TAHOE RIM TRAIL 100 | A Mountain Adventure

The 2024 Tahoe Rim Trail 100 was meant to be the continuation of my summer of mountain 100 milers to continue to check off US states with a completed 100 mile or longer race. Unfortunately, things did not go as pklanned and instead of my body making things challenging, it was mny mind that had other plans. While my race didn't go as expected and, spoiler alert, I dropped at mile 56, you will get to see the TRT course in its entirety as some sections are run a couple of times in both the same and opposite directions.
This was the second time I had the opportunity to run the Tahoe Rim Trail as part of an ultra marathon. The first time was during my Tahoe 200 experience a couple of years earlier. It is definitely a spectactular playground that offers trail runners everything they would expect. Beautiful single track, high altitude and views of beautiful lake Tahoe and its surrounding mountains.
I did learn a couple of things. For one, I got confirmation of why we do these things: Because success is never guaranteed! Second, I learned that it is important to get at least some distance to an experience or DNF before making any wide reaching decisions. It is truly an opportunity to both learn and to humble ourselves.
In any case, I hope the beauty of this course shines through in my video and that the inner dialog with myself captured on camera provides some insight into the "demons" we all have to battle at one time or another during an ultra. And as you can see in this video, those battles arent always won, no matter how many times ones has gone through it.