 we're at the pool rest in recording in the bathroom because the family's asleep so i gotta be a little quiet i'm alive i'm kicking i'm still dreaming and yes i do believe this life should be filled with dreams right we all i think in little little dreams and big dreams this was a big dream i grew up in b univista colorado and so the ledville 100 which takes place every summer happened about 40 miles north of my house every summer so i had heard about the ledville 100 growing up as a kid and um folks i i had dreams of running being a hundred miler being able to run a hundred miles basically straight well i signed up for this race the run rabbit run 100 with hopes of running 100 miles and um it didn't happen i quote unquote failed that dream of running a hundred miles but i've learned a lot along the way and this was my first attempt at a hundred mile race and guess what folks i i'll tell you about the race here in a second but like the relief that i have mentally knowing that i'll just say it my body type my body build isn't really meant for 100 miles and i'll get to that in a minute but bottom line is like it was hard here's a little bit of race footage from yesterday's vlog and go check out yesterday's vlog in the upper right hand corner to see many more of the highs and lows of attempting to run 100 miles attempting and basically it was hot it was in the mid 80s it didn't feel like that because we were running through trees most of the day much of the day so it felt fairly it didn't feel too hot but it was it was deceptive it was deceptively hot and when i took my shirt off at the end of the rate at the end of when i when i stopped and my vest off they were just like almost there was very there was white streaks everywhere like really a lot more than usual which means i was sweating out all my salt and sodium and so i think i may have lost too much sodium and folks i'm a rookie to this distance a couple people from mile 25 when i almost blacked out at 25 a couple people stopped me and said hey you don't look great are you okay like have you been taking salt tablets no i have not been taking salt tablets what are those like i have heard of salt tablets but i've never used salt tablets i guess it's a big thing in 100 mile races i probably should have known that especially in a hot condition i mean it's like a little bit of a rookie mistake but that's okay but you you literally eat salt salt tablets to read you know to re-energize your body so you can absorb water and and nutrition anyway so that was the first mistake and then about mile 28 my my planter fasciitis flared up pretty bad um in my left foot like it was it was pretty bad i just there's just no other way to say it and so the combination of losing too much salt my planter flaring up um i was proud of myself though like i stuck my nose in it for about 21 miles 22 miles and um i for mile like 32 to 38 i felt okay um but then everything went downhill from 38 to 48 and i basically had to walk and hobble of the last like six miles to get to joseph and mckenzie my crew part of my crew and even though i did not have a great race i did have the best crew in the world no doubt about it they were cheering my grandmother was here and um no nieces nephews it was amazing like the cheering section uh was amazing so i love you guys and thanks for coming out to support but the bottom line is this is the ultra running is a huge huge learning curve and i'm not saying i'm done with 100 miles forever but honestly if i don't attempt another one until i'm 43 so in 10 years from now i'm okay with that because guess what the guys winning these races they're in their 40s the third place guy 47 years old 47 so it's like it takes years of experience years of getting stronger in your legs it's crazy like i am my legs i'm telling you guys like my legs are strong but they're kind of small when you look at all the other runners out there so i'm excited for the pike's pick ascent next year and like the 13 mile to 32 mile distance is my sweet spot i'm going to stick it i'm going to stick there in 2019 i'm not going to try 50 milers or definitely not 100 milers or 100 k's like i know my sweet spot and i know what i'm good at now and it took an entire season of of ultra racing to figure that out but i feel so confident now in like focusing in on 50 k's 25 milers 13 might you know the pike's pick ascent 13 miles up a 14 or like that is my sweet spot for sure so i'm gonna i'm i even though these the results of run rabbit run was not what i was hoping for at all it's like it opens up a lot of relief for the future to know what i should focus on for 2019 so and fkt attempts up 14ers all that good stuff okay i'm gonna stop there i love you guys we had a great day at the pool recovering and i am alive um i can walk uh it's gonna hurt more tomorrow because don's delayed onset muscle soreness but that's how it goes right so thank you again for the support you guys are amazing it's hard but we keep fighting together right it just keep it you know you set your dream your dream you fail your dream you fail your dream oh you rise up maybe you hit you're not going to hit every goal in this world you are not but if you keep fighting you will eventually hit goals not every goal but you will hit some goals no matter how small or how big they might be and of course it takes patience see beauty work hard love each other see you we're recording