So yeah, what is-- how have you been able to complete 100-mile races, 100K, 50K races, you know, while also raising, you know, a young child, uh, such as w-within your daughter?

Yeah.

I think Carolyn hit the nail on the head with the mom guilt, so I definitely do experience that.

I had never heard that term before, but, uh, maybe a little bit less in training.

I do get a little bit guilty when I'm, like, in peak training and I'm exhausted all the time, of thinking, like, "What am I doing?" Like, I-- my daughter wants to go play.

She wants to go run.

Like, I should be making such great use of these, like, amazing years when she's a toddler and she wants to, like, actually be around me, 'cause I know there will come a day where she doesn't wanna be around her dad as much.

Like, what are some kind of changes, um, things, adjustments that you think people need to consider with their families, uh, if-- versus, like, that-- or something that might not be obvious on the onset?

Like, and you know, kinda talk about that, and then how that experience allowed you to go into that first 100-mile finish, like really strong and being able to execute on that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, [clears throat] I think a lot of people when they step up to the 100-mile distance, you know, there is either-- There's one of two people.

There's the people who say, "I'm gonna do this," and they step up from like a marathon, and they're just like, "I want that 100-miler." And then there's the people who do it a little bit more gradually, coming up through 50K, 100K, that kind of thing, and that's the route that I went.

And I looked back at our old- uh, long-range plan that you made me, Joe, it was 62 weeks long.

We had, like, 14 months to build up to this 100-miler, and I don't think I've ever felt more prepared for something.

And the wild part about that is that I actually ended up getting a really bad viral infection a couple weeks before the race.

So anyways, Christian, what is your kinda big tip when-- that someone needs to consider when they're training for 100-mile races different than other distances?

You can-

... we have some patents as well, as well.

Um, and some of them are for various products.

Some of them are for v- like, various desi- or not designs, but, like, shapes.

Um, so that's, that's something that can be a little bit tough, too.

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How do I wanna try to say this? There are some shapes of trolling spoons or, or whatever that have been around for 100 years.

It's probably never gonna happen, but it just-