Ken Rideout

So I was just like having blind faith and the same thing with the running.

I was just running and running and like training, but I never identified myself as a runner.

I was like, I'm just like, I'm exercising.

And even like in Eastbound and Down, that Kenny Powers TV show when the guy's like, oh, I do triathlons.

And he said, do you do triathlons?

And the guy goes, no, man, I play real sports.

I'm not trying to be the best at exercising, which always makes me laugh because then I always say like, yeah, I'm the best exerciser in the world.

But the point is, I was toiling in darkness and anonymity for so many years.

And then all of a sudden, I started to win a couple bigger races, the Malibu Half Marathon.

My times just kept getting faster and faster.

But to your point about not knowing anything about running, I didn't even have a coach.

I worked my way down to a 233 marathon and won a handful of races without ever having a coach or a structured training plan.

All I did was run a minimum of 10 miles a day in the hills in Malibu.

It's funny because Reggie Miller gave me a quote for the book and I'd see him on his mountain bike.

We'd be the only two people out in this like desert looking mountain and we'd be riding, he'd be riding up the hill.

I'd be running, you know, you're going about the same speed up, you know, on a mountain bike.

And we start, we just struck up a friendship and people like, how do you know Reggie?

I'm like, to be honest with you, the only time I see him is when we're training.

And then he would, then he gave me an awesome quote for the book.

But I was just there working and working and not,