Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1027 - Courtney Dauwalter
Uploaded: 2017-10-24T22:28:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1027 - Courtney Dauwalter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-10-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1027 - Courtney Dauwalter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-10-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1027 - Courtney Dauwalter

five four three two one welcome courtney thank you thanks for having me first
of all how did you do
what you did and how are you right now we're just jumping right in yeah let's
just jump right in
for people who are just tuning into courtney won the moab 240 which is a 238
mile endurance race
through the it's moab right right in utah deserts canyons mountains and how
long did it take you to
run 238 miles it took just under 58 hours that is so crazy and you beat the
second place person by
more than 20 miles right what was the distance yeah i'm not sure the distance i
think it was around 20
or so it was about 10 hours how did you do that how this is and you're how old
are you 32 that's young
for these kind of races right yeah that's true because these kind of races
usually it's like
grit and anger at the world that gets you through yeah and you're only 32 you're
young and you the way
you're winning is like so crazy and you've only been doing this like big time
races like this for a short
amount of time correct yeah that's right how long um i've been running ultra
marathons for maybe seven
seven eight years but um getting pretty competitive in the past couple years
wow so how did you start
out the race how did you start out running um did you start out in high school
yeah back in junior high
high high school i ran cross country and track um and continued endurance
sports through college and
tried some marathons and then it was just like a natural segue into trail
racing but it's just
the way you're beating these people is insane you're not just beating them you're
like demoralizing
people i mean when you beat the second you hope not oh you're too nice when you
beat the second place
person by 20 hours or 20 miles that's so crazy 10 hours you said it was about
10 hours that is insane
you're you're both start at the same time ready set go you're finishing 10
hours ahead like you could go
go to sleep get eight hours sleep have a nice meal like sit down and and then
just just show up clean
and showered and everything like that oh you're finishing now how cute i just
slept all night
i mean that's crazy yeah it was it was cool i mean it was a cool adventure to
to travel with your feet
for 238 miles was i mean it was brand new territory for me so i didn't know how
it was going to go well
it's pretty much brand new territory for all the runners right this is like the
first ever 240 moab 240
quite a few of them had done a bunch of 200 mile races before yeah there you go
let's picture you
hoofing it hoofing crazy so what is going on why are you so much better than
everybody else
um i think i i had a good day out there get out of here three days
you're trying to be too nice no but but but really like objectively like how
are you so much better
than everybody else i don't i don't know that i'm physically better than any of
them but i um have
been really trying to learn how to like tap into my brain when it physically
becomes hard because i think
our brain can help us overcome so much and it's so powerful so um kind of that
mind over matter thing
and and when it physically becomes impossible to try and switch gears into like
have it be a mental
thing yeah and just keep pushing so what are you doing to do that like have you
studied some forms of
meditation or no i think just experience like i keep on doing these races that
put me in uncomfortable
physical states and um and then i i try and keep in mind that like my brain can
help me overcome this
physical pain if i just keep going wow so that's it just just stay tough trial
and error yeah wow so
essentially self-taught in in terms of like your mental fortitude kind of yeah
i guess probably
could give some of that credit to like my parents or my upbringing or you know
coaches i've had along
the way um but in these in this past couple years it's been just like not
letting myself have an excuse
to stop well that's terrifying to everybody else because if you did decide to
start like learning
meditation or something what if like it took you to another level that'd be
cool do you meditate yeah
want to do that i don't know because i can't do what you do so i couldn't tell
you i mean maybe it's
just being comfortable with that excruciating agony and pain and just like
finding a state of mind that
you obviously know how to achieve maybe there's nothing more to it maybe it's
just incredibly hard work
and just grit which which you obviously have both of those i mean it that could
be just it yeah you
might have the formula yeah i mean a lot of times people try to overthink
things right like how many
people do you know where their life sort of never changes but they're always
like doing self-help seminars
and reading all these books and nothing changes it's just they're just the same
person they keep screwing
up they keep getting involved in bad relationships and you know um sometimes
maybe it's it's just there's a
simpler thing or simpler answer right set your mind to something put in the the
work to get there and
then just execute the plan now is this the furthest you've ever run that is the
furthest yeah what was
the previous furthest um the previous furthest was 155 ish miles wow that's a
big difference yeah wow and
that was just on a flat track oh wow so this was really different than what i
had done before well
that's the interesting thing about these mountain races like because it's not
just uh in terms of
it's not just your cardiovascular endurance you have to have muscular endurance
because you're climbing
there's a lot of elevation change right yeah quite a bit it's nice though
because then you get the
like reprieve of using different muscles your hiking muscles might be different
than like your flat running
or your downhill muscles so you get to kind of switch it around switch the
effort around and why is
everybody in this race using trekking poles i noticed that um for me they were
helpful i didn't use them
until the the probably last quarter of the race really um and they were helpful
just as my feet were becoming
a little more tender and my muscles not quite as quick to catch me on the downhills
and the uphills just
to like disperse the effort a little bit to my arms well jamie pull up that
video of the um what the you
know the sort of preview video of the moab 240 when they showed all these
people running over the top
there's some precarious sections yeah like and when you're tired you've already
run like 80 90 miles
then you hit these crazy precarious sections like what is that like that's like
don't die
and no one's there watching you it's not like anybody's running with you other
than other runners
right like this would be a lonely death moab 200 endurance run is 238 mile foot
race through some of
utah's most stunning and challenging terrain and it really is yeah look at that
that's beautiful so beautiful
and so solomon is the sponsor of this they're the presenting sponsor um and
then there's a bunch of
like sub sponsors i love their trail shoes look at this section that is insane
this is the one that
drives me nuts it's like if you just stumble off the side that's a wrap son
yeah well well and they're
making it look like so easy to run down i'm pretty sure i was like stumbling my
way down that a lot less
gracefully well how come these guys can't do it the way you do it though like
something's going on
because like this has got to be like insane to for the other people that were
running it that you win
by these giant margins yeah i don't know i think you really don't know like are
you what is your diet
like oh yeah um nachos and candy wow yeah i mean just a normal diet i don't
restrict or like try and
include anything different than the normal i guess the average american wow um
so do you supplement with
vitamins or do you take anything else uh i take a multivitamin that's it yeah
wow no minerals nothing
no creatine nothing crazy no no no so just essentially a multivitamin and just
hoofing it
with nachos in your belly yeah yeah that's crazy like i would expect that
someone who is so far ahead
of the rest of the pack that you would have some like you go to colorado
springs the olympic
training program and they get you hooked up to these rocky four machines like
they had drago the
russian guy and you're doing all this stuff and they got like a music video
soundtrack playing in
the background you're the best around right i mean that's what i would think
but meanwhile you're just
drinking beer eating nachos yeah yeah does it help living in colorado like you're
you're at a good
altitude right yeah great altitude i think it probably helps i mean um i'm
right outside denver so there's
trails out my door so i that's my like everyday run is on trails climbing
around the foothills of
colorado so quite a bit of climbing um we're already at altitude so it's gotta
it's gotta help so talk me
through your preparation so when did it start like when when did you sign up
for this race when did you
know that you're gonna do it i signed up in may um but i also was signed up for
a hundred mile race a
month prior to moab in so like mid-september um and so my preparation was
mostly for that hundred mile
race and then after the hundred miler it was just trying to recover make sure
my legs and body felt fresh
again and then got squeezed in a couple more weeks of solid training to get
ready for moab it's so
funny because you say 100 miles like that ain't shit it's all so relative you
know because i mean a
marathon to me would kill me but i mean you saying that you ran 238 miles and
then a hundred mile
doesn't sound like much i know child's play it's how long does it take you to
run 100 miles
um usually somewhere around 24 hours or under depending on the trail and the
climbing and stuff
so when you're getting ready so so you're preparing mostly for the 100 mile
race and then it's sort of
recovery and then did the 100 mile race essentially get you in condition for
the 240 yeah that's what i
hoped is that it could be a good springboard to the next one so um is that
condition is that a mental
thing or are we talking about a physical thing and a mental thing i think both
yeah your body i mean
your body's important so like the physical aspect is important as well um and
just being able to like
pound your legs for the the amount of time the amount of miles that you need to
for these races is um
physically learned for sure so what kind of daily miles were you putting in
when you're getting ready
for the 100. i would average about 100 miles per week so i don't know so that's
not even too crazy
that's not too crazy right because my friend cam haynes was trying to do a
marathon a day yeah he's
insane that's so cool is that too much i mean no he was doing great with it so
well he came in a day
later than you you're like yeah keep it up you know what you should do like 40
miles a day keep going
buddy no i think it depends on people's bodies like some some people 100 miles
per week is a lot
their bodies can't sustain that and for some like cam haynes he can do a
marathon a day and and be in
great physical form for it but he's a meathead and i always wonder i love him
but i say this with all
due respect i wonder if like he pushes too hard like maybe there's like a fine
line between there's
like a point of diminishing return perhaps yeah you know where you you go so
hard that you're kind
of over training and even though you can sustain it really you get better
performance out of being
like uh pushing less right yeah i don't i can't speak to to his training but um
i think he's pretty
he's pretty new to all these ultras as well yeah i think so over the last few
years he did the bigfoot
200 last year he did just 205 miles he did that in 78 hours he actually did
this race two hours
quicker than he did the 205 which is so cool crazy yeah probably because he's
just humiliated by you
she beat me by a day so like forget about the second place person who you could
have taken a nice
