Ken Rideout

having a goal of winning races.

It's just, I just worked so hard that they couldn't deny that I was better than that, that I was faster than most people.

Then I, once I get a taste for that, then I'm like, what's next?

I start looking at every race.

I'm like, you know, I'm looking for the racers that don't have prize money because those attract like real pros.

And like, I'm not a professional runner.

I mean, a professional runner is running like two, under 205, right?

I'm running 228.

So I start looking at all the local races that don't have a prize person.

I'm like, I just start showing up at races and winning.

And I won a big one in 2019, 19 or 20, right before COVID at the Pasadena Half Marathon at the Rose Bowl.

And it was like 8,000 people and it's winding through Pasadena.

I'm like, holy shit, I'm leading.

There's a motorcycle in front of me.

And I turn and come into the Rose Bowl.

And, you know, there's probably like 100 people in there.

But it's finishing in the Rose Bowl on the field, live on the news.

And the announcer like, here he comes.

Oh, my God, he's 48 years old.

That's so crazy.