Simon Whitfield

I came back in 2011 with Specialized, who's been my long-time sponsor.

They were releasing the Shiv for the first time in 2011, and I was here with Crowey and Jan and Simon Whitfield to release that bike, but had no interest in doing the race back then.

And then I came just a month ago to do a little camp and preview the course and get a sense of it because most of my competitors have raced before.

So I felt like to be a little bit more on even playing field, I should see the course at least once.

it, it gave an interesting context for me to have read that first book and to basically almost know that, like, you are the person who pushed yourself beyond limits that should be humanly possible, even after the end of your competitive career.

And in some ways, this book is almost like, okay, well, maybe there, there's a point where you have to say stop, you know? And I, and I feel like a lot of other a- athletes, they, they reached out to s- I remember when we talked to Simon Whitfield.

I don't know if you remember Ben.

Simon Whitfield, again, incredibly famous Olympian and one of our most successful of all time, and he's like, "You know what? The day I stopped competing, I stopped being an athlete.

You know? [laughs] I play pickleball now." But that didn't really end for you.

You just took on bigger challenges.