Today we finished and got our medals. I am so happy to be done. My left knee is trashed it feels like bone crushing onto bone. My right ankle is swollen across the top. At first I thought was possibly stress fracture but I think just ligament issues. Now that the race is over trying to rest both and living off pain killers. Ship is already rocking pretty well and I guess tomorrow supposed to be 10x worse. Guess I

Well then12 hour day

Day 2 is complete. The hip is ok been worse. As in I can at least still put weight on it. I pretty much gave up on any aspect of racing and I just try not to hurt myself more. The fun part is the loops are super short so I get to see everyone over and over again. I decided to just high five everyone as they go by. Today we ran a 2k loop on steep hill side that was covered in penguins. I actually have been taking some pictures. I also now have a penguin

Day one is done. I knocked out 30 miles today. I only went knee/thigh deep in snow 10-15 times. It turned nasty as looks added up

Well my bags got lost on the way through Argentina. Good news is I was able to find all needed gear for the race. Bad news is the damage it did to my bank account. We are out in the middle of the drake passage now. Took a while to get used to the rocking of the ship. The staff is saying that the rocking back and forth is nothing to what it can be. I guess that is a good way to start out nice and easy. So far only wildlife are sea birds. Food on the ship is pretty good and the lectures are pretty good. Some want to send me the score to the Texas Kansas game and who is playing in big 12 championship?

As I sit here in my hotel room in Mexico City on my way to Ushuaia I realized how long it has been since my last blog. A lot has happened since I last wrote one of these on the atacama page. To make things short I got engaged after the race up at the geysers in the atacama. When I came home I gave the hip sometime to heal which did not happen. I had to go get a steroid shot to fix that. It