Peru’s Jungle Ultra is mostly downhill, dropping 10,500 feet from the cloud forest down into the Amazon over its 142.6-mile course. But underestimate it, and you’re in for a world of hurt. The five-stage, self-supported race winds its way through utterly remote terrain, where temperatures hover over 90 degrees, the humidity is brutal, and hordes of biting bugs are just waiting to make you their lunch. Along the way, participants wet their feet in 70 tropical rivers and streams, in some cases zip-lining over them.
When I say I’m backing out, I’m backing out. When I commit to something, I give the max possible according to my goals. Main thing for me in this race would be that I don’t want any weakening of my bone density, etc. After the race, fine, but not 1 mo after race.
Also, I think we shifted from me thinking I could win a small Ultra to a bet for $10K on a bigger race with probably lower mile splits. I’m still going to look into it, but my real goals here are MMA related. To compromise those goals would cost much more than $10K.
Ok ACE. I’m literally throwing you a charity bone here. I’ll give you the Vermont 100M as an option. It’s not one of the absolute monsters like Leadville, Western States or Hardrock with a deep professional field but it’s a nice middle of the road average 100 Miler. It has a very average field and will still break your soul. It requires you qualify by running a 50 miler in under 12 hours in the year leading up which should be simple for you. Remember, you still have to win, if you ain’t first, you’re last.
The Vermont 100 is a small ultra, field of about 400, very average. You told me a could choose and I’m giving you now four options in the bet you recommended. Now you’re making a bunch of excuses, as you always do on your way to publicly backing out. When are we getting a final decision? If it’s a money thing I’ll even give you two to one odds.
I’m probably going to cross the line on the 50mi on Nov 3/4, crying, on my knees, screaming … “BS was right!!! BS was always right!!!” the pain, the agony…
I’m going to straight up warn you for your own good Vermont in July will not be cool.
Also, note Heartbreak Hill. To be fair, the other races all have bigger elevation change and higher overall elevation than the Vermont 100 so this is still your best bet.
I pretty much do what I commit to and do what I say for everything, even sending those wack ass emails to the CEO and Board of Directors that I even posted on here back in the day.
Here, let me simplify this. Go ahead and choose any ultra marathon over 100M in 2019. My choice is Vermont 100M as the most reasonable alternative but I’m getting a lot of feet dragging so just pick one by year end, tell me about it and then win it but if you’re picking it, I want even odds and it has to have existed for prior runnings with at least 20 people in the field.
Oh, I’m fully aware of the ridiculousness of this bet. Even at the local grassroots level you’re self selecting some insane athletes into these fields.