Jamie Ray began running trails of Hiawatha Highlands last summer to prepare for 15-day trek on Mount Everest that November; last week, he completed 42-km Everest Marathon
A Sault Ste. Marie man who recently competed in one of the most gruelling marathons on the planet says he only began running seriously last year.
“It’s a pretty strenuous thing but it’s something I always wanted to do,” said Ray of the Everest trek. “I have never been a runner but I decided it was something I wanted to do. Some people plan this thing for years, but I only decided six months in advance that it is what I wanted to do.”“You have heard of ‘couch to 5K?’ I was doing couch to 10K,” said Ray. “I don’t like running on the road, I only want to run in the bush on the trails.
“At an elevation like that, everything you do is about twice as hard. If you think about just throwing on your hiking boots and going for a leisurely walk — we are doing this on huge inclines,” said Ray. “All of the time I spent training and doing technical running in Hiawatha really paid off, it was good to prepare me for what I was going to do, minus the elevation.”“I just thought that is amazing,” said Ray. “We are tired coming down and here are a bunch of people running up.
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