Quick update

Last weekend, my friend Mike Gabiga, and I embarked on an attempt to finish a grueling 72km endurance race. I decided to participate in this race at Mike's behest because he had attempted two other times and wanted to have company, and someone in his relative physical fitness. (At least I was able to provide decent company.)

We actually did not make it past the first checkpoint in the race, which was 22.4 km into the course. I found the course to be vertically challenging. Our elevation changes were impressive, with one ascent rising over 800m in close to 1 km in horizontal distance.

At any rate, I carried about 7 liters of water in with me, and drank most of it before we reached the 1st checkpoint. When I found out that there was no resupply of water at that location... well I went ahead and tapped out. There was no way I was going to hike another 22 km with less than a liter of water in my Camelback.

So that was our attempt at the Hasegawa Cup.

~jp

Hasegawa Cup

 

 

 

 

These are some picture of the Hasegawa Cup, which is a 72km in 24 hour extreme cross country race. We were able to take a few pictures before Mike's camera battery died.

~jp