I attempted The Ultra Marathon (50KMs)
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Summary
A little over two weeks ago, we were preparing for the Squamish Ultra, a famous race in Canada. It's one of the most popular ones in the 50k category, and the Thursday before we were supposed to leave, a fire took off.
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I wanted to push myself past where I'd ever been before.
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I wanted to do the 50K Ultra, an incredible feat for me.
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It was that one event that was going to shape me and push me and really just seeing what I'm made of.
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A little over two weeks ago, we were preparing for the Squamish Ultra.
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It's one of the most popular ones in the 50K category.
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And the Thursday before we were supposed to leave, a fire took off.
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I thought the whole town was going to burn down.
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Blue skies, but just this massive smoke line through the air.
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As we're parking the boat, we could see the fire crest the top of the mountain.
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Two hours later, the whole side of the mountain's on fire.
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You could just see for miles just people standing there watching this fire sound.
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Devastating wildfires ripped through the central Okanagan this afternoon.
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There was just no part of me that felt comfortable.
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Dan came home and he's like, we need to leave now.
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I have a responsibility to keep my family safe.
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Took us an hour and a half to pack up everything.
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That night, half the group had decided, because of the wildfires, that they weren't in the
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The other half, we decided to make our way up to Squamish, about a two-hour drive.
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Tomorrow morning, it's supposed to go to seven.
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that's a good decision. Then we decide we're gonna go register. They don't know
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that we just checked in though. I haven't told her. They're all like, I'm proud of that, making her a decision.
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Not anymore. We'll see. We'll see what she thinks, bye. It was a very unhealthy day in Squamish.
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The smoke was unbelievable. And the smoke kept getting worse and worse and worse.
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It eventually got to a place where a lot of people were not doing the race. If
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If you're out on a mountain range and all of a sudden the wind shifts or blows harder,
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you're in the middle of it, where are you going to run to?
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Do you really want to put your body and your lungs at risk at that level?
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Eventually, we just decided it wasn't worth the downside.
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I generally believed for the sake of his health that that smoke was going to affect him.
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but I knew in the back of my mind that he was going to run it someday.
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Trained, showed up, consistent, vacations, run.
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He can't just train for it, talk about it, and not do it.
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I was like, am I really not going to do a 50 this year?
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That was the part that was eating me up inside.
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When you say you're going to do something, you got to do it.
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i was training i was lifting and i just took out my phone i messaged davis i'm doing 50 on sunday
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he's like you're seriously gonna do it and i said yeah i'm gonna do it essentially we got on a zoom
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call and designed so this 54k is the route that we've designed to do but it is gnarly when dan
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wanted to run the 50k on his own course i just thought of course he's going to do this the fact
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that i'm doing this unsupported is crazy if he like gets hurt it'd be probably like a kilometer
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walk from the closest thing nearby nobody recommends it's unsupported by myself it's
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an ultra it's my first i've never done it before so man i'm looking forward to it
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i slept really good that's always the saving grace
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have a morning routine just had my peanut butter banana bagel coffee i want to get the coffee in
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early some electrolytes make sure i'm well hydrated
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Alright, are we going to see you guys at the finish line?
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How do you run 50k? One foot in front of the other.
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back side of that mountain with the tower, highway 33 on your way to Big White,
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in there, start, back, all the way up to the top
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of that peak, down, cross the valley, hit Mount Baldy,
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come up all the way on the backside of this then all the way to the top of that
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mountain all the way to the top of that mountain all the way down and then all
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the way up that ridge to the backside pretty much where McKinley is all the
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way up across those humps it's almost like the backside of a dinosaur and then
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I scoot across all the way back down the valley up into Knox get a run up Ogopogo
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Let's go start one foot in front of the other.
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My big why for my run is for the BC firefighters, the guys that gave themselves their lives to save our homes.
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Starting the run. Pretty much running to the top of that. It's called Black Mountain. Here we go.
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Almost an hour in. First peak in sight right there. Oh my gosh, what a day!
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on the first big traverse up and down a mountain,
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about 20K in, and then he ran with me for about 12K.
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He actually created it, which I absolutely needed.
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where we came down this major two kilometer downhill.
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Like, am I going to have to walk for the next 15K?
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And I was thinking, what's that time going to look like?
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Dan does Ironmans and 50K Ultras and swims eight kilometers across the lake
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because it's his addiction and it's a healthy one.
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I learned so much about myself when I suffered.
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Every race I've ever done, the last 10% is when I've learned something about myself.
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The very last part of the race was straight up, literally almost stairs.
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Got a huge uphill, 300 meters elevation, 47 kilometers in, three left.
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I just had to keep reminding myself that I get to.
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All I keep thinking about is that I get to do this.
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and it was just such an important reminder for me to just get past the pain of going straight
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up the mountain. 1.2 kilometers left. Everything I do is to be better for Max and Noah and Renee.
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I didn't expect to see them there. When I saw them in the woods they were cheering me on and
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I gave them hugs and kisses, and I kept going and dropped down the hill.
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And I looked back, and Max and Noah were running behind me.
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You ask my kids, what does it mean to be a Martell?
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Because one of our values as a family is Martell's do hard things.
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to run with them for that last kilometer that made this race better than any race i'd ever run
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before because that happened the easiest way to apply the philosophies i'm sharing today
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in your life is just get up and go to the gym and if you've been going for 45 minutes go for
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an hour if you've been lifting 60 pound weights go to 65 like whatever part of your life that
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you know there's an opportunity to add a little extra just do that that's all i'm doing people
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see my chapter you know let's call it 25 and they compare that against their chapter three that's
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just not fair don't think well I could never do that you absolutely could you can learn over time
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to build the capacity to do it I'm just suggesting start today with something simple if you haven't
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worked out in a while go outside for a walk don't allow yourself to not push yourself a little bit