This week we're going to be talking with Mark and Natalie and they're going to tell us about what it's like to compete as a family and as a couple.

Hey Spartans, this is Kevin Gilotti and welcome to the Spartan athlete.

A lot of people in our sport have families. Welcome to the Spartan athlete.

A lot of people in our sport have families.

And it's really hard to juggle kids, the family life,

and be good athletes.

How are you two pulling off and pulling it off

at such a high level?

Well, I mean, it's a work in progress.

To get it done, you're gonna happen.

Yeah, it's just like every year we learn something new we learn something

like more about our training what our limitations are how much we can train and

basically we're pushing ourselves to that limit and then we're like

there's so much time you can train so it's like if you know you only have so much

time then that's all you can do.

But I also notice at the races, Natalie, sometimes you're racing, sometimes you're racing,

sometimes you're both racing.

So it seems like between yourselves you've made the decision

throughout this race season or throughout your race seasons to pick and choose who gets to

run what race. Is that a fair assessment? Yes.

We definitely have to do that.

We also have the help of my mom, who is there pretty much all the time.

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