Pretty much race time

Well I last night I did not have any catastrophic race dreams; generally I have a few dreams where al goes wrong. I am hoping that I learnt a lot last year and will be able to take that and apply it to this years race.

The conditions are looking to be quite burly, from high winds to snow and freezing temperatures. Basically mother natures worst. But whatever comes will come and I will be ready for it all.

Here is the website for the race 24hoursofsunlight.com

I know that they post the lap times so you may be able to tell how I am doing, I am hoping to average just under 42 minutes a lap. Staring a little quicker and finishing a little slower. But who knows.

during the race Frank and I are going to make small video to some how show what it takes to do the silly things I do. also to show the degradation of character as I mentally fall apart!

all for now. I will blog after the race.

THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT I PROMISE A FEW FEET TO ALL MY FRIENDLY SUPPORTERS.

Getting ever closer

Sorry I haven’t been keeping up with my blog but I have been traveling and getting things ready for this weekend. I am in Ogden Utah getting my skis for the race, Goode skis have made me a specific ski that should be 300-400grams lighter per foot than last year, that will be huge!! It will definitely be a psychological and physical advantage that will equal more vertical. The ski will weigh in around 700grams per foot plus bindings.

I am feeling good, Frank and I hiked up in the mountains today to get some acclimatization and I hope to get up to 11000 feet in the Wasatch tomorrow. Apart from that it is time to focus on all the small things that will make this race easier. Food, skins, bindings, boots, clothing and many other little things to deal with.

Again I am sorry I have not had much to write about but I will be back soon.

The psych

I really wasn’t nervous about the 24 hours of sunlight race till the other night when Tracey started to question me on what my goal was. Till then it was a daydream of things to come. But at that moment it became a reality that is about to happen.

And now it is 8 days away and I am beginning the real psych up. Trying to amp myself up, increase my mental levels so that they will pull me through the race. ” Breathe and Believe” has always been the mantra and now I must really believe.

Over the season I have tried to make 10 000 feet feel less and less challenging, so that I can make 50+ feasible. If 10 starts to feel easy than doing over 5 times it should be challenging but achievable. Some times its hard to imagine what 50 000 feet was like last year and how I plan on doing more this year. Such a large number it almost seems like a dream. To climb up 15 km vertically and ski it down seems ludicrous.

But this lunacy is about to happen again and I must channel everything I have to make it seem feasible.

The energy levels are building and my being is excited about the challenge. Soon I will be challenged to dig as deep as I can.

Looking forward to it………