Ken Rideout

Really nice guy.

recovering alcoholic, just really like gregarious and just there to have fun.

So the last day he's like, yo, it's only six miles.

Like it's an hour and a half.

You won.

Like you can just take it easy.

Are you going to let someone else win?

And I was looked at him like he was crazy.

I'm like, I'll fucking die before I let someone win a stage.

I'm racing to the death.

And he was like, this guy's crazy.

But I meant it.

And me and the Swiss guy got into like, I'm talking a full sprint.

We were running like two lunatics through this little village into this big, like former Genghis Khan village fortress.

And it was always so cool.

And then I killed him and I ran away like in one by a few minutes and ran into there.

And I was like, oh my God, I won.

And that really was when people started to like really pay attention where I was like,

Wall Street Journal, New York Times both called me the best runner in the world over 50, which was crazy for me because there are definitely people who've run faster, but it's like being the Olympic champion.

There might've been people that have run faster or done things faster than you, but on that day, they didn't beat you.