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Wyatt Moss: 50 States Marathon Challenge - #250
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Wyatt Moss shares his inspiring journey of completing 50 marathons in 50 states within a year, emphasizing the importance of mindset, faith, and community support. He highlights how the philosophy of "Misogi," which focuses on striving for greatness in each day, propelled him through physical and mental struggles along the way.
• Introduction of Wyatt Moss and the 250th episode
• Misogi philosophy about daily greatness
• Overview of running 50 marathons in 50 states
• Reflections on the physical and mental challenges faced during the year
• Community engagement through social media and content creation
• Role of faith in motivation and resilience
• Memorable marathons and beautiful locations experienced
• Insights into nutrition and training during marathons
• Plans for future challenges, including seven marathons across seven continents
• Advice on the importance of crafting one’s narrative and self-belief
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Speaker 1And then as well, every single day. I try my best. As long as I do that, then this next year is great. That's the Misogi it's like. Can I make today the greatest day ever? Because, if today is, the greatest day ever. It'll be the greatest week ever, the greatest month, the greatest year, the greatest decade, the greatest life, and that's what I want to live.
Speaker 2If you guys didn't already know, this is the 250th episode of the Athletes Podcast today, featuring Wyatt Moss, one of the many men that I am inspired by every single day, particularly with his ability to run a marathon every single week Basically 50 marathons across 50 states during the year of 2024, who's now running seven marathons in seven days across seven different continents? Can you believe this? I can, mainly because I also myself did a marathon this past year. No big deal. I consumed a ton of diesel protein. Who's our sponsor for the athletes podcast here? That being perfect sports supplements, they provide protein powders, hydro splash. That being perfect sports supplements, they provide protein powders, hydro splash, creatine, glutamine every single supplement that you need to perform your best. I use diesel every single day. It's 110 calories per scoop. You get 27 grams of protein and so many other amazing nutrients, and it's informed choice, which, as you folks know, is important as an athlete to make sure that you're putting in high quality nutrients into your body.
Speaker 2So so, without further ado, let's get to the man that is Wyatt Moss and learn more about his story. Thanks for tuning in. Here we go. You're the most decorated racquetball player in US history, world's strongest man, from childhood passion to professional athlete, eight time Ironman champion. So what was it like making your debut in the NHL? What is your biggest piece of advice for the next generation of athletes, from underdogs to national champions? This is the.
Speaker 2Athletes Podcast, where high-performance individuals share their triumphs, defeats and life lessons to educate, entertain and inspire the next generation of athletes. Here we go the exact kind of energy we want to bring on the Athletes Podcast, wyatt Moss. This is the 250th episode of the show and today we are celebrating the individual who completed 50 marathons in 50 states. What the heck are we talking about here today, wyatt Moss? How the heck were you able to accomplish this? What the heck's going on? Thanks for coming on the show, man.
Speaker 1Thank you for having me. Yeah, I don't even know. I think at the start of the year it was just a crazy thing. I was like, all right, let me just go see if I can do it. And it still hasn't hit me that like, oh, we did that.
Speaker 2Yeah, just casually.
Speaker 1A month ago was almost a month ago, was number 50 in Hawaii, and so, coming fresh off of it, still it's going to take me like two or three years to process.
Speaker 2Like wow, but you documented the whole. Thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, so that's actually. I posted about my story last night. I've been like a lot has happened since I finished number 50. And so then there's been like this weird like like I haven't been able to do the recap but as well, like I'm having to transition to this next series at the same time, and then there's certain things I have to do for the next series that like I have lowered engagement and stuff like that. So like all right, um, when I posted last night my story, I was like I'm just going to cut everything, just get back to the roots and do the 50 dayday recap and then, while I'm leading up to this next series, the seven continents in seven days. So it's a storm over here.
Speaker 2Yeah, but it's a storm that's brewing and you seem to be gaining a ton of momentum. Obviously, just from the social media stats alone, you go from like 10K to 100 plus K. But how's the body feeling? Because I run. I ran the toronto waterfront marathon. I was at october and it took me like a couple weeks to recover from that. And you're doing this date like every week for a year straight. Dude, like tell me what the heck you were doing. Was it ketone, iq all day, every day, or what?
Speaker 1so I do take two of them at the start of every race.
Speaker 1There were some where I didn't take them just to compare times or think that. Others where I, like you know, only took ketones, um and like. We can get into that in just a second. But body's holding up, ankles are the main like pinch point. I guess my Achilles on my right foot was really messed up over the summer. Both of my ankles, all the tendons surrounding them, are not necessarily the strongest right now, so that's the only thing that I'm worried about going into this next year.
Speaker 1I think I'm still going to run like 24 marathons this year. So and that's the thing that was like you know, it sounds crazy to say that, right, and it is a little bit crazy, but at the same time, you have people who are training to run their first marathon, who are doing 20 mile runs during their training, week after week, and so is it really that crazy to run an extra six miles If you think about it, like you'll do a training run for 18 miles the next day, you'll do like three or four, maybe one or two after that, like that's a marathon over three days. So it's a little bit different to do it all at once, week after week, but I do think that more people have it in them than they, you know, would like to believe.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'd agree with that. It took me. I started training really heavily in May, did a half marathon in July and then did the full in October and, like to your point, you know, you do a couple of those training sessions that are a little longer. It's basically nearing a marathon. I have a buddy, uh, satch Lottie, here in BC who's been running, or who was running a marathon a day for 40 days straight. Uh, he's training to run cross Canada this year, which will be like 67 kilometers a day or something crazy for you Americans down there. A little less than the miles, but, yeah, ridiculous numbers. And I try and wrap my head around these feats because I've talked to 250 plus incredible human beings, high performers, athletes, and, to your point, the body becomes accustomed and is resilient. But, dude, you're only 22, 23. You're a young buck. Do you worry about what the body is going to look like 10 years from now?
Speaker 1I think this is the time to do it.
Speaker 2If I did it down the road.
Speaker 1I think there would definitely be a lot more injuries and everything like that. Right now is the time where I actually have the ability to recover week after week. So maybe it's not the case that everyone could run one every single week for an entire year, but there's a lady who's like I think she's 67 over in, I think, germany or something like that who just ran a marathon every day for all of 2024. I see that and I'm like all right, it's possible. I think everyone can get there.
Speaker 1I really do believe, though, it comes down to that mindset of am I willing to start? And then as well, like, what? What length am I going to give up? Or like, give myself an excuse? So you know it's, you go on this path and you're training for something, and then something happens like, oh man, I injured my foot. Are you going to let that take hold of your story, or are you going to like, not let yourself fall to an excuse and keep moving forward? It's like, despite this happening, I'm still going to figure out a way.
Speaker 1I think that's what gets most people, because this, you know, 67 years old, running a marathon every day for an entire year, that's crazy. I can probably push through the pain that I'm in and strengthen it, get back on the field, everything like that. So wait, let's just circle back real quick. Congratulations on 250 episodes once a week for five years is incredible. That is something that no one gets past the first episode. A lot of people don't even ever start press record. The fact that you started recording this podcast before podcasting was really big. That's huge.
Speaker 2Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2I think, I was probably around your age when I was starting this thing and I wasn't running a marathon per week, but I did realize that building a community, building a network, scaling communication skills are all going to be beneficial long term. You and I both have the benefit of being younger individuals. So to your point, point as you build, lay that foundation. You know, 5, 10, 15 years down the road we're going to be doing some pretty damn incredible things right and it's going to be exciting as you see the progress. You know, a couple weeks ago we had aaron routliff on who's number two tennis player in the world uh, in the doubles category. And you know we had her on four years prior and she was her goal to become top 40. Two years later she did that. Two years later she's top two was number one at one point. And it's like those are the cool things that you get to see over time, the progressions year over year. Even myself, physically, five years ago I couldn't run five minutes and now we run a 354 marathon and hopefully sub 330. At some point Maybe we'll have to connect.
Speaker 2What was your favorite marathon over the 50 States? I mean you slept outside the start line of Missoula. You were ripping through a rack of ribs. One marathon, Omaha overalls, what? What was the most memorable for you?
Speaker 1New York city is the cop-out answer, because you know, the largest marathon in the world.
Speaker 1I didn't have a race entry four days out. Somehow got in and then, you know, got to start with the first 25 runners of the race. So then, out of 50,000 people, I'm there running through the streets, you know, with an Olympic runner, alexi Pappas, for an hour and a half with no one there. And then I got to saw like, or I got to see everyone run past me. So, uh, probably about half of the runners ran past because the day before I was running in Maryland. So that was a double like a back-to-back weekend Toast, toast. So I ran like a five-hour marathon for New York City and you know, a lot of people like will see that and be like oh man, you should. You know, if you're running 50 marathons, you should be going sub-3 by now. One of the phrases that I've been using is that it's not the time, it's the distance. So if you go run a marathon, props to you. 1% of the world ever does it. Less than 1% of the world probably does it, but 1% of Americans wherever it is.
Speaker 1So just to even get started and then to do the distance put in the volume. That's something to be proud of. And that one was really fun. I utah was probably the most beautiful. I'll be going back this year. There's like a series of four downhill marathons and I'm talking through with the race directors we might have something cooking. Let's produce some type of challenge with all four of those. Um, just revels the company. So I would recommend doing a downhill race because, as well, it is a lot more fun. You get to cruise downhill through a canyon of some mountains, you get to see the sunrise when you're at the peak and everything like that. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2We filmed an episode on the side of a mountain in Utah with Tommy Lawley, a baseball player, one of my buddies who I billeted with. He was actually playing. I was the intern down at the Corvallis Knights in the West Coast Baseball League. I was trying to remember what that mountain was Snowbead, snow Valley, something like that. Anyway, sick view, utah, super underrated Zion Park unbelievable, one of the most incredible places in the world.
Speaker 1That's the thing that most people don't understand about the US. If you live up in the Northeast because a large part of the population lives on the East Coast or West Coast, everywhere in between is just absolutely beautiful. No one understands that we have every continent, a taste of every continent, inside of the United States, and I think it's just really cool to live in a country where we literally are like a fourth of the world. Yeah, you know, with our population being so low, like I don't know, we really have it good here because there's not too many people everywhere all the time. There's incredible like architecture. There's incredible places to visit.
Speaker 1So any type of 50 States Challenge like that's incredible places to visit. So any type of 50 states challenge that like that's my long-term brand. Uh, I won't be doing running content all the time. I might try to do some type of like iron man challenge in the future, maybe try to compete at iwc if I can get to that level of training. But uh, I want to transition away from just always being so focused on like the marathons after this year to just being focused on 50 states and then that's the brand.
Speaker 1I'm still doing physical challenges, but the brand that carries on moving forward is like. Every year, I'll take on a 50 states challenge.
Speaker 2Yeah, did I hear on a previous podcast you talking about dating.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2I did my research.
Speaker 1Oh man, I mean, I don't want to give up like yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 2You don't have to if you don't want to, you know that, but then as well.
Speaker 1I don't want to give up too many details about why I went into that, but basically, like I've just realized this year that I just really want to build this life with someone and I've gotten close a couple times and there's definitely some heartache Going into the next season of life. I know I can't do it alone and so I want to have a wife. I want to find someone to build this with, because I don't think it's worth getting to the end of my life and then just hey, I've got all these accomplishments.
Speaker 2You don't want to share it with. Yeah, I want to share it with someone.
Speaker 1So to share it with someone, so I think that's above all else, like that's the most. You know that my relationship with god that's number one and then right below that is like finding someone, uh, to live life with. Like those are the main priorities right now dude I I love your mission.
Speaker 2Um, I heard you talk about you started this last year as a goal, that you wanted something to change you, and one of the quotes that you've referred back to is whatever it takes, wherever it takes me, yeah, I'm grateful to be able to share your story here on the show, here today. Kick off the new year 2025 the right way you talk about sharing it with someone. I drove from Toronto to L la uh with our old producer. We recorded 40 episodes, you know, ripping through nashville, colorado, utah, nevada, etc. Like amazing experience did. La up to vancouver, up the coast. We recorded, like I said, probably 50 episodes total. Being able to share it with someone and with others is the greatest experience.
Spiritual Purpose and Divine Guidance
Speaker 2I've heard you talk about it. You know you don't want people to share whatever your page is. You want them to talk about Wyatt Moss and what makes you special and how you're able to enact change. And I think what's been unique for me over the past couple years talking with individuals like yourself is that everyone has a certain goal in mind or a certain mission. People seem to be I don't want to say pushing towards, but there seems to be a movement towards God and religion and there is definitely momentum in that space. Can you tell me about your relationship with God?
Speaker 1Yeah, well, I think if you want to set up your life to pursue something, that's the start right. So then, like I think, anything worthwhile, you have a goal in mind, you set out to accomplish it, and then that makes you feel good in root, right Once you've finished it. You know I've done this 50 states thing, right, but am I? I'm different as a person, I've changed, but am I striving for anything? Right now that's in my mind, like the meaning that you find in life is in pursuit of something right, and so the greatest meaning that you could pursue is something that's like you know we can go through the characteristics something that's bigger than yourself, right, it's something that's worthy of you know we can go through the characteristics something that's bigger than yourself, right, it's something that's worthy of you know pursuing. And then it's something that's like takes faith, a massive leap of faith, to pursue, because you know, if I knew that I could accomplish this goal.
Speaker 1A good buddy of mine is like if it's a goal you know you can accomplish, it's just a task on the checklist, you know it's. If you can check it off tomorrow, like you know you can do that, it's not a goal of yours. A goal has to make it, um, something that makes you pursue it. You know you're not, you're not worthy of it, yet Getting on this journey, pursuing it, makes you worthy of that goal. Um, so then, if you like, out of all these different characteristics and you know I don't really have them listed out, but like just this idea of what is the perfect goal to pursue I think ultimately it'd be a relationship with something greater than yourself.
Speaker 1And so then, you know, pursuing the relationship with your wife is great, but like what? When you know this life is over, what happens after that? I just feel like there's gotta be something beyond. And so for me, I believe in, you know, jesus Christ. When people say, like, who is Jesus? Like that's for me, that's like the. I got to live my life that way. One day, when, wherever I go, if it's heaven, if it's whatever happens after this, like I have no idea, right.
Speaker 1But when I meet this person God, this being, whatever this concept is I'm like all right, lord, I've lived out my life to glorify you. How did I do? And then he's like great job, good and faithful servant. You know, that's all I want. It's like I've done a good job living out my life trying to glorify God. That's the driving force. And then here's the cool part it's like that's the ultimate motivation, right? So I no longer have to wake up and find the motivation for myself. You know, when you have kids you know I'm just making an assumption here, but when you have kids, like you have all the motivation in the world to get up because you have human life that's connected to you right. And so there's all these different things that like, oh, if you have a job, there's motivation there, and maybe you get unmotivated but it's like, well, there's your life, whatever it is. If, if you set up your life like trying to find these earthly sources of motivation, I feel like you always fall, fall a little bit short.
Speaker 1but if you're always like all right, lord, like I'm living for you, this is not for this world, this is for you, know, god and his kingdom. Then there's just an ultimate source of motivation. And then people like I had to change my uh, the background on my phone. Uh, because I. People would ask me like, why did you take on this challenge? And for me it's like this has been a way to strengthen my relationship with God, where it's like this is a massive undertaking, 22 years old, how am I going to find the strength to do this? How am I going to find the finances? You know, will I be able to pull it off by myself and edit all the videos or whatever it is? And so people would ask me like, why did you take on this challenge? I wanted a challenge so big that I could become better. And it would always be like me caving down just to say that because I just want to pacify the answer, I had to change it to this oh, you can't see it. I wanted a challenge so big it would only be possible with God, and that stems from, like, a devotion that my mentor gave me last year in November. It was like, um, when you don't have the guts to take on a massive endeavor, then you're not opening up the floor to give the glory to God. The 50 States marathon challenge was only possible because God's hand was on it and as long as I'm giving the glory back up to him, opportunities will open up that I never could have foreseen, you know. And yeah, that's where the seven continents thing comes in. Like three days after I finished the 50 States marathon challenge, this massive undertaking, I'm still trying to figure out how to follow through on it, pay off the debt, everything like that. The door opens to something I've been wanting to do for the past three years. So where the whole 50, you know, the 50 brands started back in 2021.
Speaker 1I dropped out of college, I didn't. I wanted something to do as, like a source of meaning. So I got to my buddies together and the three of us planned a trip to all 50 States. We did a road trip 50 States in 50 days and like that was just another story of like, just believe in it, in that purpose, purpose, and like, all right, lord, I'm just going to take a step into the, you know, into the unknown. But like that whole chain of command led up to doing this 50 States Marathon Challenge.
Speaker 1Back then we had the idea for the seven continents. It literally says it on the Instagram post. You know, if you want to see all the Polaroid photos on my Instagram in the description, it's like next up, seven continents in seven days. And that was three years ago.
Speaker 1And so then to be here, it's like this whole year has just been like a you know, really like so many obstacles that would get in the way.
Speaker 1Who knows how it was possible.
Speaker 1There's only one way. It's gotta be God putting his hand on this challenge. And then, as soon as I finished, the door opens up to this next thing. And not that like that's how God works, like, oh, you believe in me, I'll give you this. That's not it at all. It's just like I'm just going to keep moving forward on the path that I think is God's path for me, and as long as I'm taking one step at a time, like and just believing that I, lord, I have the faith that this is the path that you want me to be on. Teach me your will, all these different things, new doors will open and I will live a life so great that it couldn't have been me that pulled it off. It had to be God keeping his hand on the trajectory that I took and that's that's where I am right now Like seven continents is insane.
Speaker 1You know this trip costs $44,000. What are the odds that, like the company Kitsune IQ that I've been using this whole year, like I reached out to them and 48 hours later they're like yeah, we want to sponsor this series because you know you're the perfect uh brand ambassador for Kitsune IQ. We're going to drop 44 grand on this trip because we believe in you. You know, there's just there's too much to happen for this to be me. It's gotta be God.
Speaker 2There's just there's too much to happen. For this to be me. It's got to be god. Quick little mid-roll ad here for can I wellness supplements. If you guys haven't heard or seen me use the products they have calm, sleep, boost and mend. All of these can be used throughout your day. I use the can I wellness sleep spray every night when I'm traveling to make sure that my circadian rhythm stays on point, and I've been using the Boost before my hockey games because, honestly, it's providing me that little bit of extra focus and clarity so that I can stop more pucks.
Speaker 2Let's get back to the episode. So cool to hear and I love hearing the passion in your voice too. Shout out to Michael Brandt from Ketone IQ. He deserves a little shout out. He sent us some products when I was down in Cape Cod with a bunch of buddies Dom Fusco, bobby Ryan, a couple of those other gents and we were crushing ketones during our runs. I wasn't running much back then. The boys were chirping me about it as the old guy, but they worked and they were fun to use. It was the first time messing around with ketones. But yeah, the only reason I asked the God question is because I'm hearing your content coming up like crazy Mind Pump Media.
Speaker 2Sal DiStefano is a huge advocate for following religion, especially young men, who maybe don't have the necessary guidance or you know pillars that they're trying to focus on.
Speaker 2But then I've also got Michael Smoke from Higher Up Wellness that's right in Atlanta with you, who's also doing courses weekly with other young men, and I'm like, okay, clearly there is a shift in society now to at least being aware of religion and maybe it comes from the overabundance that we have in society now of just all the extra random stuff.
Speaker 2Like I was having this conversation with my mom a couple weeks ago over christmas and it's like christmas used to be the time when you got those gifts that you really needed or that were, you know, practical and that would bring you so much joy because you couldn't get it otherwise, whereas now it feels like in society we maybe are accustomed to getting everything we want. Amazon you get an order, it comes within a day or two would be a prime, and it feels like in society we maybe are accustomed to getting everything we want. Amazon you get an order, it comes within a day or two via Prime, and it's like we don't have delayed gratification anymore and we don't have that willingness to put in time effort without seeing that result immediately. I feel like that's consistent with what you just messaged over the past five minutes referring to your relationship there.
Finding Purpose in Daily Maintenance
Speaker 1Yeah, there's definitely a push there, because when you have everything in the world, then that's not a good story. What I've learned this past year and a year ago, right before I decided to take on this challenge I have to live my life for the story, because the best pursuit is in pursuit of a goal. My life is going to be a story. If I want to live out a great life, I have to treat my life like a story. Well, a good story has obstacles along the way that you overcome. When you have everything and then there's no, no longer like an opportunity to face risk or go out there and do something in the unknown, then it's no longer a compelling story. So I feel like people are moving towards God because, like they're searching for meaning somewhere and, you know, if they're not willing to go out there and like take on the adventure of a lifetime, yet they're looking for something to give them the confidence to go do that. And for a lot of people it's like for me, you know, it's like all right, lord, I can't do this by myself, but I'm just going to step out there and you, you know, trust that this is what you want me to do with my life and I constantly pray this prayer.
Speaker 1I'm like all of last year. I was like, alright, lord, teach me your will for my life, use me as an instrument for your will. And that was just why, constantly and saying right. And then this year the prayer has been or God, teach me to rely on you. And so that it makes sense that this whole year I've been penny pinching to get through this challenge. Because if, let's say, I had a sponsor that paid for the whole thing up front or along the way or whatever it was, would I be relying on God? I'd be robbing the opportunity to trust in him.
Speaker 1And you know, as I pray these things, like I have to understand that, oh, you know someone's listening as I pray these things, like I have to understand that, oh, you know someone's listening. You're not like the challenge happened week by week, barely several different like final last moment things, different categories financially or, uh, like signups for a race, like New York city, or, you know, catching a flight or whatever it is. Like so many of these last minute things happened in different categories. That like, okay, god's teaching me to rely on him in every circumstance. Okay, and then, now that I have that down like I don't know what's next. I don't know what the prayer is for this year, but yeah, it's just it's interesting to like. That's where the, the, the world is moving.
Speaker 2I think it's good I'll tell you how it's gonna finish one foot in front of the other yeah, one step at a time yeah, if I knew the end.
Speaker 1If I knew what was next, like that would take away that opportunity. Right, it's got a. There's a phrase in the bible where it's like that daily bread. What does that mean? It's not like you're eating food every day, it's that like, okay, every day I'm gonna give you, you know this, is god saying this? God's gonna give me just enough to get through this this next day, because if I had the next month, then there's no need for God. Oh, I'm good and I'm covered for the next month. I love how this conversation like has turned in. Like thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk through my relationship with God, because it's something that I'm still trying to work through right now.
Speaker 1I have a lot of things up in the unknown, but I have just seen in my life like my mom has been praying over me for my whole life because just unfortunate things have happened in my life. I lost my dad when I was six. She was not a believer. Like growing up she was, and then she turned away. She actually went to college to kind of disprove the faith. She was like looking into different religions and everything like that. And then, when she was 40 years old, my dad passed away and she's like, uh, just distraught because this is, you know, her person. Um, it was bad for me at six years old. It was terrible for her. Um, she just decided that she had to turn to something greater than herself, because she couldn't get through that circumstance, losing her husband alone.
Speaker 1And so that's where God came in and, like, ever since, she's been praying over me, and I think that's the only reason why I am the man I am today is because I'm just clear on things. I just like I know I've got mom praying over me and like together we can talk through things. You know, we can actually pray. These things are not weird within our family. It's okay to talk with a being that doesn't exist in the physical world and it's like, ah, you know what is this whole concept of God? Like we're comfortable talking through that together and like asking questions and not having to have answers and just, yeah, I'm so grateful for her. Um, I don't know how we got on that whole thread, but no dude, I yo.
Speaker 2I'm like I said. I'm also grateful for you being able to articulate this, because most 22 year olds aren't able to, you know, expand on their thoughts other than, yeah, I pray, I go to church once a week and like no-transcript. But for me, I'm like I see what you've been able to accomplish, especially over this past year. I'm excited for what you have moving forward. What is your Masoge? You look like. Are you putting those together? Is that the seven continents? Seven days? Is it a bigger, more grandiose idea?
Speaker 1I mean for this next year. I would say maintenance is the name of the game, so my misogyny isn't a year-long event. There'll be a lot of things that I get to do this year. I'll probably do some type of 50-state series. I'll go to all seven continents. I'm going to try to run a marathon every day for seven days during that series.
Speaker 2It's going to be very difficult. That'll be crazy. Hey, you're going to be crushing ketones for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Speaker 1Exactly Um, and then after that, like there's seven world majors, you know, I'll take on that challenge, maybe this year, you know that's the goal, but then all these different achievements.
Speaker 1I think it's easy to always seek that next challenge. What I want to do is focus my Masogi this year on the daily maintenance. Can I make sure that I'm building what I'm building? No, can I make sure that I'm proud of what I'm building and the way that I'm building it? Nick Bear said this. He's like I got hit by a car the other day, if you saw this on his Instagram and I asked myself the question am I proud of what I'm building? He's like yes, but I need to be proud of the way that I'm building it. You know he's got a daughter and he's. You know he got a wife and all these different things. And well, he can build whatever it is that he wants to do. He can achieve whatever he wants to do Sub two, 40 marathon, 500 pound deadlift, whatever it is. You know a million dollars on the black Friday sale for BPN, which is crazy, in like 30 minutes. The opening, like a million dollars in revenue in 30 minutes. It's just absurd. He can achieve any of these things, but none of it matters If he doesn't have that daily maintenance down. He doesn't get to live his life with his child and his wife. So, then, I like the way he sets up his life in that perspective and I'm going to adopt that this year.
Speaker 1All right, am I proud of the way that I'm building it? Well, am I keeping a record of all the lessons I've learned throughout this whole challenge, or this whole year, or this whole process? Yes, I started last year doing it once. Every couple of days, I would just record a YouTube video 10 to 15 minutes long of like what was going through my mind at that time. Didn't have to be like an update or anything like that. It could just be like me talking with the camera, and so now I get to go back and view myself in the past. I get to relive those moments and, like, really enjoy it. I'm proud of that, right? Am I proud of, like, the, the style of videos that I'm putting out, or the amount of effort that I'm putting in?
Pushing Limits and Finding Purpose
Speaker 1There was a video that I saw that Ryan holiday posts all the time about, uh, jimmy Carter, the president he had just passed away but about how he was getting interviewed when he was, you know, going to college, um, his first job out of college. The interviewer asked him, um, about all these things that he did and Jimmy Carter was telling him everything and he's like but did you try your best? And then Jimmy had to say, no, I didn't. Um, or it didn't answer the question or whatever it was, and the interviewer walked out of the room and he's haunted, but like, that's what I want to be able to say is like all right, you know, I kept the maintenance items together, I was able to hold my family together, while also pursuing this dream.
Speaker 1My responses were never rash. I kept a record online that way I could go back and watch it. And then as well, I, every single day, I tried my best. As long as I do that, then this next year is great. That's the Masogi it's like. Can I make today the greatest day ever? Because if today, is the greatest day ever.
Speaker 2It'll be the greatest week ever, the greatest month the greatest year, the greatest decade, the greatest life, and that's what I want to live. It's going to be a cool story to be able to share along the way. Dude, you're giving me chills right now, man. It is like I was at that last podcast that I was listening to. I gotta pull it up here, give them a shout out too, because they did a good job, life in stride. They did a fantastic job and you know they started their episode. They're like it's 10 out of 10 day, 10 out of 10 morning. It's a great day, greatest day to be alive, and, uh, it's that perspective that we need to be sharing more of out into society. Like the biggest blessing is when you wake up in the morning and you didn't have anyone else around you pass away either. So grateful to A, be available and have everything in my body working properly, and then B everyone around you supporting you still there. Once you got that covered, you're pretty, gucci.
Speaker 2You've been creating content for four years. You ran 50 marathons in only three pairs of shoes. This past year. We got to get you a shoe sponsor man, new Balance. Maybe they can hook you up with some stuff. How were you able to accomplish that and I want to stack this Were you wearing those same shoes while you were sleeping outside of your Mississippi, sleeping in the car, sleeping outside of your other events, because that's a couple different times. You were sleeping on the start line, dude.
Speaker 1Yeah, missoula, I slept at the start line, that's in Montana and then Portland Oregon. It was a double marathon weekend. I slept in the airport and then I slept in the car 13 times throughout the challenge. Like I would. I literally would drive five hours up to Northern Michigan, you know, pull into a Michigan whatever university is up there Northern Michigan university and like at three in the morning, get woken up by a cop that's like hey, you can't sleep, sleep in your car in this parking lot. They thought it was like a bomb threat or something. You know they're like sending their sirens over and like not sirens, like allowed, the lights were on, so I woke up in a haze. Um, so yeah, like I don't know, that was all been pretty crazy.
Speaker 1Wearing the shoes, you know, you can kind of see them, there's one pair right there. Oh yeah, the camera might go over that way. Yeah, right there, there's three pairs of shoes. The idea behind it is I only had enough money to spend on the necessary things. Well, these shoes aren't worn through yet. I could probably get a couple more miles out of them. So the first time that I did it I was like they like they're good for, like you know 500 miles. I can probably stretch it to 750. And so then, you know, that was the first 18 marathons of the year, and you're not supposed to run more than one marathon in a pair of shoes. And I ran 18, like, uh, you know, I think that's just like an advisory thing because you have ultra runners, but what are they going going to do? They're going to go out there and run what? 50 miles as a training run 18 times before the. You know. Uh, what's his name?
Speaker 1um, andy glaze had 18 or 20 pairs of shoes last year yeah, but he ran like 9 000 miles or something like that, or 5 600, whatever it was um, and so then he ran like three times as many.
Speaker 1you know, maybe I could have gotten like five to 10 pairs of shoes throughout the year, but I don't know like I was able to pull it off with three, so you know, it also goes to show like, if I can run a marathon in all 50 States with only three pairs of shoes, you have no excuse to get out there with you know, whatever pair of shoes you have on your feet. The thing is, you just have to get started. I had a pair of shoes that was like so bad they're over there, um, like no support whatsoever. My ankles were just destroyed, and so I had to find like a new pair to start doing marathon training. There is like that side of things you want to make sure it's the right pair of shoes I don't think you need like alpha flies to go sub three.
Speaker 2You know some guy did it barefoot in like the 1980s, so like it's possible yeah, that's 15 minutes, 15 minutes barefoot yeah, yeah, that's the perspective we need every single morning to wake up with me like man yo.
Speaker 1Let's just come to terms with this I mean there's, there's no shortage of excuses, right, but there only needs to be one reason. Just have one compelling reason to get out of bed in the morning and take today on as all right. This is it. That's all you need. Don't look for all of the motivation or the perfect conditions. Just whatever it takes, pull it off, whatever it takes and wherever it takes me. There's another question Four years of content.
Speaker 1Yeah, I started making content. Like I posted my first TikTok ever when I was in my senior year of high school and it got 6 million views in like a week. It's like holy cow, because I found a glitch in the algorithm where, if you like, swipe up and down on your video. It got more views. So I got my mom's phone and my sister's phone and I sat there for like two hours just doing that with both my hands and then that's what got the first video to go viral Cause, you know, 10,000 views that night and then the next morning at 600,000, I was like, oh my gosh, it actually worked. So like it's crazy that this whatever happens in the social media career all started from a glitch in the algorithm. If that was the only compelling reason, like early conditions are everything right, so make sure that you can find some way to succeed at the very beginning, because if that's the only motivation that I had to do content, it just planted a seed.
Speaker 1And then, you know, I went to college. I tried that route. I was living on a couch for two months in a foreign country. I went to school in London because I just applied on a whim. I'm just like that type of guy. I'm just going to. You know why not? I'm just going to apply to this and see what happens. It was actually less expensive than the school that I wanted to go to in the US. I was like, okay, I'm going to go over there for school Incredible life experience. I was there for two months living on a couch. Shout out to my buddy Jack for letting me stay on his couch for way too long while I was trying to find roommates. And then I flew back home and dropped out of college because I just absolutely failed out, even though I would like to say I'm a smart guy.
Speaker 2Yeah, can confirm.
Speaker 1Yeah, thank you, thank you. And so then the seed that was planted a year earlier came back. It was November, a year after this video did really well. I was back home and my buddies who never went to college were down in Athens and I was like all right, y'all like um, let's link up, like, let's just do something you know, and so the idea was just like to get started with social media.
Speaker 1Now, that took forever to get to where we are today. And, uh, you know, there were like a hundred videos, literally a hundred videos that we filmed, that never got posted, that I edited and everything like that. Just, you know, or maybe probably like 90% of them, I didn't even begin to edit them, I just like set up the whole video process, filmed it, paid for everything and then never edited or posted it. So then you could argue that like this could have happened three years ago if I actually would stay on top of the content, and the name of the game this year was like all right, if I run a marathon every single week, that's an impressive achievement. It gives me enough time to put out content every single week. One or two videos a week. People will like the story.
Speaker 1I had no intention of it, you know, reaching the heights that it has, but just the honest effort of showing up every week and then learning from that Because it's easy to like. I saw this one guy had posted a video every day about him running and hadn't seen the growth that he was looking for. But you know, you got to keep in mind that the barrier to entry to post a video of you running is low, right, people want to see something that's very high barrier to entry because there's unlimited content out there. So for for this piece of content to be worthwhile for me to watch, you know I want it to be a super compelling hook. And then after that I want you to be really good at storytelling, really good audio editing's, good visual. You know very good shots like visually and all these things together that takes four years, five years. Most people just aren't willing to learn every single small lesson along the way to get to that spot.
Speaker 1But once you do that you can have that overnight explode, Explosion.
Speaker 2Got to embrace the suck sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1Exactly yeah.
Speaker 2Again that delayed gratification not something that everyone in our day or our generation is accustomed to, but running provides you with that discipline that I don't know if there's any other form of exercise that gives that same kind of result, I don't know it. It's because the barrier center, like you just throw on a pair of shoes and you go like you don't have to jump in a pool swim, you don't have to go find weights, you don't have to go find your plyometric bar, whatever, like bike, like right, like it's. That's what I love about it. And you don't need a 300 pair, 300 pair of alpha flies to get started either. You can literally, like I run in my vivo barefoot shoes, I will run in runners, whatever right, you can do it all. Maybe not running a marathon in those barefoots, but there's the ability to do so and maybe that is maybe that's a challenge. We should do one barefoot. Why would do that.
Speaker 1I've seen about five people this year running barefoot for a marathon.
Speaker 2Okay, which is wild? Is it hygienic? Hygienic? I don't know.
Speaker 1Well, I mean, the thing I'm worried about is like is it going to wear through the bottom of your sole? The bottom of your foot. I think a lot of people will put like a sticker on the bottom of their foot and so then it's kind of like you know us, like uh, I don't even know how to describe it, but it keeps their feet protected from the pavement.
Speaker 2Yeah, just some type of surface.
Speaker 1Yeah, I my feet, like I was robbed at birth. You know I'm six. You know I'm very grateful that I'm six feet tall, right shoot dang yeah day-to-day.
Speaker 1You got flippers eh that's what I'm saying and like. So I should be seven feet tall, but you know I'm not. I'm not necessarily sad about that, but anyways, the? Um, my feet. I have fallen arches because my feet are so big, so like I have to. Maybe it's not because of that, maybe it's just because of inadequate training. I don't want to put a reason to it. Um, without actually studying the, you know the cards, but like that's, the problem that I'm facing, going into this seven continents is like, um, I gotta figure out how to tape my feet and get soles and the correct shoes, because my ankles have been hurting this whole year. Um, after you know, I'll run one marathon, I'll be fine, but then I'll run another one and like that's when it starts hurting um.
Speaker 1The fastest ones I've run have definitely been after I get a new pair of shoes, so they're like that is a fair point that maybe I should have been switching them out more often I.
Speaker 2I was, uh, I was very grateful new balance hooked me up with some gear over the past few months when I was preparing for the marathon and I, uh, could tell the difference once you throw on a nice new pair of shoes and a wide foot. For me, I've got wide feet, so that was a big one. I don't have size 15 feet. That'll make the dating show really cool, but I'm definitely in need of just diversifying the athletic abilities. Right, like running for me over the past year was big. Now it's trying to add a bit more size. But I'm also playing a ton of hockey, I'm playing golf. There's layers to what you've done and been able to do with your stories that I'm now thinking. I'm like, how am I going to add that to my content creation journey? What I'm going to be doing next pursuits and I can't think of someone who does it in a more positive manner than you do. On social too, which I really appreciate. Can you tell me what it was like doing it with your grandmother?
Running With Nana
Speaker 1Yeah, Pushing her in the wheelchair. Yeah, I mean I wish I could have pushed her for like the entire race. Yeah, I'm definitely looking for some type of race where I get to do that. Right now she does have the flu, so you know, wouldn't be anytime soon. We got to make sure that Nana's healthy and doesn't get too cold. That was one of the reasons why we decided in the end to not push her for the entire race was that, like I couldn't find a wheelchair in Hawaii that would, you know, be one suited to push her for the entire thing.
Speaker 2But mom and.
Speaker 1I were. We went to Lowe's and, like we were, you know, finding like this car. And then we went to Walmart we had this, uh, like this seat that you know you would put in the car like a car seat, um, together those two things and like a drill, we were going to make this thing that we could pull Nana for the entire race. And then the issue that the final thing that came to my mind is like what if she gets dehydrated? You know, this could actually be very unhealthy for Nana to go out there and do. It's got to be like an overcast day where it's not too cold to be able to pull her, because she's 91. Right, so then, but you know, nonetheless, like she was able to wait at the start line for the final hour of the race, get to see everyone running by, and then I got to push her for you know that last half mile, which was incredible and I was just sobbing at that point.
Speaker 1You know, the whole marathon I got to run with some friends of mine um, isabel, lexi and then Lizzie all three of them are running, running content creators, um, over in Utah, and so then that was incredible, that last like 30 minutes as I'm running through those final like two, three miles and then the final like five minutes pushing Nana, just absolutely sobbing. But I think it was a great you know end to the challenge and that was the goal ultimately was to bring her to Hawaii. She had been to 49 states throughout her lifetime. So reaching number 50 for the Honolulu, getting to cross the finish line with me for my 50th marathon for the Honolulu, getting to cross the finish line with me for my 50th marathon, I think that made the whole challenge so much more special, or whatever the word that I'm looking for is so much more incredible, so I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 2The other thing you mentioned there is the variables at play and, like I'm so glad you got that opportunity. I know it wasn't the full 26 miles but that you were looking for, but nonetheless the effort was there. She probably appreciated it as much as that full one and didn't have to go through five hours of misery, whatever that would have been. But um that I think that you know your ability to connect with people and make sure that they know you're doing it for your purpose. Like I think it's important also just to highlight you went into debt doing this. You took out a loan. I know you're doing it for your purpose. I think it's important also just to highlight you went into debt doing this. You took out a loan. I know you don't want to talk about it too much because there was.
Speaker 1I just don't want to encourage people to do that when they don't have the four years building up to that, Because it was a very big risk to go into debt. It actually. I went into debt at the start of the year because I was a very big risk to go into debt. And actually I went into debt at the start of the year because I was like all right, I have these first six months. I don't know how I'm going to make money, but I need to get started now. And so then, instead of waiting till the end of the year which would have been smarter I was like all right, I'll just go into debt now. Well then, come July, I ran out of money and I was over-indexed on debt, so I was not able to go into more debt to pull off the challenge. And that's where I was like okay, let me bootstrap the rest of this challenge, Because the original plan with woodworking didn't work out as well as I thought it would have.
Speaker 2So, yeah, Dude, I think it's a testament to you.
Speaker 2Just figuring out, you find a way to make it work right whatever it takes and wherever it takes me uh, most memorable marathon, and I add some context because I did a spartan race up on big white mountain here in bc. It was pouring rain. The only time it stopped raining was in it snow and hailing and miserable. Part of the race was running up the ski lift which I've heard you talk about on some of your previous ones. So I'd love to hear your craziest marathon experience over these 50.
Challenging Trail Marathon Experiences
Speaker 1Craziest experience over the 50? I would say the one in New Mexico, because I flew into Denver, you know, about four hour five hour drive North of where the marathon was supposed to be at midnight, and so I had to drive from midnight until you know seven in the morning, right before the race started, cause I was sleeping along the way in my car, uh, the rental car. That was crazy because we started out the race in New Mexico. It was a trail marathon at a ski resort over the summer, so, and there were, like you know, a couple, uh what's, it's like eight stations, maybe like five throughout the entire thing, but not like it was a very big race. I think there was like a hundred people or less running. So that was crazy because we started out and it went straight uphill. You know, the first mile we're like going up this mountain, um, I think it had like 4,000, 5,000 feet of elevation gain over the course of the entire thing, which that's crazy. Most marathons are like five to 800 feet of elevation gain.
Speaker 1And so by the time that I made it to this you know, mile 24, my ankles started hurting because, like that started flaring up. That was over the summer when the Achilles was really hurt. I actually had to take my shoe off and put it in my foot into the like ice cold whatchamacallit um river. That was like right there, just because it hurts so bad. And so I was like limping through to mile 25. And then I get there to the aid station and or whatever, it was 24, 25.
Speaker 1And they're like, yeah, the final stretch is up this, this uh portion right here. And so I look up, it's a ski lift and like there's no one running People are just like hiking up this, like sludging up this mountain one step at a time, um, so the sun is beaten down and it's just so hot outside and like, um, it literally felt like Mount Everest. And yeah, that was the most difficult marathon of the entire year, like the wildest experience, because it turned out to be like 27 or 28 miles. So you get to mile 26 and you're like, oh my gosh, like I'm still on top of this mountain. I have to go run down it to get the finishing metal. And the metal was just like a little piece of wood on like a, like a cord. It wasn't anything crazy, but that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2So our spartan race was super similar. Uh ended up being a couple kilometers longer than the originally anticipated half marathon and you want to know to boot what was worse. You at least got a medal. We didn't even get our medals. There were people dropping out from hypothermia. It was crazy, it was wild, uh. But again, you're stronger after those experiences, as long as you survive them. It's like you. You can't literally give yourself any more adversity. And like manufacturing adversity I think is something that you talked about kids like I'm almost feeling like when I have kids, I I'm going to have to manufacture that adversity for them, and that's what I'm trying to do now. Even like going through my twenties, it's you need to manufacture that adversity, even though you know we're going through that. We're both living with our parents. It is what it is, but there's external ways you can manufacture that as well to make life maybe not so comfortable, because, as we talked about earlier, comfort can be a little scary.
Speaker 1It also when you create adversity or obstacles to overcome. It opens up the mind to form the creative circuits. So then you know that's a really valuable thing that you could give your children, because now they become, you know, more dynamic thinkers when they're older, better communicators, problem solvers and who wouldn't want that for their children? But the difficult part is, like you want the skills you got to put them through the obstacles that will form those skills, and most people are too helicopter parent to want to go through that. Um, you just have to have the guts to put your kids through those difficult challenges.
Speaker 2The amount of confidence that comes from running a marathon, like the work that's put in and then afterwards, I can't even describe how much more confident I was as a human being. I can't even imagine what you feel like after doing 50 in a year. Was there anything that you did during those marathons or prior to? Were you listening to reading books, podcasts, to get inspiration, to stay motivated? Was there anything like that Like for me? Listened to the Confident Mind by Nate Zinser. I was driving across Canada from Montreal to Calgary half marathon. That book was amazing. Obviously, david Goggins' story never hurt. I know you've got his cell phone, we won't make you call him right now, but there's certain things that people use as fuel. Was there something for you and maybe we'll talk about nutrition afterwards but like fuel, from a motivation, podcast, book standpoint, what were you doing?
Speaker 1The. I talked about this a little bit in the documentary They'll be coming out soon. Um it, it's taken us a while to edit it, just because you know it's me and Becca who just had a baby.
Marathon Nutrition and Social Media Growth
Speaker 1So like that's the producer and the filmer and everything like that editor is Becca and she's just this incredible woman. But anyways, um, in the documentary we talked through, um, how like the motivation for me it was that I set my life up to do content right Social media and I, up until this point, I had not succeeded yet. And so for me to not succeed at the 50 States marathon challenge meant that I failed at the one thing that I've set my life up to do, and so that was all the motivation I needed. I was like the dream is no longer a dream or a desire. This is an absolute necessity In 2024,. If I don't run a marathon in all 50 states, then I've failed at the one thing that I've set my life up to do, and that was the only motivation I needed. So no music. There were definitely times where I was on the ground right here just staring up at the ceiling and I'd call my buddy, be like dude. My life sucks because you know, oh, I got to go run a marathon next weekend in like North Dakota, middle of nowhere, with no money in my bank account the entire year. I'm definitely don't have enough food. My Achilles hurts so bad.
Speaker 1The videos aren't performing yet, because it took 35 marathons to get to 10,000 followers. I started the year out with like 1600. So you know, from 1600 to 110,000 in one year was crazy, but it took seven months of running every single week and not posting videos and then finally having to get out there and post videos for like the one in Omaha to do well, to kind of kickstart that whole process of like. Okay, I actually believe in this content. 15 marathons left. It's pretty interesting those daily recordings that I told you about 10 to 15 minute videos that I make.
Speaker 1I started doing those um in October of 2023. And you can kind of see like the physical change in myself as well as like the uh, the mental change, everything like that. Um, I had like a full beard in 2023, shaved it off and then like that whole process is really cool to see. But there's one video that I made over the summer when it was at the spot where I was like there's no way I'm gonna be able to pull this off. You know, my Achilles is, it's just shot. I, if I try to run another marathon next weekend, I'm going to tear my Achilles and then I have no money left in my bank account, all these different things, and I had to make the decision at that point over the summer that, no matter what happens to me over the next six months, I have to find a way to pull off the challenge, because this is everything I've set up my life to do. So I made a video.
Speaker 2I was like all right y'all, I've set up my life to do.
Speaker 1So I made a video. I was like, all right, y'all, I've made that commitment and now you get to see over the next couple of months that I'll follow through on that. So far this year, five or so people have said, hey, it's Wyatt Moss at a marathon. But what if 10 people per marathon were saying that and it's cool to see that was July of of this 2024.
Speaker 1So last year, it's cool to see that six months later when I was running Philly number 48, that 100 people recognized me throughout the race. It's just crazy what can happen in a year when you just commit relentlessly to this idea that you have, and see what happens. Just give up everything.
Speaker 2You proved it, dude, and it's again a testament to just you committing 100% and, um, I'm I don't want to say I'm jealous, because I'm going to be following along the journey and we're going to be participating together, but I'm, I'm definitely admiring what you've been able to accomplish. It's uh, it's pretty incredible. I've got to ask, though, from your nutrition standpoint, like, were you crushing ribs during every race, or just ribs and ketone IQ? Hey, what a combo.
Speaker 1What a combo. I actually I haven't had a ton of gels or anything like that during the race, like I don't think I've ever had like a proper nutrition during a marathon this year. Um, I've had, like you know what would proper nutrition look like? You wake up, you have breakfast, right, you have carbs, simple sugars like toast with jam on it, and then a little bit of protein. And then, going into the race, every 36 minutes or whatever it is, you have a gel and then I take a ketone at the start, ketone at halfway through, whatever it is. That's proper nutrition.
Speaker 1Most of the marathons I was waking up about 30 minutes before the start, running over to the start line, having not yet showered, throwing my bag into the bag check, hopping in with, like you know, putting my marathon bib on Cause I literally just picked it up five minutes ago and then, like I had three gels in my pocket down to ketone and like, forget about the gels. You know, I think probably over 10 marathons this year I, you know, had less than a hundred or 200 calories of of sustenance the entire time. So I think it definitely did not fuel how I should have this year, but the ribs was pretty good.
Speaker 2Mind over matter. That's the first time your body had fuel. I was like, holy crap, this is actually easy doing this when I actually have food in my system. Dude, that's wild. I had my buddy, liam Redman, giving me some suggestions like carb loading five, six, 700 grams of carbs. A couple of days before, again, I was trying to go for that sub four mark, not just finishing, but man, I could not imagine doing it without fueling properly. Now, just knowing how much it impacts leading up to it. That was one of the things that was eye-opening for me, for sure. But I also consumed a ton of Perfect Sports protein powder, which was like a game changer.
Speaker 2I was on the road for the month when I did my marathon too. Similar to you, I was sleeping in Walmart parking lots in my co-founder's RV. It was a converted school bus, so I was riding in style for a month. It was pretty great, can't lie, didn't create as much content as I should have, but you great, can't lie, didn't create as much content as I should have, but you know what? It was a test run, and I think you know I've taken inspiration from you and 2025 is going to be we're going to incorporate some cool stuff.
Speaker 2But I also have this 60 second stark show that I've been trying to start up. I did it with mitchell pelkey back, like when we were on the cape cod, just got a list of and or questions here for you to wrap up the show before we end off with our biggest piece of advice for the next generation of athletes. So I'm gonna just kick them. You ready, quick answer. You can elaborate if you want, but I feel like some of these are going to be straightforward, given the cardio individual that you are. But maybe we'll learn a bit more about wyatt moss here during this 60 second stark show. Here we go. You ready'm ready, let's ride cardio or strength training cardio running or cycling cycling yoga or Pilates.
Speaker 1Um, I've actually never never done either.
Speaker 2Fair enough, we'll pass CrossFit or bodybuilding.
Speaker 1Honestly never done either of those.
Speaker 2That's okay. Well, maybe we'll do a training session together, uh, swimming or rowing.
Speaker 1Definitely rowing. I used to be a rower. That's how I got the strength for the 50 states challenge.
Speaker 2No wonder he's got such a big back. High intensity interval training or circuit training.
Speaker 1High intensity.
Speaker 2Indoor or outdoor workout. I would say outdoor.
Speaker 1I don't like the air conditioning when I'm sweating.
Speaker 2Yeah, overrated Protein shake or pre-workout.
Speaker 1Protein shake. I've never taken pre-workout.
Speaker 2Yeah, overrated. All you need is a little salt anyways. But Altered State will really get you going if you need it from Perfect Sports. But we've got to get you some diesel protein as well. Maybe I'll hook you up and send you some.
Speaker 1Are you a bpn athlete?
Speaker 2maybe I can't do that, but I mean, I haven't talked with them yet, uh, okay, well, we'll hook you up in the meantime until they recognize what you got going on. Um, I'll get perfect sports on that, okay? Next, deadlifts or squats ooh squat yeah, runner, you gotta get those quads going uh, one mile or 5K 5K. The one mile was so tough.
Speaker 1I ran a 540, like 48 or something like that.
Speaker 2Sub six is legit.
Speaker 1It was hard. That was the day before I ran Honolulu number 50.
Speaker 2Of course it was. Why wouldn't you do your PR before a marathon? It makes total sense, treadmill or elliptical.
Speaker 1I've never ran on an elliptical, so treadmill.
Speaker 2Perfect, keep it that way Morning workout or evening workout.
Speaker 1I need to be a more morning person, but I would say evening workout Most probably like. Let's see day 435 or whatever it is of running a mile every day. I just stopped keeping track. At least two thirds of the one mile every day that I've run have been after 10 PM.
Speaker 2Damn.
Speaker 1So terrible for your health. Really bad for waking up on time. But usually it's like 10 o'clock, nine o'clock, whatever it is, and I'm like, oh no, I have to go run a mile, and so I just go outside, run my mile and come back in, and sometimes I won't even shower, I'll just fall asleep.
Speaker 2Are you documenting those too?
Speaker 1Yeah, I am. It's gotten to the point, though, where it's so much content to keep track of that it would be great to post it somewhere, but at the same time there's just too many things going on, so I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 2He's a busy man. Body weight exercises or free weights.
Speaker 1I mean, I don't even work out Like I need to. I haven't. I've been to the gym maybe five times, 10 times this year.
Speaker 2There is definitely benefit to strength training in addition to running. However, you've been doing a lot of running, so I'll give you a pass on 2024, but I think 2025. If my one piece of advice would be to get a little bit, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, no, I uh.
Speaker 2I think there's benefit. That was what helped me, honestly, like the last 10 kilometers of that marathon in toronto there were people falling left, right and center legs were shaking, knees, weak arms, heavy um mom's spaghetti. It was crazy, but the uh that was what, honestly, I feel like allowed me to keep going is I did have strength as a hockey goalie. You know, growing up I had like strength I could rely on and it was like that was the only reason my body didn't shut down.
Speaker 1Yeah, I needed it. 2025 is the year of getting big, that's for sure.
Speaker 2He's going to look like C-Bum in six months. You heard it here first. Okay Beach workout or mountain hike.
Speaker 1Mountain hike.
Speaker 2Wall sit or plank.
Speaker 1Wall sit Push-ups or sit-ups, push-ups.
Speaker 2I hate sit-ups, squats or lung-ups, push-ups. I hate sit-ups, squats or lunges. Now.
Speaker 1I mean squats. Lunges are really difficult too.
Speaker 2Rest day or active recovery.
Speaker 1Active recovery.
Speaker 2Love it, love it. Hey, wyatt Moss, that was the 60 Seconds Dark Show. It might have gone a little longer, but we'll chop it up and we'll make it happen. This is the 250th episode of the Athletes Podcast. I'm a huge fan of your mindset, energy, everything you bring to the table. I'm honored to be able to bring you on the show First of many conversations hopefully future collaborations in the works for sure. But the way we wrap up every episode, wyatt, is we ask our guests their biggest piece of advice for the next generation of athletes, and I would love to be able to share yours with our guests, with our listeners, no more than whatever you got prepared for us now today.
Speaker 1Well, thank you so much for having me on for 250. That's a huge accomplishment and as well a great compliment to me that I'd be worthy of that episode. So thank you.
Speaker 1Piece of advice for upcoming athletes, I think it all starts with, like, what's in your brain? So what's the story that you tell yourself about who you are? Because if you don't have a compelling story about yourself, then how are you going to be able to put in the hours to train? You know when everyone goes home and you want to be better, but you follow them home. You don't have that compelling story that keeps you on the field, and so you need to write that compelling story. Or else you know, life will get ahead of you, you'll graduate and you won't have pursued the dream that you have as best that you could have. And so then, if you want to have that pursuit, you want to have the best effort, you want to be able to answer that question well of like did you try your best? Yes, you need to change that story that you tell yourself about who you are. Make it a compelling story. I am Wyatt Moss. I can run a marathon in all 50 states in 2024.
Speaker 1And then you need to tell yourself that, because that is who you will become.
Speaker 2Our goal with the Athletes Podcast is to educate, to educate, entertain and inspire the next generation of athletes. Wyatt moss, you have done this today. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Uh, sincerely, I look forward to keeping in touch, man thank you for having me on.
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