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And I thought Ironman was hard..
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Until I did a sky marathon.

I can't remember another event I've done where I've said "You are fucking kidding me" so many times.

If it wasn't the relentless uphills straight up through the plantation with plenty of hands and feet scrabbling to crest the waves of rolling red earth, it was the downhills that dived suicidally off the edge of a perfectly good trail and the sliding dirt surfing that was about the only way of getting down. Luckily I fall over a lot when I trail run, so bike gloves were in my mandatory kit and I was pretty glad I had them. This sort of trail running is a full contact sport.

Or maybe it was the steep climb down through a narrow rock ravine at about the 38km mark with screaming legs. When I say 'climb down', there were handles bolted into the rock for god's sake.

Possibly it was the breathtakingly beautiful views & scenery through a national park that I would never have seen if I wasn't there and were in such contrast to the godawful discomfort I was going through while trying to remember to appreciate the views every now & then.

It was brutally hard, more intense, more awesome and more spectacular than any other event I've done. 42km is nothing special but the 2900m of elevation along the way made it something else, particularly when it covers so much different terrain in such a beautiful corner of the world. There were maybe 10km of 'nice' running and the rest was either straight up, straight down, ankle eating rocks or some combination of those.

Watch the vids. My words don't do it justice. Totally addicted..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgwo0vE_DQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CuoehCIQmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvCeTwwnOBU



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Re: And I thought Ironman was hard.. [blackthugcat] [ In reply to ]
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I seriously thought this was going to be about child birth!! ha

Amazing and gorgeous!!

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Harry: "I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
Loyd: "I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man."
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Re: And I thought Ironman was hard.. [blackthugcat] [ In reply to ]
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wow, very like!
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