Hey, welcome back everybody. You're in the team room with Jared and myself, the ones

ready podcast back with another one. We have one of our friends, team hoist athlete Rachel

Waters here with us on the team Rachel. Thanks so much for stopping by. How are you today?

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Oh, man, we are super duper excited about this.

We were talking before we hit record. You are an amazing athlete that we've been following

on Instagram for quite a while when we realized that we were both team hoist. We reached out

to our friends over there. We're like, listen, we got to get Rachel on. She's fantastic.

So pro obstacle course racer, you're obviously a fitness enthusiast and athlete at the professional

level for however high of the mountain that that is in today's world because there are

some extremely strong chicks out there, but your name is really high up in that very,

very strong chick realm and it's awesome. It's why we wouldn't have you on. But for all

of our listeners, kind of just give us a background of who you are and how you came to be the

strength athlete and athlete that you are today. Yeah, I mean, I'll try to make it a short

story. I guess nothing ever is. But I like to I like that question actually because I like

to tell people that I didn't grow up playing sports. I didn't come from a sports family.

Nobody ever expected me to do anything sports related with my life. And you know, I walked

onto the track team in high school with some friends because that's one of those sports

where they really can't kick you off if you show up to practice. You just sucked and you

shoved to practice. And so I sucked and I just kind of started running and you know, and

kept with it and then kept a relationship with running into adulthood. You know, it actually

developed into, you know, this is another can of worms. But like a more unhealthy, my

relationship with exercise has changed. But you know, it turned into something a little

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