I was at dinner last night with a group of friends who were full of questions about my 26-hour jog/hike at the Leadville 100 a couple weeks back. They were genuinely impressed with the fact that I moved myself that far over that terrain. They asked why I didn't talk more about it...what I didn't tell many folks I was running the race. They said I was humble.
While I am definitely proud of the fact I completed a 100-mile race, it pales in difficulty and required endurance to the project Homie is now in the throes of.
How can one not be humble about a single 100-mile race finish when one knows what Homie is trying to do out there?
Read Bill Wright's hair-raising and anxiety-producing updates here.
Go, Homie, go! We're all pulling for you and the whole support team!
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ReplyDeleteI have the same sort of issue. We all do. Run a marathon and then you have to explain to folks how the elites do it at a pace that we couldn't hold for much more than a mile. Do a 100 and you have to tell people how there are folks who do it over 33k of climbing or in 11 hours.
I feel like Robin in the conversations. All my friends are Batman or Superman (I'd go Marvel but I can't cross the lines between them and DC).
I hear ya. What I didn't say above was that as we were talking, we were waiting for Jurek to get there. Easy to be humble in the company of the seven-time (in a row) winner of the WS100.
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