100 Days To Ultraman Mexico

In 100 days, I’ll take on the biggest challenge of my life: Ultraman Mexico a three day ultra triathlon covering 515 kilometers through the mountains of Zacatecas.

In this series, I’ll be documenting every day between now and the finish line sharing my training, thoughts, and everything that goes into preparing for a race like this.

I found endurance sports in my late twenties. I signed up for a marathon to fundraise for a documentary I was filming in India. I’d never run more than six miles in my life, but I had six weeks and a free Nike training plan. How hard could it be?

By mile 19, I was clinging to a stop sign my legs locked, unable to bend my knees. Everything in me said I had to quit. That I had failed.

But I had committed to something bigger than myself and I couldn’t walk away from that.

I stood there for ten minutes, stuck in the pain and indecision. Teetering on the edge of quitting. Finally, I took one step. Then another. In those steps, something shifted. The pain didn’t go away but a new belief filled my awareness: I could finish.

I walked, I jogged, and finally I ran across the finish line.

That experience was a pivotal moment in my life.

Endurance racing has never been smooth for me. But I found in it a process of self exploration:

Find the limit. Go past it. Repeat.

This October, I’ll meet that limit again on a scale I’ve never experienced.

This is the countdown to Ultraman Mexico.

Let’s go.