So how did that come to be?

So I...

Yeah.

My therapist is...

She specialized in psychedelics, or she, she's done a lot of work with it.

So it had been, again, little seeds planted.

It'd been brought up here and there, and it was always a curiosity.

Mm.

So how did you specifically prepare your body, your mindset and maybe also your material for this adventure, if we call it like this, in the weeks leading up to it?

I'll answer that in three parts.

So first I'll talk about the equipment choices.

And I think having experienced an entire career as a mountain biker really prepares you well for something like that because you learn how to make the proper equipment choices to get yourself through the race because nothing's slower than breaking your bike or flatting.

So I think people tend to push the limit and try to pick the fastest setup and the lightest setup and all of that.

But for mountain biking, we know that that's not always the way to go.

So I made some pretty conservative choices or what I would say just safe choices in my equipment.

Were you staying loose and sticking to your own number or were you a bit stressed about the gap and trying to bridge it quickly?

So how's the show been going?

It's been great.

So we have a lot of brokers that are here, and we like to see them.

Uh, we have a lot of our national account customers that are here.

We're picking up a lot of independents that are walking by.

Um, we try to push the message that we're domestic, so we're getting a lot of positive feedback about being a USA-grown product.

Um, we've had a, quite a few leads to only have been here for two days.

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