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00:00My name is Bill Bradley. I'm an extreme endurance athlete. I've conquered some of the most extreme
00:13endurance events in the world, but there's one race I just can't seem to finish.
00:30The Arrowhead 135 starts in International Falls, Minnesota, right on
00:36the Canadian border. It's the coldest spot in the continental U.S., and I
00:41haven't finished it in eight tries, and I'm pretty good at this stuff. So that's
00:46why I'm training in a meat locker. We sure got it this year. It's gonna be an
00:51easy one, only minus 50 this year. It's a brutal cold forecast. Somebody's gonna
00:57get frostbite. When it's that big minus degrees, they're all in their house, and
01:02we're out there racing. Who the hell wants to go out there except the crazy
01:05people? 12 hours at 250 calories an hour, that's 3,000 calories. Why am I doing this?
01:12There's all kinds of hobbies that would be really pleasant to be doing right now
01:16instead of what I'm doing. It separates you from being normal. I'm not interested
01:23in living my life on the couch. You guys know what the temp's supposed to be tonight? Yeah, it's buried at
01:27negative 20. It's as hard as it goes. It's the wrong thermometer for this. Yeah, it's not an Arrowhead one.
01:32Sometimes I don't really enjoy a race until it actually gets really hard. I
01:37went from being a multi-millionaire to bankruptcy, like, overnight. I do want to
01:44be something to my kids, you know? I always want to be something that they
01:47look up to. What else is there out there that I think is impossible?
02:01I don't care that they think, you know, maybe I should quit and give it up. I
02:05just don't.
02:17I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna finish.