speedgoatkarl

I think the hardest part of the trail for me was in Pennsylvania when I became injured with my right shin. The terrain is so technical it became tough to keep my record pace. Thank God those things passed and everything got easier after that. As I got closer to the end, the trail sort of got easier as I smelled the barn.

I've done this three times. The experience having the real backing from Red Bull is super important. It helps me focus on what I need to do as opposed to me doing all the logistics and all the math. As far as afterwards, there is a lot of media to do because I did break the record. But at the same time, that's just kind of what my job is and it will end eventually. But right now it's just important to me to stay focused and enjoy the moments. It's been a great experience. We really kept it pretty low profile on the trail, actually, as opposed to what we saw online. For me, I wasn't affected by media at all when I was on the trail, which was very important to the success.

I did eat a lot of sugary treats like cinnamon buns, to danish to perrogies to bacon to an assortment of random sugary candies. Not so much on the candy thing. I also drank Ultragen which is a recovery drink at every stop which is a really good source of recovery nutrients so it wasn't all sugar. That Ultragen drink is money in the bank. Anything my crew would feed me generally, like quesadillas, a cheeseburger or grilled cheese. I ate a lot of mandarin oranges. Your body craves fat. It craves junk out there. Even for someone who's vegan, the cravings for junk is there. I stay away from the junk as much as possible but sometimes it's actually good because it's putting more calories in your body. Ice cream was a hit. I think i ate a pint of ice cream in three minutes at one point. It might sound crazy to do that but at the same time my body is a furnace. They burn so fast i have to replace them as fast as possible.

Overall, my body is still very tired. My body is still experiencing deep fatigue. Every day I wake up and it's sort of normal, but by 10 a.m. I am ready for a nap again. Over time, this will get better and I will be back to normal in another month or two.

I wore Hoka Speedgoats. Each pair on this adventure lasted about 150 miles. Which didn't completely destroy the shoe, but it was nice to have new, fresh shoes every couple of days.