Ken Rideout

and um eventually some trucks came through that were like race support like checking on people and i was like yo what the f man where have you guys been this guy's struggling so they start giving him first aid i'm like you guys are good they're like yeah and i just took off like a bat out of hell and i won that stage by 90 minutes which is what i ended up winning by so then i get there at like five o'clock that night we start at eight but because people were going

50 miles and everyone's finishing at different times.

The next day you didn't race.

It was, so that was like Wednesday night.

We race against Friday morning.

I'm like, oh, I got to hang around at this camp for like 36 hours.

It was like hell on earth.

Cause I'm like, I'm hungry.

I'm cranky.

I don't want to be around anyone.

I'm in a tent with four or three women sleeping on the ground, no shower.

I'm washing my clothes with the water.

It was like a survival experience, but I was like, okay, now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

And to the Swiss guy's credit, I mean, he was destroyed.

He barely finished.

On Friday morning, he got up and came out like a bat out of hell.

We frigging sprinted for 26 miles together.

And at the end, he ran away from me on a downhill.

He was really good going downhill because trail runners are very technical and I'm not.

And going the downhill, he just ran so fast.