[pct-l] Thanks! and 54.1 miles in a day!

[calliger@infolane.com (R.J.Calliger)]

At 8:42 AM -0800 8/6/01, Luke Snyder wrote:
>Hola Compadres!
>I
>And...just to stir the punch, let it be known I rocked
>54.1 miles in one day.  It took me 16.5 hours of pure
>rocking to finish my Ollalie Lake to Timberline Lodge
>goal before dark.  Let it be known when you put a
>powerful body and a determined mind together,
>wonderful things can happen.  If you even think to
>flame me with the "Why?" questions, the answer is
>"because I wanted to know what my limits are (much
>like why I decided to hike in the first place)."  The
>trail has become more to me than just a flat path to
>follow.  Email me off list if you care to get the
>philosophy
>The next day I hiked just twenty.
>

Congrats on finding limits....

I did 40 miles several years and pounds ago--
so  I know how you rocked! especially
doing 20 the next day (I could do only 15 my next
day)-- torquing it out to test your limits is absolutley
**great**-- I would have gone for 50, but my 40
included 4200 feet of gain. All told it took me
18 hrs., about 2 no-dozes, and 3cups of coffee and 6 aspirin-
full moonlight helped too!

Knowing why,

Rich