Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the three or seven podcast. I'm so fired up about today's

episode with a good friend of my name Ian Thomas Lynch. A lot of you guys have heard about Ian in the stories that I tell.

And Ian was the young man that I ran the Bob's Big Timber Backyard Ultra, the last man standing race, that would have been in May of 2019.

And that is where a lot of these montras that we use today were born and most especially the Don't Die in the Chair mantra.

So, Ian, this was Ian's first endeavor into the Ultra Marathon world and Ian ended up running

over a hundred miles that day on his first ultra. And we just really teamed up. We worked

through these mantras. We learned a lot about ourselves and Ian got to learn a

lot about what he was actually capable of that day.

And he just talks through how the power of the spoken word and the power of people and the camaraderie that we had together and the

brotherhood that we shared on that day pushed us beyond our perceived limits.

So I hope you enjoy this episode.

We're going to do a little housekeeping now.

I've got Brooke here with me.

I'm going to tell you about a couple of companies that have sponsored this show today that support Three of Seven

podcast and that we believe in and that we use in our own house on a day-to-day basis.

Anytime you hear a sponsorship on this show,

I can assure you it is for a product that we actually use. I don't allow sponsors to come on that I'm not familiar with their product or I don't believe in their product.

So the first sponsor we're going to talk about today is natural rapport.

And you guys know we've got two dogs here in the house.

They're our babies. We love them. We treat them as well as we possibly can and we're very

particular about what we feed them and the products that we use to take care of

them so natural rapport is a is a pet almost like they make all different types of

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