Wild Wire. Quite a crew too! Silly me told Leslie I'd try to pace off of her on the way up. TRY is the pertinent word. She flew up that! Women's FKT car to summit is now 35ish min. 2400ish vert in 2 miles... yikes!
I only had green juice and eggs the whole day, and stupidly drank a soda and ate a banana on the way over. It was just asking for my blood sugar to crash. Sure enough a little over half way up I started the usual cold sweats/shakey hands/mild confusion. No biggie. Then my feet went numb. For some reason (confusion?) I thought taking my shoes off and putting them back on would magically resolve this. So I did so twice. My feet were still numb. Somehow managed to get up the darn thing in the 40-41 range (at that point I didn't really care....) Jim's been around long enough to know me and he gave me a gu which I eagerly sucked down.
Then I saw the crew starting down a diff way and I took off- fun time! I quickly passed the first couple guys and fell in line with Pete, who flew down the hills and I had a jolly time chatting with him and trying to keep up.
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