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Your story sounds pretty familiar, Blakeslee. I was on a team with jsragman, and I think our feet experienced the same waves of pain as yours. Great job on that time, though, you really smoked the course.
Your time was much faster than we completed it, and in our AAR, we identified our lack of cardiovascular training as a weak point in our PT plan. We were definitely not ready for the difference in elevation and the crazy inclines...or the sand pit. I was hating life during that little stretch. That sand was intense...felt like I was walking but not going anywhere. I'll be back out there next year with a new crew, so we're going to have to re-tool our training plan a bit. Still a great experience though.
As far as the wounded warriors go, seeing them on the trail was one of the most inspirational things I've witnessed. My hat's off to all that competed. I couldn't help but feel like an ant in their presence at the finish line.
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"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not a good idea. So, too, it is better to recapture an army than to destroy it."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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