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20 miles and a revelation
I groggily swiped at my phone, trying to snooze my alarm. It was already 4 am, and I was supposed to get up and leave for the trailhead in 30 minutes. I didn’t have much time, but I didn’t care. I turned the alarm off, knowing another was set to go off in another 10…
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20 days to go: assembling meals and training
General update I’ve been busy. I’m nearly 100% done assembling my meals, but the last stretch has been mentally challenging—assembling 120 packages of the same thing! Luckily, my Dad was over for our weekly Tuesday night hang-out and suggested making a large batch and then portioned out into individual servings. I resisted because I worried…
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29 days til start: Food Prep
When you start doing an activity, you realize what an enormous undertaking it is. I’ve been thinking about this trip for quite some time. In my mind, I told myself food prep would be challenging, but it’ll be fine. I’ve done this for all my trips, except that you can easily make a week’s worth of meals in…
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30 days til start: What is the Pacific Crest Trail
First, it’s incredible that I only have 30 days until I will be AT THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS! That is incredible, and at the same time, it still doesn’t ‘feel’ like anything major. I remember reading Wired’s countdown blog posts, and I thought they were an amazing way to introduce and bring people into her world.…
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The first 5 weeks
We are nearly complete with the first round of rewards! The reward that I chose is the Coros Pace 3 smartwatch. To catch you up, in early December 2023, I realized that I should reward myself if I stuck with the requirements I gave myself at the beginning. There would be three sets of 5…