ERF 985: My First Hyrox Race Recap

I just ran my first HYROX race. I'm going to tell you what the hardest part was, exactly how I trained for it leading up, and if I were to do it again, what I would do differently so that if you're considering doing a HYROX, you can learn from my mistakes. And before we get into all of that, if you don't know what a HYROX race is, it's basically an event-based race where You run 1,000 meters, and then you do a station like a ski erg machine, and then you run 1,000 meters again, and then you do a station that is a sled push. You run 1,000 meters again, you do a station that is a sled pull. So there are 8 total runs of 1 meter— I'm sorry, 1,000 meters that you'll do, and then there are 8 functional stations that you'll do along with that. So there's technically 16 total stations runs that you complete. And I want to talk about why I decided to do a HYROX race, because traditionally I am somebody who has hated cardio and I have not done it for my entire 29 years of existence on this planet. I have really only lifted weights and focused on strength training and bodybuilding style workouts. But I turned 29 last year, which I know isn't old, But having the knowledge I have about health and fitness, I really wanted to start taking my heart health more seriously so that when I get into my 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond, I can be not just jacked and look good, but I also wanted to be healthy and functional as well. So that's why I decided to start doing more cardio. But the issue was, whenever I would start trying to incorporate it, I said, oh, I would do the bike after my workout. I would do the incline treadmill after my workout. I'll be honest, I never really did it because I hate it. It's not something that I enjoy doing. So I thought to myself, how can I get myself to do the things I don't want to do? Well, if I signed up for a HYROX race and there was a specific date that I knew I was going to have to compete and do the event, whether I trained or not, that day was going to come. So that motivated me And got me to do my weekly training, which I'll talk about exactly what that looked like in a second, because I didn't want to get to the race day and then have myself not be in shape, not be ready for it, not hit the time that I wanted to hit. So that deadline and the event pushed me beyond what I was doing to complete the things I knew I should complete. And for those of you listening and watching to this right now, that's exactly why our 8-week challenges work so well for the clients that sign up for coaching with us. And actually right now we have a couple of days left to enroll in our 8-week fat loss summer challenge. I'll drop the link in the description of this video below. You can click it and secure your spot. As of now, we have about 25 spots left. So if you want in, today would be the day to take that step. So click the link in the description to learn more. And so now you know why I decided to do it. I now want to talk about what I was doing before and what my training looked like Leading up. So as I mentioned, really, I was doing no cardio before. I was only lifting weights 4 times a week. I would do my best to hit my daily steps. So I'd walk around 6,000 to 10,000 steps per day, which is very good for fat loss and it is good for overall health. But to have the level of cardio you need for a HYROX race where you're running and you're doing the rower and you're running and you're pushing a sled, I knew I was going to have to do a little bit higher intensity cardio because the daily steps that I were getting, they were not bringing my heart rate up. They were not getting me into even zone 2 or zone 3 cardio, which if you don't know what zone 1, zone 2, zone 3 cardio is, they're just different levels of where your heart rate is dependent on your max heart rate. So for example, zone 2 cardio is roughly 60 to 70% of your max heart rate. Heart rate. And the way you find your max heart rate is take 220 minus your current age, and that would be your max heart rate. And so if you were trying to get into zone 2 heart rate, zone 2 cardio, you would take your max heart rate, multiply that by 0.6 to 0.7, and that would be where you would want your heart rate to be for zone 2 cardio. So the daily steps I was doing was great for body composition, but not great for training for HYROX. So what I did was I incorporated just one day a week of HYROX-style training. And so what this would look like is, because, you know, if you go and Google or look up what a HYROX race entails, it will tell you, you have to run the 1,000 meters, and then you have to do the skier, and then you have to run again and do the row. You run again and you do the sled push. So I knew roughly how the race was going to be set up. So one day a week, I would probably run through an example of that for about anywhere from 45 to 60 minutes. And that was my real only training, which some people may find crazy. But what I have found through my own journey and through coaching over 25,000 clients at this point, when you lift heavy weights Routinely and regularly, your base level of fitness is so much higher than most people's. Because think about what lifting heavy weights really is. Let's say you're doing a hard set of hip thrust or squats or bench press or lat pulldowns. You're doing a hard set of 6 to 10 reps. For those 6 to 10 reps, your heart rate is getting up, you're pushing yourself, and then you're letting your heart rate come back down. When you rest. So you are technically working in some quote-unquote higher intensity cardio. It's not really cardio because you're lifting weights and building muscle, but your heart rate is getting elevated. And then with that happening, when you build muscle, your level of fitness automatically increases as well. So I found that because I was already lifting that, and because I like to think I maintain a Roughly healthy body fat percentage. Could I lose some more weight? Sure, but it's not unhealthy where I'm at. And I had been doing my daily steps. I didn't need a ton of extra cardio training because my baseline was already quite high. So that's what I started doing. And I didn't want my HYROX training to take away from my strength training because I'll just be honest with you, I enjoy lifting weights more than I enjoy my cardio. Yes, I wanted to perform well and do well for the HYROX, but I didn't want it to take away from my lifting. I still wanted to get stronger. I still wanted to build more muscle and try to increase my PRs in my workouts. And I didn't want to feel weak in my workouts. And I'll talk about how I was able to do that, not just from a training perspective, but Also from a nutrition perspective here in a second. But that's what I did. I lifted 4 days a week following a lower body, upper body, lower body, upper body workout split. And then I added 1 day a week of the HYROX style training. So what this looked like over the course of the week. Monday, actually I took Monday off. So let's start from Sunday. Sunday would be a leg day. Monday was rest. Tuesday was upper body. Wednesday was rest. Thursday was lower body. Friday was the HYROX-style training. And then Saturday was upper body. And so I'd kind of repeat that process throughout. So working out hard 5 days a week with 2 days a week of rest days. And when I say rest days, again, I still got my daily steps. And even some of the days, not all weeks, but even some of the days I would go into the gym and do like a 45-minute incline treadmill walk. at about 2.5 to 3 speed, keeping my heart rate around zone 2 levels. And really, I did that just to get some extra zone 2 cardio and just to get out of my house and get some steps. So the 5 days a week was really my hard, intense workouts. So that's what my training looked like throughout. And during the strength training sessions, like I said, I was still trying to push. I was still trying to get stronger. I was still trying to lift heavy. I didn't pull back on what my workouts in my weightlifting were doing because I still wanted to push myself. So that's what training looked like for me. And I noticed myself getting better week over week with my HYROX style training, even though it was only one day per week. And I think that's the cool part I have found about cardio, which I knew, but I didn't really know because I never done it. When you start to kind of devote yourself to doing more cardio, you will see progress rather quickly. And I don't usually say that on my channel here because I'm about slow and steady progress and realistic progress, and it's going to take time. But going from not doing a lot of cardio to now doing consistent real cardio, you will see a pretty big and fast arc of progress, so to speak. So if you're somebody who's out there who maybe you haven't been doing a lot of cardio— I wasn't either— and I saw myself week over week getting better. I could tell my times were getting better on the run. I could tell It wasn't as like heavy when I was doing runs or I was doing the rower or I was doing the SkiErg. I could tell I could go a little bit longer and I could go a little bit harder without burning out as quickly. So I found that really cool and I did enjoy that from the training perspective. And now speaking of training, that has to be paired with nutrition. So the way I approached my nutrition leading into this HYROX race was I'd probably trained for about 3 months leading up to the race. So I started around the beginning of January. I had my race April 4th. So 3 full months of training. For the first half of the training, up until about February 14th, I was in a slight calorie deficit. And that's because I had a vacation that I was taking to Turks and Caicos, and I wanted to lean out a little bit. So I was in a slight deficit, and I was still training, but But again, as I started to get further into the training, I could tell that I didn't have a lot of— I didn't have as good of recovery and as much energy to keep pushing myself. But that's the reality of being in a calorie deficit and trying to push yourself hard. But after the vacation, I decided to work my calories back up and I decided to go into a calorie surplus for the reasons of, number one, I wanted to build more muscle. And number two, I wanted to fuel myself for the HYROX race and focus on performance rather than just aesthetics. So how you look, we all want to look better, and I understand that. But for me personally, after I took that trip, I wanted to focus more on performance than aesthetics. So I'm okay with being a little bit higher body fat percentage right now if that means I'm able to push harder in my workouts, I'm able to recover better from all of my training, and I'm able to Have my body perform in workouts more efficiently and at a higher rate than if I were to be lower body fat but feel like shit. So I made that decision to bump up my calories. And while I'm carrying slightly more body fat, my workouts feel great. My recovery feels great. My sleep is great. I'm able to push in both the strength training and the HYROX training. And that's exactly what I wanted. So The approach I took with nutrition, I've actually worked my calories up to— this is going to sound crazy, I know— but 4,500 to 5,000 calories per day. Now, again, I'm 6'4. I'm currently weighing about 257. So I am a larger human being. So my calories do need to be a bit higher. But also, that's what happens when you're trying to fuel your body for an event, a race, A half marathon, a HYROX, just regular workouts that you're doing. You can't be super lean and then also have really good workouts. It's usually not one or the other, but you'll have to lean more towards one side or the other, if that makes sense. So for you listening, if maybe you are torn between, should I lower my body fat and lose more weight? Or like, do I want to feel better in my workouts and push harder? I can just tell you from my own experience, My life quality of life is so much better when I'm a little bit higher body fat percentage and I can push way harder in my workouts. That's what I enjoy doing. You can take that for whatever it's worth. Now, we talked about nutrition, and with that increase in calories, that primarily came from carbohydrates. So I typically have a protein intake that is pretty high anyway. I usually eat about 250 grams-ish of protein per day regardless, because I just liked eating protein. So I bumped my carbs up tremendously. And the reason for this is carbs are the main source of fuel for your workout. So for both the strength training and the HYROX style training, once again, because those modalities of training are higher intensity, the cardio, higher intensity, your heart rate is higher, but also the strength training, you need to push hard in those heavy and hard sets. Your body uses glycogen, AKA carbs, for that style of workout. So I knew if I wanted to push hard in both, I was gonna have to eat more carbs. So I bumped my carb intake up to like sometimes 600 grams of carbs per day, which is, you know, again, it sounds crazy, but it's almost like you have to fill the gas tank up before a big road trip. And then once you take the big road trip, you have to refill the gas tank back up to go again. And if you're trying to make a big road trip on no gas, you're not going to be able to get the car where you want to get to. It's going to putter and it's going to be slow along the way. So if you are somebody who's wanting to pursue this, just know you're probably going to have to increase those carbs if you want to feel really good. So that was everything pretty much leading up to it. Now I want to go into the race day and kind of what this actually looked like, how I felt, and just my overall thoughts about the race day. So Getting into the race day nutrition, some of the things I really tried to prioritize was hydration. So not only drinking water, but along with that, drinking electrolytes. Because remember, hydration isn't just about water. It's about your 3 main electrolytes: sodium, potassium, and magnesium. So I had, I think, 2 or 3 of those hydration packets during the race day. I had, excuse me, 1 in the morning, One like midday and then maybe one like right before. So making sure I got my electrolytes in. And then also from the nutrition perspective during the day, having a lot of protein and again, a lot of carbs because I wanted to make sure I carved up before the race so that my body and my muscles had the glycogen and the energy to use to push hard in the workouts. So that was from the nutrition perspective. Then from the actual getting into the race, and this is where I'll talk about what was hard. I'll talk about what was easy. I'll talk about my final time and we'll run through everything. So I would say overall it was definitely difficult. So I did mixed doubles with my girlfriend and I would say it was definitely difficult, but it was actually easier than I expected. And I'll kind of explain why that was as I go through kind of station by station here. So For me, there were some easy stations and then there were some hard stations. I'll talk about the easy stations first. And this is where, going back to what I mentioned earlier, when you have a base level of strength training and you've been lifting heavy weights with, you know, squats and deadlifts and hip thrusts and bench press, that is going to translate, especially in something like a HYROX race, pretty well because the farmer's carries. So if you don't know what farmer's carries are, you basically hold 2 kettlebells down by your side and you walk. Right? That is basically all the farmer's carry is. I have been doing farmer's carries, you know, my entire life. I did them a lot when I played football. And just from holding heavy weights when I lift weights, the farmer's carries were easy. Like, that was— the grip wasn't an issue. The weight I had to move and walk around with wasn't an issue. So that was like really easy. I was basically running through that station. So that was really easy. The sled pull was also very easy for me, which was really hard for a lot of people. I had people next to me that were like really struggling. And, and that's not to say like I'm this great person, but again, because I've been doing my rows and my lat pulldowns and because I have a strong back, I was able to actually place 3rd amongst all competitors. And I think there was over 14,000 people who competed this past weekend and I placed 3rd out of everybody. So for me, that was a really easy station and I was like, oh wow, like this is just like doing rows or, or doing a lat pulldown. So that was an easy station. The sled push for me, was a really easy station once again, because this entire time I've been squatting, I've been hip thrusting, I've been deadlifting. And again, that station was really hard for some people because, you know, it's heavyweight. Like you got to push heavy weight. But for me personally, I found that station to be quite easy. I think that station might have placed like 126 or something like that out of all the competitors. So I think that was really good as well. So a couple of those were, were easy for me. And it's because of the base level I had. The tough stations were, to no surprise, like more of the cardio-based stations. So the burpees, for example, I, anybody who follows me for a long time, you know burpees are not my thing. So burpees were not fun for me. Those were, those were difficult from both a mental and a physical perspective. Like I hate them, so I didn't want to do them mentally. And then physically they just suck, like going up and down and like I'm already exhausted. I think that was the That was the 4th station. So I had already ran 4 times and I had already done the SkiErg, the sled pull, the sled push, and then the burpees. So it was pretty tough physically and I was really gassed on them. The rower, I would say, wasn't like hard, but again, just to go the distance of the 1,000 meters, that was hard because that was the 5th station. So I had already ran 5 times and done 4 stations before that. So I found the rower to be something that was kind of, It burned me out maybe more than I thought it was going to do. And then the last station that was pretty difficult for me was wall balls. And that's just because it was the last station and they make you finish with wall balls where, if you don't know what wall balls are, it's just basically you squat down, you throw the ball up, and you have to hit proper depth on the way down. And you have to hit a certain height when you throw the ball up. So you gotta throw it up, catch it, go back down, throw it up, catch it, go back down. And you do 100 of those. So That was also a tough station to finish on because again, had ran 8 times before, done 7 stations before, and everything was just kind of on fire at that point, both my lungs and my legs. The, the weight of the ball wasn't the hard part because once again, strength training, had a strength background, but it's just the pure doing it over and over and over again was pretty difficult. So those were tough. I would say there was a station for a ski erg, which if you don't know what a ski erg is, you can probably just do a Google or I can put a video. Right here to put a ski erg, but you're kind of pulling this rope, so to speak. You're pulling this thing down. That was hard. But for me, I actually like that one because I feel like I can just rip that thing as hard as I can. And it was the first station, so I wasn't overly dead by the time that came. And then the other station that was kind of like so-so was lunges. So you have to put a weight on your— a sandbag weight on your back and you have to do walking lunges. I forget the exact meter. It might be like 100 meters. 100 meters. I forget the exact meter, but it's basically down and back. You have to do these walking lunges. So those, again, for me were okay because I had been— I do lunges all the time in my workouts and I do the single leg movements in my workouts. And so that really wasn't bad. But again, that was the 7th station, I think. And so just like at that point, like you're tired, you're mentally and physically exhausted. And so it's kind of hard to keep pushing. So all in all, there were stations that were easy, some stations that were good. I think for me, I think the hardest part wasn't any one station. I think it was just more of the overall concept of like, you have to run the 1,000 meters and then you have to go do the station. And then to keep up, like to keep your time at a good pace, because I wanted— my goal was to get under 90 minutes for the entire race. And so to keep that pace to be under 90 minutes, those runs, like you gotta be moving during those runs. And so that was probably the hardest part for me. And especially when you would finish a station and go transition to running again, the first, like, I would say half of that run was very both physically and mentally difficult because it's like you stopped running, you did a station, and you're gonna start running again. But like the other half of the run for me personally really wasn't bad because I like, all right, I'm running. I've gotten into like, I've accepted this. It's gonna suck. And then you kind of just like get going with it. I've heard runners talk about that where, you know, you, you get past mile 1 or whatever it is and you feel better. I felt that way, but then I would have to stop and then go do a station. And so I think that was probably the hardest part of it all was keeping the runtime up while still pushing really hard in the stations, but then not pushing so hard that you would burn yourself out for the rest of the station or the rest of the runs. So that's what I think was probably the most difficult moment for, uh, for me personally. And, you know, so talking Talking about kind of how we finished, uh, so we did finish in under 90 minutes. So we got an hour and 26 minutes, which was— I was really happy about that. I think both my girlfriend and I crushed it. So I'm really, really proud of us and really stoked for that. And I think if— I'll talk about what I would have done differently. But first, I want to talk about how I felt after, because I got this question a lot, like, how was it? How did you feel? So physically, I I felt like tired. It almost felt like after the race, I felt— well, I'll talk about during the race. During the race, I don't know, it really wasn't like that bad for me in the sense of I just accepted it was gonna suck. And I just accepted like, here's where I am. Like, I have no other option. I gotta, I gotta complete this. I want to do it in under 90 minutes. So like, we gotta go. I don't care how much my lungs are burning or how out of breath I am. Or, you know, if I'm at a station doing the sled push and I gotta go right back to running, Like, I don't know, I just didn't really care. Like, yes, I was tired and yes, it sucked, but I had already accepted all of that. So like at that point it was just full steam ahead. So that was hard. There were some moments where I was like, my throat and my lungs were hurting just because of like the sheer amount of cardio that I was doing and the sheer amount of pushing myself that I was trying to do. And then the rest after the run, it kind of felt like the rest of the day, the rest of the night, because we We did it at 5:40 PM. That was our start time. So the rest of the day was kind of like, I just felt like I was trying to catch my breath the entire day. And I was just like taking big breaths the entire day. But, you know, I felt pretty good physically during the lunges. I was taking big strides in my walking lunges because I wanted to move faster and get farther down. But on one of the steps, I could feel I kind of pulled my hamstring a tad bit. And so then it was really hard to get down into the range. range of motion because every walking lunge, you had to hit your knee on the ground. So I could tell, like, after that one kind of wrong step that I took, it was hard to get that full depth. But again, I was like, fuck it. Like, it doesn't matter. I have to keep going. And so I just kind of kept going. But that was, that was kind of difficult. And then after the race, I was sore. Like, I was sore in my hamstring. I was sore in my glutes. I was sore in my adductors on my inner thigh. But I wouldn't say it was anything crazy or abnormal. Like, once again, I, you know, coming from a strength training background, I was like, I'm used to my body being sore sometimes. And so it wasn't like I couldn't walk. Like, you know, sitting down on the toilet or sitting down in a chair was a little bit more difficult than normal. But no, I wouldn't say it was anything where I, you know, I had to lay in bed all day. Like, I got up the next day, you know, we went to the beach, we walked around, we did cool things. So it was fine from a perspective I would say if I didn't train that one day a week and if I didn't keep strength training, it probably would have been a lot worse. But I was pretty good. And then honestly, today, as I'm recording this, this is on Tuesday. I had my race on Saturday. Today I'm doing legs today. So like I'm right back into routine and I'm right back. I'm right back doing legs. And so again, I'm not going to say I'm like special or like I'm just built different. I just think with the level of training that I did, with the level of strength training base I had. And also from the nutrition perspective, because I, I not only fueled up before the race, but then fueling up after the race, like still getting good quality carbs, still getting good protein, still making sure I'm hydrated. I think all those things played a big role in allowing me to perform well, but then also recover well from the race as well. So that's kind of how I felt physically. And then how I felt kind of mentally was, you know, I felt good. Like I felt accomplished. I felt proud. I felt like this was something I wanted to do. I set my mind to it. I had not had a lot of background in this. I mean, really any background in this sort of exercise field. Like, I'm knowledgeable because I just, I, I know these things, but like, I've never truly done it myself. And so I felt really good. And I think that's a, you know, something I want to hit on for you watching and listening to this. Maybe you're somebody who you want to lose fat, or you want to start strength training, or you want to do a high rock It's like you're not going to know everything or like be the best at it when you first start. And I think that trips up a lot of people from even starting. Like you feel like you have to be perfect with it to start. I had never done cardio. I had never done a HYROX race. I don't do burpees and I wasn't doing the SkiErg or the rower, but like I just started and I wasn't perfect. Like when I first started, like my rower form was wrong and like I probably wasn't optimizing my SkiErg form the most, but Like you just start, and that's what we try to teach all of our clients in our coaching program, which is we don't ask you to be perfect. We just ask you to start because if you start and you keep it going, you're gonna improve along the way. And that's another shout out for our eight-week challenge. We have a couple days left to enroll. There's about 25 spots left. On average, our clients lost in our previous eight-week New Year's challenge. On average, our clients lost 16 pounds in eight weeks. That's on average pretty freaking impressive. So if that sounds like something. Something you would like to do, lose 10 to 20 pounds before summer, click the link in the show notes of this video down below and apply for our 8-week challenge. You and I will hop on a call, literally you, like me, it's actually me. You'll hop on a call with me, we'll chat about your goals, and we'll see if it's a good fit. If it is, we'll get you started. If it's not, that's fine as well. But click the link in the description of the video below to apply for the 8-week challenge. So that's why I felt after. And now I want to talk about would I do it again, and if I did, what would I do differently? So the short answer is yes, I would do it again, and more than likely I will do it again because I liked having something specific to train for. So I liked having an event where I could know that the work that I'm doing on that one day a week of HYROX training, that would be going towards a specific event, a specific outcome. So I probably would and will do it again. I wouldn't— I don't know. This is tough for me to say right now. I still don't want it to take away from my strength training because that's what I truly love and what I truly want to do. But I will probably try to find ways to incorporate a little bit more training so I can probably improve my run times. Because if we can improve the run time, that would bring the overall time down pretty drastically. But what I would change would be that, number one, probably running a tad bit more to bring the time down, running faster to bring the time down. Number two, I would also train more for the stations that were actually hard. So I basically spent zero time prepping for the sled push and the sled pull and the farmer's carry because those— I knew those were going to be really easy for me. But I also didn't spend a lot of time doing rower. I didn't spend a lot of time doing burpees. I didn't spend a ton of time doing wall balls. Like, I would do these things, but I would do them just to kind of like check off the box and make sure they got done. I wouldn't do it for like a specific time or I wouldn't do it to like try to get better at each week. I was more just like, okay, I'll make sure I do it. And then during race day, I'll try to do the best I can. But if I were to go back and do it, I would focus on those stations that that we were a little bit lesser at and spend more time doing that. And then also just kind of the, the transition from the station to the run, the station to the run, because I think that's kind of what was the hardest part was how do you physically and mentally go from pushing yourself in that station to now getting back to that same time on the run or better time on the run to keep your overall time down. So that's probably what I would do differently. I wouldn't do much differently from a nutrition Because I felt like I had a pretty good plan there for nutrition, and I felt that I could push myself for nutrition. If I really wanted to get a lower time, I might slightly pull back on my strength training. That's if I really wanted to like prioritize the time. But I think, so we did it in about an hour and 26. I think if we just got the run times a little bit down, we could have easily been like under, definitely under an hour and 20, if not under an hour and 15. So I think I would just be more intentional with the training. And again, I, I could see myself doing one again. I haven't signed up for one, or I don't know when the next one I would do is, but I could definitely see myself doing it. And that's what I would tell you if you're gonna end up doing a HYROX race. I would just, number one, not feel like you have to overhaul your entire training, especially if you're somebody who's coming from a strength-based background. Number two, uh, make sure you have your nutrition. I would say trying to at least be in maintenance. If not, it could be a good time to be in a calorie Plus, because you're going to need more calories with all the extra training that you're doing. And then number 3, I would just be intentional about what do you suck at? And you kind of, kind of be real with yourself here. What do you suck at? What are you good at? I would just spend more time on the stuff that you suck at, whether that's a sled push or a row or a run or the burpees or whatever it is that you aren't as efficient at. Spend more time and more intentionality training for that and just overall overall spend more time being a little bit more intentional. But also the last thing I'll say, this was my first race. And so I didn't, yeah, I wanted to get under 90 minutes total, but like, I just really went into it and I was like, I'm going to do the best I can. I'm going to push as hard as I can. If I, you know, don't get the perfect form or if I don't like end up having, you know, this perfect time, like I really wasn't that worried about that. And I like some people, I was talking to them as they were getting ready for the race and they're kind of like, oh, I'm nervous. And I'm like, not nervous, man. Because like whatever the outcome is, the outcome is it's my first time. I've never done cardio like this in my life. So I would just also tell you, go into it, have some fun with it, don't put too much pressure on yourself, and just kind of get after it. Because it's just something that for you, you're trying to improve your health, work towards something, and make your life better. And that's really the biggest takeaway that I would tell you. So you learn more and you accomplish more from doing the thing imperfectly and just actually starting, as opposed to waiting until you're perfectly ready. You're never going to be perfectly ready. You'll never know everything up front, just like I didn't know everything. I just started. And so you just have to start as well. And so if that's for a HYROX, I encourage you. If that's for a half marathon, I encourage you. If that's for signing up for our 8-week summer challenge, there's only a few days left to enroll. There's about 25 spots left. 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