#90/100 100s for military # #veteransuicideawareness at Blackbeard's Revenge 100 Ultra & Relay
I need to do a full report on this race because it was such a great experience. I had some incredible volunteers contact me prior to the race, Tyler, and his business team, made it their mission to crew and pace me and help me raise awareness and turn the run into a potential fundraiser. They went out of their way to put me up in a beautiful bayside home, feed me delicious food from local restaurants, and drove a truck the entire course, meeting me at various points with everything I needed, from lights to food to sodas, to pacers! 2 of the team are videographers and they took tons of photos and video in the hope of doing a documentary about me running the race. It was a tremendous weekend. Kevin communicated with the team and made sure they had me taken care of, especially with Wagu burgers donated from an amazing local restaurant! He spent some time on the phone to keep my mind occupied, I also got to talk to my daughter Hannah on her bday, and my friend Ben in Utah called and gave me a pick-me up. II really struggled with nausea after 40 miles and barely kept anything down but fluids, and after a few spells of heavy vomiting and dry heaving, even gave up on fluid. one of the team, Jordan, was an amazing friend and paced me the last 50k. It was wonderful to have someone to talk to and keep my spirits up. We had a great time together. He was fun and intelligent and kept me distracted and moving forward. By the race end we both had very sore feet and lots of blisters. Id struggled from as early as mile 5 with overall fatigue being the 3rd 100 miler in 3 weeks, but we finished well under 29 hours. Id hoped to finish under 30, so I has very happy with the time.
At the finish line the medic was worried about me and took my pulse and pushed fluids, but I recovered pretty quickly.
I'm preparing to run #91 this weekend and will be back to 3-4 weeks between races as I push to 100, so hopefully I'll have more time to write.
Spring has been difficult. I am very very relieved to have finally purchased Froggy Mountain with Kevin Silvey as my 50/50 business partner. We are an amazing team and best friends and have a similar vision of how we want our races there to look. Financially I'm strapped and worried about paying for Ouray and UTMB especially since I was just hit with a $20k tax bill, which is ironic since I'm still living in a camper with no running water or plumbing system...how can you have to pay such a huge tax bill when you're barely getting by? Thankfully most of my race entry fees are at least paid for. I set out to finish this goal of 100 100s and I'm going to do it, even if it leaves me penniless. Kevins a brilliant artist and businessman so hopefully we will put our heads together and get Froggy going into a thriving business.
I guess it's my struggle time in life. I don't hear from my kids hardly at all and I'm not really having the heart to date so I spend a lot of time alone, and traveling to races alone. I guess I'm learning a lot about myself in the process. Shouldn't have regrets in life, everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I'm amazed that you can try and be the best person you can possibly be and still end up down at the bottom, but I'm trying to have hope in the future, and I feel Dexter hanging out with me on my rougher days.
# 91 will be at Bootlegger 100 in Georgia this weekend.
"I was surrounded by love and more help than I could possibly imagine, both pacing and crewing through the kindness and commitment 8 people had this weekend to not only get me to the finish line, but to create an amazing awareness and fundraising campaign at the aid stations for #22toomany They really loved on me! I'm so humbled and sooo grateful!
The sun & strong headwinds were relentless and dehydrating so much so, that I couldn't keep any food down after 40 miles. The course is way harder than it looks, but managed to pull out 28:38."
LCpl Brodie Gillon, KIA 3/2020 carried her as part of the Wear Blue Piewesta challenge honoring women in the military killed since 9-11. Friend of my dear friend Derry Jarvis who always runs for Dexter.
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