Despite the above title and factual evidence pointing to this being the second day of the mission, I am convinced it was actually day 100. Really, that first day could have easily been 99 in disguise, judging by how much was crammed into it and how much perseverance it took me to get through. On day two I woke up in the tent in the AM, hoping the rain would have passed. It hadn’t. It was still pouring and the mud had risen even higher overnight. This would actually be last day in the mountains, but I didn’t know that, so I was wondering how the hell I was going to make it through the next few days. I’ll be honest, I slept in, but I couldn’t for too long because the doctors and dentists had
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