Gary Brecka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
From drinking, smoking weed every day, just like –
I mean, I'm talking every single day.
I was drunk every night, like just all the time.
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.