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Hello and welcome to the Marathon Tree and Academy Podcast where we empower you to run a marathon

and change your life. I'm Trevor. And I'm Angie. In this episode we speak with Brad Stolberg,

Performance Coach, and author of the new book Master of Change. How to excel when everything is

changing, including you. And don't forget as an Academy member you can get access to all of our

back podcast episodes, training plans, and awesome online community. Find out how to join when you

visit MarathonTrainingAcademy.com. All right, so Angie, you recently finished the Tough Mudder,

Pittsburgh. And this was actually your first obstacle race. I didn't go with you. You want

some lady friends. I think folks really should hear about the electric shock and the Arctic Inema.

Yes, a group of friends and I decided a few months ago that we wanted to do a Tough Mudder.

And one lady in the group is like long nails, like extremely not obstacle horse or like any kind

of exercise type person. And then she was doing some research on it. She's like, you mean the mud

is not just a metaphor. There's actual mud on the course. So there was actual mud on the course.

But we did the 5K, which had 12 obstacles. And they get you like down and dirty right away,

crawling through mud under barbed wire. Real mud. Real mud. A lot of the obstacles were very

challenging. So we were feeling pretty good about ourselves getting towards the end, really happy

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