Kusam Klimb

Last weekend I competed in the Kusam Klimb, a 23 km race / hike with 1473 meter elevation gain over the first seven km. One way to look at this is that over 7 km you go from sea level (9m) to top of a mountain (1482m) with four feet of snow. Here's a map.

I have been exercising a lot lately, but not hiking, so I was a bit concerned, but it turned out that the combination of training with strength training, jogging and martial arts was sufficient prep. I was able to power up the steep sections relatively easily, and had to slow up a bit to wait for my partner, otherwise known as mom. Unfortunately, at about the 18km mark my knees began to trouble me, and I slowed us down significantly. In any case, we finished in about 7.5 hours.

Next year it might be fun to get a library team together for this...

I did this event with my camera, and as soon as I update my Flickr account I'll post the pics here.