Shamelessly Bragging

In my body where the shame gland should be, there is a second awesome gland. True Story..

Over the weekend I had a very ambitious plan, last year I felt Buckin Hell was not super hard to finish so this year I made sure that I had a good chance to DNF it. My weekend started again at Friday 5AM, where I started the day with a short and shitty HIIT workout, about 30 mins but wasn't my best effort. Add in my 17k around trip bike commute for work and it was already Friday afternoon. 

This is where the insanity really starts, I went out to the Club FatAss Moonlight Mountain run at Garibaldi park. The main reason for making this was, I'm in a full on war with Mr Action Jackson for points, I am planning on taking him down this year. I was able to do 20k out and back with 1000m of gain, I had to make sure that I didn't go too fast downhill to make sure I was able to get the time over 4 hrs. I had some good company for the run, I got to meet Gary and Sarah, some new FatAsses. Unfortunately our fun run did have a sad note, Femi was injured during the run and had a long hobble down. I hope to see you feeling better soon and on the trails, but what a tough lady.

From here I went straight to the start line for Buckin Hell. I knew I was in for a tough day. Everything was going good for me the first half, a couple people recognized me from my speech. One of the lovely volunteers even asked if I threw up yet (she remembered my Frosty experience), yep on the climb up Neds. I was even able to give Sammy shit for missing the night run, he was sleeping, smart guy. I did well all the way to the 33k mark. I figured I'd be okay on the downhill but by the time I made my way around Goldie Lake, I was starting to feel the exhaustion from being up for 33 hours. At around 2:30, I was just done, completely done, physically & mentally. I didn't really recover until it was too late and and had already missed the cut off at the 37k mark. I have to say this was my best DNF ever, I learned a lot about myself and think I'll be able to handle some of my future crazy plans. 

I came home, downed about 2000-2500 calories in one sitting with about 2L of water and 600mL of beer. But before going to bed, I had to add up the distance and elevation gain, 56k with 3200m of gain, I was very impressed with that and hit the hay for some much needed rest. Sunday I went out and added another 6k with 300m of gain to round out the weekend. 

Now that the appetizers for the year are done, it's time to relax and feel confident that I did what I could before the main course for the year, I'm calling it the 755.

Huge thanks to Tim for putting together our moonlight run, Gary Robbins for putting together Buckin Hell. And the biggest thanks to all the volunteers that helped out with Buckin Hell, with special thanks for Meg, Stephanie & Gareth. It was awesome to see you in the later parts of the race. 

I know most who read this blog do things much more crazier then me so keep on doing what you are doing and don't let anyone who says your plans are stupid keep you from attempting what you want to do. Not everyone knows your ultimate goals and plans, so just keep doing what you want and have fun doing it. Besides easy is boring, make things harder and good things happen.