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If you're not ready, I'm definitely not ready. You see me sweating. The sweat is real. Before we start this video, I just wanted to say I know we have a lot of families and kids that watch these videos. So, I felt like I needed to give a bit of a disclaimer. I have thought about getting a lot of tattoos on my body over the course of my life, and I'm really glad that I didn't get most of them. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is if you're a young person and you're watching this video, I don't want this to influence you to put something on your body permanently that you might regret for the rest of your life. Okay, now that's out of the way, let me explain how I ended up. The first time I
thought about getting a tattoo was when Cara and I completed our 100 country journey. Then I thought, if me and Rick and Dusty finished the Colorado Trail, I'll for sure get a tattoo to commemorate that experience. But there was just so much pressure on the first. And then basically every big physical challenge after that, I thought about which tattoo I would get to commemorate the experience. But I just felt like there was so much pressure on choosing which experience was worthy of my first tattoo. And if you've been watching the channel for a while, you may have realized that I'm very much like an all or nothing person. Like when Cara and I first started traveling in our early
20s, I wanted to take a full year off and go travel. And then when we decided to extend the trip, it couldn't just be for one more year. I wanted to go to 100 countries. And then when we decided to start posting YouTube videos, it wasn't just like we're going to post a couple. It was like we're going to post a video every day for an entire year. And then I got into running and I went from a marathon to 100 miles to 240 mi. You get the idea. So when I finally decided to get a tattoo, it might not surprise you that I decided to go from zero to 20. And something about getting 20 at once, I feel like kind of takes the pressure off any single one, if that makes sense.
Oh, this is a sensitive spot underneath. So, the plan is to get all of them on my left leg, but not like a big cohesive sleeve. Just a lot of small like patchwork tattoos that commemorate all the big physical challenges that we've accomplished over the last 10 years. This is totally different seeing it like this. So, this will be the start and then the idea is that I'll continue to add to it and my left leg will just become a collection of fun stories. So, I thought today as I'm getting the tattoos, I would take you down memory lane and give you the short story of the adventure behind each tattoo.
What do you think if she does it? That's what I want. I was just going to say that she has to do it. No, it's easy. I don't even like needles. So, today we're in Hong Kong and you may be wondering why I decided to get my tattoos here. It was all very serendipitous. I was having a conversation with Aiman about this. He is my friend who has the most tattoos. And it just so happens that his tattoo artist who's done all of his best tattoos moved here to Hong Kong. And it just kind of felt like a sign. Where are we going? Is Mr. Coup a serial killer? Wow. Where are we? There it is. Oh, he is actually Mr. Coup. I didn't know if that was his name or if that's what Aiman just called him because it's definitely something Aiman would do.
Hi, how's it going, dude? Nice to meet you. Wow, what a spot. Hey, come here. Hello. What a vibe. Knocking on that black door and then walking in here was probably the coolest I've ever felt in my life. I did have, if you don't mind, an idea. So, I just ran the Moab 240 and that's probably like my biggest physical accomplishment up to this point. And they do a logo that has like a little more like a geodessic. Yeah. Yeah, we can do something like that. I've never done this before, so I have no idea how like this process works. Oh, no worries. It's not too bad. It's pretty easy. I draw it up and then you tell me where you want it. We put it on
and we get it on. It gets a little like rough when I do it on here. It'll be a bit more detail when it's on the skin. No pressure. I just for sure would choose the smallest size of every one of these. Well, if they're all the same size, it starts looking funny. So, like you want to do like let's say the whale a little bit bigger, something cuz once they're all about the same, it's really just going to look like But you said you can do it all a bit smaller and then we can choose some Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I'll make them even smaller.
Might need more legs. I'm so proud of Nate right now. Not only for just finally doing this, but he tends to not overthink things, but he thinks very carefully about a lot of things and is quite particular, especially when it's something permanent. And he's just making decisions like he's like, "Yeah, I like it. Yeah, let's just add a couple more. We're here. Why not?" It's really surprising me. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Oh yeah, 19. There they are. Let's do it. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening. I don't want to say I'm nervous. I do hate needles. Is this the first ever shave my legs?
Yeah. I'm going to sell this hair on you. Say it without putting the Ziploc bag. It's getting real. Change my change mine. No, no, no. I'm ready. I'm done. We're out. A lot of thigh in this video. I apologize. Okay. You ready? I'm ready. I think first poke. How's that? Yeah. Great. I love it. Cara just made it seem like not a big deal at all. I think she has a higher pain tolerance than I do.
Is it bad? It's not bad. Well, you can. I think I have too much of like an imagination of what's happening down there. I feel like telling stories as I was getting tattoos sounded like a better idea when I wasn't actually getting a tattoo. So, the first tattoo I'm getting is prayer flags to represent our trip to Everest base camp. When we first left to go travel back in 2016, we had this super long bucket list, but the thing that was at the top for me was trekking to Ever Space Camp. And at that time, it was probably the hardest thing I'd ever done in my entire life. It required 17 days of trekking, climbing up to 17,000 ft.
We did it. Making it to Ever Space Camp and I think specifically Cara making it to the top of uh Calipotter. Top three coolest days of my life. Yay. Ever Space Camp in the snow? I don't even think we realized how serious altitude was at the time of doing that hike. It was also where I met Rick, who is now a massive part of our life. There's some encounters or some people in your life that you can directly tie back like your life being so different before you met them. And Rick is one of those people. Like if it wasn't for Rick, we probably wouldn't live in Colorado. And half of the tattoos that I'm getting today, those
experiences wouldn't have happened if I wouldn't have met him. And then we also met Charlie on that trip who we've traveled to 13 countries with and now we're about to travel through China with for the next 2 weeks. The point of these tattoos was supposed to be about documenting physical challenges, but I'm now realizing that this tattoo is a lot more meaningful than just trekking to Ever Space Camp. The price just doubled. Can you see me sweating? The sweat is real. I can't believe I signed myself up to get 18 more of these. All right, there's the prayer flags forever space camp.
It looks so good. Can you believe it? I always felt weird about the idea of getting one on something that moves. Is this one going to hurt more than any of them? It's not too bad. Nate had no plans of getting one on his kneecap until just now. Don't think about the pain. Look at this one. I did not think this through at all. Tattoo number two is the symbol for 100 in Japanese. And this is probably the tattoo that we talked about getting most because hitting our goal of visiting 100 countries, which if you haven't been around since the beginning of the channel was like the first 4 years, that goal felt so crazy and unachievable at the time that we set it
that we said if we go to 100 countries, we're going to get a tattoo to commemorate this. And we talked for years about what that tattoo should be. And I decided on the Japanese symbol for 100 because Japan was the first country we visited on our first year of full-time travel. So, that was where it all started. And I just think it looks really cool. It's pretty wild how uh quickly I'm deciding where things go that are going to stay on my body for the rest of my life. You've already finished. Yeah. Let's go. Next. Oh, Colorado Trail. Wow. It feels like that just happened compared to these other two. This is fun. It's like a puzzle. Yeah, let's go down there with that one.
This is really the physical challenge that started all of the other physical challenges because it is truly the first thing that I signed myself up for that I didn't think I was capable of doing. It was during co Rick invited me to mountain bike the Colorado Trail which goes from Denver to Durango 450 mi across Colorado. All 450 mi is finally catching up with me but I just want to lay down and take a nap. And at that time I have been on a mountain bike three times in my entire life. How's this one filled in? Yeah. Nice. I love these decisions that you're making. All right. So, me, Rick, and my brother Dusty spent 17 days biking through the mountains of Colorado. But what made it so special was Beck and Cara drove the bands along
and supported the trip. So, we would ride over 50 mi a day through the mountains and we would meet up with the bands every night where they would have great food waiting for us. This was genuinely something that felt absolutely crazy to me. But I thought the challenge was going to be biking up the mountains. I quickly realized that the downhills were going to be the true challenge because I crashed my bike like the first 3 hours of riding. Even after day one, I felt the chances of me finishing. I thought the chances of going to the hospital were much higher. Huh? Am I saying sentences?
Sentences. Yeah. It is so hard to get a tattoo and concentrate on telling a good story. And to finish something that big and something that far out of my comfort zone, I think planted a seed that had me asking myself, what else am I capable of? And so that's why this specific adventure was kind of the catalyst for so many of the other ones. There she is. Where you want it? Um, I mean, we got to start using Let's maybe go like inside of the thigh like here. Cute. Okay. Tattoo number four is a tandem bicycle for Rag Bry, which is a bike ride across Iowa. Oh, this is a sensitive spot of the knee. 400 miles
across Iowa. This is its own physical challenge. Um, this was just like a really fun adventure. Like there's no big story of suffering behind this outside of sleeping in the hot tents at night, but just a really fun bike trip with a great group of friends and all the locals who came out to make the experience so special. Ragbrite was the first organized event that I was a part of. That was really, really hard. But like Nate said, despite like all the really tough parts of it, like I had to go on a whole coffee hunt every single morning. There were no showers. I took a shower in a fire hose. So cool. But there was something about it. It was like the party and the challenge were equal, so they kind of balanced each other out.
I just remember that was the very first time we ever rode a tandem bike together. Oh, it was I remember driving it around that parking lot when we were supposed to be riding across the state the next day. I'VE NEVER BEEN able to do this before. Ragbr complete. Look at that sun. Look at that tan line. It's never seen the sun before. Okay, tattoo number five is a burrow for the burrow race in Leadville, which was the first half marathon I ever ran. The hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
It's Colorado's only indigenous sport. I think I'll let past Nate tell you about the history of the burrow race and why it's a thing. It's inspired by the early days of the mining industry. Miners would take burrows through the mountains of Colorado looking for precious metals. Because the donkeys would be carrying all the mining supplies, the miners couldn't ride them, so they had to walk beside them. Legend has it that two miners found gold in the exact same location at the same time, and they had to race back to the town to stake their claim on that land. The Packboro race format that we know today was started back in 1949 as a way to commemorate these
men, women, and their burrows. There are a lot of stories in here that involve Dest and Rick, but all three of us ran the burrow race. What other things do you have to say? I was actually watching back some of these videos before this, and it's funny to see how hard it was for me to run 13 miles. Without a doubt, the hardest thing I've ever done. And now running is such a massive part of my life. I just remember cramping up on top of the mountain. I didn't know anything about electrolytes. Speaking of that, have you tried AG1? A1. Mr. Coup was actually right. This video is sponsored by AG1, but we didn't even tell him to say that. I know it's hard to believe, but for real, right now, AG1
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Trying to be still so I don't have a crooked line on my leg for the rest of my life because I was too into telling a story. So the 29029 event is 29029 is the vertical elevation of Mount Everest. And there's a company that puts on an event where you climb the vertical elevation of Mount Everest up a ski slope. So you climb up, ride the gondola down, climb up, ride the gondola down. And at the mountain where we did it, it was 17 times up this mountain. I think this is the first event that Cara and I both signed up for together that neither one of us knew if we could complete. We showed up completely unprepared and somehow both pulled it off. Cara really impressed me during that event and we
ended up finishing in the top 10 because we didn't sleep. From my perspective, it was the scariest thing I had ever signed up for in my life. But that was my moment like Nate with the Colorado Trail of like if I can do this like at the end I was like I can do anything. Unlike the Colorado Trail or Rag Bry, there was a specific time that we had to complete it in and I think that's what made it scary. All right, we're done. We're on to the next one. All right. Tattoo number seven is an olive branch. This one is signifying the first marathon I ever ran, which was in Athens, Greece. We were there on a work trip uh for Daily Drop. And I learned that the Athens marathon was happening
10 days later. So, I ended up staying to run that marathon with no training. I kind of always wanted to see if I was capable of running a marathon. And I thought it would be so cool to run the original marathon as my first one. And if you don't know what I mean by the original marathon, I will once again let past Nate tell you about that. The story goes back to 490 BC when the Greeks were fighting the Persians in the city of Marathon. The outnumbered Athenians ended up winning an unexpected victory over the Persians, marking the end of the first Persian invasion in Greece. This is where the Marathon part comes in. After the battle was won, a soldier wearing full armor ran back to Athens as
fast as he could to deliver the good news. And legend has it that when he arrived, he delivered the message, Nikki, which means victory. And then he collapsed and died. And that is the run that inspired the modern-day marathon. Oh, and um they pass out olive branches during the race. Uh this is for peace. Just for peace and have a good uh road. It's just so wild to me what a big part of my life running has become. And it probably wouldn't have happened if I wouldn't have stayed in Greece and run this marathon. Little did you know you would be running that times 9 in the future in one race. Oh, it's so good. Yeah. Right on the Achilles head. That would be nice.
It's not going to hurt so bad. It's okay. It's $4. All right. I'm not excited about the position of this one, but I think it'll look cool. This one's representing our desert island survival experience. This was a childhood dream come true, but also one of the top three hardest things that I've ever done in my entire life. We spent 72 hours surviving with no food, no water, and no shelter. And it was almost impossible to get coconuts out of the tree for water. I've never been so dehydrated in my life. Only reason we made it for 72 hours is because it rained and we collected water in trash that we found on the beach.
Otherwise, we would have had to have hit the panic button. Both nights were miserable. There were crabs that were only there for like a week out of the year, and then they all come out of the ground, thousands of them, and they crawled all over us during the middle of the night. I literally had one climb up the back of my shirt, and we ate three tiny fish, almost starved to death. So, why did I get four dots to represent the desert island survival experience? There were these really sharp trees on the island with these long needles. And the guy who was teaching us how to survive told us that we could make our own tattoos with those. If we use like charcoal and water, we could do stick and poke. And so me, my brother, his
wife, and Cara all said we would get four dots to represent the four of us surviving on the island if we completed the challenge. But by the time the challenge was over, we were all so exhausted. So, um, we never got the tattoo. Now it is commemorated on my Achilles tendon forever. Now I feel like me, Desi, and Sarah need one, too. The goggles are going on next. This was without a doubt the scariest physical challenge of them all. One day I got an email from a guy and he said, "You should do this." And I read the email and it was talking about swimming from Alcatraz to San Francisco, which is a mile and a half swim through San Francisco Bay. And I thought, "No way. that is the last thing in the world I
would ever do because I have a massive phobia of dark water and animals being in it that I can't see. But when I had that reaction, I felt like I had to do it. Like I felt like it was a an irrational fear. The only training we did for that video was swimming in a pool for like 30 minutes. We did have an angel swimmer, like somebody in the water making sure we weren't going to drown and a boat beside us, so it wasn't that irresponsible. And there were multiple points during that swim where I didn't think that we were going to make it. When I first jumped in, I had so much adrenaline and the water was so cold, I couldn't catch my breath.
Like, I couldn't even keep my head under the water to swim because my body was like almost having a panic attack. But the thing that kept me going was knowing myself and realizing if I didn't do it, I'd have to make myself come back and do it again. So, I feel like not wanting to do it again is actually what got us across the San Francisco Bay. I specifically remember Cara beating me cuz she's a better swimmer than I am. And my legs just feeling like complete my whole body just feeling like complete jell-o after the hour and a half that we spent in the water. Very glad that one's over and have no desire to ever do it again.
I got to say this was a completely different kind of physical challenge. This swim was an hour and 6 minutes with zero breaks. And if you did take a break, you would just sink or you look like a wounded animal in a shark, which we did look that way the entire time. The pressure of completing it is just on a whole other level. Plus the fear. My heart's racing just talking about it. Honestly, I wouldn't do it again ever, but I highly recommend it. Sweet. Love it. Alcatra is done. All right, the next one is a wine bottle to represent riding the Tesany trail, which is a 300 mile bike ride across Tesany. It was just a really fun adventure once again with a great crew. This really doesn't have like, you
know, a big physical I mean, it was a physical challenge because we were riding 50 mi a day, but the challenge of it came from trying to eat as much pasta, pizza, and wine as we could while doing the bike ride. This was just something really fun that I wanted to remember forever. Uh, this was the first injury I got during a physical activity. Hurt my knee pretty bad, but I recovered. I came back. And then, do you remember what happened at the finish line? Uh, one of the greatest finishes in any challenge. Yeah. I'm still embarrassed by that. Tuskany Trail. Beautiful. Looks like a shiny bottle. Yeah. I wore my shortest shorts for this. All right. I was trying to go in chronological order, but I
forgot one. This is the canoe is representing the Boundary Waters, which was a week long trip that we did in the Minnesota Boundary Waters. This is just like one of my like favorite most enjoyable trips probably that's on my leg. We spent a week canoeing through these lakes and they were all interconnected by portages, which requires carrying the canoe on top of your head. I think if you live in Canada it's portage and if you're from the US it's portage. So we had to portage the canoes between these little pieces of land that connected these lakes and we were camping every night. We were fishing. I
debated on getting this one because I don't feel like it was a true physical challenge. But it does just have a lot of meaning to me because it was really the first time that I feel like we became friends as like couples with my brother and his wife. They got married around the same time that we left to go travel full-time. So, we had never like really spent a lot of meaningful time together and this was kind of like a makeorb breakak moment in our relationship. Like it could have gone really poorly, but it was the best week ever. And we now have this like amazing friendship that we've developed over the last 5 years. And to this day, the hardest I have ever laughed in my entire life was on this trip.
Bit me an eyeball. I'm serious. This is the craziest thing I've ever experienced in my life. WELL, HURRY AND GET OUR STUFF UP. WELL, DUSTY, where did you go? You abandoned me. You did it over the skinniest part. You got to do it right next to the trees. [screaming] Make a decision. Okay. I'm just going to tie this. I LOVE THAT PLANT. [screaming] DADDY, GET OVER HERE AND HELP.
America totally getting I can reach them. Apparently, all the mosquitoes in Minnesota wait to come out till sunset. Oh my gosh, that was funny. Do they have faces? Yeah, they do. Oh my gosh. I love it. I can officially say Nate has a tattoo of me on his leg. This is a fun one. I need a tattoo of this one. I almost lost my life more than once on this trip. All right, this next tattoo is a monkey bike, which is basically a tiny motorcycle. It's actually the off-brand of a monkey bike. So, an extremely unreliable tiny motorcycle. And we
attempted to ride these across Peru. There's a company that puts this together called the adventurous and they basically create events that are meant to make your life really hard and like force a massive adventure. So, I think I've said like a lot of these early adventures we didn't really train for and I just kind of have always signed us up for stuff and then assumed that we would figure it out when we got there. And this was the first thing that I signed us up for that when we arrived the day of training. I thought I have gone too far. They were manual motorcycles. Cara had never driven a manual two wheel vehicle. And then literally in the first 5 minutes, she almost got hit by a bus coming around a
corner. You almost died. But I will say Cara completing the monkey run to me out of all the things on my leg is maybe the most impressive feat. We had to problem solve through so many things to get to this finish line and overcome so much fear, especially Cara. This is like the cocaine jump. If you keep going this way for like another 100 km, State Department website says, "Do not go here. We will not help you." What added to that fear even more is halfway through Nate came down with the flu. Oh, I forgot I was so sick. as far as like mental support, emotional support, and overall decision-m, I really had to like pick up the slack. And man, and on
top of just being worried about you, like we were out in the freezing cold rain, sleeping on people's floor with guinea pigs. So, the company that organizes this, they basically just say, "Here's where you start. There'll be a big party at the finish. Don't contact us in between." And they know stuff is going to go wrong. So, our bikes were breaking down. We ended up stuck in the middle of the mountains one night with nowhere to sleep. Like you don't book anything ahead of time. But that was like so nice of that family to take us in. That was the roller coaster of the whole Peru trip is like we would have these insanely hard experiences, but then it would be matched with the kindness of
complete strangers all along the way. At one point I crashed my bike. Well, I didn't crash it. It just fell over in the middle of nowhere. We thought we were going to be stranded. My clutch literally snapped in half. This means I can't change gears. Can't turn the bike on. The bike is useless without this. And I ended up getting to the top of the mountain in one gear because I couldn't switch gears. And then it was a muddy mess. We're in this tiny town and we're just wandering around trying to find somebody who can help us and fix the bike. And this guy cut the clutch off of a bigger motorcycle and cut it down to size and put it on the monkey bike so that we
could continue. and only charged us $5. Wouldn't take any more. Peru. Oh, the monkey bike is so cute. I feel like the leg's really filling in nicely. It is. It is starting to look better now. There's more. It is. It's the cutest. All right, what's next? Number 13 is a humpback well to represent another survival experience that we did. This time in Tonga. I went back and forth on getting this one because I felt like one survival experience was enough to tattoo on my body, but this was a really special memory with my parents. And just the fact that they would sign up for this to do in their 60s is something
that I want to remember forever. This was a completely different experience from Panama in the sense that we had plenty of coconuts. We could actually catch fish. And it turns out that it's way easier to do things like build a shelter and other survival things when you actually have food and water in your body. The reason that this is a humpback well is one, we could see a bunch from the island when we were surviving, but also when we were in Tonga the week after surviving, we spent a week on a catamaran diving with humpback wells. So this just felt like the right thing to represent that entire experience. It's so funny. I showed up thinking I was getting like really simple tiny line
tattoos to represent all of these experiences and now I've got a 3-in humpback well on my leg. This was like one of the really hard parts about deciding on which tattoos to get and the reason that I chose physical challenges specifically because it's like there are so many amazing stories and it's like okay if I get the humpac well then do I have to get the grey whale and the whale shark? Oh the orcas. And then we also had an amazing experience with gorillas and polar bears and grizzly bears. Like that's why I had to choose a specific category. You got two legs. I just get all the wildlife on this one.
The best one. Oh my gosh. This is an open invitation to my parents. If you're watching this, if you want to get matching tattoos, we'll take a trip to Hong Kong. It's really filling in. I kind of can't believe it now. He was so chill with it all, too. I know. It's like, "All right, what's next?" Ann, you're so fast. That's what she said. Number 14 is a Trandom bicycle or a three-seater bicycle. And this tattoo is representing the longest adventure of any of the other ones on my leg. This was 37 days biking all the way across the US from California to Washington DC
with the crew. This whole trip was just absolutely ridiculous. Rick and Beck found this bike on Facebook Marketplace and bought it as a joke. It wasn't like we made the decision to bike across the US and then went out and bought this bike. It was like the bike inspired the trip because Rick and Beck had this bike. We just started talking about like funny things that we could do with it. And I think biking across the US is about the most ridiculous thing that you could do with a three-seater bike. But it ended up being perfect because there were three couples. So in the morning, the girls would get on the bike, they would ride the first half of the day, and then because we all three have vans,
the guys would drive the vans to the meeting spot. Once the girls finished their section, we'd swap. So we basically just leaprogged each other all the way across the US. Ah, sensitive next to the shin. I will say of all the trips we did, maybe even including the monkey run, I think this one had the highest potential for death. We didn't really think about that going into it, but going across the finish line, I just felt so lucky that we had not gotten run over by a car. All it would have taken was one distracted driver texting and uh we would not be making this video. PSA. If you see a biker on the street, put on your blinker, slow down a bit, and give him some space. We were getting passed
by it felt like inches to the point where it felt like we were going to get knocked off our bike. It's especially fun. He's done. Oh, yeah. Sweet. Oh, yeah. That one turned out good. I like that one. I [clears throat] never thought I would be getting a Dutch military medal tattooed on my leg. There is an event in the Netherlands called the 4-day march. It started as a military exercise but at some point civilians started becoming a part of it and it eventually became the biggest event in the Netherlands. So every year over the course of a week over a million people descend on this town in the
Netherlands that's used as the hub for the march and 45,000 people do the march every single year. But I think I'll let Cara tell her side of the story for this one because it was a little more challenging for her. You know, walking sounds pretty simple. So going into this once again, we didn't drink. I had no clue it would be as hard on me as it was. My feet were shredded. After day one, we went back to our hotel. I told Nate out loud, I don't think I can keep going. I was just so disappointed that we had three more and I was already struggling this badly. I do think walking is harder than a combination of running and walking because one, it takes longer. So, you're
just on your feet more, but also it's the exact same repetitive motion. And this is specifically a walking event. It is known as the world's largest walking event. So, you're not allowed to run. So, from the start of the day, every step I took was pain. And every step I took, I wanted to stop. So that was like the most mentally tough experience of my entire life. Even though it was just walking. I know it sounds crazy, but it was also amazing. Like I think it's one of the best ways in the world to experience Dutch culture. That was another experience where like the people in the towns made it really special because it passes through the same towns every year and people come out and sit
in their front yard and hand out snacks and hand out drinks. The people made the event. It was probably the proudest moment of my life when I got the medal at the end. This medal that's going on there's like I still have it. Oh, did you say medal? I was going to say I think to bring it full circle, if you complete the 4-day march, you are given an actual Dutch military medal. Wow. Dutch military medal on the leg. It's not going to hurt. Trust me. This one is actually on my bone, so I'll do my best to tell a good story. This one feels like one of the most meaningful. I feel like I'm starting to say that about a lot of them. This
tattoo represents the Leadville 100. It's actually like the top of their logo. I feel like ultra running has become such a big part of my life over the last couple years and this was the start of it. When I signed up for this, I had no idea if I was capable of running 100 miles. It hurts. Everything hurts. And this out of all the things that I've done is the first one that when I finished, I looked in the mirror and I felt like I was a different person. That's how big this was for me. The Leadville 100 is a 100mile race through the mountains of Leadville. Leadville is the highest incorporated city in the US. So the whole race takes place at over 10,000 ft. So, not only are you running 100 miles through the mountains, but you're
doing it in very thin air. I feel like ever since completing Leadville, I've been just on a quest to get the same feeling that I got when I finished that. Ultra running, not for everybody, but for me thus far, has really been a team sport. There's no way I could have done it without the crew. Especially you. Yeah. Just hold it. Oh, thank you, honey. You guys are so supportive. I love that. She is so supportive in everything we do in life.
A N. How would you feel about freehanding just like 100? I can do that. Like really small. Nay, you are crazy. Just since it was the first 100. I love how roads you've gone with so many decisions. Oh, so good. Love that. Oh, you're looking good. Your whole leg is almost done. I know. It's crazy. Okay, number 17 is the mask man from the MDS logo. MDS stands for marathon day saab, which markets itself as the hardest foot race on Earth, which is what attracted me to it. It is a stage race that is 155 miles through the
Sahara Desert. So, you basically run a marathon a day for 6 days in a row while sleeping in these open tents in the middle of the desert. The running portion of it was hard, but sleeping in the desert for a week might have been harder because you're in a tent with seven strangers all right next to each other. And the last 3 days specifically, there were sandstorms. So, everything is just covered in sand. Oh, and another thing that makes it super challenging is you have to carry all of your food, your sleeping pad, basically everything that you need for the entire week, except for water and the tent on your back the entire time. But what made Marathon Day Saab really special and what made it
stand out from a lot of the other running things that I've done is the community. Because when you're spending a week living in a tent with people and then seeing the same people out on the course every single day, you form these really tight bonds. And I feel like bonds are even tighter when you're going through something hard. So, it's amazing how close I became with people during that event over the course of just 6 days. So, tent number 54, this one's for you. I know I'm not the one getting the tattoo, but MDS is by far the hardest event I've ever crewed. It's not actually a crude event. like I couldn't help Nate in any way, but I was there as media so we can make a video. And my
living conditions were very similar to Nate's. I was in a canvas tent. I survived all of the sandstorms. I would wake up with sand in my teeth. Not fun, but in a way it was a cool lesson for me because it was all about perspective. Like I was able to eat real food that they were cooking for the crew. I was able to take like a little bucket shower and get the sand off of me temporarily. So, as miserable as I was, the perspective of what Nate was going through made it not as miserable, which I feel like is just a lesson that you can apply to a lot of things in life. How's the calf pain?
Uh, I was going to say this was the least painful one yet, but I feel like there's some shading or something going on now, or maybe some darkening of the lines, and it hurts more. It was so funny how big of a weenie I've been about the whole tattoo thing with all of these like really hard things that I've done getting tattooed on my leg. Oh, that's sick. I love the shading. That's crazy. Can you show what that was like before you did it? It was just lines. That was maybe the one I was most worried about as far as just like how it looked on the stencil, but I think it turned out great. I'll try to say as much as I can before this one starts because this one's going directly on the shin. This is the little running
man from the UTMB logo, which is the second to last race I did. It was my second ever 100 mileer straight through. So, in a way, I felt like maybe Leadville was a fluke. So, I was nervous about this one. and I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it again. The difference between this and Leadville is Leadville had 15,000 ft of vertical elevation gain and UTMB had over 30,000 ft. So, it was like running 108 mi and climbing to the top of Mount Everest from sea level. It was also super cool just to be given the opportunity to do this race so early in my running career because it is the biggest ultra in the world. that's super competitive to get into and I got to run with 2500
other people. But what I didn't take into consideration was that would also mean it would be like the biggest crowds I would ever be running in. So the vibes were super high. And that is without a doubt the coldest I've ever been in my life because I was completely soaked to the bone up at altitude in the middle of the night. And there was a point where I didn't know if I would make it through night one. That is the coldest I've ever been in my entire life. Also, Andy, this is a little memory for us. Andy is someone I followed on Instagram forever who became a real life friend during this race. We ran the last 30 mi together. He got me through the end of this race. I do feel like at
first he was pulling me through and by the end we were suffering through it together. Oh, that was quick. I love it. And I actually have a photo of Nate doing this exact pose. So cute. Okay, second to last tattoo. This is the coyote from the Moab 240 logo. I probably have some recency bias here because this is the most recent challenge that's getting tattooed on my leg, but it was also arguably the biggest. Definitely the furthest I've ever run. The Moab 240 is a 240 mile non-stop race across the desert of Moab. This was another one of those things that I signed up for having no clue if I could actually do it because at the end of all of my previous 100 mile races, I felt like I couldn't take another step.
Like that was as far as I could possibly go. And it's not like I was in really any better shape than I had been for those races. So I knew it would just be like a massive mental challenge, but I genuinely had no idea if I could do it. I thought there might be some mental magic and like the first 100 miles would feel easier because I had to run 240 mi, but um that was not the case. The first 100 miles was just as hard as it had been every other time. But what made this race really special is that I was paced by my family. So my brother, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my dad all paced me during the race. And it was the furthest that any of us had ever run. So each section they paced was the
first ultramarathon they had ever run and the conditions were extremely unexpected. I thought I was going to be struggling through the heat, but it was the rainiest October in Moab on record in the last 150 years. But I will say it's the only other thing that I've done since Leadville where I feel like I've looked at myself slightly differently in the mirror after I finished. Like I felt like a different person. Another thing that was really special about Moab for me was it's the strongest that I've ever finished a race. Don't ask me how that happened after 240 mi, but I felt like I could have kept running at the end.
All right, so I'm thinking for the North Pole, just like 90° in. So Nate was only planning to get 19 tattoos today. However, I convinced him to round it out and get a 20th because a few years ago, Nate ran 100 miles during our cruise to the North Pole. And one of those miles was literally around the geographical North Pole, which I think is worth the tattoo. However, I quickly regretted this idea. But what do you think if she does it? That's what I want. I was just going to say that she has to do it. No, it's easy. No, we'll do it like high up. I was literally going to suggest that. I was like, "No, she has to do it. Simple blow up.
My hands are going to be shaking. He's been trying to talk into doing it the whole time. The point is that you're going to [__] it up and it's going to be a memory. I can't. They're all just stories and this makes it a better story. I am so scared. Oh my gosh. I feel like I forgot how to write. A nine. You know what a little degree mark looks like? Uh-huh. Do you know what a nine looks like? Yeah. Okay. Wait. So, you want to kind of like It's however you want it.
Oh my gosh. If you need, you can grab onto here for All right. Holy cow. I feel like I've got to get your POV. Oh my god. Right slow. Ride slow. Not too big, not too small. Not too hard, not too soft. How much pressure should she put? Like just like that. Okay. Not a lot. Dip the first in cap. Farthest away. Oh my gosh, my hand is still shaking. This is not good. Get some Vaseline, which is that transparent stuff over there. Just kind of wipe it in the area you want so it doesn't stain the skin.
Okay. Are you ready? I don't think so. You're not ready. I'm definitely not Just make sure you're going down stretcher. Like a little straighter. Yeah. And then just go slow and push down. You can go. Are you ready? It's happening. I'm ready. Oh my gosh. It's happening. Go a little harder. Yeah, that feels hard. Ah, that's hard. K. Well, you asked for this. It's a big nine. Go this way.
Oh my gosh. Felt like a better idea before you start it. Nice. Yeah. Very nice. My hand is shaking. I feel like I need TO SEE MY WORK. [screaming] WHAT DO YOU THINK? WOW. I love it so much. My zero is a little off. It actually gives me such a better appreciation for what you did. It looks like a 2-year-old. It does. You go a little slower, a little harder, a little bit more pressure. It's hard cuz the ink a little more. You see the ink come out and then you can't really Yeah. I can't really complete my circle cuz I can't see it.
It's so bad now. I'm sorry. One more. I'm scared. We'll see how it turned out. Wow. You nailed it. It's not good. I'm sorry. No, it's fun. It's a good No, it's a great memory. I'm so embarrassed. Do you regret it? No, not at all. Yes, you do. No, I don't. Wow. I can't believe it's done. I feel like a new man. I feel way cooler. I feel like a new woman. Can't believe you did all these for me. That was amazing. Wow. This is totally different seeing it like this. Oh, it's epic. It's like exactly what I wanted.
Oh my gosh. It's awesome. Thank you, man. No worries. No way. So epic. You're a legend, C. Do you have a favorite? Oh, I feel like it's like trying to pick a favorite country. I will say the monkey bike was one on paper that I didn't know that I would love, but love it now that it's on my leg. I think the geodessic coyote turned out really cool. Prayer flags I wasn't planning on doing when I came in here today. Definitely was not planning on a kneecap tattoo, but I'm pretty into that. And the goggles.
All right. What's your favorite coup? I like the wine bottle. Wine bottle and little canoeing. Oh, yeah. I still haven't got a good look at this. So cute. That was so funny. That was a coup original. After 10 years of art school, finally someone likes my work. You're on Instagram. I'm on Instagram. I might be on YouTube one day. I am on YouTube, but not too active. All right. And if somebody wants to come to Hong Kong and get tattoos, hit me up on Instagram. I'll make space. All right. Let's go. Or Thailand. I'm in Bangkok. Half. Sweet, dude. Thank you so much. Have fun. No worries. So fun.
