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?
You go man! Dig deep and work it out. Do what you need to make it to the end of that mountain. I can’t wait to hear the full story. Take a notebook with you and try to write down exactly what you are feeling as soon as you can upon completion.
By the way, what is the highest elevation you have run at for training?
I ran Mt. Baldy a few weeks ago. That got me up to over 10,000 ft. Only 4k more to go to top out at Mt. Whitney!