I'm Alex and I'm Steph and this is not today Happy birthday episode. Happy birth to me.

Yay, happy, the day this comes out will be your birthday.

Wuh.

Yep.

I sounded really not excited about that.

Yeah, I know.

Are you not excited for my birthday, the one time a year that we celebrate you?

That I was birthed.

Right.

So.

No, I'm happy, you know, happy birthday. I don't know why it sounded weird. It's fine. That's all right. It's fine. Yeah. I'm not mad. Good. That's great. How you doing? Yes, I'm doing good. I took off work, so I'm very Zen much more relaxed than usual, I guess. And I just ran, so I have adrenaline pumping through those veins. No more just like

Oh the different the opposite yeah okay it's kind of like if you jumped into cold water and then you got out but it was only like 60 degrees outside

but you were like thank the Lord Jesus that it isn't as cold as the water it's how I

would describe the feeling after running that sounds terrible terrible. No, but it feels good. Well that's like the

running is not pleasant. I think we have different definitions of what feels good but

that's fine. I love that for you. Actually that that's a pretty good segue into our story this week.

Yeah, we're talking about Dan, uh, Danell Balangee.

Did you get that right? I did, I believe. Danone

Did you get that right? I did I believe and she was a runner and wow that is a lot great has a lot to do She probably ran way farther than I did. Oh, way farther. Yeah, she's very experienced. But yeah, so I wanted to start by saying that I got my

sources from the documentary series in an instant which is you know like I survived

and all those other ones and also an article from runnersworld.com So there you go. So Danelle was or is an incredibly motivated person. She's like very athletic, super, you know, that type of person.

She played sports all throughout school and in junior high her dad was actually her

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