To My Mud Mates--One Year Later.

[Markuson]

MAN, I get nervous just looking at the pictures. Kamal and I both had a hard time watching you out there. Not a fan of heights......

Really glad we got to see you out on the trails this year. Enjoyed meeting Julie as well. Aubrey really enjoyed talking with her in Breck.

Can't wait for next year. Hope the time in between is kinder to you.

Ya, my problem is I grew up climbing the tallest trees in the jungles of Colombia in S. America and heights honestly don't even quicken my heart rate. It's just not a factor. So it's more about thinking to myself that if I can swing my legs over a park bench without falling off (we can all do that) the height doesn't change anything.

I know it probably looks dumb, but I've gravitated to heights ever since I was 4 years old & am far more careful/thoughtful that it probably looks. The ONLY time I've ever been hurt was last year...but that was where I was at the mercy of three other people. When it's just me...-despite crazy heights literally hundreds...perhaps thousands of times since very small...I've never had a serious accident or broken anything... Not even one time.

I forget sometimes that for some, it looks insane--because growing up as I did, heights were just routine.

 

[steenh]

I don't get too freaked out by heights, but I wouldn't be sitting there, ever. I'd either fall off and die, or Linda would kill me as soon as I got to safer ground.

 

[Markuson]

Ya, we all have our limits...and our wives... And sometimes "wives" and "limits" are synonyms. Heehee

 

[Reccymech]

umm.....being the newbie here, and not knowing the 'backstory', other than what has been written in the opening thread, I can only add:

"What does not destroy me only strengthens me."