Well, there's this jungle section and really dark at night, we're in this jungle, but you can still hear the buzz of the plane ahead because they had to be above you for your satellite connection or something anyway so there was always that sound that

reminded you we're just part of a like we are part of a TV program.

Hey guys you're about to meet Deanna Bl Blagg, an incredible athlete who's raced for 30-plus years.

She just got back from Fiji, where she raced in Amazon's Ego Challenge Fiji, is dubbed the world's hardest race.

And we're going to talk a lot about that at the end of the episode.

We're going to talk a little bit first about all the stuff she's done over the years

to get her there.

So stick around, it's going to be amazing.

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Hey Spartans I am really stoked to have the end of like back.

We had a conversation about team events and her experience with that.

But one of the things that I love about Deanna that is just amazing and such inspiration is she's been racing over several decades now. I don't want to say you know, too many because you're still a young woman, but you have been very competitive at all different points in your life. And I want to talk about that about

your racing experiences over the years,

and what tips do you have for racers

to have an equally long and fruitful career because I think a lot of people

come in and they dive in head first, they go 100% all the time and they may be done in five years,

injured, tap to do whatever, or they come in there and they don't put a whole

lot into it, they don't get a lot out of it. You put a whole lot into it, got a whole lot out of it,

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