Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the three of seven podcast.

This is Chad.

I just wanted to do a race report on the Revenant Ultra Adventure Race.

I've been asked by a lot of people kind of what happened out there, kind of how to race went.

And there's definitely some lessons learned learned a few stories to be told

so just wanted to take a minute to put it out there if you don't know what the revenant is

just a quick rundown it's 450 kilometer loops in the mountains of the south island new zealand you have to navigate the course

with a map and compass so it's not just a normal trail race and it's got tons of elevation gain and

loss i don't know the exact numbers somewhere around 50 000 feet believe. So it's a really intense event.

But anyways, guys, this is just my story.

First of all, I did not complete the race this year.

And I could sit here and make up a bunch of excuses and tell you all the reasons why I didn't finish the race,

but that's not really my style.

So kind of what I found in my life is 95% of the time, the outcomes of my situations are based upon my own decisions.

In other words, I didn't finish the race this year in large part to my own decisions

and to my own mistakes that I made because of improper planning, whatever it may be.

And that's just been a big lesson for me throughout my life, is just owning my decisions.

And when failure happens, instead of sitting here making excuses, it's going back through

the situation and figuring out what I could have done

different what I did wrong and what I can come back next year and do right so starting

off race started at about 6 a.m. on Friday morning this year and everything was going good I felt great off

the start we had an awesome pre-race deal had a hawk out there and a couple other

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