Personal Narrative-Course Racing Race

It was four in the morning at Lake Tahoe, and I was still struggling to find the will to roll myself out of bed. I was there to compete in the 2016 Spartan Race World Championships, in the ultra-distance racer's competitive heat. As I mentally prepared to face the morning, and what I knew to be an absolutely brutal event, I stopped to check my phone, and the weather. As. I absent-mindedly scrolled through the weather app, I confirmed my worst fears from the previous few days. A storm was coming- and it was a fairly sizeable blizzard. I put my phone down, and glanced to the corner of the room where I had placed my race attire the previous night. There sat a pair of shorts, a compression top, and a light wind breaker. It was at that moment I realized I fucked up.
I had been training and preparing specifically for this event for about eight months. Spartan Races are unique events- they fall into a genre of racing called OCR (obstacle course racing). As the name would suggest, they contain obstacles, ranging from simple (such as jumping over a wall) to soul crushing (carrying a one-hundred-and-fifty-pound bucket up a hill for half a mile). On top of the obstacles, the races are usually held on relatively extreme terrain- this specific course had two steep climbs up Tahoe's ski slopes …show more content…
Before we were sent off, the organizers gave us an extensive lecture on the dangers of hypothermia, and a brief explanation on the course. We would be running two sixteen mile laps, both with two major climbs and about thirty obstacles. It was revealed that the alpine swim was being cut from the course (due to some rather obvious health hazards)- but none of the other water obstacles were being removed. We were also informed that winds on top of the mountain had already been clocked at upwards of fifty miles per hour, and were expected to increase as the storm blew in in the afternoon. With that bit of cheerful news, we were sent out onto the

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