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S3EP06: Rewards of Routines and Rituals; The Power of Daily Habits
Ever wondered how ordinary people accomplish extraordinary feats? The secret might be simpler than you think. This week, we dive into the transformative power of consistent routines and rituals that create stability and facilitate remarkable personal growth.
Daryl shares his journey from being the guy who woke at 4AM for years to someone who now prioritizes quality sleep until 6AM. The results were astonishing – within just 2-3 weeks, his energy levels soared, and his need for daytime naps disappeared. But the transformation didn't stop there. By implementing consistent core strength training and using workout rest periods efficiently, Daryl has completely revolutionized his physical capabilities. What began as preparation for a half marathon has evolved into readiness for a 50K trail run with significant elevation – something that wasn't remotely on his radar six months ago.
Against the backdrop of global uncertainty – tariffs, political changes, and economic fluctuations – we explore how establishing personal routines provides a crucial sense of control and stability. As Daryl prepares for his upcoming ultra-distance challenge, he reflects on the mental resilience these routines have built: "You're going to hit a wall... just knowing how my body and mind will react when I'm in that difficult area." The podcast closes with Zig Ziglar's powerful reminder: "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Whether you're looking to improve your fitness, productivity, or mental wellbeing, this episode offers practical insights on how small, consistent daily practices can lead to extraordinary transformations. What routine could change everything for you? Join us and discover the rewards waiting on the other side of ritual and routine.
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Speaker 1:I went for a walk today. Actually it was a ruck. I had a 40-pound vest. It was just about a little over a mile, but, man, it kicked my butt with that 40 pounds. But I'll tell you what as I was walking, I saw every single color in its full vibrancy out there on the roads. Today, daryl, it roads. Today, daryl, it was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1:Real quick, before we go into the topic, if you are a first-time listener, peach, in our name, peach Podcast, is an acronym. If you want to know what the acronym is. There is a cool story behind that. Head over to our very first episode and we will share that story with you. And also, if you are a first-time listener, we hope you love things about health, about mental health, emotional health, physical health. If you do, man, we've got a lot of great information here. Just a couple of dudes, daryl and I, and random interviews here and there with other people that just talk about how we go doing ordinary things and eventually turn it into extraordinary experiences. So if you are a first time listener, again welcome to the show and for all of you who continue to listen and support us, thank you, thank you, thank you, please. You can support us and thank us as well by just sharing an episode, sharing one of your favorite episodes. Also, there is a text link in the show notes If you wanna leave a comment or a suggestion. Please, please, please, please, click that text link. Everything you send us is coming over anonymous, anonymous. Daryl, before we get into the show, today is going to be about the rewards of routines and rituals Rewards of routines and rituals, but we'll get into that in a minute.
Speaker 1:Man, I don't know if you've been watching any of the basketball going on right now, but it is nuts. A couple nights ago I think it was the Nuggets man, I'm telling you, darrell, in the last I don't know like five seconds or something, they came back. I mean, I thought for sure Oklahoma was going to crush them. They were winning by 10 all night long, man, all night long. And in the last few seconds, somehow the Nuggets pulled it off and it was just like whoa, you know, it's never over till it's over. Then, last night, last night, the Pacers, the Cavaliers, were kicking butt all night, again All night. I think they were leading by 10 as well, and it wasn't until the last seconds of the game. Again, it wasn't, it was. I don't know how they pulled it off. I don't know how they pulled it off, but they won by one and uh, it was.
Speaker 2:It's been exciting, exciting, uh, b ball going on, man, and I don't have you been catching any of that, darrell, I have, and um, I'll tell you what. I just overall the next morning man like this the second round just started and the the literally the second round started, and that night, those two nights, if you're the home team, you're favored, right right, all four.
Speaker 1:the home teams lost over yes, that was like first time in nba finals or ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah and uh, the reality is that denver game I was watching it outside. We have a TV outside in the back under the pergola and I was kind of late and I turned it off and I went to bed and as I was putting my phone away, you literally said something about the Nuggets and I'm like they lost and you said, no, they won. I mean, I literally shut the TV off. So, yeah, some exciting times and uh, yeah, some last second drama in the amount of change that happens in the last few seconds is absolutely amazing. Some uh. So yeah, this second round is going to be off the hook. It's going to be fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, I was uh scrolling through looking for some stuff and uh, and I came across, uh, this random fact Daryl, you ever had a butterfly land on you? I havel, you ever had a butterfly land on you?
Speaker 2:I have not. You never had a butterfly land on you. Oh, butterfly land on me. I don't know if I've had a butterfly. I've had. Like, what are the little ladybugs land on me? Oh yeah ladybugs yeah, lots of ladybugs.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I've had a butterfly, so tell me about it, I stumbled upon this random fact that butterflies taste with their feet. They have taste receptors in their feet. In the feet would help them detect the sweetness or the bitterness of a substance. This helps them to choose the right plants to feed on or lay eggs on. So I was cracking up because I've had butterflies land on me and sometimes they stay and sometimes they take off, and you know so. Sometimes I'm thinking, damn, sometimes I must taste sweet because they stay and sometimes they take off, and you know so. So sometimes I'm thinking, damn I'm, sometimes I must taste sweet because they like it, they're staying, and other times I must just be a sour bastard because they just they land and take off. But that's interesting, daryl. If you could taste with your feet, man, what would you taste?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, I have no idea. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:What though both?
Speaker 2:Ava and Josephine like to put their feet on me Right One, I think they know, because it drives me nuts. But they love to put their feet on me and I thought it was like a Josephine thing, but I think it's genetic, because Ava does it as well. So I'll have to ask them what? What would they like to taste with their feet?
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, maybe next time they put their feet on you just say, hey, so what do I taste like? And they're going to look at you all weird and say, well, butterflies taste with their feet. I'm assuming you're tasting me right now.
Speaker 2:Well, I got to. I don't know if this is such a fun fact, but I've always been very intrigued. I've traveled a lot and I thought it would always be really cool to go to either one of the Arctic or Antarctica. Right, I mean, that'd be pretty cool. You can say, hey, I went to Asia or I went to Australia and I've been to most of the continents, but I'd always want to go to Arctic or Antarctica and I saw this thing and it's kind of I looked at it. It was one of those things that came across my feed and I read it uh, in December of this year, um, uh, there was a group of people that went down and believe it or not. Um, there's lots of people, different beliefs. There's your modern people to believe the earth is round, that we're on this big rock, and there's still people that believe the earth is flat no but it happens.
Speaker 2:So william will duffy brought back and it's called the final experiment expedition and he brought modern uh earth people that believe the world is flat and took them down to union glacier camp um in Antarctica and for four days, december 14th through the 17th, and they physically observed the sun going up and down across the earth and Antarctica and uh, so, uh anyway. So of course, the flat earth conspiracy people thought it was a hoax and everything else, but he says it really happened. So just some random facts butterflies and uh trips to Antarctica.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all smoke and mirrors, daryl, it's all smoke and mirrors, hey, uh, speaking of smoke and mirrors, man, the the world today, at least in the US, well, and you know what? No, the world globally, you know, we got we got tariffs going on. We've got, you know, a new administration in the White House. We've got border stuff going on. I think I heard on the news the other day that President Trump is paying, you know, for people to self-deport. He's going to pay them a thousand bucks to get out of the country. And it's just like, man, you know, crazy times right now, daryl. It's crazy times. A lot of uncertainty going on, man, a lot of uncertainty. This has got to be impacting you in your industry, and have you heard about it impacting other industries around you as well, globally, because you're in a global industry. So what's going on on your end?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think overall. I remember during COVID we all went through both personal right just the personal thing of COVID and everything else but also from a business perspective is very interesting. And I remember after, you know, midway through COVID I remember talking to an executive and it wasn't if we are going to have another pandemic, how would we react. It was a little bit more of how are we going to react to some uncertainty, because it was not a if it's going to happen, but when, and I think the tariffs are a great example of that.
Speaker 2:You know you have a global economy and you have different manufacturers around the world and all of a sudden you know that a certain date your prices might go up if you have it in Europe by 30%, or you might have a supplier in Mexico by 20% so how do you price that into your goods? And then the night before something changes you need to reprice them. So I think overall, globally, I think tariffs are a great example of just how do you react to those. There's a term called VUCA and it's V-U-C-A and it's volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Speaker 2:And I know from a business perspective, we use that in our environment. But, yeah, some, definitely some, some, some uncertain times out there. But overall, I think just overall, and you even take that plus AI right For a lot of times people think AI is really exciting. Also, for other people, um, AI is very concerning for them. So a lot of uncertainty out there. I would agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then, and and you know I didn't even mention all the, all the layoffs that happened to you know, almost immediately. It's like thousands of jobs were just going away, going away, and some were coming back. It's just a roller coaster right now, right now. But that you know, darrell, that's when change is coming. Man, it's never, it's never easy. That's why most people don't like change. They like routines, they like to keep them and stay in them. And there are.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to segue right into the topic of this particular episode the rewards of routines and rituals. They can be incredibly rewarding, providing a sense of structure. You know something I've talked to you about a few years ago about structural tension, and it can provide comfort in your daily lives, having some kind of routine and rituals in your lives. When you incorporate these consistent practices, you can create a sense of predictability and control right. You can control the controllables. What are your controllables? This can be especially helpful during times of uncertainty, which we just spoke about, or when trying to accomplish a massive goal right, just because the world is going crazy and we don't know what the tariffs are going to do or not do, if you're going to be employed or unemployed, there are things in your life that you can put control in through routines and rituals and that will, overall, give you a sense of mental and emotional stability, knowing that, hey, whatever is going on around you, at least you know you can control whatever some personal, intimate goals you have going on or routines and rituals that you have going, and it doesn't have to be anything massive. It could just be a morning routine where you get up and you do a five second breathing exercise or a one minute breathing exercise or a meditation or read a paragraph in a book or stretch, you know, for five minutes. That's a simple routine ritual. Also, there are evening rituals and routines.
Speaker 1:I talked about bedtime routine back a while ago where I was going to increase turning off any technology 15 minutes before and then 30 minutes before bed and then 45 minutes before bed and an hour before bed. That's still moving on and going and going and going. I did end up on an unexpected trip that was supposed to be five to seven days and turned out to be 16 days. So that routine got a little mixed up and messed up because I never knew when I was going to bed. There was a lot of family get togethers last minute and some were scheduled, but a lot of it was, you know, we were honoring someone's passing and so just trying to be there for family. But I'm back home now and getting back into that ritual and routine, feeling good about it. I love it. It's something I look forward to and count on.
Speaker 1:The other thing, the other routines that I want to kind of talk about, daryl, that I've seen you I want to just peel this back a little bit because I think you have some personal experience in the very recent past I would say maybe over the last six months of super dialed in like extreme, freaking commitment to your rituals and routines of exercise. I know you started going to bed sooner. I know you started sleeping more. I wanna talk a little bit about that, darrell, because we're gonna in a little while. We will also talk about what you're doing this weekend.
Speaker 1:You are running. You and Eric are running a 50 K and six months ago had I what, if I was talking to you that was, that probably wouldn't have even been close to on your radar. You, you were getting ready to, you know, do better on a half marathon for shamrock and you were in training for that and that was like hey, we're going to. You even said after shamrock, it's into biking season, here we go and honestly, daryl, I haven't seen you on your bike man. But what I do see is you're signing up for bigger runs, longer runs, harder runs.
Speaker 1:This one's on trail, it's 50Ks all trail. Most endurance runs are trail runs and this has elevation, it's in elevation, it's got ups and downs, and so I know you guys went out a day or two ago and kind of tested out the track, got an eight and a half mile run in and you had some thoughts after that. But tell me, daryl, this rituals and routines, right, the rewards of rituals and routines. If you look back six months ago, can you pinpoint one or two things that you've been doing consistently that have brought you that you feel like you know it's this is. These are the things that probably brought me to this point right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, uh, one of the big items that we've continued to focus on is consistency, like we've talked about, but a little bit more is. Isn't just the consistency? Hey, I've got a bike, I've got a bike race, I got to ride more. Um, I got a running race, I got to ride more. I got a running event, I got to run more. Right, that's kind of obvious, right, but it's a little bit about the balance and I'll just I'll highlight two things that I think have made probably the biggest difference overall. I think. Consistency in general and I'll talk about the training. I truly believe strength training and core training has that's probably been the biggest consistency over the last six months.
Speaker 2:Uh, with my sleep, right, um, you know, josephine, she teases me now um, because, um, you know I used to get up, you know, every morning, four, 30, five o'clock and everything else, and you know I sleep into six. You know, very often, right, yeah, um, and she, she teases me, she goes. I don't even know if you could get up at five in the morning anymore. I know I can't, um, but I actually purposely have really, really enjoyed that and I think it's a massive difference. I go to bed a little earlier, um, but I consistently sleep more and then, um, you know we're two, three and to be honest, with you two, three, which probably is four days a week that we do some sort of weight strength training and always do core, always core, always core. And I can tell you and Josephine is right now going through some physical therapy on some things and she would show me some of the exercises and a lot of them are a lot of real core activities around her stomach, her lower stomach, her hips and other different things and kind of her main engine, and Eric and I both truly believe that that has made massive, massive difference.
Speaker 2:You know, when you run or something, you know your legs are going to get tired, your knees are going to hurt and everything else. But, doug, you know, when you run or something, you know your legs are going to get tired, your knees are going to hurt and everything else. But, doug, you know, when you really do long endurance things, when your back starts to hurt, when your hips start to hurt, when all your body feels like it's shutting down. I really don't have that as much, I think, because it's not just my legs, you know, but I think a lot using our core, our core. One of the things, doug, you and I'll let you talk about this climbing is very, very difficult on cycling, right? Very, very difficult, right. I'll tell you what, man when your legs go, when you're climbing, it just feels like you just want to quit. But a big part of climbing, in cycling, is using your back, your upper body, your core. If all you're doing is counting on your legs, you're going to be shot. So I just I really, when I think about two things and we'll talk about the training in a second but I really go back to sleep and consistently having a strength routine and true and including core, I think has really, really helped for endurance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and most of the things we're doing are endurance, because three to four hours into things. I don't feel like I'm going to die. I'm tired, yeah, um, um, exhausted, things hurt and everything else, but I think those are the things I lean on. I know that I'm doing, uh, I would say, a balanced activity of routines every week, um, and also, you know, I probably have turned into a little bit like you. It's not been six months but since the beginning of the year I journal every night. I journal every night how my day went physically, mentally, relationship with business, wise, and I always just kind of track you know kind of my routines in there and that does help as well, because it's I don't even think Doug just writing down at night know kind of my routines in there, and that does help as well, because it's I don't even think Doug just writing down at night, just kind of solidifies it in your brain.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yep, and it gets you thinking about what you're going to do the next day. So sleep strength activity with core. And then I would also probably say I'm probably tracking things more than I did before.
Speaker 1:Wow, daryl, that's powerful. What I want to do, though, is I want to kind of go back, because you're at this place right now, where you're experiencing some of the rewards. Like I said, you're running a freaking 50K this weekend, and six months ago that wasn't even close to being on the radar, and here you are. So I want to go back to the very beginning, because I've known you for years, daryl. For years, right, and for all those years I've known you.
Speaker 1:Until recently, you were getting up at 4 am, sometimes even 3.30. You know it's just who you were, I mean, we. You know Team Peach was like oh, daryl's up. You know he's up before the birds, and you know it was kind of a joke that you were getting up that early, and, but you know a lot, a lot of times, we thought of it as might've been for work, because I know you work with people overseas as well, um, and maybe sometimes it is, but when you do it for so long, that's just what you do. So I guess my question for those, for the new person, um, that we want to encourage to to, to get the rewards of instilling or installing a new routine or ritual how was it for you in the very beginning, from someone who was so used to getting up like clockwork at 4am. Was it hard for you in the first week or the first few days or the first month to to sleep past that, or how did that work for you?
Speaker 2:Uh, yeah, it was hard. Um, it was hard and it wasn't like all of a sudden. I just, you know, said hey, one day I'm going to sleep, you know, longer man. As you know, doug, we we definitely do some research. We listen to podcasts, longevity you hear a lot about the value of sleep, right, something that's been a big topic. You hear it a lot.
Speaker 2:Um, I've listened to multiple different things and they give you some tips and tricks on what to go do. One of the items definitely is is how do you I know you were doing it before how do, at the end of your night, try to either spend a few minutes meditating or a few minutes writing things down, if you can get things out of your head? I'll tell you a funny story. Our company I don't know one of the apps out there it's either Calm or Headspace, I forget which one it was, but we got a free trial.
Speaker 2:It was one of the ones at night and I was, like you know, heard some podcasts and says if you want to, you can try and close down your mind, spend 10 minutes listening to you know something before you go to bed and just this. And so I sat up in my bed a little bit and I put on my headphones and I was listening to some sort of meditation thing for five minutes it felt like 25 minutes and Josephine looked over at me and says, what are you doing? And I was like, well, I was trying to meditate. And she laughed at me. I was like, obviously I'm doing a very poor job if I'm having a conversation with you about it?
Speaker 2:But it was so. It was so anti me but you got to try new things, you don't?
Speaker 2:all of a sudden, just all of a sudden go hey, I'm going to go sleep for another hour. So I was able to calm myself down a little bit. Uh, when I woke up at four, 30 in the morning, uh, a couple of times I said, hey, I'm going to lay in here for 30 minutes, even if I don't fall back asleep. So I had to work on it on both sides the front end you know what I mean A little bit and the back end when I woke up in the morning. So instead of just getting out of bed, I would just sit there and I would just try and relax and calm and over time, you're I mean, doug, our bodies adjust, don't they? Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, oh yeah, if you especially if you're consistent.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And so all of a sudden guess what? Maybe I'm falling asleep 15 minutes, a little bit more. On the front end I'm sleeping, maybe 15 minutes on the backend right, that's 30 minutes. And all of a sudden, you know, you start to get in a little bit of a routine and it, as you know, it, gets easier. You train yourself to go do that, right, right. So are you a 6 am person now? Pretty much, pretty much. You know there's times where I have to get up earlier, but when in doubt, no, I, you know I sleep in. And the funny part is I can't remember, for maybe 10, 15 years of our marriage, hearing Josephine's alarm go first ever ever until the last six months Wow that's crazy.
Speaker 1:And so, so, yeah, so it's good, it's good, okay so sleep is is a big one and that's huge and I think it's a under underused and undervalued in our society and and I think it's a you know we really. I'm glad you brought that one up. So if you're listening in and if you're someone who's trying to get better sleep habits, man, just start small, but just start, and it's going to. You're going to have interruptions, you're going to have your spouse or your partner interrupting you, asking what the hell are you doing? It's an awkward feeling when you're trying to make that change and, daryl, I love the way you described it, because it was even awkward for you. Or you're like this just feels weird the way you were describing it and uh, but you stayed with it. That's the key. You didn't throw the baby out with the bath water. You stayed with it. And now you now you're someone who wakes up at 6 AM.
Speaker 2:And rewards. I definitely, after a week or two, knew I felt better. Really, yeah, zero debate. I, I, I could absolutely tell that I felt better. I had more energy, I wasn't tired. I wasn't every once in a while, maybe on the weekend, thinking about taking a nap Along with that. Sometimes on the weekend I might grab a nap here and there. I don't nap anymore, I've got enough sleep. So the two things, like you said, I focused. I heard a lot of benefits and all that, but I absolutely that reward and that reward makes you stick with it. I absolutely knew maybe two, two and a half weeks I felt better.
Speaker 1:Zero debate. Wow. So when you say you felt better, would a description or a proper description be something like you have? You just have more energy during the day, or?
Speaker 2:I had more energy, I was more consistent, I just felt better. I didn't have those moments where I just overall, I just felt generally better and I wasn't as tired core exercises and I want you to go back as a brand new person who just discovered core exercises.
Speaker 1:Looking back now, if you had to start all over again and get into core exercises, would you do anything different? I know for you you're somebody who, just like you, know what. I'm gonna figure it out as I go. But if you had to guide somebody and direct somebody who really wanted to just start working on their core and they have, they're been on the couch, man, like they've done nowhere, they don't walk, they don't do anything I would. What would you recommend for them to start off with? To uh build up, uh, getting their core a little stronger?
Speaker 2:The thing I would tell them not to go do is look up how to get a six pack right Unless it's beer.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:Uh, man, you see those type in how to get a six pack. You see those exercise things on these reels and stuff that makes you want to like die. You're like you will never do those right.
Speaker 2:They're doing some crazy stuff with their things. Um, I think, overall, looking up core workouts, um, I think would be good. I started using these band resistance and just started typing in different things. You know I use the bands and you know I do a lot of like what I'd consider to be kind of. It's almost a combination, doug, would you say, of stretching and strength together.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I think that was it and I did that, and then I incorporated some weights and then I looked online and then the great part is when you're at the gym or something, you're trying some different activities and you see somebody and you're like, hey, that's interesting. Or you look it up and now I've got it down to, um, it's about a 10 to 15 minute core routine. Um, I do it most days when I go do strength training. And when I say I probably do it every day, to be honest with you, when I go do strength training, I will do that exercise every day. I add a few things in and you know a lot of pulleys, a lot of you know sports type things. If you go, look at core activities for golfers, core activities for runners, core activities for cycling, whatever you're into, man, there's a plethora of them. Don't think you just got to jump on the weight bench and all of a sudden do sit-ups, right? Um, I do do some sit-ups. I do some sit-ups with a, like a medicine ball that.
Speaker 2:I bring up in there. So just kind of learning um, a lot of different activities, like before, when you're in PE or gym class or something else. You do abs, you do sit-ups, right, there's so many different ways to go do it Wall balls, balls, different things, boxing activities, all sorts of different things. So I've got a really nice routine now that I go do and it's very, very consistent.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. I love that. I've been doing some physical therapy for my shoulder and they have me doing some exercises that require a stronger core, and so they had me doing some core exercises and I was like, oh my gosh, I had no idea I needed some core work. But there are a lot of simple movements. You know what a B Bosu ball is? Yes, yes. So for those of you who don't know what a Bosu ball is, it's. You've seen those exercise balls. They're full balls.
Speaker 1:But a Bosu ball is half of a exercise ball and the one half is the ball and the other half is a solid plastic thing. So it lays flat on the floor and if you turn it upside down so the ball side is down it makes it, uh, the, the flat plastic part, unstable, and so if you put your forearms on it or your hands on it, then you try to keep your core tight. There's this instability. You know instability. I don't know if that's a word, but unstable, yeah, yeah, unstable. Where you're, you've got to squeeze your core to keep that thing stable and, uh, it's a great exercise. So that's something. Or if you're, if you're someone who's brand brand new and don't have any equipment, just do some planks, you know, do some. Do them on your forearms, keep your core tight. Um, if you, if you have the ability to have a mirror to look into, to watch your, your form, make sure your back is straight and your butt's up high enough.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize I was dropping my butt too low until I went to physical therapy. I guess I was always afraid I was cheating if it was too high, so I always wanted to make sure it was low enough, but unfortunately I was going too low. But there are basic core exercises and, like you said, the sit-up, that's for your abdominals, which is part of your core, but your core consists of your obliques. There's some back muscles that are involved with your core. So you know there's a lot of work. And it sounds like, daryl, you've got a full on with the bands you're using, where you're rotating and stuff like that, where you're hitting a lot of great core things. So that's great stuff.
Speaker 1:So core I want to add one other thing when Eric and I go, lift weights.
Speaker 2:What do you do when you lift weights? Somebody's lifting weights on the bench, the other person. What are you doing? You're watching them. One person lifts on the bench while the other person does a set of core. And also we've worked on really shortening what used to be 45 minutes to an hour now is 30 minutes to 45 minutes, because we're not standing watching each other.
Speaker 2:Right right and that's a real good thing. So when we're going to bench, we're going to do this, this the shoulders, abs, shoulders, arms, whatever. That's one set. In between the sets, the other person does core and then we rotate them in.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, darrell. And then we rotate them in. That's awesome, darrell. That right, there is man. We can just end this podcast right now, because that's a great tip for A for getting the work done, being consistent and saving time. Because a lot of people will say, well, I don't have time to do core. But even if you were working out by yourself in between your sets you rest right. Well, throw the rest out and do some core work. Yeah right, forget about the rest, do core work. If you're doing bench, go do some core. If you're doing squats, go do some core work in between. If you're doing whatever, do core work instead of just standing there resting waiting to do your next set. I love that. I love, love, love. Man. I'm gonna start doing that, because I don't do that. I actually wait and rest, you know, about 90 seconds to two minutes between each set, but I am going to start incorporating some core work.
Speaker 2:You know also. You know, sometimes you know, when this morning I was, I was did, some was at the gym, did a good routine and everything else there, and I shut off my watch and it was at 31 minutes before Doug, I would have been. Oh man, I only worked out for 31 minutes, right? Oh, that was my. Now I'm thinking, man, I got that done in 31 minutes. Wow, you know what I mean, because I wasn't taking breaks, I wasn't doing anything. So it doesn't have to the length of time. As you know, if you're in the gym for more than an hour or so, you're probably kind of messing around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's just be honest, right, right.
Speaker 2:Right, right, um, so I was actually excited when I turned my watch off at 31 minutes this morning, so that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Good for you, daryl. You know I've I've been seeing you, just seeing you. We were hanging out this weekend watching Alyssa graduate down in Long Beach, so it was good to see you. And, uh, you know now that I live a little further away from you, I don't see you as often. I do see you on Zoom when we record here. But just being in your presence, man, you got a great glow. You look super fit, super tight, you've got abs, your quads are looking great, your calves, you're just looking awesome. Bro, you're looking really, really good. And here you are, like I said, with some consistency, with some routines and rituals you've put in your life. Now, in just a few days, you and Eric are going to be running a 50K up at Sly Park Lake. And what do you? Let me ask you, what are you looking forward to, man? What are you looking? What this is? Let's talk about some of the rewards. What are you looking forward to? We'll get to being nervous later.
Speaker 2:But what are you looking forward to? I'm just really looking forward to, uh, kind of testing ourselves. It's a very I think you have those breakthroughs. So I definitely had a breakthrough when I I told you I had a breakthrough when I got to 10 miles. Um, that was about a year plus ago. At a breakthrough, we did our first half marathon. Um, massive, massive breakthrough, when I, you know, ran for three hours on the trail and then six hours. So I kind of looking at this is it I'll be? It's kind of like a test. It's kind of like it's not like this race that we were talking about. It feels like an event. It feels like, hey, we're going to go take on something we've never done before, right, so you know this, we did six hours. This is probably between seven to eight, right, depending how hard to say, we don't know, right? Um, you know this was on a flat track. Um, the silver moon, right? Guess what we did are? We did our trail run.
Speaker 1:This ain't no flat track, this is a little bit of a forest up and down. Right, I've hiked that area. I hiked around that lake one time and it's definitely not flat man.
Speaker 2:So it's, it's, it's a little bit of an event. Yeah and uh and it's, yeah, it just it's, it's going to be. As we were driving home, we both said it's going to be a long day, right.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a long day and I'm excited for it. It's something it's new to be a long day and I'm excited for it. It's something it's new. We've never done this. I've never gone that far, I've never gone that that much mileage, I've never done that much elevation, I've never, you know, raced with a uh running pack on. So it's all. It's all. It's all going to be new. So new, new adventure, new miles, new roads.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. Is there anything you're a little nervous about?
Speaker 2:Uh, I think the biggest. I'm really not as nervous, uh, about the event. I just really you know you're going to hit a wall right and just how do you manage that? If I really kind of look at many of the endurance things we've done, some dying during the race. Even if we go on Doug a five or six hour bike ride sometime during that five or six hours, you're going to hit a low point where we all hit it right.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden. Maybe I write up to Doug you know hour four and Doug's not super talkative. I know exactly what you're going through right, you might write up to me an hour later and you're all chipper and everything else and I'm like a little cranky, right? You know you're going to have that. So just knowing how my body and my body and my mind will react when I'm in that difficult area right, that's one thing. Um, you know, in the back of your mind it's always there because you know it's going to happen.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah. And you know the fact that. You know it's going to happen, you're prepared for it and you just step into it. Man, it's like the buffalo You're just running through the storm. You know the storm's coming.
Speaker 2:So run through it, get through the damn thing, get through. Don't you think that when you look back at your races or you look back at your events, you really go to those hard times and you're like I got through that? Yeah, you know, that's one of the first things. You might not talk about it a lot, but in your mind you're like I got through that. Yeah, you know, and, uh, you gain some strength, or you know some strength over that, um all the time. So're like I got through that you know, and, uh, you gained some strength, or you know some strength over that, um all the time. So I know you've gone through that a lot. I mean you've given me a lot of things. I mean you were incredibly prepared. What was interesting about watching you run the CIM, the marathon? As I saw you during a big chunk of the race, but I didn't see you when you were in those.
Speaker 2:You know those dark moments, cause I just I kind of ran through the front and everything else and I'm like, doug, you looked happy the whole time. You're like, oh no, you didn't you missed me on my dark points Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, it's. You know, darrell, that's what's cool about, even with running. Now, I can't tell you how many times I said this. I might've even said it on the last podcast. When people talk to me and ask me about running, you know I always follow up with you. Know, I actually don't. I actually don't like running. I did, but I love the benefits of it. I love the, the science-based evidence it produces for my brain to say I did hard, I can do hard, like it. It doesn't matter whether I like it or not, if I want the reward that comes after that. If I want to see the light at the end of the tunnel, then I got to go do the run, right, or I got to do the work project, or I've got to do I got to go out and split wood and cut trees and all that shit out here. You know, whatever it is right, it it the mind to do shit. We don't like, like, like, like. I think mike tyson said it do shit. You, you hate like, you love it.
Speaker 2:Yep, you know, yeah, I think the other thing, uh, I'll tell you a little something. We were doing our uh little recon run and uh, the nice part about trail running and you've done some of this is you don't have a lot of time to be worried. You got to be looking at where your next foot right, right, so you don't hit a root or you don't hit it lot of time to be worried.
Speaker 1:You got to be looking at where your next foot is going to fall so you don't hit a root or you don't hit a.
Speaker 2:So that kind of does take your mind off of the monotony of running because you got to make sure you don't fall. So Eric and I are happy it's beautiful sunshine, rainbows, unicorns. And we got to mile six and we were trying to figure out. We're like, oh my goodness, I can't believe mile six, we're almost around. And then we took this corner and the next two miles were absolute hell, doug, absolute hell. It was like a side hill. So your one foot was down lower than the other and it was dusty. And then there was pine needles. So we're all talking high fiving, thinking we got the world by the storm. And the next two miles we didn't say crap to each other because we were in pain. So it was humble, and you know that humble pie right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So the moment you think you got it, you don't yeah.
Speaker 1:So what time do you guys kick off?
Speaker 2:on Saturday yeah, we get up there. Registration starts at six 45. Um, we should leave about seven 45. Okay, and um, it's got a nine hour block, that's you have to finish within nine hours. Based on what we think. We think we're going to be somewhere between six and a half to seven and a half hours, but you know, we don't know Right. That's kind of our current thought process right now.
Speaker 1:While you're about to find out, we're about to find out.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, man. I'm really happy for you guys and, uh, you know, man, I, I, if I wasn't going through some foot stuff, I I'd be, I'd love to be there with you, but in the meantime, I'm going to just keep cheering you on, keep lifting you guys up and uh and celebrating what you're doing, man, and just and live vicariously through you. So, uh, we'll have to definitely, uh, maybe next week, we, uh, we may have a guest next week, I'm not sure, uh, if not, uh, either way, we definitely are going to recap how the how the event went. We want people to know how, how this is all working out for you and for Eric as well.
Speaker 2:And I'm not 100%, but this just I'll say it on the thing, because my wife told me this she's like you need to switch over to cycling because my feet are getting pretty ugly.
Speaker 1:All the black toenails falling off.
Speaker 2:Black toes. I think I'm pretty sure I've lost two toenails. I think three others are ready to go. She wants me to get my feet in shape for summer. So she's going to make me cycle after this.
Speaker 1:Uh, I was going to say something when I saw you by the pool the other day, but that's how you know and the only thing I was going to say is damn your feet, look like my feet, daryl.
Speaker 1:Uh, hey, uh, hey, let's jump into the quote card, man. Let's jump into quote card. Uh. This was a great segment about, uh, you know, the rewards of rituals and routines, uh, with a few little random facts in there. It was fun, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I think we keep that on the uh, on the docket from moving forward. Man, let's keep bringing in some random facts to kick off these podcasts, daryl, all right, so here you go. So here you go, here you go, and this is in line with the kind of like the podcast. Here, here you go. You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig, ziglar, you don't have to be great to start, gonna start and it's gonna be great that's it, my cup.
Speaker 1:If I look at it.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know when that thing goes and you take off with you know 100 other people. On a day like today, it's gonna be great, um and uh, yeah, and I love what you say. I know you say it all over the thing, like you know overall, you know when you know getting to the starting line is really the reward and after that, just it is what it is Right and so so I'm excited. I'm excited and just starting new things. I know we, when we first started writing, remember we'd love new roads. Oh, this is new road, new trails. I feel like that's what we're doing in general, right, whatever in life, it's just new and just continue to make it interesting. Don't be sending that quote off to Eric, because he keeps sending me these 50 and 100 milers. I got to get him thinking about something different.
Speaker 1:Just show him your feet, man, he'll understand. Right on, darrell, what a great episode. Had a lot of fun. I'm going to just sign off, like we always do, and say God bless and peace out. Outro Music.