Category: Experiences
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The Adventure of a Lifetime. Almost.
It was going to be this incredible adventure. This accomplishment that I’d been waiting to accomplish since I first started craving the taste of adventure. It had always been a “some day” until one day I realized it was someday. I couldn’t comprehend it until I was in it: because it was almost unreal. DAY 1. On…
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It’s not everyone’s fairy tale, but it’s mine. [Killington SR: Year 4]
![It’s not everyone’s fairy tale, but it’s mine. [Killington SR: Year 4]](https://beyondexistence.life/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_4424-e1506355360215.jpg?w=1024)
If there’s one feeling I would call the ‘best feeling in the world,’ it’s the feeling of accomplishing something that was once surely ‘IMPOSSIBLE.’ And, when I couldn’t help make that happen for someone, I left the ‘Mile 3’ marker behind, now alone, being pushed hard by a fire fueled with a very different feeling:…
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Who’s in for LAP 2?! Killington. Wintergreen. Lake Tahoe. 2016
‘Still covered in mud I stepped into the tub, half filled with water, and realized it wasn’t rising because the drain stop didn’t work. I put a plastic cup over it; it scrunched up from the suction and basically didn’t work. I almost fell asleep so I got out. Too tired to actually shower, I barely…
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The ups and downs of Killington, and the ups and downs of getting there
BACKGROUND 10 years ago I couldn’t run a mile; I couldn’t do one pushup. Yesterday I ran the Spartan Beast at Killington solo and missed only 2 obstacles (one being that damn spear throw). I was a chubby kid, not athletic, and shy. When you mix those things in a school setting, kids laugh, confidence…
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The simple struggles and simple luxuries
Today I write from Sean’s phone using McDonnalds’ WiFi. We spent last night in a hotel after our hardest day to date, and today, as per Sean’s executive decision and the snow, we’ve stayed put. When we left Paris Tuesday morning we rode through the Arc de Triumph: The craziest roundabout in the world. Our…
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Arrivée á Paris!
We must have ridden 100 km yesterday, but we didn’t (couldn’t) FIND Paris. I bought a GPS our first day in Beauvais because I knew we would get lost. It helped until it ran out of battery 40 km into our ride. We rode through beautiful countryside and through cute old towns. Every few minutes…
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Yolanda.
As we bounced along the windy dirt road, sitting in the back of a bus heading from Tacloban to Ormoc, my friend asked me, “What’s your reason?” It’s a question that comes up often between friends when you’re all part of a volunteer organization. “I’m lucky enough to be able to.” Not only am I…
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Hurricane Sandy
“Hurricane Sandy may slam into U.S. East Coast as Halloween week ‘Frankenstorm’” –CBS News headline on October 25, 2012, 9:50pm. I was twenty-one years old, living on Eastern Long Island, New York. I’m something of a weather nerd – clouds amaze me, severe thunderstorm warnings mean ‘grab your keys and camera and get to the beach,’…
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