Spartan Race Trifecta Weekend Krynica, Poland July 29, 2017

Below is my review for ORM of this weekends race. Beast was 23km with 1500m of incline and decline. Super was a similar course , 15km with 1400m ascend. Sprint was a similar course, 8km with 1100m ascend. I did 0 burpees on the beast and sprint, and 60 burpees on the super. I flipped at the end of the balance beam and scratched my back on the end beam , but they said i stil had to do burpees haha. Very fun course, technical terrain especially the long creek runs, and non stop uphill inclines. The sandbag at the end was very long, like 500m in total with the first half being a 20℅ incline. Ended being 67/1000 at the beast overall, raced in the competitive heat, and qualified for OCRWC. They were giving awards for the open heat as well, if i would have known i could have been first in that wave. Would be cool because they would announce my name and then country of origin!
Link to my ORM review is here: Poland Race Review. Feel free to contact me if you need other race reviews!

Rysy trek, morskie oko - Tatry Mountains

On thursday while i was in zakopane, i didnt want to waste any day so i decided to hike the largest peak in the polish tatry mountains. Rysy has an elevation of 2499m. I started from Morskie Oko which lies at 1395m. The estimated hiking time was 4hr10minutes to reach the peak. I hikedthe mountainous cliffs in 2hrs and 10minutes. There were some moments where it was cloudy and rainy and I got lost. Some of the trails i did required rock climbing! The last 15minutes had chains on the mountain to help climb to the top. The total trek was from the parking lot to morskie oko to czarny staw to rysy and back. I did a total of 40km this day.

Gulbalowka, Zakopane

This was a short hike right after the rzeszow folklore festival. I ran with a friend, recorded 3km with almost 300m elevation increase. This took us 20 mimutes. I ran down the same way under 7 minutes.

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

I decided to do a night hike across the cliffs of Moher. They are located on the coast south west of Galway. Since it was cloudy when I arrived in the evening, I was going to wait until the morning. I was trekking all night 42km in about 9 hours. 3 of those hours were full of wind and rain. I was the only one on the cliffs. During the night i ran with my head lamp. All i can see is little specks for eyeballs from.the cows and sheep. I also seen a cat, and what looked like a small fox. In addition there were 4 horses following right next to me so i never knew what would happen. I believe the cliffs are 5km long, and then another 15km to get to the northern town. My suunto watch recorded a total of 1200m ascend. The views in the morning were spectacular!