Coyote2Moon 100mile Race Report

It was almost Saturday midnight, March 22, 2008, and the darkness was broken by only my flashlight and the full moon. I’ve been moving on my own for over 31 hours covering 83 miles and 44′000 feet elevation change so far. My map shows me that I should be on the 2nd last aid station soon and I look up trying to see any lights. While doing that I got scared to the bones because I’m looking at a big tree which has dozens of human faces staring at me. In an instant reflex I jump back and hold my flashlight against that tree, and with my eyes wide open I recognize that they’re just leaves.

Honestly, I am about to freak out. It’s dark, I’m alone and I’m seeing faces all over the place staring at me. It’s making my tired, beat-up body tremble and every single hair stands up while goose-bumps attack my body over and over again. Soon I realize that I am heavily hallucinating and all I can do is to stare at the floor, ignore the product of my imagination-gone-wild and keep moving. I have read about these events in other runners’ race reports and always thought that it would be an awesome adventure to experience it myself. Now I do and all I want is for it to stop because it’s not as much fun as I thought it would be.

Read the entire race report onfriedquads.com. Via planetultramarathon