Peach Podcast
Two guys and an occasional guest breaking open topics on: Purpose, Energy, Attitude, Commitment and Health through shared experiences.
Peach Podcast
S3EP15: 20 Miles, 1000 Push-Ups, Running, Cycling, Kayaking, Lost Phone Oh My!
What if the biggest obstacle between you and your goals isn't your body, but your mind? This eye-opening conversation delves into the powerful realization that our physical capabilities often far exceed our mental expectations.
Doug kicks things off with a remarkable story about completing Ted's birthday challenge—1,000 pushups and a 20-mile walk in a single day—despite dealing with significant foot problems and shoulder injuries. The breakthrough moment came when he remembered Daryl's mantra: "The mind quits way before the body does." This simple but profound truth carried him through moments when doubt threatened to derail his effort. As Doug reveals, despite months of telling himself he couldn't complete the challenge, his body proved perfectly capable when he stopped limiting himself mentally.
The episode shifts to Daryl's experience at the Great American Triathlon (formerly Eppie's Great Race), the oldest triathlon in the United States. What was meant to be a casual participation quickly transformed into a full-blown competitive race as he and Team Peach member Eric found themselves caught up in the energy of the event. From strategic drafting during the cycling portion to navigating kayaks through rapids, their story exemplifies how we naturally rise to challenges when surrounded by others giving their all.
Most memorable, however, is Daryl's unexpected kayak flip at San Juan Rapids, resulting in his phone disappearing underwater. Through an incredible stroke of luck, they later discovered the phone had been recovered by a local diver who runs "American River Lost and Found"—a service dedicated to retrieving items from the river. This unexpected hero, having recovered over 100 phones this season alone, represents the beautiful intersection of purpose and community service.
Whether you're facing physical challenges, competitive events, or simply trying to push past your perceived limitations, this conversation will inspire you to question the artificial barriers you've placed on your potential. What could you achieve if you stopped telling yourself what you can't do and simply showed up to find out what you can?
Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the Peach Podcast. Just a couple of dudes and an occasional guest breaking open topics from everyday life on purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health. So, if you're ready, listen in as we live, to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. Always remember, if you ever feel stuck, all you got to do is just start.
Speaker 2:Come on, let's go welcome back to peach podcast with doug and daryl. This week we have just a couple of recaps. Man, we had some busy, busy time in j Daryl. We've got busy, busy, busyness. In July and last weekend we were spread out all over the place doing our thing. I can't wait to kind of pick your brain and hear a little bit about the great American triathlon that you and Eric did. Lots of fun stuff happened on that and there's some questions I have about what happened here and what happened there and what about next year.
Speaker 2:But before we get started with the great American triathlon, you know, every year I go meet my buddy, ted Anea, down in Danville at Osage park and Ted well, not every year we go to Danville, osage Park. Other years we've done a bike ride down the coast from what did we do? From Oregon down to San Francisco, and other years we've done hikes. But the last two years we've done this walk at Osage Park in Danville. Ted's 68 years old. He wanted to do 1,000 push-ups and walk 20 miles and he's got a loop down there where we do this loop. And I got to tell you, daryl, you know, and Ted knows, that I've been dealing with massive foot problems. Unfortunately I may have to have surgery on my foot and I can still walk, I can still hike. I've actually literally been taking up rucking for the last week and just exploring how that feels on my foot. I've also got shoulder problems. So it's, you know, I'm a little limited and I'm trying to find new ways to stay healthy, stay in shape and do whatever it takes to get to. You know, keep that vibe going.
Speaker 2:For the last couple months, or maybe few months, I've been just talking with Ted getting ready for this birthday challenge and I've been telling Ted, you know I'm not sure how well I'm going to do on the pushups. I'm still in physical therapy, working on my shoulder problems and blah, blah, blah, blah and all the way up to the week of sharing that story or using that story, not sure how I'm going to be able to do pushups. All the meanwhile I have been practicing, I've been doing burpees. I noticed that if I can do a pushup three to five, 10 second rest in between via a burpee, then you know I can do more pushups over time. But I uh, I'm just I wasn't sure how it was going to show, but wasn't sure how my foot was going to feel.
Speaker 2:So I get down to Ted's in Danville on the day of the event, which was last Saturday, I'm showing up, I'm there, I'm ready to go, and Ted's like how are you feeling, how's your foot, how's your shoulder? And I'm like you know, we're just going to go. And I asked him how are we doing these thousand pushups again? And he's told me about a thousand times he goes. We're going to just do 10 at a time. Doug, he's got these stations where we're going to walk to do a pushup. Walk, do pushups and do 10 at a time.
Speaker 2:And I said, all right, well, I can do 10 pushups. I've worked myself up to do 10 pushups in a row, anything much over that, my shoulder starts breaking down and it starts hurting. Man, I'll tell you what, daryl, about a quarter of the way through doing 10 pushups, I started thinking about the quote you have painted on your bike and the quote says the mind quits way before the body does. And, man, it was just resonating and ringing in my head because I'm doing 10 pushups. Ringing in my head because I'm doing 10 pushups, 20 pushups, a hundred pushups, 200, you know, I'm getting to like 500 pushups. I'm like, holy crap, like I'm doing this and I don't have any major shoulder issues. I have soreness Cause you know you do 500 pushups.
Speaker 2:You're going to feel a little sore, um and, and my foot was my foot. I've been learning, I've been dealing with that problem for a couple of years and, like I said, I may have to have surgery, but it was just, uh, you know, at the end of the day, daryl, I got 20 miles of walking in a 1000 pushups and it was, and I was just blown away and I'm like, damn man, I gotta, I may, I gotta make sure I share with Daryl on air so that not just Daryl hears, but that everyone hears that. That quote that he has on his bike, it's pretty cool. If you ever see Daryl's bike, it's a cool bike, it's a Haley bike and it's custom made, all that other stuff. But he was able to have a quote printed on it that says the mind quits way before the body does. And, man, I couldn't think of a better quote to have on your bike, have on your running shoes or tattooed on your damn forehead, because it's so damn true and despite me communicating to myself such limiting beliefs, such a limiting story, that I'm not sure if I can do this or I don't know. It's like you know what, just show up, do the work and see what. Don't be attached to the outcome.
Speaker 2:And the outcome in this particular case surprised the hell out of me. I had no idea I was going to get all 20 miles in, and especially not a thousand pushups, by the end of that whole thing. And we got it done. So, ted, ted, anea, big shout out to you, brother, Congratulations on another successful 20 miles. And I got to tell you, for 68 years old, ted is kicking my. He kicked my ass that day. He kicked my ass. But, ted, I'm gonna just tell you right now Ted, I didn't really train for it because I wasn't going for a thousand pushups.
Speaker 3:Man, I'm coming for you next year, so we'll see, I uh, I uh saw your uh post and I was so excited to see you had completed it. Doug and I were doing our events the same time, same day, so I was kind of waiting for some texts back and forth. Just getting down that many times to do push-ups is exhausting. It is Eric and I were calculating 10 at a time. How many did you do? How many times did you have to get down and get back up? That's some serious work, serious work.
Speaker 2:You know it's funny because towards the end of the day you're not really getting down, you're falling down and then you're rolling back up. You know there's a lot of grunting and groaning at the end of the day, like, oh, that's when you know you're getting tired. And last year when we did I think I forget how many 670 pushups or something like that you know, I was definitely well more trained for it, I was ready for it, but I can tell the difference because I didn't really train for it. This year I do want to give a big shout out. There's, you know, one of the challenges for Ted. Well, in addition to the challenge that he does for himself, he also has he decided to partner with Meals on Wheels. Ted, in his spare time, goes out and he delivers meals to people, and I got to talk to him a little bit more in depth about what that process is like. And they don't just deliver meals, they actually are encouraged to sit and talk with the people they're delivering meals to, to talk with them, to engage with them and have conversation, and so it's a really awesome organization. Not only are they feeding these people food, but they're also feeding them mentally, probably spiritually and emotionally, just having conversation and connecting and some of the people Ted gets to meet in his life on a consistent and regular basis. It's really cool, you know, got some great characters, some great stories, and he keeps everything confidential and anonymous. You know he's not giving me names or anything, but it's awesome. But what was really really cool is and it surprised Ted as well I get there at 7.30 in the morning and we're about to walk at quarter to eight, 10 to eight, and in between that time this guy walks up and he says hey, ted, and Ted's all hey. And Ted realized like okay, he knows my name, but I'm not sure I recognize this guy and it was the.
Speaker 2:He was the executive director for Meals on Wheels, because Ted is doing a fundraiser for Meals on Wheels and he's put it out there. He far exceeded his goal in fundraising for this awesome organization and. But the director wanted to come out and support Ted as well because he was. You know, the whole purpose for this particular challenge was to support and raise funds for an awareness for Meals on Wheels and they did and it was really awesome. So the executive director, david, who is a CrossFitter and so I got to pick his brain about CrossFit and all that. So he's staying healthy, he's doing all these things. But, man, what a story that David had. Man, a lot of personal stuff and challenges he has gone through and overcome and what a beautiful soul he is, absolutely so big shout out to Meals on Wheels and to David, the executive director, who came out and supported Ted for a good portion of the walk. He was moving. He lives in Half Moon Bay, daryl, and he decided to come out and he's moving that day, like he's moving his house, right, he's moving. And he decided to come out for a big portion of the day to support Ted and Meals on Wheels and the whole process and then go back home and move. We're like dude, that's badass, but that's the heart and the kind of people that are representing Meals on Wheels, and so just a big shout out to them as well. I also want to give a massive shout out to all the people who showed up.
Speaker 2:Part of Ted's challenge was to try to get 68 people out there. We didn't quite reach that the 68 people. I think he got close to 40 or something like that, which is great. Right, it's not being attached to the outcome, it's just let's throw it out there, get into the process and see what happens. But about 40 people signed up on his board. There might've been more who didn't sign up on the board. A lot of fun.
Speaker 2:And again I got to shout his wife Beth out. Beth, if you're listening, you are man, you are a badass, beth, I'm just going to keep it real, 100%. And I think one of the reasons that you are consistently a badass because meeting and talking with a couple of your friends, both Amy and Liz, hearing a little bit of their stories, especially Amy's and what she's been through, you know Daryl Amy started probably about a half hour. Drew, you know Daryl Amy started probably about a half hour, 45 minutes after Ted and I and she finished her 20 miles before us Like way before us, bro, like damn. That girl's on a damn mission. So big shout out to you, amy. I don't know what kind of water you're drinking, but you know you got to share that shit. That's good. And Liz, you came up, you showed up and you knocked that shit out of the park. So you three ladies are badass. And for all of Ted, other Ted's friends and family that came out to show up, man, big kudos and shout out to you guys so awesome.
Speaker 2:I will say this is a little bit a side note of just the event itself, but Ted has a couple of daughters, katie and Sam, and they're new moms and all that stuff, and they came out. It's a long day. I think we were out there for eight hours Long day in the park and they came out a little later in the morning Maybe it was early afternoon, no, I think it was late morning and they hung out with their kids and they did a few laps here and there and did all this. And, Darrell, I got to say, man, watching these young people, these new moms be moms, it's really beautiful. I had to call Ted on my way home and said, hey, I'm really impressed with your daughters and how well they manage their kids and how happy their kids are and what joy it is to see, you know, these moms really embracing the role of motherhood and rising up and and knocking it out of the park. It made me reflect on my daughters and how awesome of moms they are as well and it's just, and my son too, what an amazing dad is. And and Katie and Sam's husbands man, awesome dudes, man, really awesome dudes that just, you know, uh, exemplify, you know just the true meaning of motherhood and fatherhood and family, and it's just really, really beautiful to see. So that's Ted's challenge Met a lot of the same people, a few new people this year and a great time, an absolutely awesome time.
Speaker 2:Ted and I will need to start talking about next year's challenge. I don't know if I'm going to do a walk again, but we got, or, ted, I might have to say it right here on air I might have to go this next year with Daryl and Eric and do the great American triathlon, because there's just too many damn good stories coming out of this thing. So we might have to adjust, ted. We might, one year, one year, one year, we'll see, we'll see. But so so, darrell, with that said, what a great segue into the Great American Triathlon. Man, you know just the little bits and pieces. I got so many questions, but break it down. What is the Great American Triathlon? Give us a little history, some facts about it, you know, do your Darrell thing, sure.
Speaker 3:First of all, congratulations to Ted Meals on Wheels and everybody else who are there on wheels and everybody else are there. I can't think of anybody that exemplifies, uh, peach. You know uh, more than Ted and you know purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health right, what you guys just absolutely couldn't. And the fact that you know, trust me, meals on wheels not not too much better of a purpose, and the fact that the, the person came out, uh, on the day that they're moving in, that just great, great, great job. So congrats, ted.
Speaker 3:So great American triathlon, uh, formerly known as Epi's great race. If you're in Sacramento, you know this right. Um, I know it. Um, it traces his origin back to 1974. Wow, um features a 5.8 mile run, a 12.5 mile bike ride and a 6.1 mile paddle along the American river, and it is known as the oldest triathlon in the country.
Speaker 3:Eppies was a restaurant chain in Sacramento and if I I don't want to call it a Denny's, because it was a higher version of Denny's, but it was kind of in that realm, maybe like a Bradshaw's or something else, or, if you're in Sacramento, but it was known and they would run it every year the news stations when I would grow up would have TV cameras out there and everything else. Well, it shut down a few years ago and kind of the end of an era and somebody said we can't have this die and actually put some seed money. And they've got some new organizers that have been running it and basically brought it back to life. This year was officially its 50th year. There was one year with COVID that it didn't, so it was the 50th year running of this. Wow.
Speaker 3:It is on the American river bike trail. It starts off at a place called river bend which is kind of right on the edge of Sacramento and rancher Cordova and it is a blast. Uh, eric has done it for four years and he got me into doing it last year and it is so much fun and uh, I'll. I'll walk through a little bit about you know what, what happened, what the day was like, but it actually is a race. Okay, official race leaderboards about 720 people. Age divisions, uh, relays. Uh, you know there's an open division for the Ironman. Ironwomen are basically up to 40. Then they have age groups 40 to 50, 50 to 60, 60 to 70, and 70 plus.
Speaker 2:So, darrell, when you say it's a race, because everything we sign up for there is a quote unquote race element, but I feel like the stuff we go to are more events, people are like yeah, I know it's a race, but you know what, if stuff we go to are more events, like people are like yeah, I know it's a race, but you know what, if I finish, I'm all good. But is that energy a little bit different at this one, or what do you?
Speaker 3:say Way different, and I'll tell a couple of stories on there at the end. Uh, I'll go through a little bit of the race. We'll talk some funny stories in this, but at the end you and the last is the kayak. And as you, as you, as you bring your kayak up, you're paddling and you've all been on route. So you're paddling toward the shore, there's someone standing about 10 yards out and they grab your kayak. You get out of the kayak, they take your kayak and then you are running up about 50 yards to do the line. That last 50, uh, uh yards or something. People are looking over trying to pass you. Your legs can barely move. Um, you know, people are literally cause. Your time is when you cross that thing that you have a little uh, a chip on your uh, they put something on your ankle.
Speaker 3:You have something on your ankle that you put there, okay.
Speaker 3:And so, um, I'll tell a funny story. You're coming in with all these kayaks and paddling, let's say I'm looking over to my left, Okay, and I see a lady, maybe 25 years old. Am I going to worry about racing her? No, if I look at someone that looks about my age, might be in my age group and everything else. It's on like donkey gong right, because I know that person and I are fighting for placement within our age group in your age group in your age group and you know that's going to be on the leaderboard.
Speaker 3:If I lolly gag, I'm going to be behind that person. So it's you kind of look at each other like do I have anybody in my age group here? Um, you know, and if you, you are running up to the end.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, um, eric and I have been doing it. Uh, you know we're in pretty good shape. We just did death ride, but we haven't really trained for this triathlon. We've been biking and running, so wasn't too worried about there. Um, so we did get out this week. We. We run quite a bit on the American River Bike Trail. We did a couple of bike rides and I'll kind of walk through.
Speaker 3:So first of all, doug, when you go run, what do you need? Running shoes? When you go bike, what do you need? A bike? When you go to a triathlon, you need all of those and a kayak. In that morning I was at Eric's house at five in the morning and we put our kayak in one spot. We and that morning I was at Eric's house at five in the morning and we put our kayak in one spot. We put our bike in another. By the time the logistics of all this stuff we got to the start line. I was like it was tired. It was seven in the morning, the race starts at eight, so we're getting ready. You've got different bibs.
Speaker 2:You have to have a bib on your kayak, on your life jacket on your helmet, you, you have to a lot of logistics. So so I think people who who may not understand the the technical stuff about a triathlon is there's three stages. In this particular one, there's running, biking and kayaking and and maybe I said them in the wrong order but either or, yes, um, but then you have to go out and some some courses are circular so you can set those things up in one spot, but it sounds like this course was more linear and you had to go get. You had your run in one spot, you make sure that station is set, and then your bike and another spot and you have to go. Do all this before the race even starts. Is that, is that? Am I hearing that?
Speaker 3:right, absolutely, and there's some strategy, so you drop off your kayak. Right, there's 730 people. Oh shit, if you're, if you're 729, your kayak is probably going to be a little farther away from the starting line, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, how could?
Speaker 3:you go with this.
Speaker 2:Good to know.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes and uh, so just a little bit of those things. So people and, by the way, just think about the traffic of 730 people getting in to put your kayaks in the morning so there's some logistical things. So we get to the place, we get all of our, we're getting set up and it's about 7.15. The race starts at 8. Really cool environment and somebody walks up and yells at Eric team peach.
Speaker 3:I was like you've got to be kidding and we didn't even have any of our peach stuff and it was this guy named Jim Kruger. Jim is an awesome guy. Eric knows him. He knows him just from the Great American Triathlon. He's in our same age group and they become friends on Strava and others and, um, jim is really good and Eric and Jim are pretty close to the same. Um, uh, the the the same things. Jim has beat Eric each of the last two years. We'll put a little pin in that one.
Speaker 2:Right, a little throw down.
Speaker 3:Okay, a little throw down and so it's cool. So everybody gets up there. You do a little, a little run like everything. Doug, you had to talk about this. 730 people get into the starting line. What, what happens? Chaos, Well, uh, about a 200 person bathroom line. These events are hilarious, you know.
Speaker 2:And uh, let me ask you that you know, cause you know. One of the things that is most important to me, daryl, is porta potties. From our last episode you heard a lot about porta potties, but do they are? Is it well equipped in at the starting line, or is there or is it is?
Speaker 3:it is. There's okay, I don't know, there's 10 to 12, but eric and I know that there's uh, because it's at the the river bend and we know the area, right, he says, let's, we didn't we, let's do our jog is about a quarter mile away in our walk, cause there's actually a real bathroom, so we jogged over there and we came back.
Speaker 3:So you're getting in the starting line, they're doing all the things national anthem and there's still like 50 people in line and there's like five minutes and you can. Then it's 40. And literally, literally, the announcer says by the way, we start at eight, no matter what. Oh so.
Speaker 3:So he says and he can look over at the port-a-potty line and he says, so I'd hurry up. Awesome, gun goes off, really cool, a lot of news cameras, all the local stations. It's a nice. It's a 5.8 mile run, people are real excited. It's a 5.8 mile run, people are real excited. Um, but it is a race and Eric and I, about two, three miles in, we're chatting, chatting, chatting. He says nobody's talking, like when we do the shamrock, that people are talking to everyone. You know, um, and he was kind of quiet. So about three miles in, eric started talking to somebody, I started talking to somebody and you kind of you know, you kind of you know, you get in your age group, you get in your kind of time. And we we did pretty good. We were running about a nine minute mile paces and doing pretty good and having a good time, eric, as you know, because it's got a little bit of problem with this hamstring.
Speaker 3:Eric can run closer to eight minutes, but he's he's kind of dealing. So him and I ran together. Uh, we get to the end, uh, we're very excited, um, and then you come around and you got to get on your bike and we already had a plan. Do our best on the run Pretty good. I'm glad I PR my time from last year so I'm very excited I did did really nice on that. And then we get on our bikes and we are going to go and go and go balls out yeah.
Speaker 3:And, uh, we got on our bikes and we started cranking and we basically had to come up with a plan and it was a 90 second plan. 90 seconds Somebody's in front, the other person's drafting go around. We're going to do these 90 second intervals right there.
Speaker 3:So we start going in and we are starting, we're passing people and we're going to do these 90 second intervals right there. So we start going in and we are starting, we're passing people and we're cranking in, the bike trail shut down, so, but both sides of it, so you can pass people on both sides. So it's, you know a hundred percent, you get the whole bike trail.
Speaker 2:You didn't have to worry about oncoming traffic or walkers or runners. You're, you're, it's all yours yeah.
Speaker 3:And you know what? Your legs are a little little shaky from the run.
Speaker 2:I'm just you know that first, how long was the run?
Speaker 3:5.8 miles.
Speaker 2:And then how long is the bike ride? 12 and a half. And then how long is the kayak?
Speaker 3:6.1.
Speaker 2:Okay, so go on.
Speaker 3:We're on the bike run. Now you guys are doing interval 90 second intervals, intervals 90 seconds and we have a calculator in our mind and we should end between 35 and 37 like we've got everything, you know, and we start going and about four or five miles in we get in a really nice rhythm nice, you know and I'm going and eric's behind me and then he's going. We get to about mile seven and I was really cranky. I'm a little taller, so when Eric is behind me in drafts he really has a nice draft.
Speaker 2:Yes, he does.
Speaker 3:And we're, and we're passing all these people and Eric all of a sudden gets up front and he starts going, going fast and I'm barely holding onto his wheel, wow. And then he gets behind me and he says, oh, I'm cramping, and he was having a cramp in one of his, in his calf, and I was like and I said stay behind me, stay behind me, get really tight. And he was okay, okay, okay, and he's behind me, he can actually go because he gets a big draft and all this.
Speaker 2:And he gets to recover a little bit.
Speaker 3:And I, and he says he says I said hey, I've got it, I'm cranking. I said you don't need to take a turn, just stay behind me. So we go two, three miles and he goes, let me give it a try.
Speaker 3:So, he comes in front of me. He does for about a minute and he comes behind and the only way to describe it is it's like an airplane. If you have an engine out on an airplane, on a jet, it's not great, but you can probably get back right, right. So he had one calf and then all of a sudden I hear him yell back there they're both cramping, oh shit, and all I could think about was like like we had one flat tire, now we got two flat tires and he's like just keep going, just keep going. So we go limp. So Eric goes off the bike. Both legs are cramping, his legs are flopping around, right, but we did good. We actually averaged over 20 miles an hour on that and wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we were real happy. We're all excited, we get off and then you've got to run over the bridge and, by the way, it's cool, like I said, you get off your bike, somebody takes your bike from you, so you don't need to park it, so you just get off. They take your bike, they put it away. Keep your helmet on, because you need your helmet for the paddling.
Speaker 2:For the kayaking right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you run across the bridge over by sunrise, okay, and then your kayak is there, and then you pull your kayak out and then you go, wow, um, so it's, it's really nice, and, um, now it's a race. Yes, however, the kayak is just pure fun. Yeah, how many times you get to, you know, to race on a kayak?
Speaker 2:I've never done that except now, are you guys paddling downstream or upstream?
Speaker 3:downstream.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you got momentum Nice.
Speaker 3:It's, it's it's work, but it's fun. Yes and um, all these people are going out and every different kinds of you know some. Eric has some nice sea kayaks or river kayaks are really nice. Some people are in those small carbon ones that are going fast. You had the uh, the thin long ones, small ones. There is a paddleboard division. I don't know what I'd like. Yeah, so they do have that. So they have a paddleboard division.
Speaker 3:Um, so eric and I get into rhythm and then, uh, I got to keep it real. Doug, I have no idea why I brought my phone.
Speaker 2:Oh so you brought your phone on this race.
Speaker 3:Okay, Last year because we got our watches for the timings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So we're fine, and you know Garmin and Strava, so we got all that dialed right. Plus, we're on a chip, so no problem. This time I said, Eric, I'm going to bring my phone, maybe we'll take a picture or so, and one of the transitions you know right. And he's like, all right, go ahead, I'm not going to bring mine, no problem, I had it tucked away, never brought it out. Tight air thing Ain't going anywhere. Right, you start paddling, we start paddling. And I realized I have my phone. I said, oh, eric, let me take a picture or two of you. He's like, yeah, that'd be great. So I take it out and I'm paddling, I'm trying to kind of catch up, and I take a picture, a small video, and I don't know why I didn't put it back in my pocket. I saw their San Juan Rapids, about maybe a 500 yards ahead, and I said I'll just put it in my uh right, and under my shirt I had like a tri-suit on. I'll put it under there, uh, and I'll put it back after the Rapids.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:We start paddling, eric's a little bit ahead of us and he's like stay left, stay left, stay left. And so I stay left and I, by the way, have been over the San Juan Rapids about 10 times in my life, but it was in a big raft and it was kind of nice and up and down Right. And uh, eric goes through and he's about 30 yards ahead of me and I see him really take a hard left towards shore. Um, and it was kind of odd. And then somebody helped push him out. They had people actually standing out in the Rapids in case people fell or for rescue, right, right. Great, I'm laughing. I said, well, I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to go through it. And I go through and I come up to that straight point and apparently there was some sort of odd current. It flipped my kayak sideways. My kayak went left, I went right and as I'm going down, I just put my hand on my chest and there's no phone.
Speaker 3:Right shit, you lost your phone. I lost my phone and as I'm going down in the water and I, I I did a full yard sale, doug, we're like, we're, you know, like, uh, when you go skiing and like your skis are one play, every, everything was all over the place. As I'm going down, all I can hear is, you know, josephine, saying I can't believe you lost your phone, right that's the one thing on your mind, one thing on my mind.
Speaker 3:So I take a quick look. There's safety people out there. Somebody grabs my paddle because my paddle went somewhere. Somebody grabs my kayak, somebody's helping me up and they're saying are you okay, can you stand? And I stood up and I was like I'm six foot seven, I'm going to be fine.
Speaker 3:I was just more mad because I lost my phone. So they get me settled and then they take off. The other story is Eric thought I was right behind him and he went through with this lady he had met. Her name was Stacy, uh, Pachalula, and the reason we know that is because she actually won the 60 year old division. We found out later, oh, nice and um, and shout out to Stacy and her husband they're just awesome triathletes. And she actually won her division.
Speaker 3:And so they got, they went through together, um, and they were talking, and then Stacy apparently said to him where's your friend? Um, so I caught up to him and then we, we got in and uh, and then we, we, we knocked it out and we had a really good race and uh, it was super, super fun. And then we get, like I said you, you pull up, they take your kayaks, we ran over I, we suck at transitions cause we don't practice this Right, I, I, I had flip flops on. So the last 50 yards I am like running in flip-flops and everything else up there. Other people have all these you know, shoes and everything else. I shouldn't say I let Eric finish five seconds out of me, so I won't say let Eric, Big shout out to you it was a flip-flop thing and then you get the medals and then you go up.
Speaker 3:It was great because Josephine and Ava were at the finish line screaming it was awesome. They got awesome pictures and then they take your kayak and they put them away for you and they store all your stuff for you and then later on you get them. So they just they totally take care of you. That's awesome, man.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 3:Race is over. You got your family, you're taking pictures. You head up this little hill and they've got this huge, big, big river bend park by the river. You can go over and look at your results instantly. Doug, they're there, and then they've got a beer garden, and then they give, they've got food trucks for food, and then about an hour later, they do a full on. Award ceremony Nice Right. Ceremony, nice, um, right, um, where they hand out first, second place. That's how we found out. I did. I'd never even met stacy, but she won the division.
Speaker 3:Jim eric's nemesis came in second oh for a nice job good job, jim, jim and got his first plaque and was just crushing it. And so eric, the whole time was congratulating them and calculating in his mind how we can beat him next year. Dude, eric is like on a mission um why do you just?
Speaker 3:eric, it was just over and all. Just an awesome, awesome day. It was so much fun and, um, just really big shout out to the event. It's about two and a half hours. Um, that's what we finished in about there. The the top people finish under two hours and when we were leaving, some people are coming in at four hours just knocking it out all sorts of stuff. So really really fun day.
Speaker 2:Very awesome, daryl, I love that story, and it probably ended with you having to go to the mobile store to get a brand new phone.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, josephine, we track, we have our locations. So when Josephine was up waiting for us to come in, she looked and she says, oh, they're still about three miles away on the river, because it was pinging on the river.
Speaker 2:She's pinging your phone and it's still back there.
Speaker 3:Wow, and then, all of a sudden, I pull up and she's cheering and she says the phone pinging your phone, and it's still back there. Wow. And then all of a sudden I pull up and she's cheering and she says the phone pinging must be off, because I thought you were two to three miles back.
Speaker 3:You're like the phone is and I told Eric. I was like Eric, can we wait until a couple hours before I tell Josephine? And he's like, yeah, that's fine, so we get home. Josephine knows I lost my phone. And then we had a barbecue over here with our families. Eric's family, maria Angelina and others came over. We had a great, great time over here at our pool and the whole thing is they kept the ping in. They could watch my phone like go in circles on the San Juan Rapids underwater. Are you kidding me? That is a trip.
Speaker 3:You could see it. And so I'm preparing for an Ava who loves iPhones. Dad, when are we going to get the new phone tonight? We're talking to AT&T store. It's like we'll do it later.
Speaker 3:Five o'clock, eric and Maria are about ready to leave. Ava comes down with this very inquisitive look on her iPad and she says Dad, your phone is on dry land. Wow. And we're like what. And we looked and we looked and it was. It was about a mile away on land and it looked like it was someone's house. What a trip. And we're like okay, I said well, we're going to head out. I said go get another phone. I said I'll stop by there and see if it's there. Long story short, we found that this was the home of one of the local divers. He runs American River Lost and Found. He has 30,000 followers on Facebook. There's him and another person that run these and they look and they do diving and everything up and down the american river, from kind of all the way from fulsome bridge, doug all the way to lake natomas. And they find I was the um phone number 101 that he's found this season, just in this season 101 phone holy shit and uh, he's very famous, he.
Speaker 3:I left him a little note. He wasn't there and he contacted me and says please look at my Facebook page. There's a picture of my Facebook page. I was one of five phones that day and he says reach out to me, and which one? So I reached out to him, we text him, we got him on Facebook. The next morning I met him at Starbucks. You can imagine them when you find one hundred one phones and you're giving them back. You probably don't want one hundred one people come into your house.
Speaker 1:So he meets him at.
Speaker 3:Starbucks and the coolest guy took a picture of with him and what a great story. Big shout out to him. I've become friends with them and just what's his name? American River Lost and Found when you got 30,000 followers. You don't want people looking you up.
Speaker 2:So, it's. American River Lost and Found. We'll have to get him on the podcast man and just hear a little bit about his story and why he does that and what he does and some of this. I bet he's got some fricking hilarious stories from some of the stuff he finds hilarious stories from some of the stuff he finds.
Speaker 3:And when I got my phone, first of all, when I met him, Eric went with me. He has a little cards, little stickers, and you take a picture with them and hold it up. American River lost and found in a picture and he puts it on social media and he's got this great following. By the way, when I got my phone back right, there was a picture of him holding my phone in the river, took a selfie of himself.
Speaker 2:No way, that is hilarious. I love that. Oh my God, I got to meet this. We got to get this guy on the episode, man. I got to hear this. I got to hear what he's doing and and uh, get some of these stories from him firsthand. That sounds awesome, daryl. That reason alone, man, I got to go do the triathlon and maybe just lose something on purpose, just to meet the dude.
Speaker 3:No, I'm just kidding. He was super cool and he met us in the morning at 930. He meets people at a Starbucks and I said, do you do this on the weekends? He says no, because it's kind of an obsession of mine, him and a few other divers. They go out all the time and do it. Talk about purpose, energy, attitude, commitment. He's just great cleaning up the river. Just really cool guy. So please for all the listeners, just take a quick American River Lost and Found. Look him up on the Facebook page. You got a great following, some hilarious pictures.
Speaker 2:And if you ever lost anything there it might be on his Facebook page and you don't even know it.
Speaker 3:It doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. What a great episode. Uh, there, really, I, I'm, I think he definitely next year I want to. That that event sounds so much more fun. I know you and Eric showed up. You guys talked about you know, in the last couple of months you were like, hey, we're just going to show up and have fun and have a barbecue, but it sounds like you can't avoid the competition of the day Like it's. If you're so, if you're going to do that, you might as well train to race, right, train to race, get the mindset of the getch. So let's work on some transitions this year, see if we can dial that in for you guys a little bit better. And uh, man, if I can tag along, that would be awesome to uh experience at least one time. Uh, for sure, for sure, sure. And next year I'll be 60, so I'll be in the 60 year old category.
Speaker 3:Now I don't know if I'll be in your category you guys are still a little younger you won't, but you you'll be able to look exactly the times of all the people and you can gauge how fast you need to go okay, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2:I gotta get my kayaking down yeah, absolutely the kayaking.
Speaker 3:Um, you know the yeah, so there's a lot of transition times and everything else. Big shout out to Great American Triathlon One of the cool things, because we do a lot of these events oftentimes they have a photographer out there and since most people that smart people don't take their phones which they should not you don't have a lot of pictures on the course, so when you're running, they take pictures of you. When you're biking, they take pictures of you don't have a lot of pictures on the course, so when you're running, they take pictures of you. When you're biking, they take pictures of you. And when you're kayaking which is really cool and part of your fee sometimes- after we're dugs.
Speaker 3:They have um where you have to pay for the photos. These are all free, all free, all part of the thing, so you get to look at them the next day. So really cool. We're excited, eric, we look at our pictures and you know, there we didn't think there was any of me kayaking, right, because the point where they were going to take pictures I had fallen down. So Eric has a picture of himself. I'm really nice closeup picture and in the background you can just see the red of my helmet because I was underwater.
Speaker 3:It is the best picture we will absolutely put it up there, and yeah, so I was telling you guys, I think I can swim better than I can kayak. So that's my story.
Speaker 2:When we post this episode on social media, I want you to use that picture only and say listen in and see, you know, and hear the story about the helmet floating behind Eric. I'll see if I can find a couple of pictures of of Ted's birthday challenge as well to throw up with the post as well. And man, again, big shout out to the, to ted, ania and the ania family. Huge shout out to daryl and eric for crushing you know, showing up you know for a casual day and realizing that, oh shit, we're in a race man, and then getting it done. And then, uh, let me just end how we normally end and say god bless and peace out, peach out, we're out, bye.