Seventy48 2022 - Human Powered Race - Tacoma, WA to Port Townsend

I appreciate the rawness here, that's ok, I can appreciate my own rawness. My GoPro batteries drained quicker than usual and my hands were cold and I was in a hurry so was not about to use the spares I brought. Filming is important to me, I have been doing it since I was young, I learned from my grandfather to almost document everything. Why? For you, maybe others will enjoy the ride and if you film them they really like it unless they don't but mostly they do and I do because we have this one life and filming it lets you live it over and over. So when the batteries told me they were giving up I changed plans and turned them off so I could use them when I really wanted to, the beginning and the middle. The middle was the hardest, or maybe it was the beginning that was the hardest... getting things ready when you are nervous is hard. Getting cold and off track is hard, but also the whole experience is AWESOME. I enjoy working hard and pushing myself to my limits but I also wanted to succeed. Adventures like this are a quick way to learn about life. Being able to deal with the ups and the downs the invincible feeling and then the feeling of being fully afraid even if fleeting can teach you more about you than anything else. Each time you are afraid you may learn something new so I am not of the illusion that because I was sacred here or scared there, that I know what I'll be like scared with you, but I know that everything shall pass except for that one thing that won't, but I won't let that stop me until it does. Everything is changing and that's even without us forcing it too. We hang on too tight to the way things are but "Are" is always moving. I'm stubborn and people like to label me as such, but their labels only stick In their minds because they glue them there, I am, we are fluid, my stubbornness is not the same stubbornness of 10 years ago and thank goodness cause if we are not moving we are dead. This race was RAD, I know now how I can improve the next time. I am proud of how I trained. I had some good help! I and also proud of how, I did I had some good help! I wanted to finish in 14hrs and I did in 14hr 10 min. I also wanted to just FINISH. My Grandfather was out there correcting my course and I'm grateful for that. So here you go a 70 mile race that took me 14hr 10 min boiled down to 5 min and 43 seconds. Thank you for the Finishing Footage J. Ruffo!!!

[@calipaddler]

love everything about this Say!

[@JamesHunterRoss]

That is SO hard core... I can't even imagine doing those kind of miles, especially in 14 hours! Amazing!

[@user-jm1un3hs3o]

Посмотрел с большим интересом. Удачи.

[@nate_skate]

Did you paddle through the night or camp out for a bit?