King of the Hill

Overview

I finished in 1:02:35 for first overall in the 10k ruck. There were only four other ruckers this year and the notable absence was my buddy GEORGE1 who absolutely crushed me last year. Without GEORGE there to keep me honest, I finished four seconds slower than last year.

Overshadowed

With Shenanigains going on back up in Albuquerque and with the Bataan Memorial Death March only eight days away, I did not write a race report, yet.

The day before KotH, I visited a local podiatrist. After we agreed that my hot-spot symptoms were consistent with a morton's neuroma and definitely weren't a stress fracture, he gave me a cortisone shot2. The race wasn't long enough to determine whether that helped appreciably, but it definitely didn't hurt.

Other than that, I don't think there's too much to say about my race at KotH. However, in addition to the 10k Ruck, there were other races and so there were lots of participants. I hope to come back and fill in a few stories, including how I conspired with Piggy Style to claim that I paid him $20,000 to leave the country during the final race of the Albuquerque Brewery Tour so that I would win the crown.



1

I have a few friends whose first name is George, including a friend whose father and son are both George. I have such trouble remembering names, I tried to pay George to get his wife to rename herself to George, but I guess my three dollars isn't good enough for that stuck up George. Anyway, this GEORGE literally sends all of his text to everyone in ALL CAPS. He's a huge inspiration to me, because HE'S ALWAYS SHOUTING words of encouragement.

2

As far as I know, prior to my appointment, I had never met the podiatrist (whose name I'm omitting in case he wants to avoid being associated with this ne'er-do-well), and yet without prompting he volunteered "You trimmed your beard!"