Andrew Glaze

So I went to a community college class to learn more because again, back then you had to actually go to like school to learn about exercise.

Yeah.

So I took an exercise science class and in that class I had to run a mile and a half.

And that sort of started it all for me.

And I really just never had that anxiety and depression problem again.

Once I started working out, once I started losing the weight, once I stopped, you know, using drugs as a crutch to, you know, mask the problems that I was having.

It's quite different.

And I mean, I think that happened probably about 12 years ago.

And I was a firefighter at the time and I was dealing with...

you know, PTSD issues like that.

And, um, so I kept trying to like push myself harder and harder to try to, to deal with that because, you know, my initial thing was, oh, if you feel weird in your brain, just exercise, you know, that's what I taught myself.

So, you know, when, when the PT, yeah, well, when the PTSD started, you know, that's a weird form of, uh, like brain activity.

And so I had to start doing a little bit more to get that to calm down and,

that led to me doing all sorts of other things like triathlons and obstacle course racing and all that.

And then that sort of led to the ultra running, which has now become like everything I do pretty much.

ETS day like what are you referring to like I mean Russian for me for me personally You know you see a lot of like terrible things being a firefighter like I mean the worst things you can possibly imagine from you know children being hurt or killed to suicides horrible car accidents on and on and on and

And those stack in your brain and over time, um, occasionally you'll get triggered and you'll start thinking about them and it just throws off your, your whole nervous system.

Um, it's, it's hard.

It's hard.

Cause everyone has like different symptoms.