Maude Gorman, Kettlebell Sport Athlete and Endurance Adventurer

WEBVTT 1 00:00:20.780 --> 00:00:49.240 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All right welcome into this week's episode of the platform. Podcast I am very excited to welcome in my guest Maud Gorman. She is a Kettlebell sport lifter. Modern living, I believe, is her is her handle on Instagram, which I love, by the way, and she also just recently decided to do something completely insane, even by Kettlebell, sport. Lifting standards, she ran across Iceland with some friends. In how many days was it, Maud? 2 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:51.659 maudegorman: It was 9 days of running. Yeah. 3 00:00:51.660 --> 00:01:15.499 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: 9 days they ran across the entirety of Iceland, which is called the Viking, run so naturally as someone who very much appreciates Viking culture and and I just had to bring her on to talk about this experience. I I gave her some shout out on her on her posts on Facebook. But I I had to ask her to come on, and she graciously accepted so much. Thank you. So much for coming on the platform, podcast welcome. 4 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.480 maudegorman: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. 5 00:01:17.890 --> 00:01:28.259 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. So well, first, st let's let's before we get into the Viking run. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Tell us, tell us about your background and kind of how you grew up, or your origin story a little bit. 6 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:46.990 maudegorman: Yeah. So I am someone that has not had a very straight path in life. So I've been all over the place, as far as you know, where I ended up, and basically what took me to endurance sports, to begin with. So I grew up in Hingham, Massachusetts, which is right near Boston, a little bit south of the city. Yup. 7 00:01:46.990 --> 00:01:48.799 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Shout out to Rx strength, Jeff! 8 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:49.270 maudegorman: Yeah. 9 00:01:49.270 --> 00:01:51.830 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Jeff butterworthy's been on, been on the Podcast right. 10 00:01:51.830 --> 00:02:16.240 maudegorman: My God, I love Jeff! He actually came to Iceland not to run with me, but just to like support. Make sure I didn't die. But yeah, I've known Jeff for over 10 years now. I think it's we were talking about that in Iceland. It's been like almost 12 years, but I'm an interior designer by day and a general contractor. So I work a lot in residential construction. And then by night I'm lifting Kettlebells. I'm doing strength training. 11 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:40.449 maudegorman: and I'm always trying to push myself to become stronger, to become fitter and to be mentally sharp. So you know, as I said, not a straight path in life. I actually dropped out of high school when I was 16, and just totally decided that education wasn't for me. But I had a lovely support system, and was able to find a path that was a little bit different from my peers, but it ended up working out great. 12 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:43.000 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Excellent. Where? So where did you grow up? 13 00:02:43.350 --> 00:02:45.400 maudegorman: So I grew up in Hingham, actually born and raised. 14 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:50.950 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay, yeah, all right. So you're so you're you're a northeastern girl through and through. 15 00:02:50.950 --> 00:02:54.858 maudegorman: I am, and I love old. 16 00:02:55.510 --> 00:03:03.909 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I I heard I heard that you that you at 1 point were were part of the I I don't know how to how to even the the Beauty Queen Circuit is that. 17 00:03:03.910 --> 00:03:05.370 maudegorman: Oh, my goodness! That. 18 00:03:05.370 --> 00:03:06.060 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Correct. 19 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:16.680 maudegorman: Oh, yes, so I was Miss Massachusetts world in 2,015. I'm grateful for all that pageants offered me. It is not something that 20 00:03:16.730 --> 00:03:25.533 maudegorman: I would definitely identify with currently. But yeah, there was a time in life where I wore a crown and sash in public, very much so. 21 00:03:25.860 --> 00:03:31.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay? All right. So what is more of a crazy niche culture, pageant culture or Kettlebell sport, culture. 22 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:36.050 maudegorman: Oh, my God, that's a good one! Honestly. 23 00:03:36.710 --> 00:03:43.929 maudegorman: Kettlebell, sport to be honest, but in the best way, like if I had to pick one hands down to be a part of. I would choose Kettlebell 10 times over. 24 00:03:43.930 --> 00:03:49.400 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it, love it well, and you just you just recently competed internationally in in Kettlebell sport as well correct. 25 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.570 maudegorman: Yeah, yeah, I went to Ikmf world championships in Denmark. 26 00:03:52.750 --> 00:04:06.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay, so tell us, tell us a little bit about that cause. I I heard I heard I heard tell of it a little bit from some of my friends that were over. You know Greg Anderson is is a buddy of mine here he was. I think he was there with you as well, not with you. But he was. He was there as well. 27 00:04:06.370 --> 00:04:30.709 maudegorman: Yup, yeah, it was honestly, that was the 1st time I've ever been on a world stage with Kettlebell, and it was inspiring and also humbling, so I would say, those are my 2 word choices for that I trained really hard, and I was so excited just to be able to lift and showing up, you know. I lifted the 16 kg bell for a 30 min, one arm long cycle. So I did the half Marathon and 28 00:04:30.710 --> 00:04:51.720 maudegorman: the absolute sheer strength of my fellow competitors just blew me away. So I competed against a lot of girls that were using the 20 kg bell, and that just like inspired me to move up myself when I got back. So I got back from Denmark, and a week later I did my 1st online virtual competition with a 20 kg bell. It kicked my 29 00:04:52.669 --> 00:04:53.400 maudegorman: absolutely. 30 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:57.249 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: We'll absolutely do that. Go those those 4 little kilos right just. 31 00:04:57.250 --> 00:04:58.120 maudegorman: Oh, my God! 32 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Those 4 little kilos, but over 30 min. 33 00:05:00.370 --> 00:05:20.429 maudegorman: You're like, okay, it's just 4 kilos. No, it absolutely rocks my world. So I've been training with it for a while now. And I'm feeling a little bit more confident with it. But yeah, I would say, the experience of being there was very, very inspiring, and really forced me to take a look at my strengths, and what I could do better to improve as an athlete. 34 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:31.090 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice. So you said it was humbling, too. So inspiring. I I 100% understand and humbling, I understand even better. So tell tell me a little bit more what what you mean, what was humbling about it? 35 00:05:32.390 --> 00:05:57.369 maudegorman: So I wasn't expecting to get my ass kicked so bad if I'm being honest, which, like, you know, you train so hard for something. You hit numbers you're expecting like a certain result. And so I showed up, and I did not compete as I wanted to. So I had a goal to at least get my Cms. Which was 314 reps, and I think I got 295, and I had a lot of like miscounted reps that didn't count. So in that regard, like I was very 36 00:05:57.370 --> 00:06:06.440 maudegorman: humbled because I thought I was someone that's always practicing my strategy, and like I never thought I would have a rep that didn't count. But it happens to all of us obviously. So. 37 00:06:06.440 --> 00:06:25.850 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Especially in Marathon. It's a lot more common in Marathon lifting to get no counts. The rules are pretty stringent, and when you're competing internationally, there's that. And then there's I mean, just by statistical probability when you're doing 300 plus reps. There's a lot more opportunity for no counted reps than than in a 10 min set when you're putting up, you know. 100 reps, maybe. 38 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:41.880 maudegorman: Yeah. So I mean, that was definitely part of the humbling experience. But also just not meeting the goal I set for myself. So that was something that I actually kind of dove into after worlds was wondering like, Where is this disconnect coming from? Because I would 39 00:06:41.880 --> 00:06:56.909 maudegorman: train in my home gym, and I'd hit my numbers, and like I'd feel so good about it, and I'd feel so confident then I'd take the platform, and my numbers would just not be there. So I I ended up kind of really evaluating like psychologically, where is this kind of 40 00:06:56.910 --> 00:07:04.919 maudegorman: throwing me off guard? And I ended up kind of figuring out that being watched by a judge and having that. 41 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:09.390 maudegorman: you know, all eyes on you type of experience when you're lifting. 42 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:18.699 maudegorman: it almost throws me through a little bit of a loop. And so it was something that I'm still working on overcoming. But I feel like I'm like getting more confident, taking the platform. 43 00:07:18.700 --> 00:07:44.290 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, absolutely, that is definitely that is definitely a a normal experience. Right? I I think it's totally normal for people to step on the platform and have that excitation level. That's a little bit higher than your normal baseline like when you're working out in your home. Gym, and you're you're like you're in your courage corner, just kind of grinding it out. And you're like, Yeah, I'm kicking. I'm kicking ass. I'm feeling good. And then stepping on platform with a whole bunch of people in the room, and somebody staring at you. It. 44 00:07:44.290 --> 00:07:46.009 maudegorman: Scary I get like an adrenaline. 45 00:07:46.010 --> 00:07:47.129 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: The level a little bit. 46 00:07:47.130 --> 00:07:48.860 maudegorman: Had an adrenaline crash, so. 47 00:07:48.860 --> 00:07:49.320 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Something. 48 00:07:49.320 --> 00:07:51.008 maudegorman: Want to experience when you're lifting. 49 00:07:51.804 --> 00:07:55.879 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, for sure. I that's actually something did you wear a heart rate monitor while while you were doing it? 50 00:07:55.880 --> 00:08:02.850 maudegorman: Oh, actually, I kind of want to. So I've seen Dennis wearing these like really elaborate suits that are like showing. Have you seen his videos where he's like. 51 00:08:02.850 --> 00:08:03.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, yeah. 52 00:08:03.370 --> 00:08:16.640 maudegorman: Long cycle and snatch, and like showing all the muscle groups that are working, I looked into the suits they're like, oh, they're pretty expensive. So I'm not gonna do that. But I I do think I want to get a heart rate monitor to see like gauge where I'm at with that. 53 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:40.159 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I would definitely recommend it. It's super interesting, and so I I'll put a plug in for for Morpheus. Morpheus is one of our sponsors for the Wksf North American championship, but I reached out to them to be a sponsor, because I love their system so much. So kind of what makes them a little bit different than some of the others is you? You take an Hrv. Test in the morning every day, and so it's gonna track, how your, how your body is responding to your to your stress from a day to day level, how well you're recovering from your training. 54 00:08:40.159 --> 00:09:05.140 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: but it actually dynamically adjusts your heart rate training zones based on what your recovery level is, which is really, really cool. So on a day when you're like, you know, if you got like 6 h of sleep or 5 h of sleep, your Red Zone threshold actually is tuned down a little bit, so it will actually capture. It'll actually adjust your your training zones based on how recovered you are. But on the days when you're really recovered, you have your your kind of your higher threshold, which is really, really interesting. It's really nice way to actually kind 55 00:09:05.140 --> 00:09:30.740 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: tune, especially longitudinally when you're putting up so much volume and so much cycle right to it to see like it. It helps you adjust that intensity based on how recovered you are, and you can see some of those long term trends, and I found it really useful with some of my athletes to see. Okay, on a normal day in the gym in your garage you step onto the platform. Your average heart rate is 89 90 beats a minute when you step on the platform after your warm up and on Competition Day it was at 1 10 when you stepped on the. 56 00:09:30.740 --> 00:09:31.440 maudegorman: Oh, my God! 57 00:09:31.672 --> 00:09:32.369 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You'll see! You'll. 58 00:09:32.370 --> 00:09:33.760 maudegorman: Wow, yeah, no, I, really. 59 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:57.469 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You'll see that general excitation level is just higher, because there's people in the room. There's that energy, there's nerves, there's all of that. And so it's like, then it's like, Oh, maybe that's some of the reason why, like, maybe it's not all just in my head, right? It's not just that I it's not. It's not just in my head. It's also that there was like physical excitation that I didn't quite account for. And so that puts you into your higher energy zones a little bit a little bit earlier in the set, like, you know, it's a it's really. 60 00:09:57.470 --> 00:10:01.130 maudegorman: Having like a long set ahead of you, too. So yeah, I get that. 61 00:10:01.130 --> 00:10:18.729 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, super super, and Marathon Marathon and half Marathon not a completely different game, but a very different game like it's I mean it is. It's you know it's it's akin to running to me. It's like there's a very big difference in strategy when you're running a 400 as opposed to a 3,200 meter run right like you. You have to come out with completely different 62 00:10:18.730 --> 00:10:33.959 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: strategies, different physical attributes. Right? There's a different training style, you know. So it's it's it's pretty. It's pretty interesting. What made you choose a half marathon over 10 min, or you know, the traditional 10 min shorter duration sets. Why did you choose to go for more? The endurance. 63 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:56.049 maudegorman: So I actually did start out doing 10 min sets. So I've competed one time. In a 10 min snatch and a 10 min 2 arm long cycle. So that was kind of my intro to kettleball sport. So I had trained for a year to do 2 arm long cycle. I competed. I did my 2 arm long cycle, and then I did just like a 10 min snatch set for fun, both with the 12 kg 64 00:10:56.540 --> 00:11:08.490 maudegorman: And I love endurance sports. So I'm someone that just has gravitated towards that type of world. I love pushing myself, and I love that feeling of 65 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:20.969 maudegorman: not like that. You're like, mentally broken, but like you're like, you physically can feel something very hard. And you have to ask yourself, How am I going to do this or like, you're pushing yourself 66 00:11:20.970 --> 00:11:45.959 maudegorman: purposefully to enter that what people call the pain cave and so I feel like a lot of personal growth and development happens there. You really get to know yourself, and you get to know what you value. And you know what you're really doing this for so when you're doing longer sets, you know this also kind of translates to me running across Iceland. But when you're doing those things that are challenging 67 00:11:45.960 --> 00:12:10.830 maudegorman: you, and that hurt, and that really make you question how strong you are. There's this certain light to it that shows you. You know how capable you are of doing certain things in life. And if you can do this, you can do anything. So I just love that it really awakens that part of yourself to you, and like I feel like every time I do an endurance event. I meet a different part of myself, and it's just this kind of transformative experience that's supposed to 68 00:12:10.830 --> 00:12:15.099 maudegorman: physical, but like also very like mental and even spiritual, too. 69 00:12:15.460 --> 00:12:24.779 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love that. Yeah, that's I. I think that's a huge part of the appeal of this sport, right? Is like you said it takes you not to your necessarily a physical breaking point. I mean you can. But but. 70 00:12:24.780 --> 00:12:25.250 maudegorman: Absolutely. 71 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:36.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It. It puts you. It's that it's that decision point. I think it happens in any, in any really hard physical activity. There's that breaking point where you decide I can stop because my brain is telling me this is hard, and I should stop. 72 00:12:36.470 --> 00:12:46.401 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: or I can keep going and see how far can I keep going after my brain has told me I should stop doing this crazy thing that I've decided I'm going to do like. Why, why did you do this 73 00:12:46.650 --> 00:13:15.720 maudegorman: That's a special place to be, I think. So a lot of times I feel like people try to avoid discomfort right? So there was this saying that we said in Iceland, descend into discomfort, and I loved it. I love that phrase and just like really embrace the fact that you're not going to be comfortable. You're going to be doing something very challenging, and it's not necessarily going to be fun in the moment. But that's a place where you are so welcome to learn about yourself. 74 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:44.600 maudegorman: to learn about your experiences, to learn what this experience is teaching you. So I try to kind of have that bigger picture view whenever I, you know, go into a set, or, you know, a longer endurance event. And really just have goals set for myself, to show up for myself, and to not prove something to others, but to prove something to, you know, present day me to prove something to. You know, younger Maude, that like she's so strong and like I'm a woman that I would have been proud of. 75 00:13:45.160 --> 00:14:01.269 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Nice. Yeah, I love that. I love that. That is, that is the essence of of this sport. Right? And I really, I really think that's the essence of of sport in general. Right is to learn to really use it as a tool, to learn about yourself, and to and to continue growing as you as you continue to challenge yourself. 76 00:14:01.380 --> 00:14:19.310 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So what made you decide that Kettlebell sport wasn't quite crazy enough, and you're going to join a group of people who have decided they're going to run across Iceland. What, how did you? How did you even get? How did you even get like invited to like. How did you hear about it like you gotta tell me how this came to be. 77 00:14:19.770 --> 00:14:46.350 maudegorman: So it it happened on Instagram is how I found out about the Iceland actually so it was put together by Danny Bent and Nick Carter. And so Danny Bent. You know he reached out to me and he was like, Oh, you gotta come to Iceland, and I looked into it. I looked at like little like information that they gave. And I was like this sounds absolutely crazy. Running 8 back to back marathons like nonstop through Iceland, of all places. 78 00:14:46.350 --> 00:15:02.059 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So give us, give us the outlines of what is so? What? What does this entail like like this you signed up for this Viking, and they said, We're going to run across Iceland. And you just said, I'm in or like, how many people is it? How many days is it like give us a little bit of the breakdown of how, of how this actually works. 79 00:15:02.060 --> 00:15:24.389 maudegorman: Yeah. So I was invited. I looked at it. And I was like, I'm gonna think about this like, I didn't immediately say, yes, I thought about it for 2 days. So not very long. And I was like, yep, I'm in like this sounds absolutely insane. This sounds so difficult. This sounds like the craziest thing I'll ever do count me in so I signed up. And what it basically entailed was 10 days 80 00:15:24.669 --> 00:15:46.779 maudegorman: one rest day, one travel day included. And so the travel day we just took a bus all the way north to Iceland to Ackerriri, which is like all the way at the tip of Iceland, and we ran down to like the very southern part of Iceland, right on the coast, down the desert interior. And we did that for 9 days. So we ran 8 back to back marathons, and we had a rest day like 81 00:15:46.780 --> 00:15:50.428 maudegorman: after a week we were running so like, not a very 82 00:15:50.760 --> 00:16:18.869 maudegorman: We all needed it by then. So we basically just would wake up. They would brief us in the morning. They'd tell us, you know, these are the miles run straight or like, turn right at this like glacier or this lake, like, just like, you know, little directions so that we wouldn't get lost. But it was just us out there. And there was a lot of moments where, even though we're running as a group like you're by yourself because you're not running the same paces, people. So we're all spread out. 83 00:16:18.870 --> 00:16:21.050 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It wasn't like a relay. It wasn't like you. 84 00:16:21.050 --> 00:16:21.710 maudegorman: It wasn't. 85 00:16:21.710 --> 00:16:28.739 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It wasn't like you do 20 miles, and then somebody else does another 20. It was like, you're all just running this together. 86 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:29.070 maudegorman: Cutting. 87 00:16:29.070 --> 00:16:30.290 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: As a crew. 88 00:16:30.290 --> 00:16:43.870 maudegorman: As a crew. We're just kind of tackling the distances. There were 3 days that were ultra marathons, where we ran 30 to 33 miles which was intense. So when we were descending into discomfort, we had that Monday was like. 89 00:16:43.870 --> 00:16:47.300 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Sure it was discomfort. I'm thinking this is dissension into madness. A little. 90 00:16:47.565 --> 00:17:11.770 maudegorman: Yeah, we had Monday of that week. It was an ultra marathon. So I think it was like 32 miles, and then we had a marathon on Tuesday, and then we had another ultra marathon on Wednesday, and then Thursday was our rest day, and, like I think we were all I just ate cookies in bed all day. We were lucky to be at huts, so I was like, I'm doing a whole lot of nothing. Sat in a hot spring. Ate hot dogs like hot dogs. 91 00:17:12.085 --> 00:17:34.809 maudegorman: So during this all you know, we're living outside. For the most part there were a few nights where we got to stay in like huts, which was very, very nice. Just to be outside was a challenge in itself. No one was expecting the weather to be as cold as it was. So we ran through freezing ice storms. We ran through like snow that was like inches deep. 92 00:17:34.890 --> 00:17:36.370 maudegorman: We ran through. 93 00:17:36.370 --> 00:17:39.849 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Feel like they. They were pretty upfront in the naming like. 94 00:17:39.850 --> 00:17:57.451 maudegorman: Yeah, yeah, you you kind of knew what we were getting into. But it was definitely wild. Just being out in the conditions. I think that also posed a really big challenge in addition to the long miles back to back to back. But being outside, living in the elements, 95 00:17:58.140 --> 00:18:12.380 maudegorman: you know, huge, huge challenge, mentally and physically. And then, you know, for nutrition we are eating these like dehydrated meals. So I never want to see one of those again. They were edible. 96 00:18:12.380 --> 00:18:16.159 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: This is very much leaning in on the food is fuel attitude. When you're. 97 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:28.259 maudegorman: That was a hundred percent. It's 1 of those situations where you're like, I need these calories, or I'm not going to be able to keep going, so you ate it, but I don't know how many people actually enjoy eating it. 98 00:18:28.260 --> 00:18:41.030 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What were what were your what were your macro requirements like? Did did they calculate? I'm assuming? Because you had to, you know, prepackage all your stuff like they kind of calculated out like what the caloric demand was kind of going to be for each person, and and. 99 00:18:41.320 --> 00:18:42.060 maudegorman: No, I think. 100 00:18:42.060 --> 00:18:42.850 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You know. 101 00:18:43.030 --> 00:19:01.339 maudegorman: I actually didn't really keep track of all that for me. I just tried to eat as much as I could, so you know, I think at we'd probably burn around 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day, depending on, you know, body size and a lot of other factors. So for me. My whole goal was to stay on top of intake. So, eating a lot. 102 00:19:01.340 --> 00:19:18.279 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You, did you? You didn't think about that stuff you didn't have to pre pour, because the reason I I like this is this is a total tang tangent, but, like my wife and I just got back from the boundary waters, and we had to pack dehydrated food for a 5 day trip with us and our kids. And like, I, you know, like, I was actually like trying to make sure that I had enough calories. 103 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:19.770 maudegorman: I was worried about that. 104 00:19:19.770 --> 00:19:32.539 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was telling my wife, like, you realize, like I eat like 3,000 504,000 calories a day. The times right like you're gonna have to. We're gonna have to figure out like, what is the like stuff that can pack enough caloric punch. And you know, especially when you're gonna. 105 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:33.159 maudegorman: You going? 106 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.469 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was worried about canoeing like I was canoeing, not running. 107 00:19:37.210 --> 00:19:41.009 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: not running across Iceland, running, frigging marathons, but. 108 00:19:41.010 --> 00:19:49.690 maudegorman: It was insane, but you know I'm pretty small, so I'm 5 feet tall. I'm like 110 pounds. So my caloric intake's probably a lot different than what yours would be. 109 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:50.980 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, yeah, I think so. 110 00:19:51.310 --> 00:19:53.300 maudegorman: I think, like 2 of you. 111 00:19:53.300 --> 00:19:54.640 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: 3! 112 00:19:54.640 --> 00:20:19.180 maudegorman: I did bring 92 waffles with me just in case I I ate 64, so I did the math, so I didn't eat all 92 but I was like known as the snack girl, so I had like a whole duffel bag of snacks that I was sharing that had like sour, gummy worms or sour patch kids, waffles, oreos, cookies like everything. I brought a surplus of things and that definitely helped out cause you know. 113 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:23.279 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: All the carbs carbs for performance. People carbs for performance. You gotta have. 114 00:20:23.280 --> 00:20:24.309 maudegorman: Need the carbs. 115 00:20:24.310 --> 00:20:49.349 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You gotta have them. So you you also mentioned the the desert interior, like I know a little bit about Iceland's about Iceland's unique landscape. It is a really unique country. So and you've seen more of it than most humans ever will. So tell us a little bit about more about the the different terrain that you experienced, the different climates you experience, and kind of like. How like was there anything that surprised you about Iceland other than how cold, how cold and snowy. 116 00:20:49.350 --> 00:21:14.940 maudegorman: 1st thing first.st the sheep on the side of the hill, so like there was just sheep everywhere, like in the farmland. So we started out in ackerary kind of near, like all the different farmland. And you'd like look to your right, and there'd just be like sheep just grazing on like a hill next to you, and from, you know, my northeast Boston perspective. I only see sheep on farms. So for me, that was just wild, and I loved seeing 117 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:39.179 maudegorman: the sheep. They became almost like a source of comfort for me, like in the Pain Cave I'd look to my right, and I'd be like, Oh, my God! A sheep! No sheep in the desert so like just paint Cave. Nothing there. So lots of farmland to start out with, and then on day 2, we had our 1st ultra marathon. So it was pretty much just 32 miles, and we climbed all the way up. So a lot of it was uphill that day, and we went 118 00:21:39.474 --> 00:22:02.719 maudegorman: through the valleys. We saw waterfalls. We continued climbing until we reached like the entry point of the desert, and up there is when it really started to snow. So it was like sideways snowing at us. By the end of that day, very, very windy, very cold, a lot of nothing, a lot of gray. It looked like the moon, and so I would say, we are in the moon or on the moon for like 119 00:22:02.770 --> 00:22:17.839 maudegorman: 3 to 4 days. So a lot of nothing like there was just a road of nothingness so like if you had to go to the bathroom. You're like taking a shit in like the middle of like an open desert. So not a lot of privacy. Just a very. 120 00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:20.900 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And you probably weren't too worried about anybody stumbling upon you, though, either. 121 00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:46.769 maudegorman: No, no, there's no one around like you might like have a teammate that's like running by or something. But everyone's pooping outside at that point. And like privacy was not a thing. So yeah, that was interesting. Just because it was so open. There was just a whole lot of dark black sand, and like an occasional rock that wasn't very big. So that landscape honestly, very 122 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.480 maudegorman: a good word to describe it. Bleak? I think. 123 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:52.400 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Stark seems stark seems to. 124 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:52.860 maudegorman: No. 125 00:22:52.860 --> 00:22:53.880 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Comes to mind. 126 00:22:53.880 --> 00:23:16.940 maudegorman: Dark is a good one, too, I would say and then we also had like glaciers, so I've never seen a glacier before, and I distinctly remember I was running one day, and I'm like looking over to my right. And this was like one of our 1st clear days, because we ran in a lot of like pouring rain and snow, and just like horrible, horrible weather conditions. And so the sky was clear, and I was like, what is that? And I thought it was a cloud 127 00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:24.009 maudegorman: cause I've never seen a glacier. I've never seen anything like that before. And I asked them, and I was like, What is that like? 128 00:23:24.100 --> 00:23:49.380 maudegorman: Just like what it looked so odd to me. And it creeped me out like I I don't know what it was. I was creeped out by it, but I learned it was a glacier, and so we'd be running and like we ran like I don't even know maybe 30 miles, and the glacier was still there like it's still right where it was. So it wasn't like, I thought like, Oh, I'm running all these miles, but the glacier is not moving, so that creeped me out too, just like not making. 129 00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:50.840 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Very very slowly. 130 00:23:51.240 --> 00:24:00.490 maudegorman: Yeah, and then we also had mountains snow capped mountains, some really really beautiful mountains a lot of rivers that we had to cross. 131 00:24:00.520 --> 00:24:07.060 maudegorman: So these were Glacier rivers. They were ice cold. We'd be running, and we'd have to just like get across them. Luckily. 132 00:24:07.060 --> 00:24:09.450 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So then you're running with wet feet like wet, cold feet. 133 00:24:09.860 --> 00:24:20.118 maudegorman: Wet feet. If you take your shoes off, you know you're getting sand in your socks. You know everything. It's kind of designed to test you and really push you to your limits. 134 00:24:20.470 --> 00:24:46.819 maudegorman: I hated the cold rivers. I'm not a cold plunge early. They are my least favorite. Every time I'd be like I got this. I I would like bravely charge into those waters, because the longer you wait it's not gonna get any warmer. So I would just try to like get through it. But every time I was such a baby that was my least favorite I think the 1st time. So we had this big river crossing. I think it was day 3 or 4, 135 00:24:46.820 --> 00:25:02.019 maudegorman: and they briefed us for it, and they were like, Oh, we have a big river crossing. So me being an idiot. I was like, all right, I'm gonna do this river crossing in my underwear like I'm not gonna wear my pants. I'm not gonna wear my socks like I'm just gonna wear my underwear. And I'm gonna put my pants on. Afterwards we get to the river. 136 00:25:02.060 --> 00:25:14.810 maudegorman: The river was knee deep, and I'm like walking across my underwear, and I was like this was so unnecessary. And everyone's like Maud. How deep. Did you think this was gonna be so. 137 00:25:14.810 --> 00:25:17.060 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Or like thinking Oregon Trail, like modern. 138 00:25:17.060 --> 00:25:17.509 maudegorman: Like it's. 139 00:25:17.510 --> 00:25:20.398 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And make it forwarding, forwarding across the river. 140 00:25:20.760 --> 00:25:26.540 maudegorman: Yeah. So I'm wading across a knee deep Wood River in my underwear. So 141 00:25:26.600 --> 00:25:31.589 maudegorman: from that moment on I learned like you don't have to take your pants off for the river crossing, so. 142 00:25:31.590 --> 00:25:37.067 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: In in, you know, on the, on the plus side, you gain 10,000 followers on Instagram. 143 00:25:38.080 --> 00:25:44.905 maudegorman: Yup! Yup, I I was very that was a funny moment, so at least, like I can look back and laugh at myself. 144 00:25:45.469 --> 00:25:50.780 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And I love that none of your teammates were like you. You realize this isn't that date like nothing. 145 00:25:50.780 --> 00:25:54.830 maudegorman: So like, I was like. And they were just like, What are you doing? 146 00:25:56.270 --> 00:26:06.030 maudegorman: Like, yeah, just, you know, being me doing MoD stuff, so that river was the most memorable one that I crossed. Of course, how could it not be. 147 00:26:06.030 --> 00:26:06.740 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's fair. 148 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:22.370 maudegorman: Yeah. Yeah. But besides that, we got into, you know, more mountains, more deserty type of landscapes really saw so much like drastic differences that like, it's almost unbelievable that it's just one country to be honest, like all of the different disparities. 149 00:26:22.370 --> 00:26:37.670 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, they've got a lot of biomes contained in a very, in a very small island, which is, which is pretty cool. That's how how wide were these rivers were! Were most of them like fairly quick, or were some of them long like I'm I'm assuming some of them were quick, and some of them were longer, but I I don't know. 150 00:26:37.820 --> 00:26:38.800 maudegorman: I think. 151 00:26:40.490 --> 00:26:57.790 maudegorman: Maybe it takes like a couple of minutes to get through, so like not nothing too big like. We're pretty lucky that it was so cold. So this summer in particular, has been the coldest summer on like Iceland history in like years. So a lot of the rivers would have been a lot bigger, but the glaciers have melted because it's been so cold. 152 00:26:57.810 --> 00:26:59.850 maudegorman: So that played 153 00:27:00.070 --> 00:27:08.562 maudegorman: it was kind of a double edged sword like. On one hand, we're freezing, but, on the other hand, at least, the rivers aren't like over flooding, so I mean, pick a side. 154 00:27:08.820 --> 00:27:13.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And I. Does that mean there was there was there current to contend with? Still. 155 00:27:13.890 --> 00:27:20.590 maudegorman: Yes, there was. Some people got knocked over a couple of times. But for the most part it was very manageable. Luckily. 156 00:27:20.590 --> 00:27:21.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay. 157 00:27:21.710 --> 00:27:22.530 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: and 158 00:27:22.730 --> 00:27:42.950 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you. You only thought about this for 2 days before you said before you said yes, was there? Was there a tipping point, or a particular like, what was it that made you say, Yeah, I'm like, what like was there a personal value or something that you're just like, I say yes to crazy things, or I I am going to do a hard thing like, or was this like a bucket list thing like, what is it that 159 00:27:43.350 --> 00:27:46.129 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: like inspired you to say, Yeah, I'm going to do this. 160 00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:47.860 maudegorman: So 161 00:27:48.020 --> 00:28:12.879 maudegorman: I, personally, there's no bucket list that, like I particularly follow. I definitely have like a list in mind of things I want to do in life. But I'm someone that really enjoys saying yes to experiences. And in this particular year I really made a promise to myself last September that I was going to set out to do some challenging things this year. I really wanted to make a promise to myself, to set goals and to achieve them 162 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:24.190 maudegorman: and to make them like related to physical, you know, challenges of some sort. So you know, I did a half ironman in July. I hate biking. I hate swimming, and I pushed myself to, you know. 163 00:28:24.190 --> 00:28:41.963 maudegorman: Go ahead and get that done and achieve that goal. So I saw this, and I saw this as an opportunity to experience something that I read, and I kind of digested as being this once in a lifetime. Experience. Like, how many times are you gonna be able to say you ran across Iceland and also 164 00:28:42.270 --> 00:28:43.630 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I mean 0, I can tell. 165 00:28:43.630 --> 00:28:46.429 maudegorman: You're like, I'm good. I'm not doing it 166 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:55.369 maudegorman: but also so I lost my dad in 2,020. He unexpectedly passed away. And I think that really changed my perspective on life 167 00:28:55.370 --> 00:29:16.000 maudegorman: and saving things for later. So I think it's really easy to look at something and say, you know what that would be really cool, but like I'm not there yet, like I'll do that next year, or I'll do that the year after, and in reality, you know, we're putting these things off. But we don't actually know if later is ever going to come. And that was a lesson that I learned the hard way. So when I see something that 168 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:26.419 maudegorman: I feel in my soul is like calling me to do it, I will do everything in my power to show up and to show up for myself, and to do it for myself, but also 169 00:29:26.590 --> 00:29:45.119 maudegorman: to like, really emphasize that, you know, living in the now and doing things when you're able and like I read it, and I don't even consider myself a runner. But I am in great shape, you know, I feel like Kettlebells really helps your entire body. Be ready, and I like to stay ready for opportunities. So 170 00:29:45.120 --> 00:30:03.759 maudegorman: that was something that I was like, you know what this is going to be a very once in a lifetime experience. It's going to be really hard, but it's going to be really unique. And I thought it was going to be really special to be able to meet people and to share this experience with people from, you know, across the world. So that was really the deciding factor for me was, you know, wanting to do it. 171 00:30:03.770 --> 00:30:12.669 maudegorman: and then also, like being terrified like, am I ready. But then, also, knowing, like deep down, like I am capable, and all I have to do is say yes, and show up. 172 00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:32.200 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love that. Well, I'm I'm sorry for your loss of your father that that's that's obviously hard for anybody. I haven't gone through that myself yet. But like I I commend you for for taking such a healthy perspective on it, you know, after having time to grieve and process. Obviously. But it's changed your perspective that like 173 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:49.470 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: tomorrow's not guaranteed. So I'm going to say yes to things like that. That's a that's a super positive perspective on things, and I'm sure your your father's probably very proud of you for that. You know that that's a that's a lesson that you took from that. So that's that's really inspiring and very, very cool to hear that. That's that's how you 174 00:30:49.520 --> 00:30:53.660 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: kind of moved forward from from a really challenging personal personal loss. 175 00:30:54.130 --> 00:31:15.040 maudegorman: Thank you. Yeah. I think it's important to, you know. Find those harder lessons in life that you maybe don't want to learn. But you know. Sometimes you're faced with it, and you gotta rise to it. And finding ways to, you know, cope and and really learn, this new part of life has been also, you know, an inspirational factor in like doing things that push you outside your comfort zone. 176 00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:21.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. So take us through kind of what a typical day looked like. Because you guys are running this as a group. But as you mentioned, right? Like 177 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:34.849 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: people are gonna fall into different paces. So so what did a typical day kind of look like, like, how early were you guys getting started. Were you eating together? Were people leaving at different times, or was everybody kind of like it was like a planned thing like, take us through kind of what a typical day looked like. 178 00:31:35.080 --> 00:32:04.495 maudegorman: Yeah, so we'd wake up. It depended on you know how many miles we had. But we typically woke up around like, you know. 6 Am. 6 30. We'd all eat breakfast together. So you know, we'd be in our tents. People had their tent groups. There would be a collective place where, you know we'd go get hot water. We'd all be eating our porridge. And I loved the porridge side note like I. Honestly, I thought that was great. That was my breakfast and lunch every day, and, like I, I'm craving it now that I'm back, which is like a problem. 179 00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:29.680 maudegorman: but we'd wake up. We'd have breakfast we'd have time to digest. We'd have coffee and then we would have you know, time to break down tents, so we'd have to pack everything up. We would have a day bag where we would pack, you know our lunch, any snacks that we need, you know if you're like putting anything in your like hydration bladders, we'd pack that you'd pack extra layers. And so those would be at different aid stops along 180 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:58.130 maudegorman: the way, so we'd pack our day bag. We'd pack our night bag, which we wouldn't see again until we were done with the day, so you didn't want to get anything from your night bag that you would need when you're running. That was just for after the run we'd break down the tents and then pack everything up. And we had 2 land rovers that were like kind of following on course or going ahead and creating, you know, these little stopping points for us to, you know, refuel to fill up water to just like, take a moment to sit down, change shoes, change socks like whatever you might need. 181 00:32:58.420 --> 00:33:20.220 maudegorman: and so we'd have our briefing, and we'd all leave at the same time. And so we'd also we'd start each day, you know, running together, and you know as anything there are some people that you know were faster runners that were just really, you know, leading the group every single day. There are people that you know were, you know, middle of the pack, and then there were like slower people, and honestly like you're 182 00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:44.750 maudegorman: place, and it really changed, depending on the day. I don't think anyone was there to run it as fast as possible from my knowledge, at least, like I don't think anyone really had the goal of like, I want to run this as fast as I possibly can. I think we were all just wanting to run each day for ourselves or for you know, whatever reasons people were there, for we had people raising money, for, you know, veterans, for 183 00:33:44.750 --> 00:33:45.620 maudegorman: you know. 184 00:33:45.620 --> 00:34:14.550 maudegorman: 1st responders. Making sure that they were showing up, for you know their causes, whether it be personal or charity, and pushing themselves so we'd all meet up at the Aid stations typically and like we'd share snacks, we'd kind of rest sometimes for up to like an hour depending on the day. But like, if it was really windy or really snowy or really cold, like we wouldn't really stop. We'd just keep going until the end, just because you would freeze like you're right. 185 00:34:14.550 --> 00:34:16.459 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Better to keep better to keep moving than to stop. 186 00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:33.779 maudegorman: Yeah. Yeah. So we definitely like fine tune that towards the end, there were a few days where we were just like sitting and like freezing, and I think there's like a picture of me, just like inside my poncho, and like people didn't think I was a person on the chair. They just thought I was like a coat. So 187 00:34:33.989 --> 00:34:54.400 maudegorman: I was someone that was definitely on the colder side when we'd stop. So I'd try to just like keep moving. If I could and so we'd have those aid stops where, like we'd refuel. And then at the end of the day, you know, if you're like really fast, which I was not, I was never at the front of the pack at all. You'd help set up tents. For everyone so like. 188 00:34:54.409 --> 00:34:57.139 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Reward for finishing 1st was was more work. 189 00:34:57.139 --> 00:35:22.089 maudegorman: Yeah. So if you were really fast and really strong you got to set up tents first.st So there there was that at the end of it? Where, like, that's if we're wild camping. If we're at a hut, you're not really like setting up any tents. But yeah, you would set up tents, and then people would kind of finish and and come in as they'd wrap up their miles, and then we'd eat dinner either together or like, you know, people would kind of just eat dinner when they 190 00:35:22.089 --> 00:35:31.679 maudegorman: got back. So I think that a lot of that depended on where people were, and then we'd have an end of the day briefing. And so at that briefing they would give out like certain like 191 00:35:31.789 --> 00:35:42.822 maudegorman: awards, basically, for like the day like, if you were taking great shots. Then you got a shot of like Icelandic moonshine, which I was selected for at 1 point 192 00:35:43.419 --> 00:35:46.179 maudegorman: I will never drink moonshine again. 193 00:35:47.100 --> 00:35:51.149 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What is Icelandic moonshine? Because I know what moonshine is in America. But I'm curious. 194 00:35:51.150 --> 00:35:51.470 maudegorman: But. 195 00:35:51.470 --> 00:35:53.979 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: What? What is Icelandic moonshine made from. 196 00:35:53.980 --> 00:35:57.509 maudegorman: It tastes just like rubbing alcohol. I I don't know what. 197 00:35:57.510 --> 00:35:59.330 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Most moonshine days. 198 00:35:59.330 --> 00:36:08.290 maudegorman: It wasn't very pleasant. But how can you say no to Icelandic moonshine when you're running across Iceland like you, can't you? You kind of have to rally, you know. 199 00:36:08.290 --> 00:36:09.029 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: For sure. 200 00:36:09.030 --> 00:36:33.209 maudegorman: And so then there's also like this special cup that was like, I think it was crafted out of bone. It was very cool looking, and they would give it to people that like did like outstanding things, for like a teammate, or you know, something like that along the way, so they'd give little shout outs, they'd kind of debrief the day, and then they'd kind of tell us like, Oh, tomorrow you're gonna be running, you know, an ultra again, or you know, tomorrow is. 201 00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:43.410 maudegorman: you know, 26 miles, or whatever it was going to be, so they'd give us a little bit of insight for the next day at the end, and then, you know, we'd all go into our tents. We'd fall asleep. 202 00:36:43.953 --> 00:37:09.140 maudegorman: And yeah, we'd start all over again the next day. So I think for me at the end of the day. It was very much like being present in the moment, because when you're, you know, finishing an ultra marathon, and you have to wake up and run a marathon the next day. It can be disheartening because you're sore. You're tired, and if you're really thinking like, Oh, God, I have to do this again tomorrow. It kind of screws with your mentality a bit. So I would just focus on. 203 00:37:09.140 --> 00:37:33.840 maudegorman: you know, enjoying my little orange bag of dehydrated food, putting my warm clothes on, getting in my sleeping bag, and like spending time with my teammates laughing, and just like enjoying where we were. Because I I think a lot of it was like making sure that you didn't think too far ahead because there was so much more that you had to do so just enjoying the fact that you know you made it through the day you got your miles done, and now you're 204 00:37:34.020 --> 00:37:38.859 maudegorman: sitting in a warm sleeping bag with people that you know really became like family. So. 205 00:37:38.990 --> 00:38:02.070 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, I am, I imagine. I mean, especially since this tends to happen when you're outdoors, right? Like you tend to just go to sleep when the sun, when the sun goes down and you tend to get up when the sun comes up. So like, how many hours of sleep were you getting after putting in these huge, challenging days? Burning, you know, burning a ton of calories and working hard and fighting harsh conditions? And you know all of those things. I'm I'm 206 00:38:02.140 --> 00:38:17.859 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm assuming there was probably not a ton of excess energy at the end of the day. So how you know, how long were you guys sleeping for, and how was your recovery like? Were there any you mentioned hot springs? Were there any other like recovery? Things that you were that you were doing as well as you were gone. 207 00:38:18.130 --> 00:38:45.089 maudegorman: Okay. So I, for one, I was drinking amino acids like throughout the day, and like protein. So I brought little frog fuel, protein pouches that I thought would help with recovery. I don't know if they did. They may have it may have made like a very small difference, but as far as sleeping goes, so Iceland in the summertime has something called the midnight sun. So sun doesn't really go down until, like almost 10 Pm. Maybe. 208 00:38:45.090 --> 00:38:46.590 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, yeah, I suppose. 209 00:38:46.590 --> 00:38:57.090 maudegorman: So like I had a few nights in the tent. We're like, we're getting ready for bed, and I'm like, Can someone turn the light off. It's like we're outside, girl, like there's no light in here. 210 00:38:57.090 --> 00:38:59.329 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You didn't have your sleep mask with your. 211 00:39:00.045 --> 00:39:00.760 maudegorman: Guy. 212 00:39:01.244 --> 00:39:03.180 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Some cucumber slices and. 213 00:39:03.180 --> 00:39:12.068 maudegorman: I'm like, where am I? Did I? I can't turn the light off. No, it's the sun. So that that was a little wild. 214 00:39:12.470 --> 00:39:35.110 maudegorman: So I slept with a hat on, and I would just like pull it over my eyes. People that have sleep, masks and earplugs. I think. For the most part we all collectively passed out. Yeah. So for me, like I would say, like a hundred 60 ish miles in, I have something very rare happen that's never happened to me before. And I got exercise induced urticaria on my feet, so. 215 00:39:35.110 --> 00:39:35.910 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Oh, wow! 216 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:46.429 maudegorman: That is basically an allergic reaction to exercise. So I was allergic to running is what you know the team doctor had diagnosed me with. I got back from an ultra, and I was like. 217 00:39:46.580 --> 00:40:13.194 maudegorman: What's up with my feet like they were. They had hives all over them, they were hot, they were so swollen it was like the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. So that night I took like 5 benadryl, and I had the best night's sleep. Of the entire event. And then for the rest of it, I would just like Pop a couple of benadryl before running. And like, I was like fighting through a lot of demons out there after that. But 218 00:40:13.910 --> 00:40:16.799 maudegorman: yeah, I think it sleep was 219 00:40:16.870 --> 00:40:24.139 maudegorman: not really something that we got a lot of, but it wasn't horrible like it was kind of a mixed bag like some nights were better than others. 220 00:40:25.670 --> 00:40:30.550 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Okay, yeah, I'm I forgot about the I forgot about the midnight sun. You're in the midnight sun season. So. 221 00:40:30.550 --> 00:40:32.580 maudegorman: Yeah, that's an. 222 00:40:32.580 --> 00:40:34.090 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Extra challenge for you. 223 00:40:34.090 --> 00:40:37.366 maudegorman: Yeah, no, it keeps me out. I didn't like it down glaciers. 224 00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:42.119 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Glaciers, and 24 h sunshine, not from odd 225 00:40:43.530 --> 00:40:46.030 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: and apparently running so. 226 00:40:46.030 --> 00:40:50.409 maudegorman: Apparently I'm only running like a hundred 60 miles in, and my body's like, Get out. 227 00:40:50.410 --> 00:41:14.100 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I was just gonna say, I think I think I think it's a little unfair to say running. But, like, you know, running across entire countries. Maybe, you know, crosses the threshold of systemic inflammation that starts to cause cascading. Symptomology like that. That's yeah. That's I can imagine that would be really challenging. You mentioned you said you said some demons came out. When you're when you're when you're fighting, you're fighting through that 228 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:24.339 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: your feet being swollen and covered in hives, and you know I can I I can only imagine that that's that's a pretty tough physical challenge. But so how did you stay like 229 00:41:24.890 --> 00:41:37.550 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: mentally focused? Or how did you handle those challenges? I guess probably the best way to say it like, how did you handle those challenges when you're in the Pain Cave by yourself, you know your teammates have fallen away, and there's nothing but you and the road. 230 00:41:38.070 --> 00:41:40.142 maudegorman: Yeah. So I cried. 231 00:41:41.230 --> 00:41:54.540 maudegorman: That was the 1st thing I did. I remember that day like vividly. It was an ultra marathon, and I would. My feet just hurt so bad. So this was the week of descending into discomfort, and I remember just like 232 00:41:54.780 --> 00:42:10.990 maudegorman: wanting to cry. And I was like, why not like? Why not cry like? Do it? So I cried off and on throughout the day. But then, you know, I would just try to like, focus on what the pain was trying to teach me. And so in that moment, and honestly. 233 00:42:10.990 --> 00:42:12.479 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: And teach you to fucking. Stop running. 234 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:33.169 maudegorman: I was trying to teach and stop. Yeah, definitely that. But honestly like, not even like just that day. But like I woke up every single day in Iceland, and I said to myself, How the hell am I going to do this like? How am I going to actually like run a marathon today. How am I going to run an ultra today? Because. 235 00:42:33.290 --> 00:42:48.748 maudegorman: like, we've all been sore like I was that level of sore where you're like waddling down the stairs, and, like you can barely walk. And like I was like that pretty much, you know, early on since maybe day after day, 2 after our, you know, after a marathon and ultra. So 236 00:42:49.290 --> 00:42:57.839 maudegorman: I would wake up, and I would legitimately like question like, How am I going to do this, and somehow, at the end of every day I would get it done. And so I just kept reminding myself like. 237 00:42:58.090 --> 00:43:24.129 maudegorman: it's hard right now. Everything hurts right now. Every single step hurts right now. But you're gonna get it done. And so that would just happen, you know. And then, you know you'd pass the hours, and I would just think of like different people, or think about different stages in life, where you know I face things that are so much harder like in the grand scheme of things than you know running a marathon with swollen feet. So I would just remind myself, like 238 00:43:24.330 --> 00:43:40.579 maudegorman: you're here. And that's freaking. Amazing that you're here like you're in the middle of this and like it hurts right now. But it's not gonna like eventually, you're going to finish this eventually, you're gonna be home. You're not going to be in Iceland anymore. So embrace this and don't wish it away like, sit in it 239 00:43:40.730 --> 00:43:48.415 maudegorman: just like, really learn from it, and and think about all the things that have taught you who you are. And that got me through it. 240 00:43:48.830 --> 00:44:15.580 maudegorman: just thinking about people, places, experiences, all of those formative moments where you know in life you've wanted to quit or even when you have quit and and how that has taught you to keep seeing things through. So you know, for me. One day I thought about my 16 year old self. I had dropped out of high school. I was really suffering from Ptsd. You know I was a survivor of sexual violence from age 30, 241 00:44:15.580 --> 00:44:23.390 maudegorman: 13, and you know I think about that time in my life, and I'm like this isn't hard compared to that. You know, this is something that 242 00:44:23.390 --> 00:44:53.340 maudegorman: I am more than capable of doing like this is physically hard, and this is challenging me mentally. But I'm strong enough to, you know. Finish whatever miles are ahead of me. And also just like embracing the fact that maybe I'm not going to be fast today. Maybe I have to walk a lot of today. And that's okay. You know, I'm not, gonna you know, be running even 10 min miles, like, let's just try to walk like 18 min miles or something. So making very achievable goals. Was something that really helped me get through that. 243 00:44:54.030 --> 00:44:55.020 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: That's awesome. 244 00:44:55.270 --> 00:44:56.000 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm 245 00:44:56.190 --> 00:45:24.280 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I'm curious, and thank you for sharing that. I know. That's not. That's not easy. That's not easy to to share something that personal. I'm sorry that happened to you, but I'm I'm curious now, because you you brought up the the crying part, and I'm wondering, I know, for me like crying is very cathartic, right? It's a it's a way that our body, like externally it. It takes things internal and kind of like forces them to the surface. Right? So now I'm curious. The crying was the crying physical, mental, a little bit of both like, How like. 246 00:45:24.300 --> 00:45:26.680 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: how did how did you experience that. 247 00:45:26.870 --> 00:45:29.899 maudegorman: Okay. So it there was different types of crying. 248 00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:31.090 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 249 00:45:31.090 --> 00:45:46.979 maudegorman: Analyze my different types so like in the middle of it, when, like we were, I want to say it was like Wednesday of our last week, and that was an ultra day. I cried because I was in pain, and it hurt, and it sucked. And like I was just like I don't like like. Why am I here? Why did I do this to myself like. 250 00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:51.239 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: The questioning, the questioning, crying like, why? Why have I chosen this for myself? 251 00:45:51.240 --> 00:46:01.670 maudegorman: Why am I putting myself through this? You know that type of crying? But then, on the last day and then also, when I finished that day I cried because I was so proud of myself, and like 252 00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:26.320 maudegorman: like I couldn't believe that I had become someone in life that was able to do something this hard and that just like honestly, that type of crying took me by surprise. Because I did believe in myself. You know, I showed up in Iceland, fully believing, like I had everything it took to get this done. But I vividly remember a time in my life where, believing in myself, like just believing in myself to do anything, even like showing up to school, and like doing homework, or like taking 253 00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:28.759 maudegorman: quiz, and like being smart enough to pass 254 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:53.750 maudegorman: like that wasn't something that I was able to do. I just did not have any type of self belief whatsoever. So the fact that I was able to take on this giant challenge of running across an entire country and really believing in myself to show up and to do it, and then to actually execute and to actually get it done. I was just bawling like it was a full body type of crying experience. And. 255 00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:56.570 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Your bones. You're crying from your bones at that point. 256 00:46:56.570 --> 00:47:10.235 maudegorman: It was also just like pouring rain, and like it was raining sideways on us like I was soaking wet we all were, and I'm crying, and I'm like, Oh, my God! Like the tears are keeping my face warm so like that was a good strategy. 257 00:47:12.120 --> 00:47:35.589 maudegorman: But it was just this really powerful moment, and I couldn't control it. I it was something that really surprised me to be honest, to cry like that. Because it was just so meaningful. And it was like a good cry. It wasn't like, I'm sad crying. It was just like a very powerful, transformative cry to like. Be so proud of yourself for doing something so hard. 258 00:47:35.950 --> 00:47:38.730 maudegorman: That, like you never thought in a million years you'd be able to do. 259 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:44.519 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. Were there were there any other things that that surprised you from from the journey. 260 00:47:45.180 --> 00:48:11.682 maudegorman: Yeah, honestly. So one thing that surprised me, this is gonna sound cliche. But one of my goals going into Iceland. So this was with a group of people that I had never met before. And I really wanted to show up just as myself. So I think when you're like, put in situations where you're meeting new people. It can be really easy to like. Put a mask on, and to present yourself as someone that you think other people want to receive. 261 00:48:11.980 --> 00:48:39.920 maudegorman: And so for me, my whole goal was to show up, and, like just 100%, be myself, be authentic. Make people comfortable, you know, being themselves, and to just be a safe space. For you know, my teammates for our crew, and really inspire people to, you know. Not. Be afraid to be a little weird cause. I am like the weirdest person there is. I'm very quirky, you know. I have a foul mouth 262 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.679 maudegorman: sometimes, you know I say things that are totally out of. 263 00:48:42.680 --> 00:48:43.930 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You're in a safe space here, though. 264 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:45.750 maudegorman: So. 265 00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:47.299 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Like a sailor. I'm sorry 266 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:50.370 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: sorry about it. I just I am that way. 267 00:48:50.580 --> 00:48:54.569 maudegorman: Okay. Good. Cause me, too. But I think. 268 00:48:54.570 --> 00:48:57.549 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, I was. I was weirded out when you said Friggin, I was like, what fucking podcast. 269 00:48:57.550 --> 00:49:03.069 maudegorman: No, no, please say the F word like do not casually swear. If you're gonna swear, do it with power. 270 00:49:03.070 --> 00:49:03.600 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. 271 00:49:03.882 --> 00:49:32.447 maudegorman: But I think it was really well received, and that meant a lot to me. So, being able to show up and and being a little bit nervous like is is me being myself. Gonna be enough, you know, is me just being Maud like, are people gonna like me? And you know, to my surprise, I I really feel like I made a lot of friends, and we made a lot of connections, and that was really special. So that was one thing that took me by surprise, and like a non type of related to running. But 272 00:49:32.730 --> 00:49:39.190 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I I love that, though, because I think that's that's like a life lesson, right? It's something. It took me a long time to to realize like 273 00:49:39.430 --> 00:50:02.999 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: there's a terrible. There's a terrible thing of anxiety like you show up trying to be who people want you to be, and then, if they like you like. Do they really like me? Cause then you just feel like you're fake. And then, when you're but then the the thought of showing up, and being truly who you are is terrifying. Because what if you show up as who you are and they don't like you? Because that's a whole other different level of rejection. But then, when you, when you go with that second path, and you show up as who you truly are and people like you you're like, Oh, shit. 274 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:04.470 maudegorman: Yeah, exactly. 275 00:50:04.470 --> 00:50:16.500 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: It's such a liberating experience like oh, they know they like me for who I really am, and I don't have to pretend with these people, and you're like, Oh, I may have found I may have found, like people who just like me, for who I am, despite all. 276 00:50:16.500 --> 00:50:17.050 maudegorman: Special. 277 00:50:17.050 --> 00:50:42.029 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Despite all my weirdness, right? Like what we all label ourselves as our weird as our weird things like. That's such a huge. That's such a huge, powerful thing to experience in life, and to to show up as who you authentically are, and to be accepted by other people is is one of the best parts of the human experience. I think so like that's awesome. That that was a that was part of this journey for you is like seeing, showing, choosing to show up as who you are and seeing like. Oh, there's a whole bunch of other people that just like me, for who I am. 278 00:50:42.210 --> 00:50:56.640 maudegorman: Yeah, it was so special. And like everyone was just so nice. And another thing that you know, going into this, I was a little nervous about, which is like really silly. So I'm not like a super fast runner by any means at all. And so going into it, I was really worried that, like. 279 00:50:56.700 --> 00:51:03.114 maudegorman: you know, people would give a shit if I wasn't like super fat. No one cares, no one cares at all. 280 00:51:03.420 --> 00:51:27.310 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Well, that's that's like the Kettlebell sport like that, that to me, is analogous to kind of like I get self conscious about the fact, I'm like, I'm not a great lifter, like I'm like, I'm mediocre at this like I'm very strong, but like the endurance part of it like that's never been my thing so like I've never been great, and like people like nobody gives a shit whether you're Cms or rank one, or what like we care because we care about the sport, but like nobody thinks less of me because I've never achieved master of sport right like. 281 00:51:27.310 --> 00:51:37.762 maudegorman: Yeah. And you know, I have that same mentality, you know, with kettle ball sport, and even like going back to like Denmark, you know, like thinking like, oh, people are going to give a shit if I don't become a world champion. No one cares. 282 00:51:38.100 --> 00:51:44.739 maudegorman: I mean, it's great. People will celebrate you. But, like at the end of the day, we're just all happy to be a community. And I think 283 00:51:44.999 --> 00:52:09.689 maudegorman: that's 1 thing that Iceland was really big on was like the community part like there's absolutely no freaking way that I could have run across Iceland by myself like the team part and the community part is exactly the reason that any of us were able to do it. And I think that remains true with like Kettlebell sport. There's such a big community there, and you know you are always inspired by you know the lifter on the platform next to you, you know I've never taken the platform being like, I hope 284 00:52:09.690 --> 00:52:12.830 maudegorman: she drops the bell, you know, so. 285 00:52:13.270 --> 00:52:28.180 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: You want. You want. You want the person next to you to show up as their best self, too, and hopefully you're you. You show up as your best self, and if that means that you win the day. Great! But like that, that's been a huge for me. That's been a huge. That was always a huge shift in my like going from a competitive sports background to like 286 00:52:28.220 --> 00:52:48.579 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you know where my job was to literally impose my will on the person across from me playing football, you know. Like to. Now it's like, I hope. I hope he shows up and does his best lift, and he gets a Pr. And I get a Pr. And you know if my Pr. Is better than his Pr. Then I win, and if I don't cool. I still got a Pr right like, that's a whole. It's a different way to approach approach competition. 287 00:52:50.030 --> 00:52:52.413 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah. So I'm I'm curious. 288 00:52:53.010 --> 00:53:14.219 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you you've obviously this was pretty transformative for you like it's it's it's it's apparent from from how how spiritual and emotional, and you know, obviously physical. But through the the journey through all of that physical challenge? How how has this influenced or changed your perception of what's possible and like? How are you going to approach challenges in the future? 289 00:53:14.580 --> 00:53:35.740 maudegorman: Yeah. So like, I said, I started every single day, you know, questioning my ability to get this done. And so one thing that I think one of my biggest takeaways from, you know, running across Iceland and being able to, you know, finish every distance and every mile was that when you're in a moment where you're questioning, and you're doubting yourself. 290 00:53:35.850 --> 00:53:49.429 maudegorman: Do not let that be your reality for too long, you know. Acknowledge it, you know, acknowledge that you know you're having doubts, or that you're having fears about. You know whatever situation is making you feel that way. But then adapt and overcome it 291 00:53:49.540 --> 00:54:04.299 maudegorman: get started. Take action, and just take the 1st step, and you'll get to where you want to go. It might take you longer some days, you know. It took me, you know, 10 h, some days. It took me a lot less so, embracing the fact that 292 00:54:04.430 --> 00:54:33.129 maudegorman: it might look different, depending on the circumstances you're facing. But don't sit in that vulnerability of doubting yourself for too long. Because you know whether or not like you're facing some crazy challenge like running across an entire country. Or you know, even if you're just facing a challenge in life, with work or school or friends or relationships, whatever it might be don't convince yourself that anything is impossible. 293 00:54:33.130 --> 00:54:56.070 maudegorman: because I I really feel like the mind can convince the body where to go, and I feel like if you get stuck in a thought process for too long, you're going to be having like a self fulfilling prophecy of whatever it is that you're dreading and there might even be some validity to like. What you're thinking like this is, gonna be really hard. How am I gonna do this like that might be a hundred percent. True. 294 00:54:56.372 --> 00:55:01.210 maudegorman: But don't sell yourself short. So for me, I'm going to take that knowledge of like 295 00:55:01.210 --> 00:55:28.910 maudegorman: really recognizing that each day I started out doubting myself, and I took that, and instead of being stuck on it, I got ready. I put my shoes on, and I took the 1st step, and by the end of the day, you know, I was sitting at a different campsite, having ran another Marathon, or having ran another ultra marathon, and I was that much closer to finishing my goal. And you know, rinse and repeat, I just did that over and over and over again, and I really feel like I taught myself like the value of 296 00:55:28.910 --> 00:55:38.330 maudegorman: not trusting your thoughts when they're telling you negative things when they're telling you that you can't do something, or that you're incapable. So 297 00:55:38.650 --> 00:55:40.350 maudegorman: that's something that I think 298 00:55:40.715 --> 00:55:52.230 maudegorman: has been like the biggest takeaway. And like that. That was the most transformative thing, because I genuinely was like, I I don't know how I'm going to do this, and I did it so. That was wild. 299 00:55:52.230 --> 00:55:55.570 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: So. So if I can reflect it back, it sounds like you're saying. 300 00:55:55.710 --> 00:56:03.929 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: recognize your doubts and understand that they might be valid doubts. But do it anyways, and understand that you're stronger than you think you are. 301 00:56:04.200 --> 00:56:18.260 maudegorman: Absolutely. Yeah, I I think definitely you are. I think everyone is a lot stronger than they think they are. I think that's something that we all maybe just me. And maybe I'm like grouping everyone together. But I feel like everyone could believe in themselves a little bit more. 302 00:56:18.470 --> 00:56:27.612 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I think you're right about that. I think that's I think that's very true. I think that's and I think that's why doing doing hard things on a consistent basis is so valuable because it gives us 303 00:56:27.940 --> 00:56:39.119 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: gives us data points to be like, I can do hard shit right and just just give. Give yourself those data points. So then you just get more and more confidence that, like, I can overcome things that I didn't think I could do. 304 00:56:39.250 --> 00:56:49.344 maudegorman: Oh, yeah, I definitely think there's a big confidence building and and like deliberately putting yourself in discomfort like in embracing that selling the flowers in the garden of pain. 305 00:56:49.670 --> 00:57:14.409 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Descend into discomfort. I actually, I like I like that. A. Because I love alliteration, but I also love the the idea of descending into it because you're acknowledging that it's gonna be hard and like we think of, like, you know, the descent into madness is a bad thing, right? Or like the descent into discomfort is generally a bad thing. But we're choosing it right. That's the whole, like the embrace. Embrace the suck is another mantra that I love from. You know the special forces they say. Embrace the suck like 306 00:57:14.410 --> 00:57:27.579 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: you acknowledge that it's gonna suck and you embrace it. You welcome it right like I. I love that the descend into discomfort because you're choosing to go down those stairs, or that that escalator, or whatever you want to call it, or like, maybe it's a slide. I don't know. 307 00:57:27.580 --> 00:57:29.049 maudegorman: And hell. Here we go. 308 00:57:29.050 --> 00:57:36.889 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, you're but you're choosing it. It's not something that's happening to you. You're choosing it. You're you're you're making that choice which which I actually, I really, I really love 309 00:57:37.371 --> 00:57:52.219 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: so we're we're almost out of time. And I I want to be respectful of your time. So I'll I'll ask a what's next for you like. Are there any other big, crazy adventures that you're doing, or you're like getting back to? What like, what are, what are your next things that you're that you're focused on. 310 00:57:52.674 --> 00:58:22.349 maudegorman: Okay, so I am. This is more like of a personal. This is like a fun trip. So it's not like running across the country, but I am doing a hundred 3 miles. This week I'm leaving to go to Switzerland to do the Tour de Mont Blanc, so I'm doing a 9 day through hike. So not a marathon a day. Little less than that. But I will be hiking through Switzerland, France, and Italy, and I'll be doing that, and then I'll get back from that, and I have the all American kettleball open coming up. So those are the top. 2. What's next? 311 00:58:22.350 --> 00:58:37.060 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: October, October 13, th out in 12th and 13, th out in Atlantic City, shout out to our Buddy, Nikolai Poochlov and Ray's Kettlebells and Dennis and the the crew putting on. It's an Aklu qualifier out there on the east coast. So that's awesome. What are you lifting up there? 312 00:58:37.380 --> 00:58:51.930 maudegorman: I'm I'm hoping for the 20 kg. But given, like all of the events I've been doing that have been very long endurance training. My training has definitely taken a bit of a back seat. Respectively. So you know, I I definitely, you know, weigh the pros and cons. 313 00:58:51.930 --> 00:58:54.680 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Won't think any less of you if you decide to lift the 60. 314 00:58:54.680 --> 00:58:56.510 maudegorman: I might lift the 6 as we were just. 315 00:58:56.510 --> 00:58:59.900 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Talking about. You choose to go to the 16. I don't think anybody will think any less. 316 00:58:59.900 --> 00:59:18.769 maudegorman: Anyone will give a shit at all. So the goal is to lift 20. And I'm gonna reevaluate when I'm back from the Tour du Mont Blanc and see you know where I'm at physically. And if I'm feeling like the 20, is it? I'm gonna go for the 20, and otherwise I'll be back on my trusty 16 that I've grown to love my lemon so. 317 00:59:19.038 --> 00:59:36.490 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Alright. And then the this question is, usually, if you've listened to the podcast. Is the one that I love to ask people and it's the usually dedicated towards Kettlebell sport. But this I'll I'll I'll genericize a little bit and say, if you could give somebody just one tip that they're looking to to get started. You know, somebody that hasn't ever done anything 318 00:59:36.730 --> 00:59:52.220 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: challenging like fit. They haven't. They haven't physically challenged themselves in the in that way, and they've decided like, Yeah, I'm inspired. MoD hasn't inspired me. I'm gonna go do some hard shit like what would be your one tip that you would tell them to get started when when they get started on that journey. 319 00:59:53.230 --> 00:59:58.310 maudegorman: Okay. So this is gonna sound weird. This is a weird tip. And I'm going to preface it by. 320 00:59:58.310 --> 01:00:00.120 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Bring on the weird. Let's go. Let's go to the weird. 321 01:00:00.120 --> 01:00:03.349 maudegorman: I would say, look in the mirror and look at yourself. 322 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:17.089 maudegorman: and tell yourself your goal, and do that. You know every single day, for as long as it takes until you really start believing in your ability to achieve it. And also, you know, not only telling yourself your goal, but 323 01:00:17.210 --> 01:00:22.570 maudegorman: come up with some adjectives that describe how you want to feel when you achieve it. 324 01:00:23.033 --> 01:00:40.950 maudegorman: So you know you feel powerful. You feel proud. You're so strong and and really look at yourself and and say those words to yourself. And it's gonna feel weird. It's so weird to talk to yourself in the mirror. But I think it's really a good hack in getting started, because I feel like taking that 1st step 325 01:00:40.950 --> 01:01:04.550 maudegorman: in doing something that might feel absolutely crazy is really scary. It's terrifying to be honest like. I have always thought that believing in yourself is one of the scariest things you can do but it's worth doing, and you are worth taking that jump and taking that leap and doing whatever it is that your soul is telling you to do, because I I don't think dreams are putting us by accident. I think we. 326 01:01:04.560 --> 01:01:20.740 maudegorman: you know, have been inspired, for whatever reason, to achieve these dreams because we're meant to do it. So believe in yourself. Look in the mirror, tell yourself your dream, and then talk to yourself in a way that is celebrating how you want to feel when you achieve it. 327 01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:28.059 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love that I love that you're you're you're putting yourself in the mental space of what it's gonna feel like to achieve that thing that you're scared of. 328 01:01:28.190 --> 01:01:43.080 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: I love. I don't think that I don't think that's weird at all. I think that's I think that's fucking awesome. So thank you. Thank you very much, and alright, so they follow. How do they? How do they get at you? You're at modern living on on Instagram, or you're at modern living everywhere. Is that? Is that your Ig. 329 01:01:43.080 --> 01:02:01.981 maudegorman: Instagram, you know I just you know I I love Instagram just for fun. So you know, if you want to be friends, if you want someone that's going to be your hype girl. I love meeting new friends. If you're like considering doing something crazy that like you want someone to absolutely encourage you to do as long as it's not like super self destructive, I will tell you to go for it. 330 01:02:02.230 --> 01:02:23.929 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Love it. I love it. Well, Maude, thank you so much for coming on. And I I just wanna say, I think I think, the fact that you did. This is awesome. Thank you for being so open and and sharing so much about your personal journey that got you there and all of the craziness that was the Viking run. I really appreciate your time. And this was this was super fun. So thank you so much again appreciate it. 331 01:02:23.930 --> 01:02:26.730 maudegorman: Thank you. Thank you for having me. I really enjoyed our conversation. 332 01:02:26.730 --> 01:02:28.420 Twin Cities Kettlebell Club: Yeah, we'll see you soon. 333 01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:29.789 maudegorman: You soon, bye.