"It's Not Called Easy Camp....."
Bevan in the KOM jerseyThe title is a quote from Bevan. This guy was unbelievable. He won the KOM for the camp. He was always upbeat and no matter how tired he was, he never showed it. Everytime he heard someone ready to break, or just be hurting, he would throw out that one liner with his Kiwi accent.... "Its not called easy camp, this is epic camp boys". I tell you this because I think it is what got me through a majority of the training sessions.
One experience on the camp that hits this point was I think on day 3. I was off the back after lunch. We where into a 130 mile mile ride and still had Lydis pass to climb. I wanted to get in the van so bad, but I just kept hearing Bevan in my head. Well just when I thought it couldn't get any worse I made it to the pass, climbed it, got to the top. I was so shelled, that I was blacking out from the effort. I reached for a water bottle and drifted off the side of the road and crashed on my intial decent. That was my lowest point of the camp. Again, I wanted to just get in the damn van. I got up dusted myself off, poured some alcohol on the road rash, and finished the ride. I tell this story because I don't think the biggest gains for me where physical on this trip, they where more mental.
I could go on and tell you the numbers, but I decided that I wanted to recap Epic Camp differently. It is so much more that just smacking out huge numbers. It will probally take me a few posts to get all my thoughts down, but I figure this is a good start. In the next couple days I think I am going to cover epic camp from a physical, and mental perspective. I also want to touch on the people that make it pretty special.
Thats it for now.
RT
One experience on the camp that hits this point was I think on day 3. I was off the back after lunch. We where into a 130 mile mile ride and still had Lydis pass to climb. I wanted to get in the van so bad, but I just kept hearing Bevan in my head. Well just when I thought it couldn't get any worse I made it to the pass, climbed it, got to the top. I was so shelled, that I was blacking out from the effort. I reached for a water bottle and drifted off the side of the road and crashed on my intial decent. That was my lowest point of the camp. Again, I wanted to just get in the damn van. I got up dusted myself off, poured some alcohol on the road rash, and finished the ride. I tell this story because I don't think the biggest gains for me where physical on this trip, they where more mental.
I could go on and tell you the numbers, but I decided that I wanted to recap Epic Camp differently. It is so much more that just smacking out huge numbers. It will probally take me a few posts to get all my thoughts down, but I figure this is a good start. In the next couple days I think I am going to cover epic camp from a physical, and mental perspective. I also want to touch on the people that make it pretty special.
Thats it for now.
RT
posted by Konatri at 9:22 AM
2 Comments:
Ron,
Way to go for sticking it out. I had the opportunity of seeing Ron during that low point and really felt for him as soon after finishing the ride he mentioned, he had to quickly pack up and do the aquathon race. Kevin Purcell told me "You will never be the same again after doing epic. The suffering you experience in Ironman will be nothing compaired to how you have suffered at Epic Camp"
Way to go Ron. It was great meeting you there!Power to you in Arizona!
Ron you are my F...ing HERO! You have me soooo pumped right now. I miss ya alot Bro. All is incredible here. We'll talk very soon.
Dr. Dave in Barcelona
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