Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to the Mike Forrest podcast. It is of course your host, Mike Glover in the house. I hope you guys had a great weekend.

Oh man, I had an epic weekend. Let's talk about it. Stand by. So no shit there I was. 100 acreed in the woods. Salem, Missouri. WRX STI at the start line.

Five, four, three, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm out. An amazing experience I had with Raleigh Reddy, Black Raffle Coffee Company and Filcrous Survival. The lead partnership team for the Motorsports team that has Black Raffle Coffee. I had a blast man.

Literally, there's nothing that compares to Raleigh in the world. I had an amazing experience from being exhausted off a wrecky to racing six stages the first day.

My seventh and eighth stage the second day and then my engine blew and I still had the best of times. Let me walk you through the process a little bit because a lot of people ask me at the Park Expos A, which is the, you know, the little engagement.

Or you can meet all the drivers, including drivers, but strina myself. I signed my first autograph. They didn't know who I was, but I signed my first autograph, 366, which is my first operational detachment. ODA designation, 366, which is third group.

Second battalion and the sixth team, the mountain team and Charlie Company, second battalion. And an amazing support and community based effort that gets everybody hype for the race.

And then you go out and you do a hundred acre in the woods. Actually, it was like 101 miles in the woods. But it's the only grassroots Motorsport that you can compete with the best in the world.

So we flew in the St. Louis, we drove out of Salem and we got ready for day one wrecky. And man, met up with my co-driver Glenn, Glenn's great human being, Navy veteran.

Actually has a nonprofit called Phoenix. I believe it's Motorsports. And if I hack that I'm sorry, I'll give you the link below. But it's a nonprofit that gets guys off the races, especially veterans.

And do something with purpose. And that's rally. That's Motorsports.

So I get into that wrecky day, which is the first day we start at five in the morning, get to the first wrecky site, almost at seven. And then we wrecky for 12 hours. I drove a rental car through the woods for 12 hours.

And loved every minute of it. It's essential. And doing a stage reconnaissance, turn by turn to understand what you're getting into.

Now, a lot of people don't understand kind of what rally is. So rally is a stage where your time is a time trial where you're timed from beginning to end.

And then you make what's called a transit from one location to another. And you have to stay on time.

So the time hacks are critical. Like you can't even show up early or late to the finish line. Because if you do you'll get penalized.

When you show up and you launch, you have a specific amount of time that is tracked to transit to the next destination. Even tracking or speed.

You can only go about five miles over before you get penalized again. And you do that throughout the day. Now what's epic about this is they're varying stages with varying degrees of difficulty turns straight away.

Different types of terrain, you know, loose gravel, a pea gravel, a mud dirt, rocks, boulders, water crossings, the list goes on. It's it was an amazing, amazing experience. Let me walk you through recu though. We get through recu.

And what you're doing is you're running the line and establishing what is on the Jamba notes. The Jamba notes is GE MBA, which are notes that are pre calculated based on a automated system inside of a car that calculates the severity of the turn.

The distance to the turn and then characteristics about the turn. So I like direction and distance or distance and direction in this case where you get 100 and 100 means because you're traveling.

You have 100 meters. It's perfect for me because I calculated all my distances as a sniper and meters. It's how I operated my entire special operations career and I'm good at estimating distance and meters because I have a calibrated eye like I've done it a lot range estimation is what it's called and special operations in sniper school.

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