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Got hype. Have you heard of hypernatremia? >> No, what's that? >> Uh it's basically where
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you lose all the electrolytes in your body. So, you end up um you can't eat,
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you can't drink, you're feeling sick, you're your whole just your blood is
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basically just like you can die. Uh it's you start having seizures. Like I was at
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the point of I need to pull out right now and of the race and I remember the first stage was
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a 55k trail run along the sand dunes and I just remember feeling like so so horrible and then we went into this big
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massive bike ride through the night and I remember getting It was about 3:00 the
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next day and I I hadn't eaten anything the whole day. Like I think I'd eaten half a muesli bar
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in about 48 hours. Drunk nothing and I I was Yeah, the the doctors on the course was
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like you need to pull out and I was like I'm I'm I'm not doing that. So, I
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remember I never ever drink fizzy drinks, but they gave me a can of Coke and it literally brought me back to life. I
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They said that you have to sit there for a few hours and whatever. So, anyway, ended up drinking that and sure enough I
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I say that the Coke is the lifesaver drink and it sure is. Like it brings you back to life. And um
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>> [laughter] >> only during a race. Like it's bad for you obviously when you just drinking it
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every day, but it bring me back to life and yeah. So, South Africa yeah, insane uh
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race. I should show you some photos of what my legs look like after Africa. It was
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it was like I have so many scars on my legs from that race cuz you just be bush bashing through thorns about that thick
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and >> To this day, have you still got scars? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, my legs
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>> Oh, >> full of scars. >> Wow. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, all from bush bashing.
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Yeah. See you in >> my god, that's unbelievable. >> Yeah. Yeah.