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track podcast how are you doing today good pleasure to be here man thanks for having me on pleasure is all mine i think where we start just talk about the draw to berkeley over the

past few years yeah well it's tough because like uh like a few years ago like i had i don't know it wasn't

even like in the realm of possibilities right right? And as you kind of go and

move through your career, I started doing more of that kind of adventure type stuff where I was

doing a lot of like a lot more like map and compass navigation with adventure racing. And so I got

into a couple of races like Yucrobar, which is, you know, basically a West Coast, Berkeley. And as I started to

do more of that stuff, like Berkeley became a little bit more of a draw. Like I hadn't always known

about it. It was always there, but it was always outside the realm of possibilities, which it is,

I think, for most people, right? But as you start to do some of that,

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