Climbing Mt Whitney was super hard. Now that I am home and sitting on the couch looking at the videos I took, it seems much more pleasant. At one point on the trail I was having to convince myself to keep going, to not quit.
As part of that thinking I kept repeating, "just keep walking" and "just put foot one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walkin' out the door" in my mind to myself. I also thought about other physically hard things I've done and if this would be in the top 10. I think it is.
Here it is, from my oxygen starved mind at 14,000 here are the physically toughest things I've had to do in my life. (in no particular order of difficulty)
-Running a half marathon in 1:53 with no training and never having run farther than 5 miles before.
-Get walking again right after abdominal surgery.
-Climb Mt Whitney in 17 hours.
-Get up and moving again after my two worst bicycle crashes. One of which resulted in broken bones and the other in peeing blood for two days.
-Pushing my intestines back into my body.
-The first day back to jiu jitsu after years off.
-Running until I passed out in junior high wrestling practice.
-Committing to moves rock climbing, high off the ground and run out above my pro. (though this might be more mental toughness....)
-Staying awake for 3 days, only two hours of it in that time, in Iraq.
-Do 750 push-ups in 8 hours.
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I still think that it's impressive that you did this climb just six months after major abdominal surgery, with two years prior to that of surgery after surgery and just being sick in general.
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