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So I guess I've been racing with my team
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Fair Youth for five years now.
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>> Fair youth. F E A R.
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>> Yeah. Fair youth. Yeah. Yeah. So I've
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been racing with them for five years. So
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you kind of every single race you learn
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so much about yourself, but also even
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more importantly, you learn a lot about
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your teammates. So we've, you know,
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we've developed that trust and that
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connection. And so we've got obviously
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your main navigator and in our case is
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typically Finn Mitchell uh who's just an
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absolute weapon. He did Godzone at 16 a
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few years ago which is and it took us
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eight and a half days and he was our
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main navigator.
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>> Are you allowed to do it at 16?
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>> You weren't but we were. But it's
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awesome to see that so many youth are
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coming through because when we did it,
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we got on the start line and we had so
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much criticism like what are these kids
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doing here? Like they don't deserve to
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be here, you know?
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>> Really?
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>> Yeah. Like they were like what are like
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especially overseas they're like you
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line up on the start line, they're like
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they look at you funny like what the
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heck. But now it's really awesome to see
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so many youth coming through because
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>> the average age of an adventure race is
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42 years old. Wow. So, I'm 22, so I
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started when I was 18 in the big races.
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So, that's very young. Uh, anyway, so we
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had we have a navigator, often a backup
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navigator because obviously, you know,
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the navigator is not sleeping as well,
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so they can get extremely exhausted. Uh,
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and then you've often got like a pack
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horse who, you know, just load them up.
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And then I am in my my role is like the
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motivator, the organizer, making sure
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everyone's in line in check, you know,
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everyone's fed, watered. Uh yeah.
