Ken Rideout

That's crazy.

Come on.

Every second, every step of the way, I'm thinking of like, almost like in real time, looking at all the systems checks, like on a, like a fighter pilot, looking at all the monitors, like how's the oil pressure?

Like the whole, I'm evaluating myself every step of the way in early in the marathon.

I'm like, all right, am I going too high?

Let me check the pace.

I want, you got to really manage the effort.

And marathon takes a lot of experience because you can easily go a step too fast for the first few miles and end up like walking to the finish line.

And I've never had to walk, but I have like blown myself up in some races, a big one in Berlin where I frigging blew an easy win there.

But the whole time I'm wrestling with that thought of like,

Oh, my ankles, I tweaked my ankle.

Should I stop?

The whole time this is like this.

The difference in, as you get more experience, is the voice that's telling you to quit becomes smaller and smaller.

When you first do a race, you're like, this is really hard.

I don't know if we can do it.

And this guy's like, you can do it.

But now the two voices in my head is like, one's like this huge alpha f***ing lion, and the other one is like a chihuahua.

Like, oh, he should stop.

And this one's like...