Andrew Glaze

About 12 years ago, I was a firefighter at the time.

I was dealing with PTSD issues like that.

So I kept trying to push myself harder and harder to deal with that because my initial thing was, oh, if you feel weird in your brain, just exercise.

I had to start doing a little bit more to get that to calm down, and that led to the ultra running.

You need to train your brain to be able to handle a lot of very tough situations, and what better way to do that than in an ultra marathon?

So I found that in order to not get injured, it's best to

Thank you so much for having me.

This is amazing.

Yeah.

I mean, so when I was in my twenties, I was super anxious, uh, really quite depressed and, um, yeah.

And this, I wasn't doing anything, you know, I was very inactive.

I was overweight, uh, smoking a lot of pot, drinking a lot of alcohol, all the kinds of things you do in your twenties.

And,

one of my friends said, Hey, you know, maybe you should try working out.

Uh, it might, it might, well, this is before the internet, this is before the internet, before podcasts, you know, before anything, you know, this was, uh, like 25 years ago.

So, um, there wasn't a lot of information on how to solve like problems.

You know, if you went to a doctor and said, Hey, I'm depressed or like, Oh, here's some Zoloft or here's some Wellbutrin or something like that.

And I, I wasn't really into doing that.

So,

I started working out and I started feeling better and I wanted to learn more.