Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, May 9th, Derek Benriper, Inoceris here with you on this episode.

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Eno, how's it going for you on this Friday?

I'm doing well.

I slept in a bed last night and have not run 100 miles since Wednesday morning.

Shout out to my mother, who is just crossing the 100 mile mark on the Sedona Canyon's 125 mile running race.

I did the tweets and forgot to expressly say it was running,

so some people I think assumed she was biking or whatever.

She is running 125 miles like a crazy person.

And I hope that she's doing okay because she ran through the night. And she's got

25 miles to go. If she finishes, she wins. She wins? She's the only person in the 70 plus age

bracket. Holy cow. Your mom's over 70? Yeah.

Wow.

So she's rocking and a roll and this is going to be the hardest part, though, the last 25 miles when she hasn't slept last night.

She has the choice right now that's facing her of trying to sleep some and then getting her speed up and maybe trying to get up to like two miles an hour or two plus miles an hour, which maybe she could do after some rest, or continue plotting along right now. She's around like a mile and a half an hour. There's a lot of elevation also. She's going from down in the basement up all the way to Flagstaff. So down in the Sedona Basin all the way up. So, you know, it's one of the

strategyy situations that these long distance, any long distance runners, super long distance

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