Peter: From Outside Magazine, this is the Outside Podcast.
It happens to the best of us: sometimes, you end up signed up for a race that you really have no business running.
My name is Peter Frick-Wright, this is The Outside Podcast, and the race I didn’t belong in was earlier this year and called the Yakima Skyline Rim 50k, and pretty much every single K is either straight up, or straight down.
I was in good shape at the time. I had been following a training plan for a 50M, which is not quite twice the distance, but most of those M’s had been slow, and on the flat. Just like my race was going to be.
But then, my plans changed. Instead of a long, slow, flat race, I got an opportunity to do something very difficult, and very vertical. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse, so I started looking around for races with similar terrain.
I signed up for the Yakima Skyline race because it had 10,000 feet of elevation gain and loss. I didn’t know much else about it, nor did I look into it much once I was signed up. And the morning of the race, one thing I realized I was particularly in the dark on was: who was this guy Tyler Green that everyone at the campground was talking about?
He was some kind of big deal, Ggoing for the course record, using this race as a tune-up for…
