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All right, Nate Illingsworth in the house.

Nate, you've, uh, give us the timeline of when you like kind of started down the the journey of you know putting out there

your kind of story of weight loss and then also using you know i guess ultras was kind of the

start yeah ultra you're like full hybrid athlete yeah oh yeah i'm like you're like yeah i'm a guy that

just i get after it um pretty much every day, more than most people. Hybrid athlete, crazy high V-O-2 max, not very strong. Like, what's your V-O-2M? Have you ever tested? Have you tested yet? Oh, according to Garmin. Got it tested right here, did it. Okay. Was it say 51 on there or something? 48. Never mind. Oh. Yeah.

Never mind what it is.

47.

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