It Is in there.
Believe it.

When things look grim you Will be able to find it.

No Doubts. Only Confidence.

Good Luck!

My thoughts is that the older you get the more determined and stubborn you get, which can help you with something like this.

I think that I am a much stronger hiker than I was in my 20's despite the fact that I was in better physical condition back then.

You can do this....it is just one more step in the process of accomplishments that you have already done.

You have planned and trained, you know what to expect.

Doubts will vanish once you are on the trail and moving down each mile.

-Tony

Thank you everyone,
I think when you get older, your just doesn't take the input as well of your body telling you you can't do that.

More than likely because of other experiences that were much harder.
When you do have to quit, you also learn from the mistakes and tell yourself that won't happen again.

I know it's there, somewhere. as long as I can put one foot in front of the other and just repeat a few hundred thousand times, I'll be fine.

This will be my last post until after the attempt.
Thank you all for the helpful input.

Hey everyone,
Just got back from Tahoe.

I ended up stopping after 25 hours.
I will be going back up again later this year for another attempt.
I'll probably need to beat a time by then?

Nothing was at fault but my own.
I just wasn't having fun.

Here goes the why.

Why I had to start at the hottest day of the year?
It was about 92*. Not bad, but not good.
Mosquitos, oh yeah, (about 100 bites on each leg).

The biggest thing was going over Dick's Pass.
Going counter clockwise met kicking foot holds for almost 3/4 mile.
Everyone goes the other way and just slides down to the lake and skirts the lake until they hit the trail, so there was no trail going my way.

Just the effort that was put in doing this made the muscles on my inner and outer hips kill from balancing in the snow.
You don't use those muscles much so once they hurt, I couldn't run any more.
That is unlike me, (not being able to run).

I got to Echo Lake right on time, (9:00pm), but spent much more effort with the heat and snow than what was needed.
Going from Echo to Big Meadows was a snow patch and watery mess.
It took 7 1/2 hours to go that 15 miles. I got lost a bunch of times.
Went back yesterday to do it during the day for a nice little hike and it was a piece of cake 4 1/2 hours in the day.

By the end of day one and 67 miles in, I was in no mood to continue the nightmare of mosquitos for another day.
My legs were just shot too, from going over the snow.

I decided to not kill myself, and knew that I was not going to be able to make it in under 60 hours by just doing a fast hike for 100 miles.

I don't think a sub 55 would be doable by me anyway, but a sub 60 is.

I'm already planning for it.

Edited by awsorensen on 07/02/2009 21:13:07 MDT.

Aaron
Sounds like it wasn't meant to be on this go round.
Good luck next time.

Edited by asandh on 05/02/2010 23:36:57 MDT.

Good try! Every litlle bit of knowledge you pick up by actually getting hands on, and feet on, experience gives you an advantage for next time. Thomas Edison considered an experiment with a light bulb filament that didn't work merely more knowledge, and eventually he gained enough knowledge to succeed.

I'm still rooting for you. You got me and my wife talking about doing the trt. Not quite, so fast as you. Is there a couples record, closer to say... a month?

http://krudmeister.blogspot.com/2010/07/truckee-river-tahoe-city-38.html

Link above will take you to the current record day by day and how it was accomplished. Walked the entire way. I hope Aaron is able to deliver on his attempt to best the record someday as he sure has been talking about it for a while now. Will give me a reason to return and put something up strong in the running realm. Until then I guess it will just have to stand until someone is able to deliver...

http://runlaketahoe.blogspot.com/2011/09/live-two-trt-record-attempts.html?spref=fb

Looks like both attempts fell apart...

Edited by tooloouk79852 on 09/11/2011 18:22:09 MDT.

3rd time should be a charm!

Edited by tooloouk79852 on 09/11/2011 18:27:29 MDT.