Mm

... driven me kind of to the, the bike packing, uh, you know, Colorado Trail Race, TNGA, Hurricane, those types of events, Four Ridges Challenge.

Like, what has drawn me to those and kinda drawn me away from ultra running, and I, I, I think the thing that I l- that I love so much about the bike packing community, and, and I know the big races are different, like the f- big, fast races like Leadville and the races you guys do.

But the long stuff, man, they ha- It, it's, it hasn't been commercialized.

It, like, there's no, like, there's no entry fee.

There's no official registration.

You have to figure out how to even send an email with your intent to ride the route.

Mm.

In process.

Yeah, in process and will be a lifelong process.

I think that the biggest one that I could put my finger on, and there's many, many things that we could go into, but maybe this will be common and resonate with many of the people listening, is pride.

And specifically pride.

When you become a SEAL, they put you through a training pipeline and they really do warp your mind.

They strip everything from you, every ounce of identity, even down to the clothes that you wear and the way you like to comb your hair or whatever.

wear a beard or whatever it may be.

What does following Jesus look like in the right house on an absolutely ordinary Tuesday? Yeah.

So how are you going to navigate all of this? I'm assuming that some practices are already underway, but the air quality is lousy.

Yeah, our fall sports started on Monday.

And so we are just...

Constantly watching the AQI and seeing what that number is and what it allows us to do.

It definitely throws a little wrench in the work sometimes when it goes up because in the fall, other than volleyball, we're pretty much outside.

So that really limits our indoor space also.

Yeah.

Early mornings, late nights.

I look forward to it every single year and it just never gets old.

Yeah, there's just a buzz and an electricity that goes through that.

Lots of excitement.

You know, everybody is coming in new at something.

So sophomores are coming new into high school.

Juniors, hey, we're no longer sophomores.

It's that next stage.

I know early mornings, late nights.

Yeah, right, right.

And so I think there's something to that.

It is part of that caveman brain.

This is where I'm going to point you to therapy again, because honestly, what I think it does boil down to is where does your value come from? If your value comes from answering every email and pleasing every select board member and making every citizen happy, you're done.

Like that is not going to go well for you.

Yeah, 100% true.

If your value is just inherent in who you are and you don't have anything to prove to anybody, now I get to make a choice.

They are part of a group that's going to stand behind them.