Hi you all!
On May 14th I ran to the Mexican border with my bud BJ - totally on the PCT trail! We started 30 miles north of the border and ran south to touch the border in Campo, Ca. What an awesome run this was! Starting at 4:00 am and finishing after 12:00 pm we completed the run right when it was starting to get really hot! Wow, it was hot for about 1/2 the run, but we had plenty of stashed water along the route. Lori and Sunny even met us near Campo and gave us even more water and food. From there, we only had 2 1/2 miles to go so we finished in fine form. Thank you again Lori!!!
Getting up at 2:00 am, this was the earliest start I have ever done in an Ultra, but I'm sure glad we did start at that time because it was sure hot! We started at the PCT Kitchen Creek trailhead and went south. We saw damn near 30 through hikers, but no other runners the entire time. Some 15 miles in we came across some unused small plastic bottles of cinnamon whiskey and so BJ and I split half of one, just for the hell of it. That really woke us up for sure!
I'm so glad I finally ran another part of the PCT and finally to the border! Now I know what the dumb new border wall looks like. What an embarrassment. Anyway, such a great day of running with my best running bud ever!
Thanks everyone for the encouragement and support! Take care.
$100.00 donated on 5/21/22 to the Shirley Marcos Disease Research.
