Brady McDonald
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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When you, it's like, if you don't believe you can run 5k, which a lot of people don't believe, but if you can go and run 1k, which everybody can, you will start to believe that chances are you could run 1.5k. Cause you're like, yeah, I wasn't dead. I wasn't done. You know, I could probably do another half a cake. Right.
So then you go out and do 1.5k and then you're like, yeah, I think I could do two, you know, and you do that over and over again. That's how you create this trust and belief system in yourself. Right. It doesn't happen by you, but you have to do the 1k. Yeah. And that's when you start to do 29029 after that experience. It's like, okay, this is actually not that bad.
Although it's longer, it's more manageable. But hard is... you know, everybody has different heart. And so that's the big thing that people maybe get a little, you know, when, when we start telling these stories, it's like, there's no, I can't even relate to this motherfucker. Right.
But like my wife would never even walk 5k, but you know, not too long ago, she just hiked 20 K or 20 miles, sorry, 20 miles. And she's doing two nine Oh two nine. And it's because it started small. Right. Yeah.
and um well and plus the proximity she is to you doing this crazy stuff yeah she's like look she's seeing you what you're worth she's like if this jerk does exactly yeah dude the other day was so cool so we were uh before the clearwater marathon might i have a four-year-old daughter she ran a 5k 14 minute miles she's this big that's awesome yeah and it's just proximity
Yeah, so the next thing we did was the 100 miler. My coach said, what do you want to do next? I said, well, I think I want to run 100 miles and raise $100,000 for charity. I think you donated a bunch of money for that. I did. Thanks again, John. Mm-hmm.
um and we were yeah we ended up raising 85 000 for charity for that for for that run so we ran the 100 miles and that was hard dude like like you're in a pain hole like you've never experienced like next to giving birth like if i was to give birth or you know if i knew what that was like this would be like giving birth but for like 18 hours straight but i have a friend of my name tony grappo that was here in town and tony's like tony did this when he was like 65 yeah i think he did 100 miler and i asked him i said bro
Yeah. I got the same advice actually. Like somebody said to me, he's like, Brady, this is the best piece of advice I can give you. It's going to get bad, but just know that it's not going to get any worse.
Like, all right. So I, and it gets bad.
This was, this wasn't as was that Jesse answers festival. It was a one mile track.
around a track so similar to the 100 miles that we're buddies running tomorrow is one mile track that's what yeah so first 32 miles i ran it and we started at 4 p.m so i started running and you know circles essentially and i started doing a run walk at about 32 miles in and then all night long pitch black you know you're looking through a headlight and all you see is foggy as shit so all you're seeing is this tiny little beam and
You know, you're starting to get a little wheezy and like delirious and start, you know, I don't think I hallucinated this, this particular one, but I did the last one. Yeah. And dude, you just go into this pain hole. That's like, it rips you to your core. Like if you think you're fucking awesome, you're not anymore. Like you have zero ego, like your ego is gone.
And it's like the closest part to death. I honestly think that, you can get.
Yeah. Like I think, well, for me, I just, you just have to like, for me, I'll, I'll, I'll run four minutes and walk one. And it's all about just getting to that end of the four minutes. and then walking to one. And so you really go into robot mode. And initially you start, you want to talk, you're with your crew. But after that, dude, like you can't listen to music.
You can't listen to anybody talk. Like it's just so, you know when you run or exercise and the worst song comes on? You're like, fuck, change it, change it. Well, that's what it's like, you know, for 18 hours when anybody talks to you. Oh my gosh. Yeah. You know, and like you said, like the pain is just, it's,
overwhelming but you just have to you just again you just keep moving right and i think that's the secret is just don't stop so how do you i mean how do you because obviously you got to do something to protect your feet while this is going on how do you protect is there any way to protect your feet or they don't know i just i just they just they just keep going yeah but on the on that 100 i think i only had a couple little blisters it wasn't too bad um the next one
The next 100 miler was just in October. That was through the mountains, 13,000 feet of elevation. That was a little harder. That one I actually hallucinated.
Yeah, she was crewing. I was hallucinating seeing cows and horses and shit that weren't there. The feet were pretty good there too, but just doing that in the mountains was like, I would never fucking do this again.
yeah yeah but then now you're like well i could do that again yeah so then yeah so i'm i am doing another 100 miler um in april zion 100 but okay so then i i kind of like okay well what's next so i thought okay there's this new 200 miler coming out in mammoth california I'll sign up for that. And because I did put my name in for the Moab 240. So I don't know if anybody's listened.
Probably, you know, David Goggins. Yeah. Goggins ran the Moab 240. This is a famous race. Very hard to get into 240 miles straight. And I'm like, ah, you know what? I'm just going to put this in. I'm not going to tell my wife because she'll fucking kill me. And so I put my name in.
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