Starting Jittersmi 0.00
Nervous but when your daughter looks at you, you know you have to do your best.
Went left instead of rightmi 0.87
What a mess, couldn't figure out the directions and ended up going to the wrong way back towards Fairplay. I think I wasted like 20 minutes and annoyed Pumpkin as well!
Saddle Spinmi 1.82
Another opportunity to annoy my burro, this time his saddle almost went underneath him and he had to pole vault over a puddle... then came his ee aww noises... was not happy.
Stuck for 40 minutesmi 1.91
After the saddle was fixed, Pumpkin would not move from here at ALL! Well until Nikki and Trisha joined up and then we started moving again...
House Hellosmi 4.51
Great people on in this house was waving and giving us so much love.
Burro salad barmi 4.72
Another pit stop, but this time it was about 40 minutes as well. Just would not move from here and ultimately Nikki had to turn back.
Trisha picked upmi 6.11
This is when the team poppie trailer came around and picked up Trisha and her burro. No hard feelings and they felt bad about leaving me on my own.
Cryingmi 6.78
I couldn't hold back the tears here, I think i was at like 4.5 hours in and my back was in pain and was just in amazement about how sweet people are and were willing to cheer me on... ME!
Team Rejoinmi 6.92
I turn around and who do i see chasing me? Nikki and Trisha, they had come back and decided to walk/run with me to complete the race, was a definitely memorable moment seeing their white and yellow tops.
Life stress tearmi 9.91
Running a startup for 2 years on my own, and financial pressure and training and then 5+ hours on this mountain just made me break down all over again. It's bee a tough 24 months.
SPOOKEDmi 11.4
For some reason the bucket of a digger freaked out Pumpkin and he darted quick and I had to grab on to him and try to calm him down.
Seriously?!mi 12.1
After all those miles we have to climb up the side of this cliff?! I think this is where I hit my max heart rate and needed the rest before the final stretch home!
15 miles and 6.5hrs latermi 12.3
This was such an amazing moment, my wife and daughter decided to run me back in to town and it was just the best feeling ever. All the crowd cheering on and being welcomed to Fairplay. Unforgettable!