Gary Brecka

And it was, I think, because I just never, I never faced those demons that I had.

I tried, I left, but then I came right back to that same environment.

It's what happened.

That's why people end up failing at things they try.

And what led me to the ultra running, right?

I think is where we're going with this.

Yeah, that's what I want to hear.

Yeah, so 2021, in that timeframe, I moved out of that town.

I got out of that partying phase.

I actually, I went active.

I got an active duty job in the military.

Okay.

Such a blessing.

So I was in the National Guard, but I did almost five years active duty.

Okay.

Where I worked full-time at Camp Dodge, which is Iowa's largest National Guard base.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I worked at, uh, crazy enough, right?

Like during those days of me doing drugs, I got a job at Midwest counter drug where I was, I'm not even kidding.

Like, I'm pretty sure I was still like smoking weed and, and I was going to work at counter drug where we were training law enforcement to like, to like kick in doors and find drugs.