Tara Dower
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The least amount of miles I did in a day was about 35. And the most I ever did was 62 in a day. And every day I was moving for about, on average, like 17 and a half hours a day.
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Yeah. Well, the compounding exhaustion came around, I'd say Maryland, it got pretty bad. I remember some like little hallucinations I had, like little devils sitting on logs and I saw a white cat and a lion and I saw my friend sitting on a log. So the hallucinations were getting pretty bad around like the middle of the trail. Maryland is about halfway through.
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Well, you know, I've had hallucinations during 100-mile races that I've done, and some of those have been really concerning. Yeah. And I think...
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oh give us an example i'm lucky um there was like a hunter with a huge huge ginormous gun and he was like asking me where i was going and what i was doing and i was like oh crap like is this real and it was in the middle of the night it was at 2 a.m on a trail by myself you know if you ask a hallucination if they're hallucination they have to tell you that's a rule Do you eat while you run? Yes.
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Yeah. I, I mean, that's, you have to like be utilizing, you have to eat wherever you can. I mean, I'm eating, Oh, I think it was like eight to 10,000 calories a day. So, I mean, you just have to like eat and run. You have to do as much as you can when you run. The only time I stopped during the day was to use the bathroom.
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Yep. Yep. That's, that's about it. Just keep moving. Eat. My favorite was gummies and I like Rice Krispie treats and goldfish. I loved goldfish. Right. Wow. That's so unhealthy.
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Oh, yeah. I got four toenails permanently removed before I went out on the trail. And that was the best decision I ever made. Wow.
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This little piggy gets slaughtered.
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yeah that was it we just did eeny meeny miny moe um no so my big toenails are always the ones during these feats they always like fall off um and it's very painful and they get infected and so i was like that one's coming off and then you know i asked the podiatrist if we could take them all off and he was like no but we can do we can do two at a time so i decided it's like sophie's choice with toes
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Yeah, I guess tonight and to see how fast I can get through, you know, a pint of ice cream. There you go.