All right,

monday, how are you doing?

Good, real good.

It's exciting. We're just chatting here, death hikes a week and a half away.

Just, I'm going on two days of rest,

which I feel like I could climb out Everest right now feel great so that's awesome.

How about you? Yeah feeling pretty good. We were just chatting and getting through details and it was like, oh man we have stuff to do we better start this podcast but yeah feeling pretty good I did I did repeats on Saturday and was able to get

5500 feet a gain, which, you know, for Missouri is like,

incredible.

Just like massive monotonous repeats for four hours, but, uh, yeah, it was good and felt good and I'm excited I'm just

really curious to see how the body's gonna hold up but I'm like hungry to just

be there enjoy the Grand Canyon and find that sweet spot of suffering in a way.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm looking forward to that.

Yeah.

Well we did a listener question and I know again we're going to have more after the death hike on details and how it goes obviously and

logistics and what did work, didn't work and all that but in advance of it a two-part question came through on footwear

One is this guy said I was wondering what shoes or boots you guys are wearing for the upcoming death hike and what you would recommend for a lightweight early season

elkunning footwear choice.

And then he said, I believe on the Monday minute 214, Steve mentioned wearing altras what shoe is he talking about and

when this guy spelled ultra it was you LTR a like ultra marathon for example so a few things in there. What are we wearing for death hike? What would we recommend

for early season El-Kunning footwear? And then I guess we should clarify exactly what

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