Joey Muchio, welcome back in person in the flesh. How was the G1M Ultra in reality compared to what you thought it would be going into it?

Yeah, let's get right into it. Let's do it. I mean, I knew it was going to be hard. You know, there's no finish line. So I knew I just wanted to really push myself to the point where like I couldn't really walk or I couldn't make the time cut

off so I knew it was going to be hard but it was it was probably harder than I thought it was

going to be still was it the hardest thing you've ever done I'd say it was like right up there with

leadville okay like leadville was super early in my running journey and it felt like a very all-out effort, like a 10 out effort. And this was also like a 10 out of 10 effort. I feel like at the end of Leadville, the only thing that's totally different from those two races, it's like obviously Ledville has a finish line. And there are cutoffs, but you can still get to a point where you can walk a 20-minute mile and kind of

catch your breath or have like multiple really bad miles where it's like in this race,

you have to walk either really fast, like a 1330 or a 14-minute mile at the slowest,

or you have to do like a run walk.

So you can't really get to a point where you're just

you know barely moving yeah you have to continue to move at a decent pace for those who

aren't aware just setting the stage the ultra is 4.2 mile loop every hour on the hour so if you did it

in 45 minutes you have you know 15 minutes of

recovery till they ring the bell you do another lap and it goes until one person is left standing

which is why it's called last man standing and yeah hilariously enough raced around Friday we're

recording this Monday morning it's still going on still going to guys left um but just to give context

because you went 111 miles yeah something like that yep

and I think a lot of people just to again set the stage in context a lot of people would think like

oh it's just like running 100 miles can you describe because you've talked about leadville which is

you know the classic most popular you know 100-mile race in the world,

debatably. The difference between like start to finish just running 100 miles versus the format of how you ran 111 miles. Yeah. So I mean, start to finish at Leadville, it's harder in that

sense of that you don't see your crew all that often. Like you'll have 12 miles in between

your eight stations. Then you see your crew. Then you're re-gearing up with fuel and water and

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