One Week Left
A week from today I’ll finally be on the Mt. Whitney trail, heading up to 14,500ft, and most probably in a great deal of pain. My run up Mt. Baldy last week provided some insight as to what to expect, and that expectation is cramps, fatigue, and a slight case of altitude sickness. Can’t wait!
Being a runner for most of my life, and a hard core trail runner for the past fifteen years, I’m confident that I’ll come close to my 8 hour target for the entire 22 miles, but man, I still find myself nervous just thinking about Mt. Whitney. My stomach is doing flip-flops, and my mind races with doubts and uncertainties.
Taking a look for the 100th time at my various Mt. Whitney books, I saw something today that I never really noticed before:
Why are the mile markers in the shape of tombstones? That does not fill me with confidence 
Ahhh….I’m just psyching myself out, I know it. It’ll be fine. Won’t it?
