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He doing some bicycle crunches or what

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Speaking of that

Cat: “I’ve seen mice put up a better fight than you

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/

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Fell on my hike today…

I never fall. Not once in 2-3 hikes/weekend for the past 8ish years. Not sure if it’s the fact I have completely flat feet, fallen arches on both feet. Or if it was the 10ish years of competitive TKD training like 6hrs/day in the summer. Of course I’ve stumbled dozens of times, but always can easily correct before my brain even catches up to what I did. My body does it and the cognitive part of my brain is like “oh yea do that, good call” after it happens

My ritual is normally to start the day with a protein shake mixed with stuff like metamuscil and collagen peptides. But I was completely out. I fished around in my pantry for some old leftover and discovered a free sample of protein I had gotten

The problem was it was some sleepytime night version with a bunch of melatonin and other sedative supplement chemicals in there. But it was all I had and I figured I’ll have pre-workout in me, good luck making me feel tired

Was bombing up insisting on being the fastest up (pass everyone, no one passes or stays caught up), but I realized about 3/4 of the way up, “oh shit, this stuff is more powerful than I thought”

I felt drugged. Like drunk. Balance started to suffer, and a perfect storm happened of people coming down all in a row blocking any way to get by without having to stop. I went left to go around someone, then left again when I realized that way was blocked, and there was no where left to go but a cliff (this was a really steep part, like scrambling for most people steep)

I stumbled and realized I was falling towards like a 10ish feet cliff about 4 feet away. And the scary thing was my drugged brain didn’t care. It felt like a dream I was in, because this kinda stuff never happens. But I heard the people around me I was going around gasp in unison. And then I thought “oh shit, this is bad”…

So I went down kinda hard on knees and hands taking a bit of damage to stop myself pronto. Got a little scraped up but I stopped before the cliff

All I said to the people was “sorry I had nowhere to go”. But it wasn’t their fault. It was the protein 100%. Props to drugs on that one, you easily beat me, even with my drugs helping me

Still was fastest up even with having to repeatedly pause and wash blood off my leg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jimjam]

Yikes! Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Reminds me of the story of the Sky Diving Instructor who one day forgot to grab his parachute. Very experienced, just one day forgot a simple part of his routine. Not a joke, sadly, he is widely told tale on the internet.

Becareful out there guys!

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Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yikes! Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Reminds me of the story of the Sky Diving Instructor who one day forgot to grab his parachute. Very experienced, just one day forgot a simple part of his routine. Not a joke, sadly, he is widely told tale on the internet.

Becareful out there guys!

Ty, and for the TL[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]R here is a visual representation

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Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Was bombing up insisting on being the fastest up (pass everyone, no one passes or stays caught up)

this kind of ego is so silly to me, the mountains dont care about you and it'll get you killed one day. maybe ask yourself why you feel this way

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Originally Posted by booter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this kind of ego is so silly to me, the mountains dont care about you and it'll get you killed one day. maybe ask yourself why you feel this way

No need to ask, I am ultra competitive in anything physical. Always have been. I think it goes back to being a little kid and having my dad constantly ingrain in my head that if I was doing some physical activity, I had to be the best. This expanded into training 6 hours a day over the summer as a kid doing martial arts, wrapping ourselves in trash bags and running laps around the park in the summer with some kids getting heat stroke. Or how my dad rigged a cup of water with straps around my head to make sure my form and head movement was perfect when doing forms. I was one of the only kids who sparred adults, and nothing like taking a full on kick from an angry 35yr old man who you as a 10 year old kid just kicked in the head to make the hits from other kids feel like pillows

So I know how I am and why I am like that. Would I want it any other way? Probably not, it’s 90% of what keeps me going. I don’t think I would even continue to exercise at all if I wasn’t comparing myself to others. Just like how when I played mmorpg’s, my entire focus was getting better gear to be able to kill other players better. Then when rated pvp came out, I had to be the highest rated team on the server

Nature vs nurture, and I guess nurture won

This hike, while labeled “extremely difficult” is far from alpine hike difficult. It has at any time on a weekend close to 150+ people on it. There are spots where a clump of 10ish people all get bottlenecked waiting for someone’s kid to get over one of the only spots to continue on

This means that there is near-guaranteed to be someone around if someone needed help. I have reported various things like injuries and heat stroke to the park rangers at the base probably about 10 different times throughout the years. I have also given my extra water I bring away to people who asked dozens of times as well

If I had to guess as to how many times I have done this hike…well 104 weekends in a year, with 2-3 times per weekend hiking it, for the past 8ish years = somewhere between 1,664 to 2,496 times. I am convinced that I have done it so much that I have literally stepped in the exact same spots the entire entire way up and down in previous trips

Why do I keep doing it? Wouldn’t that get boring? For me the benefits are:

- it’s very close to my home, only a 15 min drive

- it’s steep enough to be a good workout still

- relatively short, not time consuming, I can get to the summit in 25 minutes and about 45mins down (I never haul down), so roughly a little over an hour total time

- I like to have people to compete against around and I like to be seen. I always perform better when people are watching. And this hike is considered the most popular in the entire state


I am also not alone, nor am I the best. There are a few regulars who I refer to as the “mountaineers” who are cardio machines who I have never beat. And there used to even be a “leaderboard” website of crazy summit times, with the fastest I think being something ridiculous like 14 minutes to the summit, which would be running the entire way (considering some spots are so steep they have railings not sure how this is even possible). Although I am faster than 99% of other climbers

Also, considering my balance is such that I have never fallen in years unless literally drugged, not worried about it

Would I behave the exact same on one of your alpine hikes? Hellllll no [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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I’ve done this hike so much that even the lizards know me. My Chuckwalla (type of lizard) bro, named Chuck (although it’s “Charles” until he gets to know you) would even come running to me, the only person I’ve ever seen who gives them water

He’ll even drink right from the bottle:

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[Duik]

Getting to know our new Lizard Overlords?
Also, cool.