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Amelia Boone

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  1. “No, it is true. So any long race that I've done, like World South Africa Smotter is a 24-hour race. I've done other races that are longer, 48 that are 60 hours. And I feel like I can't sleep afterwards. And you feel like you should be able to. You're like, wow, I was just up for three days straight running around in the woods. But your body is so physically exhausted, but my mind is still on so much, like on overdrive, that I just, I can't. So, I mean, for instance, this year, after World Safety Mutter, there was a group of us staying in a house, sat around, were drinking beers, watching football game, and I was like, man, I should like really be getting drunk right now or something like that because like I'm drinking, I've been running around in a wetsuit all night long. I'm like, I don't feel anything. Like, I don't feel any effects of the booze or anything like that. I was like, it just must be this.”

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  2. “The boots that inflate the air pressure chambers that You know, like kind of like flush out, supposedly flush out lactic acid So”

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  3. “Yeah, yeah, And like variation, like doing fire hydrants, like that too, you know, like a dog lifting his legs. There's all super sexy things people like.”

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  4. “Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you mean? Where you're sitting there, and you're like, man, I should really have leg warmers on right now.”

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  5. “So I generally carry like an arsenal of every single like from a golf ball, a lacrosse ball, a softball, a foam roller. And so I'm really focused on loosening up hips, loosening up hamstrings. And every single different little torture device. So, I'm just, you know, getting the muscles kind of warmed up and loosened and prepped. And I do, I actually from a lot of various nagging injuries that I've always had, I have like little physical therapy routines that I always do too, you know, like to get your glutes activated and things like that.”

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  6. “Yeah, I generally use the distraction technique. So I try to not think about really, because I can sit there and make myself miserable over and over, like like picturing the race or whatever. But I find it helpful actually, I actually do a lot of work in the mornings before races. So I'll catch up on emails. I'll do things from like my attorney life. And then in terms of body prep, I do a lot of like foam rolling, mobility, things like that. The older I get, the more I realize like I can't just like jump out of bed in the morning and be surprised a chicken.”

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  7. “They generally will start. We almost have a smarter is a little bit different. That one starts at two in the afternoon now, but like just a regular obstacle race will generally be like 7.30 is the starting time.”

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  8. “I would go out and run to stay in shape, but running in St. Louis kind of sucked. So, I mean, I just like it was either like hot and muggy or like freezing cold. So yeah, I didn't really didn't really do anything.”

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  9. “So growing up, I was kind of like a, I would say like a jack of all traits athlete. And then I played, I was always on like a club team, like ASA softball or club soccer, you know, traveling basketball. And so I play year round. And I was always good. I was on like the competitive, the highest level teams. I was never like a super standout all-star in any one single sport. So, you know, I played year-round and I would shuttle back and forth from practice to practice middle school and then high school. But I started like pairing that down. And I actually, as high school progressed, I got more and more into musical theater and show choir and singing. And I kind of gave up sports and athletics. So in college, I actually sang in an apel group, but I know sports.”

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  10. “I think it pretty much, you know, I kind of thought of different things in college. I really got in love with anthropology and primates. And so like, you know, I really love studying monkeys. And I thought for pardon me, I'm like, maybe I should go to Madagascar and hang out with the lemurs. Or I could go get a law degree. So I double majored in anthropology and political science and then decided to take a safe route. Go with a law degree”

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  11. “I nailed it. I was one of those people that I was like, if I set my mind to something, then I'm going to do it. So I would, for lunch every day when I was like at home during the summer, my mom and I would always watch Perry Mason. And I was like, man, Perry Mason, like being an attorney, he gets the bad guy to confess every single episode. That's got to be cool.”

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  12. “It was never like if you think of like sage parents. I was like the opposite of that. So they were always telling me to like calm down and take a break. But instead I just.”

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  13. “I'm not, it's funny, it's like they have no idea. And like, I have, I think it's got to be innate, to be totally honest. Because my parents are always like, you can get C's, that's fine. Or you can play this sport, or you don't have to play this sport or as long as you're happy. Just do what makes you happy. And so there was.”

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  14. “When you go out there, like for the most part, when it first started, they won't even show you, you wouldn't see a course map. So you wouldn't know what was out there. And so I think that part of their kind of like, wow, or like when I would sign up for the death race and they would be like 72 hours in the wood, it's in you don't know what you're going to be doing, but have at it. And so that was very kind of like atypical personality for me.”

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  15. “Are your parents very surprised not surprised at all or somewhere in between? I would say somewhere in between because so I've always been like the high achiever type A, you know I want to be at the top of my class. I want to be graduating Suma Cum Laude and going to law school and everything like that. So I think that I read that one of your law school classmates said that you would find a way to be competitive or to win in anything if it were folding laundry or otherwise. Oh, yeah. Like I was like in law school the sin of like my exercise was like getting on the elliptical, you know, like everybody else. And I would like find a way to compete next on the person like on the elliptical next to me. And those are the days. But so I think the drive and the determination, like that doesn't phase, you know, like my parents are like par for the course. But in terms of like how it manifested itself, because I've always been kind of like a creature routine and like I don't like surprises and I want to be able to like like plan everything and know everything and with obstacle course racing it's so unknown.”

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  16. “And so a few of us decided that we were going to keep going. And I think by, you know, the night descended on us. It was like 2 a.m. We were like walking through the wading through water. And like there was ice forming. We're like, you know, breaking holes in the ice. And I'm sitting here being like, what am I doing? Like, what am I doing? But at the same time, it's having so much fun. Out of a thousand people that started that race, 12 finished. And I was one of two women. And so that was the start of it all. And for some unknown reason, I remember when I finished that race 24 hours later, I was like, never again, never again. And then like two weeks later, I'm like, sign me up. What's next? Sign me up. The drive to do this type of thing, there's so many different approaches I could take to try to dissect this, but”

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  17. “Like, what am I doing? Like, what is going on here? You like would walk past the med tense and there were just people in there laying on cots. They were using like saline bags to like warm saline to put under people's arms like armpits to keep them warm.”

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  18. “Like, how do you stay warm for 24 hours when you're in and out of water? And, you know, and it's December and it's New Jersey. So we decided that we would wear wetsuits or that wetsuits would be the way and to stay warm and other people, former triathletes were like, oh, there's no way you can run for 24 hours in a wetsuit. You'll die, you know, like how your thermal regulation will be all off or whatever. But we did. And like halfway through, so we all go out and it's like 30 degrees outside New Jersey. After the first lap, there are about a thousand people that would start. I'd say maybe 850 people dropped out. That's the first lap. First lap. Like, like done. And this is what, like an hour, like a few hours into it? Probably an hour and a half. And I remember going back in my tent and like just shivering uncontrollably being.”

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  19. “I got involved back in 2011 when I ran a tough matter with friends and then signed up for, there was this race that was announced called World Stuff as Mutter. And they're like, you for 24 hours are going to run as many laps of a course, a tough mudder course as you can. And it's going to be in December in New Jersey. And so sounds balmy. It was balmy. I was like, hmm, man, I can't think of anywhere I would rather go than New Jersey in December. And so a bunch of us signed, I think a thousand people signed up for this. And nobody had any idea what they were getting into. You know, we'd all run like a tough moder or run a Spartan race, but nobody had ever really done it for 24 hours. So we went out that day and people were trying to figure out.”

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  20. “Through Scott Keneally, who is putting together, maybe finished by the time people see this in available rise of the sufferfests. So Suffer Fest, you mentioned the blood, you mentioned the dirt, the barbed wire. Maybe we can explain to people who are unfamiliar what obstacle course racing is with the example of the world's toughest mutter. You describe what on earth that is. Well, so that's kind of like the extreme of obstacle course racing. But in general, I mean, I think people have been familiar with Spartan races, with tough mutters. You see people jumping over fire and crawling under barbed wire. And it's just, you know, you're running along and you have a wall to climb and you're jumping through mud and you're using everything that you have. It's just completely physical experience.”

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  21. “Up most of the real estate on that page. Well, so the website needs a bit of updating. I'm not a great website person. So if anybody wants to volunteer, be my guest. But it's a picture of me. I'm in the middle of barbed wire and I'm crawling on my hands and knees. And I'm just kind of looking around semi-perplexed. And to me, that just kind of encapsulates everything that I do. I'm bleeding from my knees, my elbows, and it's just crawling through the mud, having a good time. A microcosm of the face of obstacle course racing. Exactly. It's not pretty.”

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  22. “Milly Boone has been called the Michael Jordan of Obstacle Course Racing since the sport's inception she's amassed and she's laughing more than thirty victories and fifty podiums. Her major victories include the Spartan race World Championship two thousand three, Spartan Race Series Point Champion twenty thirteen and twenty fifteen and she is the only three-time winner of the world's toughest mutter twenty twelve, fourteen, and fifteen. She's also three-time finisher of the death race and dabbles in ultra running in all of her spare time, which I'm sure is massive and has a flourishing and high velocity career to boot. Amelia, welcome to the show. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you taking the time. And I thought we could start with a photo. So I was doing research for this and went to your website, which is Millie Boone Racing.com. And can you describe the photo that takes...”

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