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What I learned about myself is that you
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can
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you can do hard things basically.
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>> The um very first Godzone, what did you
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learn about yourself during that, if
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anything?
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>> Yeah, it was definitely a wake-up call.
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Uh it was 8 and 1/2 days. We
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we one of our teammates actually, he got
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choppered off the mountain.
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And yeah, it was that was crazy. We'd
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never seen that before and we kind of
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continued on as a
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team of three and then one of our they
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wanted four teenagers out there, so we
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called in one of our mates to help us
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finish the last stage and
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yeah, I was my feet were in serious
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like I've never
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actually no, I have been in that much
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pain before, but at that moment that was
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the most pain I'd ever been in in my
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life and I remember coming to the last
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stage and we had a 21k beach trail run,
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but
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I remember loading myself up with
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painkillers and
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there's a video of me um one of cuz this
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race was supported
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and Andy uh our support crew, he put my
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shoes on for me because I couldn't put
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my own shoes on and there was uh
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tears dripping down my face because
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putting shoes on was like the most
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severe pain I could ever imagine and my
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mom and my dad were watching Andy put
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shoes on me and I was I mean we were
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just gripping. I was sitting on a seat I
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just remember gripping the seat because
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putting shoes on was just so so so
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painful and I just looked at mom and she
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was just like crying cuz she was like
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she's watching her daughter in that much
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pain having to go do a
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the final stage of the Godzone and
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I crossed the finish line we ran it.
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What I learned about myself is that you
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can
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you can do hard things, basically. And I
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got to the end of that race, and sure
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enough 1 second later, I wanted to sign
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up for the next year. You definitely
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learn that
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you can push beyond what you think you
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can. And I feel like that's
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yeah, something that adventure racing
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definitely helps you to
