miles. And then on my garment, I was at one hundred and four miles and I could not see the finish line.
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Speaker 3: Were you at least on the pavement, Oh you’re.
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Speaker 1: Still I’m still in that gravel like incline, the whatever that thing is. It’s not it’s not flat, it’s not downhill. No, it’s kind of uphill, and usually.
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Speaker 3: The winds in your face. At least for me, it was.
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Speaker 4: There’s an undisclosed cutting utensil on this on the set right now, gotcha that someone stabbed themselves with.
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Speaker 3: I was there for the aftermass.
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Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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Speaker 3: Why did he stab it?
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Speaker 4: He was cutting a tag off a helmet and it just I’m not sure how he was. I didn’t see how he was doing. I just look over at him and his hand has soaked in blood. He is like put his mouth on it, like kind of.
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Speaker 2: Hold the blood in his face, his blood all over.
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Speaker 3: There’s like it literally looks in his mouth.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean he just got was a little cut, so he like thought he like just stopping and then he looked at it.
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Speaker 2: It was, oh, yeah, you’re like three or four.
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Speaker 1: Like perfect timing. Why did you clean it off?
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Speaker 4: Because I want to show people. I mean, he’s not it. He wasn’t a cut.
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Speaker 3: It was like a step out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It wasn’t a like it was.
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Speaker 2: It was a plunge, plunge in and out.
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Speaker 3: Okay, now, okay, you’re X FIREM both of you guys are do you like keep the knife intech like should he?
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Speaker 2: It was it was immediately he just.
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Speaker 3: Okay, But there is a world where.
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Speaker 1: You technically, I guess, but I don’t think even human You’re not gonna like if if you were to walk up on scene. Yet you probably wouldn’t remove it and could get them to yeah, pressure stabilize all that stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, if you could, I guess, I guess it’s stuck.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn’t. You wouldn’t take it out because it’s probably plugging the hole.
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Speaker 3: Somewhat side story, we were at this archery competition. In one of the competitions where you had to shoot a balloon from a distance and my balloon actually I shot it, but it didn’t pop. I was like, oh I missed, and then I went through. I was shooting with the fireman. We saw it hit the middle, but it didn’t pop. It just went through. Like, oh, this is a good example of why you don’t, like take a knife out of it.
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Speaker 1: Oh it went through the balloon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well of it, Like this is a good example of why you don’t. Yeah, I don’t want to take out the knife. If you get shanked by a knife. Uh yeah.
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Speaker 4: Like for the chest cavity, for sure, you could you can actually probably yeah, you could actually probably save save it a lot if you don’t open that, because once you open it up, then you have to like well, because you’re so when you inhale, it’s it’s backwards. What you think, like when you inhale, there’s negative pressure and it creates your body.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Once what however, works the wants the diaphragm and so anyways, if you puncture a hole in it, they can’t gain that. They can’t keep that pressure in there, so you have to like put a chest seal on it and that would that would and that would keep the pressure.
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Speaker 2: Uh in your chest cavity.
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Speaker 4: So like that’s the same thing if you just have the weapons still in there, plugging the whole pretty plugging, it’s helping plug the hole.
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Speaker 3: It’s not great.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, having a j web right web spontaneous pneumothorax.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he apparently some people have these like little scabs on there or whatever. The way that it was explained to me on your ungs and he was. He brought a dumbbell down and did embraced and it popped one of those and so he finished the workout and was just like very short of breath. Went home. The wife was like, you’ve got COVID, go sleep downstairs, and he just kept getting worse and worse. But no, like COVID symptoms, couldn’t breathe collapses lung and so they had to put a port in here where they basically bleed the pressure out in it and it pops your lung.
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Speaker 3: Back of Yeah, this is peak COVID.
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Speaker 2: Probably a little past somewhere there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like crazy he made it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it’s like and it’s called spontaneous because sometimes it can literally just happen to like random people.
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Speaker 2: They say it’s.
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Speaker 1: Pressure, like when he brought the dumbbell down, it expelled and popped it open.
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Speaker 4: They say, if you’re thin, a thinner male is probably like the most likely for it to happen to, which I really don’t know why, but that’s like this, it’s just true that a thin male is can get spontaneous Numo Thorax.
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Speaker 3: Gotcha crazy. I have a question for you, Rich when you were training for Leadville, how did that fitness correlate for you like in the mountains. I might have already asked you this, but like.
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Speaker 1: The man and I’ve done so many different things to prepare, Like you know, we kind of talked early on. I don’t know what podcast number it was, but I mean when I was training for the Games, it was right at like right before getting ready for the mountains, and I always felt really good. Yeah, I’ve always been able to move in the mountains. Training for Leadville was always good. I think there is a balance to just cardio fitness plus some strength and endurance stuff, where even when I was Leadville training, I was still crossfitting every day. So I think the blend of both of those was perfect. And I think that’s kind of how we’ve structured a lot of what we do with maham Hunt is we do a lot of endurance stuff, but we also hit that short intensity piece pretty regularly. I would say, you know, if it is it is specialized CrossFit, which is basically what I was doing. I was doing when I was doing Leadville. My CrossFit sessions were a little bit more intense, a lot of leg leg stuff obviously strength, and then core and.
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Speaker 3: Upper body in during stuff.
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Speaker 1: Because when I was talking to that, he was like, I feel like that’s kind of the most bang for the buck that you guys, like crossfitters can maintain, like mountain bikers get super fatigued upper body as it goes on, And so that was one of the things that helped me a ton was I never felt weak in my core or upper body on that lead It was just really long.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like all that translates well, like because it’s the same thing I would say for like mountain bikers, where they think, well, I just need to have strong legs and that’s all I need, so they neglect the corn and the shoulders and the upper body.
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Speaker 2: Same thing for backcountry hunters. They’re like, I just needed to do it. You need to go hike with my ruck on.
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Speaker 4: You’re like, well, no, you’re gonna have the core and shoulder fatigue carrying that pack and then god forbid you kill something like you’re already your upper body is already blown. And now you’re like, I mean, now you’re adding weight to your pack and now you’re extra tired.
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Speaker 3: Something we didn’t talk about at the Elk camp that I wish we did it was like how to actually properly put on your pack when it is heavy, Yeah, which I have had or I’ve heard stories of guys completely messing up their backs, oh, just getting it on their back, especially.
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Speaker 1: If you We did a little bit of that with our group.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn’t.
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Speaker 3: We did roll. I showed them how to like roll.
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Speaker 4: Into it, okay, And I mean that I think the biggest thing would be like use if you, if you’re with people, use people around you. Just like everyone going scatter and put their own back up. You help him and then they put.
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Speaker 1: That and look around, you know, use whatever the hillside or some blowdown or something like that to get it up on. Even That’s what I was.
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Speaker 3: Remember which group, Yeah, I think it’s day one where.
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Speaker 1: I told them, hey, when you want to rest, get it on, get on some like just sit there. Yeah, with it sitting there, you’re almost just hanging there. But it helps take a load off thet I learned that the first time. When we in Colorado. There was like anytime I could find a tree and I needed to break, we just set it on that tree.
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Speaker 3: It’s funny when you’re doing stuff like that, you’re like just trying to like engineer a system that makes it easier than you. When you find when you’re like, oh yeah, there is finally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got somethin where I would pull up on his I don’t I don’t know what they in the West they call him brow tinnes. But I’d pull up on his brow tines for like two or three minutes, oh yeah, just to get him off my back a little bit. And then I would grab the bottoms and push up for five minutes, so like pull push, you know it.
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Speaker 3: Was I do a little bit the shimmy, yeah, like I want that backpack to be in the middle of my back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes when I feel like sagging a little bit and I already have this maxed out, I just I don’t know, bend over and give it a little oh yeah, well pop pop up. That’s nice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I’ll rotate through, getting it on my hips a little bit more. Yeah, cranking it up on my shoulders for a little bit, back and forth. It just gives me something. I know. People are like, wow, just leave it on your hips, blah blah blah, and I’m like cool, I’ve got a pretty good upper body strength and i’ms a little bit and so and it gives me mentally, like all right, five minutes up on the traps, but also like five minutes on the hip.
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Speaker 3: The truck.
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Speaker 2: Get it doneah, I like to do uh.
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Speaker 4: Obviously being a firefighter is so similar, like rolling into the pack like show That’s why I showed people how to roll.
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Speaker 2: Into a pack.
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Speaker 4: You know, you put it, you know, like when you do escape, like put your arms in, tighten the shoulder straps and then you roll over with like get a couple, get get some momentum, and then roll over, and especially we have someone helping you to roll over a little bit, leave the hip straps loose because then you can kind of get up on all fours and then stand up and then get that strap on. The same thing with like like what you’re saying, do that little shimmy is like I’ll just bend over and let my back let it just rest on my back so it’s off my shoulders and my hips entirely, and I’ll just like kind of sit there bent over. If there’s not somewhere to rest, just like let it sit on your back, and you can stand up and get that way back on you again, just because you’re letting gravity put it just smack.
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Speaker 2: On you instead of like pulling you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And a couple of guys wanted to like take off their packs might do not do that.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, don’t ever do that.
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Speaker 3: Don’t take because you’re not going to want to put that thing back.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that’s true. It’s true.
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Speaker 4: For like, I remember a workout I did. This is very applicable. I carried a sandbag one hundred and fifty pounds sand bag a quarter mile, so four hundred meters, And I remember I was my goal. I think Hobart Whobart had me do it.
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Speaker 3: I know that.
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Speaker 4: But my goal was to carry it as long as possible without setting it down. And I carried it about halfway. Once I did drop it, I dropped like every fifty feet first time. Yeah, yeah, so absolutely, So that’s the that’s the problem. Once you take the pack off, you’re gonna want to keep taking the.
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Speaker 3: Thing is going to get a magnet into the ground.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to just like keep trudging.
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Speaker 3: Yep, just one step at a time. Were you lighter the years you were doing Leadville?
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Speaker 1: The first year I was pretty light. I think I was like one eighty eight one night. The next year I was my normal. I just my body is just that’s like homeostasis for it. If I get too light, I start getting hurt. If I my body just will not shed weight, it’s sure. So it doesn’t matter what I’m doing.
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Speaker 3: Probably what body fat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is hard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is hard to just like lose a lot of that muscle too.
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Speaker 3: I’m trying. I’m on the cutting I would say I’m trying to get some weight. I’m down eight pounds. I’m trying to get below two is like the goal. Because I talked Chan again and he’s like, dude, I did it at two nineteen and that was a bigger grat I’m like, dude, you are a freaking.
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Speaker 1: He’s also there. I don’t know how he would lose any weight. Yeah, he’s just a square yeah, muscle, no other way to put it.
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Speaker 3: He’s like, yeah, if I could have like just simply bend lighter, that would have helped me out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I mean you look at the guys who do really well. Yeah, les who do really well with the race, They’re just they’re not our side.
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Speaker 3: I bet you Keegan is man. No, he’s ler than that. Wow, I bet you he’s in like the forties.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s uh. Yeah. I’ve multiple people that were like, I was wondering who this linebacker was, Like, I’m not even that big.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, what are you weighing right now?
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Speaker 2: You want to be under hundred?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I’m like two oh six right now?
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Speaker 1: What are you doing to cut?
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Speaker 3: Just colories or yeah, just tracking. I’m doing about twenty four hundred calories a day.
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Speaker 1: What are you riding a day?
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Speaker 3: Uh? Anywhere from ninety to three or ninety minutes three hours every day pretty much minimum at least some some depending on the family. Really Yeah, if I can get out, I’ll ride the bike. But usually the family’s not doing too well or wife needs something, I’ll just hopple and seat two bike.
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Speaker 1: Which for me, the position on the Sea two is not even close to the same.
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Speaker 3: Hey, riding my mountain bike.
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Speaker 1: I don’t know why. I gotta figure that out. If the seat’s too far forward, too far back, But like my body hurts in weird spots the longer I’m on a Sea two bike, where it does not hurt on the mountain bike. Part of that. Part of that too is the mountain bike is moving a lot, so you are standing sitting.
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Speaker 3: I put my clips in that room like made it more applicable, and I swopped like I bought the same seat that I have on my mountain bike and on the seat two bike.
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Speaker 4: It’s just it’s also like you don’t there’s nothing to take your mind off the seat two bike, Like when you’re even if you’re road biking, you still have scenery and you’re not only think about how much my ass hurd or how tired my shoulders are from holding myself like those you have, like other things like you’re looking around like, oh, look at that dog or something like there’s something going on.
00:22:47
Speaker 3: No, it’s definitely when I can get out and not be too selfish with my time, I’ll get out, but you know, still gotta be at home, present dad, things like that, so I’ll have the kids running around around me and yelling at them as I’m trying. Yeah. So today’s workout was brutal for twelve minutes on three or two minutes off for eight rounds and you’re holding so my technical my C two ftp is two eighty okay, And I had to hold a two twenty five for twelve minutes for five sets for two minutes on. That was. Yeah, that’s tough. That was That was a push in it for sure. That was a puddle in the end. Also, I think I have pretty salty sweat because I come home, I look at my bike and there’s like white.
00:23:37
Speaker 2: White everywhere crystallized.
00:23:39
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, straight sweat totally, that’s what I get out here. The hard part too, is it’s so humid here that like.
00:23:48
Speaker 3: It’s hitting me like a freaking freight train.
00:23:50
Speaker 4: You will be I bet your body will learn to sweat better, Like it’ll be less salty the longer you do it.
00:23:55
Speaker 3: Have you met, You’ve been You’ve been around me.
00:23:57
Speaker 2: I’ve been here.
00:23:58
Speaker 3: For twenty years.
00:23:59
Speaker 4: I’m saying, but ye’re proficient sweater. Though your sweat is probably pretty much the last year.
00:24:04
Speaker 1: That it did lead Bill. I don’t know if it was just hot that year. I had Dad Watkins come pick me up one day because I got like, oh, out there down bad and I was out on the road. So yeah, yeah, I just got baked from the inside. I was starting to get like dizzy, starting to like fall off the bike.
00:24:20
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, yeah, there’s definitely a limit. But you are a proficient sweater, and you I’m so, I’m saying you will become a more proficient sweater in the humidity. Not this year, probably probably in a few years.
00:24:33
Speaker 3: The race August eighth, August fifteenth, Okay, yeah, so we.
00:24:37
Speaker 1: Got a couple when we get back from the games, we can go on some long ride totally. I’ll be done with me and you’ll be ready for BCS. Yeah.
00:24:44
Speaker 3: If the fifty miles canceled, I think I’m going to do thirty three laps on the lower on the lower half of your property. Thirty three lap three, it’s one hundred miles.
00:24:54
Speaker 1: Holy cow.
00:24:55
Speaker 2: Oh you’re gonna do one hundred miles before you go?
00:24:57
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, do fifteen laps, sixteen laps. There’s like all there’s all kinds of science that says you don’t need to do more than half of whatever the race is before race.
00:25:08
Speaker 3: The tricky part for me is like, like, I know my fitness level to a.
00:25:13
Speaker 1: Degree, twenty laps. You can do twenty laps, so not do thirty three laps. Watkins, Okay, sounds good.
00:25:19
Speaker 4: I don’t think I mean, I agree with him. There is some studies out there of the show.
00:25:23
Speaker 1: That like, over four to five hours, there’s you’re not just diminishing return, like there’s no it’s fair. Yeah, you’re gonna know physically and nutritionally what you need to know in five hours. The longest ride I ever did before the first year I did Leadville was five hours. Frank Frank was there.
00:25:41
Speaker 3: It was right at five hours something like that.
00:25:44
Speaker 1: It was hot. It was like ninety something degrees.
00:25:46
Speaker 4: Dang, yeah, because stage and it’s gonna be July and hot.
00:25:50
Speaker 1: You could stage stuff back there too, like to where you could switch out food and all that sort of stuff or put it here.
00:25:57
Speaker 3: And I were like talking to a game plan yesterday of like, because one we’re trying to dial in what my body is going to feel like when it’s actually getting to the fatigue point. And then how we can you know, find the nutrition game.
00:26:11
Speaker 1: You need to sit down and look at it. You need to test some stuff to like what kind of car drink that you like, what you know palatable after three hours. That’s the big thing is that is brutal. Have you you?
00:26:24
Speaker 3: I did never second just the ultrap.
00:26:26
Speaker 1: Have you tried humor? I’ve got some humors to try. They’re more chia seed fruit based versus just completely process.
00:26:36
Speaker 3: I just couldn’t. I couldn’t.
00:26:37
Speaker 1: I’ll give you some humans to try.
00:26:39
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
00:26:40
Speaker 1: They have some that have some caffeine mixed in them and electrolytes and some that are just plain but they’re mainly chias seed. That’s what that don’t recommend. And then when I was in the mountains, you know, you go buy an aid station, like you want to get gel and I’m like, give me here, because there’s a point where you.
00:26:57
Speaker 2: Like, give me anything and every something different.
00:27:00
Speaker 3: I have, yes, yes.
00:27:01
Speaker 1: And then yeah because we can talk about it. But yeah, having you know, three to four hundred grams of carbs available in food form, and then having I had always had one hundred grand bottle and a fifty grand bottle of carbs in case food started going south, just in case. And then when I lost those two grand bottles of my cage before power right after Columbine, and then the next eight station at power line, yeah before the hatchery.
00:27:33
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I lost both of those. That’s so sad.
00:27:38
Speaker 1: I came down what is it turquoise, I guess whatever the last descent is, and I got to the like road part before you go into town and I was out of liquid.
00:27:49
Speaker 3: Do that road part that you go down at first and then to come back up just ruined to me mentally.
00:27:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucks. Imagine that being the last part and not having any liquid.
00:28:00
Speaker 3: Oh.
00:28:01
Speaker 1: I was like passing people. I’m like, you get any water?
00:28:04
Speaker 3: I don’t have anything. There’s that one aid station like halfway up of the pavement.
00:28:09
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah, right as you go into the woods yep, and it’s pretty much downhill from there to the road.
00:28:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:19
Speaker 4: Didn’t you have one of those guys by you who had a Chick fil A sandwich on him?
00:28:23
Speaker 1: That?
00:28:23
Speaker 3: Or am I making that up?
00:28:24
Speaker 1: That was I think a J and Rory at one hundred mile.
00:28:27
Speaker 4: I thought, if what were the guys you were biking with? You said you met up with a couple of guys just on the on Oh yeah, y were they? Were they eating some crazy or am I making this?
00:28:37
Speaker 1: Rory was talking about in a iron Man or something he was doing. Some guy was eating just a burrito like on his bike. I never I wish I would have done. Now that we’ve done a couple of these twenty four hour and twelve hour things, having some like Chick fil a sandwich. Yeah, the first hour or two just to like, I was like, oh in crustables, but your mouth from all the sweets, you’re just yeah out.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: It does It’s crazy. It just gets so tiring.
00:29:03
Speaker 1: But a lot of that does, you know, roll over into what we do in that in the woods.
00:29:08
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:29:08
Speaker 1: You know, if you’re a hard hunt, then that nutrition stuff is just beneficial to learn and if your stomach can handle.
00:29:15
Speaker 3: If I can get a full like a true real meal in on a hunt at any point is a freaking game changer. I will say, I’m pretty surprised with the like Viking does not beat up your body.
00:29:31
Speaker 1: No, it does.
00:29:32
Speaker 3: Like I’ve chucked my body through the ring or this season, and I really haven’t really had much diminishing returns.
00:29:40
Speaker 1: No, you know, the I lost a little bit of like front rack mobility when I was doing a lot of from being in this position, and all the time my elbows would get a little like you know, you’re getting beat up all the time, that my elbows got a little bit. But for the most part, dude, on Saturday, m hm, so slick. I one of the times I hit a bump and my hand slipped off and I caught myself and I was like, oh okay, that was close. And then I did it again ten seconds after. And when I did, I this knee like I caught myself with this leg and it you know, I can’t flex this knee past barely past ninety degrees and it went almost but dude, I thought I my knee was gonna exlode. It was fine after, but the like shocked to my body, Dude, it was it was next level. It was like, you know, like you go to step off something and your legs folds behind you. That’s what it felt like. Dude, I thought I was dead.
00:30:42
Speaker 4: Hey, I’m getting to that point where I can’t I can’t sit at my ankles anymore, like my knees, my knees.
00:30:46
Speaker 1: I’m I’m looking at I’ve got I’ve got a point where the guy does replacements on my knees to that point.
00:30:53
Speaker 3: So yeah, on a different I’m switching the tone to a hunting topic.
00:30:58
Speaker 1: Yep.
00:30:59
Speaker 3: Uh, my wife and I are actually getting a blood tracking dog, she said, Yeah, it’s a Bavarian mountain hound.
00:31:07
Speaker 1: So when we lose some deer this fall, yep, we’re gonna call dots.
00:31:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:31:13
Speaker 2: Ye, So I don’t even know where to begin with that stuff.
00:31:17
Speaker 1: Well, I think it’s basically, anytime we kill anything this fall, we’re gonna have to call dods before we go, just to them just to let us.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: But also like so I talked to the breeder. Freeze, bone freeze, hide freeze, the blood get as much like save as much as you can put it in your freezer, and then when you go to train pup, just like make it a little line and then add a ninety degree and then add some you know, down trees.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: Straight forward.
00:31:44
Speaker 3: It’s pretty straightforward, but we’re we’re pretty excited for that. We like, I’m hit or missed with dogs. But there’s like Ludy and my daughter, Ludy unfortunately got like bit by a dog pretty early on. I think she was like barely one, yeah, and she literally has a giant fear of anything with four legs now, And we’re kind of like we want to nip it in the butt, and like, well, if we’re gonna do this, I’m getting a hunting dog. And I’m not a bird guy. Like, so I’m not getting a lab, Like, I’m not not gonna teach you how to like get birds because I’m just not a bird hunter. Like I think a tracking dog would be awesome.
00:32:21
Speaker 2: What is funny though about labs is bro it is ingrained in.
00:32:25
Speaker 1: That Oh, Bill will run himself into the ground chasing whiffleballs and he’ll bring it right back to you until he’s done, and then he’ll take the ball and he’ll just go sit in the shade, yeah, because he doesn’t want you to throw it again, because he knows you can’t not go get It’s it’s impressive how we’ve never really trained him whatsoever.
00:32:46
Speaker 2: But yeah, it’s just has to.
00:32:48
Speaker 1: Have something in his mouth at all times. He didn’t chew it.
00:32:52
Speaker 2: And they don’t just carry.
00:32:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like when they carry it to you, it’s not they can carry an they can carry an uncooked egg.
00:32:59
Speaker 2: Labs are just carry and they’ll set it down, it won’t break it. Yeah, they just have that soft mouth.
00:33:04
Speaker 1: And as soon as I like the kids will have to get a little bit more aggressive with them and drop. But as soon as I say drop or I even just like snap and point. Yeah it’s down.
00:33:13
Speaker 3: That’s cool.
00:33:14
Speaker 1: And we’d never want other than playing whiffleball in the yard. Sure has he ever, but it’s super handy until it’s really annoying.
00:33:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Labs are just so so it’s so funny about them being bird dogs.
00:33:28
Speaker 1: Dude, they just they just it’s an eight in them. Yeah, that’s just what they do.
00:33:31
Speaker 3: It’s cool because yeah, this dog we don’t want. Like one of my biggest I don’t know, miner pet peeves is biggest minor pet peeves. It’s a minor pet peeves. Like when I go to someone’s house and you just get crushed by barking and like dogs like, oh, I’m.
00:33:45
Speaker 1: Sorry, he’s such a teady bear blah blahlah.
00:33:47
Speaker 3: Blah blah like my dogs. Uh no, because your dogs are outside. Yeah, it’s like when you walk in the house and they’re just barking.
00:33:54
Speaker 1: Oh ours don’t bark really, Yeah, they will every once in a while, but as soon as they like see it’s a person, sure, they’re welcome, there’s no bar.
00:34:03
Speaker 3: But like this, this dog hunts with its nose like it’s not a hound or like a mountain lion hound where it’s like barking its face off. Here, tell me see something moving. It’s a pretty silent pup, which we’re really excited about that too. How are you getting it? It’s the breeders in Pennsylvania, right where Anna’s parents live. You have to drive up there and yeah, but we’ll see the in law so it’ll be perfect.
00:34:25
Speaker 2: When is how old I mean, is it is this puppy Like it’s yet?
00:34:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
00:34:32
Speaker 4: It been has been born, So it’s has been Has it been conceived? I mean, I don’t know if it’s been conceived.
00:34:39
Speaker 3: It’s it’ll be eight weeks the last like right after the game is pretty much it’ll.
00:34:43
Speaker 1: Be perfect season, it can start to we can start teaching it.
00:34:47
Speaker 3: Totally excited. It’s called name, it’s gunny.
00:34:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:51
Speaker 4: The problem with the problem is with me helping train dog is I always have such clean shots and animals.
00:34:58
Speaker 2: We never needed tracking down my issues.
00:35:02
Speaker 3: Right over there, I need you.
00:35:04
Speaker 2: I’m gonna context boy or girl.
00:35:07
Speaker 1: A girl?
00:35:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess they mature faster, but that’s also what they had available.
00:35:15
Speaker 2: So are you gonna keep her intact or no?
00:35:19
Speaker 3: I’m not sure.
00:35:20
Speaker 2: Kind of having a girl dog intact.
00:35:23
Speaker 4: It’s got to be an issue, really, I mean, yeah, they bleed on your ears, like they start bleeding on the carp You’re like.
00:35:27
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, dog, but another problem. Yeah, I haven’t seen I even thought about. This is good stuff to talk about.
00:35:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we we didn’t have any goal of breeding either of our dogs.
00:35:42
Speaker 2: We just haven’t fixed as soon as we could.
00:35:43
Speaker 3: Yeah. The well, we’ll be able to vet out how good the guy. The guy’s dogged in Texas. After we run it, we’ll.
00:35:51
Speaker 1: Take it out in a rainstorm.
00:35:52
Speaker 3: Let Angelo shoot rates. I just finished that edit.
00:35:58
Speaker 1: Did you.
00:35:59
Speaker 3: We’ll post it soon. Couples Dorotto when we’re we’re launching the all for September line. We’re gonna have a lot of content ready for that. Yeah, and the Rock Program things, the rucks.
00:36:11
Speaker 2: The Ruck program is live. The Rock Program is we just need to get the.
00:36:17
Speaker 4: Like the hats and mostly yeah, the hats you need to be in mostly.
00:36:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:36:21
Speaker 2: We got a and I actually had a you know, I just.
00:36:23
Speaker 3: Doubled up and I added a.
00:36:25
Speaker 2: I had a five K ruck progression that I had twenty workouts.
00:36:28
Speaker 3: I go, I’ll throw that in there too. So that’s also why, well if the gets canceled, I’ll do that. Yeah.
00:36:34
Speaker 4: So there’s so there is the Rock Workout Program, which is twenty workouts and it’s just centered around all you need is a ruck in your body. I think maybe there’s some step up so if you need if you have something you can step up on, it could literally be your stairs, okay, And I think that is all a ruck and maybe some another form of an item to step up on. Twenty workouts of that, and then I believe there’s twenty workouts of a five K literally that’s just for a five K progression, Like it’s something you would do like once or twice a week, like Monday and Thursday. One’s time based and one’s distance base, adding adding intense to your volume.
00:37:13
Speaker 3: That would be a fun content piece where like we just say, hey, the Mayhem teams doing on this day. Yeah, like you know, I mean Scott would absolutely demolish that.
00:37:21
Speaker 1: He would, Yeah, be good for my training buildings. Has started the bodybuilding track?
00:37:27
Speaker 3: Has he?
00:37:27
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:37:28
Speaker 3: Heck yeah today today?
00:37:30
Speaker 2: All right?
00:37:30
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, hey, you can skip leg day because people won’t do it. I said, but we might. You need a deadlift over one. He’s like, I’ve never deadlifted before.
00:37:38
Speaker 3: But if I like filmed them doing it what we hate that, I.
00:37:41
Speaker 1: Think it’d be awesome. Give him a couple of weeks. So yeah, I think that that’s a good segue into what what we’re doing here. So so this show will end, you can continue to like go to Meat Eater podcast or still have all their podcas casts. This show will end, you can still check my socials Mayhem Hunt on YouTube, Mayhem Hunt on Instagram. We’re gonna start doing less sit down talks type stuff more get back to the over the last year where we were doing those one hour kind of full session type things and some shooting high heart rate, shooting stuff, shooting you know, competition fitness, competition y type stuff. You’ll see more of that type of stuff on the Hunt page from us. We’ll still be working with me Eater. They’re still going to be doing the the all the podcasts that they’re doing, but this this show will end. We might every once while to do a round table talk on the Mayhem Hunt socials and YouTube that type of stuff. It’s just got to where we’re not just sit down and talk type guys. We’re more of like, hey, do it with us type. Yeah, and so just made sense to we’re about a year in, I think, so kind of sunset this and continue to do back on what we were doing. We’re more we’re not very valuable just to show show, don’t tell, We’ll show antell yeah. Yeah, and so yeah, that’s what you’ll see here. So keep going to Meeter for you know, the all the podcasts that they’re doing with Play, the regular show, the trivia show, Mark all that stuff, so that that’ll still be there, but our content will just go back to Mayhem Hunt. And if you’ve been tuning in and enjoyed it, you know, come on over and we’ll continue. But probably a little bit different style stuff. You probably will just be uh listening to us talk all the time. It’ll be more offeah, more to YouTube type stuff. I’m still hunting, still doing that, which I should know today about New Mexico. So then we can build out the rest of the fall because I’m like it, get it figured out right now, wife, Yeah, so is mine? Yeah, And then I guess what I see when Colorado second draws will be out.
00:39:54
Speaker 3: I think it’s like the eighth Yeah, it’s coming out here.
00:39:57
Speaker 1: So if we’re going back for meal, dear, or if an antelope punt’s gonna happen or not.
00:40:02
Speaker 2: So the chance that antelope punt, like really really really.
00:40:05
Speaker 1: Really I think there was one text.
00:40:08
Speaker 3: But also if it’s gonna be under smoke too.
00:40:11
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so but yeah, that’ll be the that’ll be it for us. We’ll ever see each other again, see you guys and now, but we’ll be uh, we’ll just.
00:40:23
Speaker 3: Do some other stuff.
00:40:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, this will be a part of it, but other stuff.
00:40:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we’ll we’ll still have some podcasts, but more uh yeah dustin some of the things.
00:40:31
Speaker 1: Ye, so anything else.
00:40:35
Speaker 3: I just want to say thanks, you know, for all the fans that I’ve grown over the past six episodes.
00:40:41
Speaker 2: You know where to find me.
00:40:42
Speaker 4: I’ll leave my Instagram, teach my Instagram, yeah.
00:40:47
Speaker 1: Like, and subscribe yep. So that’s it for us on this podcast. Yeah this ye Peace
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