Zach Dell
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I think I was in the sixth or seventh grade and I was in kind of an advanced math class.
And I was really proud of that because my dad really emphasized the importance of math.
And I got like our first test back and I got a 99.
And I went to call my dad after school and I called him and I was like, dad, you're never going to believe it.
First test, I got a 99.
And he was like,
What happened to the last point?
You ran for the touchdown.
You fumbled the ball on the one yard line.
That stuck with me.
And it wasn't just like, oh, my dad doesn't love me.
He's not proud of me.
It's just, no, I got to be better.
My mom is an elite endurance athlete.
She did the Ironman World Championships.
She's completed a bunch of half Ironman.
She's got all kinds of course records in cycling races.
And a lot of what I learned about hard work and determination and perseverance is really from her and leading by example in that way.
But we used to go on these really long bike rides.
You'd be climbing a hill.