Brady McDonald
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, I trained. So, yeah, I guess I have never had injuries like I did here. Good for you. You know, I was lucky. Maybe I didn't play enough football or something, but...
yeah so what happened was i actually saw jesse itzler you know jesse is sure great so i saw him right around the same time he did ultraman which is a 6.2 mile swim uh 90 mile bike on the one day and jesse itzler like if you go look at him like you look at him and you don't think he's an ultra athlete yeah he looks broken down he's he's sold he's sold multiple companies for hundreds of millions you know he's super successful and i saw him do this 6.2 mile swim 90 mile bike i got his
Yeah. And then he did. So the next day is 170 mile bike. And the next day after that is 52 mile run. And I'm like, he does this. I'm like, there's something more to this guy than just business.
And I just, so I got super intentional. I got close to Jesse. I became friends. And then I hired his coach because I'm like, whoever did that, got Jesse to do that is who I'm going to is who's going to help me do it. And so that's when I quit drinking. And then we started training for a 50 mile run that we did in the Keys. And so trained for three months, right? Quit drinking.
Three months later, ran 50 miles from Marathon, Florida down to Key West. And it was 119 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity. Like you could eat the air. And we started at nine o'clock in the morning. It was insanely hot. And so the first 12 miles, it was just... I was like so frustrated because you couldn't cool your body down. It's like sitting in the sauna. Yeah. That's 200 degrees.
You can't get out. You can't get out. The door's locked. You can't get out. Right. And, and I'm just like, what am I going to do? And I put this towel on. Anyway, I figured it out. I got into this, this, this routine where I had a bag of ice. I would take it. I'd run for four minutes. I'd have it on my neck. I'd walk for one minute. I'd run for four, walk for one. And I'd take the bag of ice.
I would stick it in my groin.
you know for the one minute walk and i dumped the you know the ice all over my head and i did this 50 miles you know the 30 the other 36 miles well i get finished at you know like 10 hours and 40 minutes later in that excruciating heat and they said they didn't know what place i was in and i didn't even know where i was to be honest i got lost that before i got to the end
And so we waited around there for a few hours waiting in there. Eventually they said, congratulations, you're in third place. So that's great. So two hours later, I didn't drink anything. I didn't re-eat anything. I didn't even know what I was doing. My wife was crewing me with my daughters, right? There were six of them.
handing a granola bar and slap you in the back there was not even like you should rehydrate yourself you should like re-electrolyte your body like anyway so got back to where our rental was i started puking my brains out my wife throws me in back in the car she's like we're going to the hospital and i was just like and she's now cruising back to marathon florida sees an ambulance Right.
And she pulls over and the ambulance driver's like, ma'am, you can't stop here. You got to keep going.
She's like, look at this dude.
That's exactly what she said. And the ambulance people and I kind of remember them like like opening the door or opening the expedition door. And they looked at me and they just like grab the stretcher and they literally yanked me out, put me in the stretcher and rushed me to the hospital. And then from there, it was three days. They didn't know what was going on.
They were like, where did you run? I'm like, in Canada. They were like, what's your daughter's name? And I had no clue. No fucking clue. And so everybody thought I was dying, including them. They rushed me. So they did brain scans, heart scans, the whole body. Then rushed me. Didn't know what was going on. Rushed me to Miami. you know, more tests and thankfully survived. Right.
But yeah, I ended up with rhabdomyel, rhabdo and which could kill you a hundred percent and then severe dehydration. But, you know, at that point I was just like, I think I'm on the path, which is stupid to think. So you're sitting in the hospital, almost killed yourself.
I look back and there's a picture and it says not human. It's like an Ironman shirt. I'm like, what a stupid shirt to wear in here. Yeah.
you idiot so but the doctors they found this heart abnormality in there accidental and they said you can't do any of this ever again until you get that heart fixed so they said i had a leaky heart and i'm like damn i'm just getting good like this is putting me on the path yeah beyond and um you know long story short it took me about two weeks i got clearance and
And then I did 29029, which is Mount Everesting with Jesse. Yep, it's awesome. Like three weeks later than that. And then my coach, Chris... Real quick, real quick.
Yeah, the 50-miler was for sure harder. Yeah. Yeah, for that. Just because... probably the heat, but then running for 50 mile running is different than also hiking. Hiking's way long. Like it was a way longer event.
And I think I had the four, I had like, I built some mental fortitude by running that 50 miles and built a lot and built some trust in myself. Right. So when you go into these things, I mean, I think that's the secret to, to, you know, we're going to talk about some way crazier things in a second, I'm sure. But yeah,
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