Ken Rideout

I don't think you can do it, but go for it.

And Equinox sponsored me, Reebok, Athletic Brewing, all these awesome partners were like, oh, we'll help you fund that trip.

Because it was expensive because going to a race there, I'm like, I can't get myself in a coach seat for 14 hours going to do this race.

I'm like, I needed to get a business class seat, 14 grand.

I wanted to stay in a nice hotel before the race started, which was the furthest thing from nice in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Oh my God, it was horrible.

Like the tiles were falling off the shower.

It was crazy.

That was the nicest hotel in the city.

And so I just bought some backpacks and started training in the Nashville heat.

I put towels and bottled water in the back to simulate the 20 pounds that I figured I would need because you had to bring your own food.

So I had to like research everything.

freeze dried food, what should I bring for food?

You had to have mandatory safety equipment, a whistle, a blank, like a tinfoil blank, like all this shit, like insurance for the insurance purposes you had to have.

So I just started training, showed up.

And like I said, I was scared going there.

Cause I'm like, I could humiliate myself.

And then I just got there and attacked it.

And I just didn't have experience doing it.

But like, it's the same thing when I took the job in finance with that guy, Jack McDowell, he's like, you don't have experience.