10K into the race, like people started to drop out,

20K into the race, more people dropped out.

All of a sudden, like at 30K,

so like 18-ish miles, like I'm the last person in the race that still hasn't finished the race and there's this little like Mercedes truck behind me and it's like

Two guys in it and they just want to go home and so they're just yelling out the window like hey man you're never going to make it.

Welcome to Spartan Trail on Spartan Up with your host Maori Paliachi.

Welcome to the Spartan Trail section of the Spartan app podcast,

where we're going to be talking about all about trail running and ultra running,

but from a rough patch's point of view.

We're going to be talking about those dark places

where you can go running from a 10K on the trails,

from 100 miles anywhere in the mountains of the world.

And for this first episode, we're going to have

Michael Wardian, Mike Wardian, the one and only.

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Well, welcome, Mike.

It's great to have you in our first episode.

Oh my gosh, it's such an honor to be included

and a chance to talk about one of my favorite topics about, you know, what to do when things don't go the way you want and you know how to try to rectify your race or get yourself back to where you want to be?

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