Peep Show: Forrest Green

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about how Andy's running journey was very similar to that of Forrest Gump.

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00:00Another email came in to email at DaveAndChuckTheFreak.com

00:09and someone said, I just found your show

00:12and now I'm going back listening to old episodes.

00:17One from over a decade ago.

00:20You were talking about a lady who ran a half marathon

00:23and went into labor without knowing she was even pregnant.

00:27And then you asked if this has happened to anyone else

00:29listening.

00:31Well, I had to share.

00:33It happened to me.

00:34Yeah, I mean, I guess.

00:36I'm sure at the time I was like, how could you not know?

00:38I mean, I can only imagine what I said, but over a decade ago.

00:42I think we were probably like, well, you'd have to be,

00:47I just said, you'd have to be a bit bigger

00:49to not notice a body change.

00:52But this woman ran a marathon, so that wasn't the case here.

00:56I don't know.

00:57That story that we talked about over a decade ago.

00:58You can run a marathon and still be chubby.

01:03Be a little chubby.

01:05It's a rough go.

01:07It's a rough go, but you can't.

01:09I don't think you'd be that great.

01:10I don't see that.

01:11You're not going to go real fast,

01:12but you ever heard of people doing a half marathon,

01:15finishing a half in like five hours?

01:17We did, actually.

01:18Yeah, so it does.

01:20It can.

01:20That's one of the top Google questions.

01:22Can a fat person run a marathon?

01:23I feel like that they can.

01:26If a fat person tries to do a marathon without training.

01:31Oh, no.

01:31No, you can't.

01:32Look at that guy, how fat he is.

01:34Oh, my God.

01:34That guy is a marathon runner.

01:36300 pounds and running.

01:38Yeah.

01:39I mean, I bet his knees hurt.

01:40But I bet he must have lost some serious weight to,

01:43he must have been real fat.

01:46Yeah, along that journey.

01:47Yeah.

01:48Because you don't just get up and run one.

01:51That is the best way to lose weight.

01:53Yeah.

01:54It's hard.

01:55It's not.

01:55It's the worst and the best.

01:57It's the best way to lose weight,

01:58but the worst thing to experience.

02:00Yeah.

02:01Like, I wouldn't even want to walk a marathon.

02:04A marathon is like 10 miles, isn't it?

02:07Oh, it's 26.2.

02:09No, it's 26 miles.

02:09Over 26.2.

02:11It was just out of my reach.

02:12I did five miles and was like, I am an Olympian.

02:16That's it.

02:16That's enough.

02:18I'm like a Greek.

02:19I am a world-level champion.

02:21Yeah.

02:21Five miles.

02:23Are you crazy?

02:23Yep.

02:24I hate running.

02:26Oh, me too.

02:26So much.

02:27I don't like it.

02:28I really tried to get into it.

02:30I took a running class.

02:31Remember years ago?

02:33Yeah, you tried.

02:34You tried.

02:35Like, I got into it for a minute,

02:37but then I just realized, like,

02:37my life at the time was just so bad,

02:39that was the only thing that...

02:41It was like you focused all your fire on that.

02:43Right, yeah.

02:43And it was like a real, like, rocky moment in my life.

02:48Well, that'll do it, though.

02:49You were, like, addicted to running, right?

02:51You were like Forrest Gump.

02:52I was.

02:53I did.

02:53It was exactly like Forrest Gump.

02:55Yeah.

02:55I was just, like, kind of snapped one day.

02:57I never thought about that.

02:58And I was like, I'm going for a run.

03:00I'm going running.

03:01Yeah, I'm going to go for a run.

03:02And he just kept running, and I kept going.

03:08Forrest Green.

03:09Oh, my God.

03:10One mile, then two miles.

03:12Oh, my God.

03:12I never even thought of it that way.

03:15Like our very own Forrest Gump.

03:17It really was like that.

03:19Yeah.

03:20Run, Forrest Green.

03:21Run.

03:21For no particular reason.

03:23And I just kept going.

03:25People were falling.

03:26Yeah, people did.

03:27I'm sure that's what they said as I ran by.

03:29Oh, bless his heart.

03:30He's trying.

03:31Well, no, because I knew that it wouldn't be sustainable.

03:34Like, you couldn't run like that forever.

03:36Oh, I know.

03:36But the last time I did it, I was just like, what am I going to do?

03:40Six miles?

03:41This is crazy.

03:42Yeah.

03:42I'm out of my mind.

03:44Yeah.

03:44And then I just walked home.

03:45Yep.

03:46And that was it.

03:47And that was it.

03:48And it was done.

03:49Yeah.

03:49Because isn't that?

03:50That's also what Forrest Gump did.

03:51I'm kind of tired.

03:53I guess I'll go home now.

03:54It was exactly like Forrest Gump.

03:56It was a short time in my life where I just ran.

03:58Yeah.

04:00And then I stopped one day.

04:02Yeah.

04:02I'm pretty tired.

04:07All the people behind you were all like, what?

04:10Well, you're going to run?

04:11Oddly enough, just like Forrest Gump, one day I was running and this guy came up to me

04:15and he goes, he stops and pulls over and gets out of his car and he's like, man, I've

04:20seen you run in the last few weeks.

04:22Can I run with you?

04:23What?

04:24Yeah.

04:24And I was like, no.

04:25No.

04:26I was different than Forrest Gump.

04:29Forrest would have let the guy run with him.

04:31I was like, and I tried to sound real cool too.

04:32I'm like, no, I run alone.

04:36Yeah.

04:37You're the Han Solo of runners.

04:38Right.

04:39I don't like running with people.

04:41I just run alone.

04:42I like it.

04:43But I did.

04:44I turned around and went back home.

04:47He was tired.

04:48It was tiring.

04:49I had fallen two days before that and thought I had broken my arms.

04:56I never thought of it in the way where it was like, you know, I was dealing with some

05:01stuff.

05:02So I ran.

05:03It was just like that.

05:04Because that's what happened to him, right?

05:05He was like, well, that's a bit too much.

05:07That's what it was.

05:09It was too much.

05:10That's what it was.

05:11He's like, things are getting pretty heavy.

05:13Yeah.

05:16Just ran.

05:18Well, people are basically comparing me to Forrest Gump for taking a running class.

05:23I didn't take it.

05:24Okay.

05:25Obviously, I know how to run, for God's sakes.

05:27I can just move fast.

05:28It was more like a group running.

05:29Like you run together, right?

05:30I feel like it was Dave with those braces on his knees.

05:33What was it?

05:34I thought it would teach me how to run correctly.

05:40You know, like the warmups to do.

05:42Maybe go like a couple of miles and then a couple of miles further.

05:46It was not that at all.

05:47It literally was a bunch of marathon runners meeting to run together.

05:50Yeah.

05:50And then me be like.

05:52It's like a running club.

05:54Yeah.

05:55But I was supposed to like teach you how to run club.

05:57And they didn't do any of that.

05:58They didn't teach you anything.

06:00They taught me Jack.

06:01Yeah.

06:01Oh, man.

06:02They taught me how to get plantar fasciitis because I didn't have the right shoes.

06:05Forrest Green, what made you give it up?

06:09What made me give it up?

06:09It was just too much.

06:11That's it.

06:11It was too much.

06:12And my life got a little better.

06:14Yeah.

06:16Really?

06:16You lost a lot of weight.

06:17I did.

06:18I did.

06:19And then food started talking to me again.

06:22Ice cream.

06:24Delicious.

06:25Yeah.

06:26It is.

06:26You can't keep that up.

06:27But, yeah, I just found it.

06:28I found it to be very unsustainable, honestly.

06:31Yeah, that's it.

06:31It didn't become like my thing I looked forward to every day like a lot of runners do.

06:36They say when you're starting a workout or a diet, make sure that it's sustainable.

06:41Like, can I do this forever?

06:42Yeah.

06:42And if you can't, then just don't even bother.

06:44Well, it was like for a while it was cool because I was like, wow, I just went two miles

06:48and then I went to go three the next day.

06:49And I'm like, I just did three miles.

06:51And then I got all the way up to five.

06:52And I'm like, what is this going to keep going?

06:54Yeah.

06:55When does it stop?

06:56I'm like, I'm at an hour now.

06:58This is horrible.

06:58Yeah.

06:59But then also, like, you know, you're getting some gratification from reaching those milestones

07:05and they get harder to.

07:08Yeah.

07:08Like do better and better.

07:10Get to and more time consuming to get to.

07:12So like the dopamine.

07:14It goes less and less.

07:16You know.

07:17It's tough.

07:18It's tough.

07:19I did.

07:19I went home and got fat again.

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