35.63% of AT miles covered, roughly..... Re: [at-l] Ruck Thruhikers

[mvhudson at gmail.com (Mark Hudson)]

Worse than the CPR training, is that somewhere in that stretch of time
they'll start referring to you as "the old man" instead of dad. Shortly
after that, instead of pushing for more miles at the end of the day it'll be
"Ya know Cole, we oughta stop now, we don't want to wear the old man out".
<g>

On 11/28/05, Sloetoe <sloetoe@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Nightwalker <nightwalker.at@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mark Hudson <mvhudson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > : <<Oh, and officially now, they are now completely outpacing
> > dear ol' Dad ...
>
> > : Last year behind you, this year with you... next year ahead
> > of you. Year after next you better make sure they have their
> CPR training in <g>
> > : skeeter
> ### That is OBVIOUSLY what is going through their little
> minds.... snotnoses. So at the end of the day, when I'm
> wondering "Hey! Who's up for a 8 mile downhill to Wesser
> tonight?!?!" I am *not* surprised to get no takers. Heh!
>
> > Sounds like they help train 'im for those MondoThons.  :-)
> ### That they do! That they do! Did I tell you 'bout last
> Saturday? Did I? Did I? 21 miles, 5000' of climb, from Fontana
> Lake level up Clingmans, and then DOWN to Newfound, starting at
> 10:30am, dark by Mt. COllins, slowed WAY down by nasty sneaksy
> icy rooties -- that took a toll. But they thought we would knock
> out Fontana->Wesser in a day and a half, no prob! Ha! They kill
> me. But in the middle of the climb last week, as we're *really*
> pressing going up this one slope, Magic comes out with "I just
> *love* this mountain! It just falls off to *nuthin*!" His bro'
> responds with "Yeah, but Cole, did you see the view of the
> horizon? See that whole range over there?" Now I'm pretty much
> sucking wind at this point, and these two are comparing micro
> and macro views 7 miles into a 13.1 mile incline. Holy cow.
> OK, that's my brag. They'll kill me, but that's my brag.
>
> heartburstingthroughchestwalltoe
>
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
>