Podcast Appearances
It was definitely like, like running was the place that I could go to find peace.
In those times of mental chaos, I was able to go there and find clarity.
And in the beginning, it was like I was able to go there and escape the life that I hated.
You were talking about how you're able to just think about everything.
was able to just run and just escape this life of like i hated the military i hated who i was i you know hated the i've done in the past i hated the way that i was raised i felt sorry for myself because i went through childhood abuse like i watched my mom try to kill herself i watched my mom's ex-husband beat the out of her locust in bedrooms like i was able to go and run and like i was able to like control my pain and i had never been in control before
It just allowed, like, it just gave me so much.
It gave me everything I needed to escape that.
posted it on my instagram story and said like i'm gonna do this in 120 days because that accountability is everything right so there's something in like having accountability accountability is like everything like drugs and fucking drinking is cool and all but like when you fucking when you are accountable for what you say there is a natural human high in that yeah that like you can't get anywhere else like yeah like cool like the party lifestyle like yeah it's great but like when you fucking say that you're gonna be somebody and then you become that person
yeah yeah like i mean one of the the probably the best marathon runner in austin right now he just qualified for the olympics last year he went to the olympic trials and he was a meth addict for like 15 years and then one day just woke up and was like mitch hammonds is his name one day just woke up and was like i don't want to do this no more
And now he turns to running because it's kind of like pain to purpose.
And it doesn't have to be hard drugs.
If you just don't like something about yourself, if you don't like an action that you are doing, take a fitness action and try to replace that.
If you're like, oh, I want to fucking get off blow.
Every time you want to do blow, go run five miles.
I mean, you know what I'm saying?
Like dog, like all you have to do is replace when there's a chicken room at 4 a.m.
I mean, dude, do some type of cardio.