Ken Rideout
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I said, no one has experience until they effing do the job.
Like some point someone's gotta give someone a chance.
And if you don't want to give me a chance, I'll give myself a chance.
I'll do it for free.
And he knew I had three or four kids.
I didn't have the luxury of failing.
And it's like that race.
I didn't have the luxury of not doing well.
I had brands that were sponsoring me.
I'm not going to humiliate them.
I've talked about, oh, yeah, I've been training using Reebok shoes, this thing and that thing.
And then I go there and make a fool of myself.
And I got trounced the first day.
Yeah, won by 90 minutes.
There's a whole chapter in there about the book.
They could write a whole movie script just about the race, all the shit that happened.
Yes.
And I had good residual fitness because I had been training a lot and I had been running races.
I was like right in the middle of my best year ever.
And so I get there in the first day, I get smashed.