WOW. They don’t call it the hardest 33 mile XC course without good reason. It was. I was humbled with a time of 6:47.
I would like to share a little of the run for you:
The course starts with some single track through the woods with mud pits up to your knees. You then get to run up a river for 3 miles, back into the woods. You then run up Jay Mtn (4000 ft) and back down. Back into the woods, more mud pits. Up another river, through these coverts (tunnels) with rapidly flowing water. Back into the woods — oh yes more mud. Then off into the swamp–several miles of muddy water up to your waist and these holes that dropped you down up to your neck. Down a cliff into another river. Try not to fall off a waterfall, scale some major rocks and back into the woods. Add some dirt roads, fields and fire breaks and you have made it 24 miles. 9 miles left!
I did survive. My quads are destroyed, but I survived.
I will drop some pictures in for everyone. A big thank you to Mark who helped as support crew.
