 Oh boy, day four. I think stage four is gonna be kind of burly. Lots of up, 3000 feet of vert. Running through a river for three miles. Yeah, let's do this. Oh man, that sun makes everything better. I'm tired. My body is feeling it big time. Things are sore that have never been sore before. I thought I've done some adventures but this thing is, this thing has beaten me up pretty good. I guess it's a good thing. I came here to challenge myself to have a new adventure, new experience. I'm getting all that. Everybody is shivering today. It is cold. Pat, are you warm? Give me this thing. Give me this thing. Up, down, two, one, yeah. My legs feel so heavy. Hopefully we're gonna loosen things up or otherwise it's gonna be a long day. You can see how quickly we are gaining altitude. You can see the valley below and we barely started. Hey Pat, the speed limit's 10 man. Slow it down. Good luck. I don't think my camera's good at showing the steepness of this trail but it is definitely very steep. You got this. You got this. It is a beautiful day. It is a beautiful day for a walk in the woods. It's kind of nice sometimes to push your body through the pain cave to do something that you're a little nervous about and then get rewarded by this. Time to go down, down, down, down, down. Not my favorite but here we go. They've been telling us all along that we're gonna essentially run through a river and that's what we're doing. This is kind of tricky. You can't really run because you gotta watch your feet. Like you freeze your fingertips and they start to hurt when they come back to life. That's what's happening to my feet right now. Yeah. Little waterfall action. We went to the water in four years but I'm kind of tempted. It will warm you up. I'll tell you that right now. I might as well just start swimming. Hey buddy. I gotta say this is really fun. This is my favorite part of the race so far. I feel like a kid just tromping through a little river. It's kind of tricky because you want to kind of go fast because you're in a race but you also have to be super careful. I thought running downhill was dangerous. Try running downhill through a river. Now we have a couple of miles on this road. We are now in the town of Redcliffe. We're almost done. Yeah. That felt good. Come on in my man. How you doing? That felt good. What a beautiful town. It's nice to see a familiar face at the end of a hard day. So I appreciate it. Hey, no problem. Yeah. Obama. Obama. Hang back Barry. That's a good bikini there. What do we have here? Look at that one. Yeah buddy. Today was a really fun stage and I gotta say I was pretty worried about it. My body felt really beat up and they kind of spooked us about how technical it was and how there wasn't going to be an aid station so you needed to bring lots of water and running through the river is sketchy but it all came together and I felt pretty good. We're from New York. We're coming from Harlem Run and it feels awesome to live this experience. My first time doing trail running and I'm having a blast. I think this is my first stage race where I have to run a huge distance and then wake up and run it again in the morning and do it six more times. I think it's teaching me a lot of mental grit. I woke up this morning and I wanted to quit and I did it because of these two and I'm happy I kept going. What about the vibe of the event, the people that participates, all that? They're being so friendly and welcoming and I feel like everyone knows me and everyone's like, how you doing? Let's go one more day. And I think that you're like, yeah, of course, one more day. And then you're like, what happened? Oh yeah, I'm doing it one more day. Yes. It feels like a family and a community and I guess I didn't expect it but I love it that it happened that way. I love seeing the same people on the trails and just hugging everyone. Like, yeah, we got this. Of stage four, only stage four. We still have two stages left and they're big stages, about 24 miles each. 5,000 feet of climbing both days. Woo mama. I have newfound respect for stage races. Good morning, Patrick. How you doing? Stage five, man. We got this. High five for stage five. Five and a high five. Yeah, get the high five. It's a scientific fact. The more high fives you give, the warmer you get. What is the hell up? So it's the fifth day of running and pretty much everything hurts on my body. My knee, blisters, sore legs. But all I have to do today is run. Nothing else. Somebody else has packed up my tent. They're moving all my stuff. I'm gonna go to aid stations. People are going to feed me. I can get a massage later. That's pretty amazing. So when I get down and think, oh, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks, I gotta remember. All I have to do today is run. And that's a damn good deal. What's up, girl? How's life? Great. Good to see you. Nice eight mile hike I got on. That's right. We'll see ya. A lot of pretty flowers in this little meadow. Today is a lot different than yesterday. It's a long, gradual uphill on a Jeep road. Feeling good, buddy? Feeling good? Keep it up. Keep it up, keep it up. By the way, that's the guy that started the Western States 100 race. Right there. He's 72 years old. I gotta give it a slap. Sorry, I gotta do it. Bam, bam, bam. That's a good luck slap. See you guys. We're good to see you. Good to see you. Yeah, keep going. And that guy just high fives. He's 80. That's incredible. He's doing the whole thing. And I think this is like his seventh time doing it. His warrior. Yeah. High five, high five, yeah, yeah. Noise makers really make a difference. You ring a bell near me, whoo. That will start running faster. Looking great. Good job. Yeah, what's up? That guy running us for good luck. There you go. Ooh, single track. All right, just passed aid station one. I think it's about eight miles in. I feel pretty good. I'm going a bit slower today. It's kind of chilling. I'll speed up at the end, though. That's how I do these things. It is really beautiful in this forest. Nice, chill trail. Not a lot of rocks to jump over. Look at that view right there. We're finally breaking out of the trees. Look at those mountains. Man, we are in heaven. Right on top of it. I think that's the Gore mountain range behind there. So pretty. I almost fell. My blister's hurt. My blister's hurt. And I am not moving fast. I'm moving like an old crippled man. So elaborating on my earlier point about how all I have to do is run today. All I have to do is run here. In this beautiful area. I've lived in Colorado all my life. And this never gets old. I love these mountains. I'm a mountain boy. I'm up here on top of Ailt Mountain. There's the lodge. It's going to start snowing in a couple of months, maybe even a month. And this will be full of skiers. Whiskey jack looks like we're taking a blue down the mountain. That's good because I suck at blacks. Now this is definitely a trail where I would want my mountain bike. Closer. 6'84, flying on into the finish here at Elevation Coach House. Stage 5 fell. Again, I ran underneath that floor. It's all day. So my buddy Lee is carrying my bag for me to the tent. Now that is service. He blinded. He asked. He was tired. The volunteers at TransRockies are amazing. We love it. Love it? Love it. We'll be back with the volunteer next year. How's it going? Just sitting in my tent, little afternoon nap time. Woo hoo hoo. Today was great. I made it through it. All the aches and pains flared up at different points of the day. But I was able to manage it. The one thing that I can't really do anything about is our blisters. And those hurt a lot when I'm running downhill. My toes just jam into the front of my shoes. And it's like, ow, ow, ow, ow. It's like running on hot coals. So I was trying to run more flat, which was tricky. But I made it. And it was 25 miles. And it was awesome. I think I'm getting used to this just daily slog of just running hard. I've never done anything like this. So in a way, it's very cool. And again, like I said this morning, I was very grateful for this whole opportunity. Tomorrow, we run to Beaver Creek. It's our final day. I'm so excited. It's not going to be an easy stage. I think it's another 22 miles, 5,000 feet of vert. So they're not being nice to us by giving us an easy day for the end. But that's all right. We've got to earn this, right? We've got to earn it. So ladies and gentlemen, I hope this shit hasn't bored the hell out of you. But thanks for following along. We'll see you tomorrow morning. It's cold. One more day of running. Let's do this. It's going to be a beautiful sunny day up here in Vail. All right, here we go. Make it our way to the start line. I've got to put on my sunscreen. Vail to Beaver Creek. All right, all right, all right. Let's go running. These two right behind me, they're on their running moon. They just got married. Are you enjoying it? Yes. Sometimes. My legs are definitely feeling the six days of running. But the excitement of the finish line is pulling me. This might be one of the most beautiful aspen forests I've ever gone through. One of the best things about this entire week is that I've gotten to see parts of my state that I've never seen before. So that's exciting to me. I love Colorado. I've always loved Colorado, and I love it even more now. Have a hug, Santa. This is day six. So I'm just going to deal with the pain, get to the finish line, and know that I can sleep in tomorrow and not run. And now it's time for some sketchy technical downhill, my favorite. Graceful. So graceful. It's pretty sketchy because there's so much overgrowth over the trail, so you don't really know where you're putting your feet. How about some of this? I think I can. I think I can. Even though uphill is obviously hard, it's a lot easier on my knees. This uphill is the real deal. It's not just a slight incline. We're going right up the face of the ski hill. This is testing all of me right now, mentally and physically. Wow. Damn, look at that house. I need to start making some more money on the YouTube to buy one of those. One mile left, finally on the downhill. That's Sony cams. That's so cool. My man. Thank you. What's up, who did it? Thank you, bro. Hello. And look, it's all ready for me. Thank you for all your support this week. Hey, no problem. You guys are awesome. Good job on the great work. That was great. How do you feel? Good. Happy. Sorry. I'm happy and tired. Yeah, a little bit. What do you think of the last uphill? A little bit long. It was so long. I think it's OK. It's OK, yeah. Nice work, nice work. So fun. Good job, Cam. Thank you. Finish lines are one of the happiest places on the planet.