125. The Mountain That Changed Me: A Midlife Woman’s 3-Day Trail Challenge | Part 1 of the 29029 TRAIL Challenge

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🎙️ Show Notes:

What happens when you voluntarily climb the equivalent of three mountain marathons in three days? You cry, curse, question your life choices… and maybe, just maybe, find out what you’re really made of.

In this episode of The School of Midlife podcast, Laurie takes us on the trail with her at the 29029 TRAIL Challenge in Park City, Utah. From a 4:45 a.m. wake-up call to a literal emotional breakdown when she realizes it’s her late father’s birthday, Laurie brings you with her—every painful, beautiful, sweaty, soul-expanding step of the way.

You’ll hear:

• How training for six months changed her body and her brain
• The emotional gut punch of racing on the anniversary of her father's retirement… the day he never got to enjoy
• The unexpected power of community on the trail (hello, Team LFG!)
• Why doing hard things on purpose is a non-negotiable part of midlife growth

This is not just a story about hiking. It’s a story about healing, honoring, and showing up for the life you say you want—even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.

Resources & Mentions:

• Ep. 123: The Real Midlife Crisis? Thinking You Have More Time
• Best Life Retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho

Takeaways:

• "Preparation is the event. What happens before the start line is where the real transformation begins."
• "You don’t need to be the fastest—you just need to keep going."
• "Midlife isn’t too late. It’s the exact moment you start climbing your own mountain."

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Transcript

[00:00:00] What happens when you hike three mountain marathons in three days? Well, you cry, you curse a little, or in my case, a whole lot. You even question your sanity. But if you're lucky, you'll also find out what you're really made of. In today's episode of the School of Midlife podcast, I'm sharing what I learned on the trail at the 29 0 2 9 trail event, the pain, the power, the perspective that only comes when you do something really fucking hard and you do it on purpose. Let's dive into it.

Welcome to the School of Midlife podcast. I'm your host, Laurie Reynoldson.

This is the podcast for the midlife woman who starting to ask herself big life questions. Like, what do I want? Is it too late for me? And what's my legacy beyond my family and my work. Each week we're answering these questions and more. At the School of Midlife, we're learning all of the life [00:01:00] lessons they didn't teach us in school and we're figuring out finally what it is we want to be when we grow up. Let's make midlife your best life. 

Well, hey friends. Welcome back to another episode of The School of Midlife podcast. I'm your host, Laurie Reynoldson, and I am back. Did you miss me? Did you notice that there was no new episode last week? That's because I was just back in town from completing the Everting 29 0 2 9 Trail Challenge in Park City, Utah.

That's three mountain, we're gonna call 'em marathons in air quotes, because a marathon is 26.2 miles. When you take it in the mountains, it's a marathon ish. It's more than that because there's just no way to measure it out so that it hits [00:02:00] 26.2 on the dot.

Suffice it to say though, after completing the challenge, I was completely exhausted, like more tired than I have been in a very, very, very long time and, and for good reason, right? I had been training for six months up until that. 3 long, long days on the mountain and not good sleep in between. But when it came time to record an episode last week, I was just too damn tired. And I thought about uh, posting a replay and I could have done that, but I was too tired to do that. So let's just say that I took last week off to try and sleep a little bit and, and get back to zero to get kind of back to some sanity on where I was and, and get my wits about me. And I just needed the time.

So, um, hopefully, hopefully you are also taking [00:03:00] some time off. It's a summer. And, uh, yeah, we can all use a little bit of extra time, but what I thought I would do in today's episode is actually walk you through the event, tell you a little bit about my experience, because I've had a lot of people questioning, well, why would you do that? Um, but two, what is it like to do an event like that?

Because obviously, like I said, I've been training for six months. You don't just go out and do something like that. There's a lot of prep time that goes into it. In six months, I'd been training, and the same is true even when, um, I say ran my first marathon. People thought, why? Why would you do that?

How can you just go run that? Well, there's a whole process. You train. You train your body, you train your mind. You practice what you eat. So it's all part of. What you do before you actually get to the start line, that makes the biggest difference. And I've talked a little bit about that, [00:04:00] maybe not as much about my training as I, as I could have, but, um, we can certainly get into that.

You have some interests, then just shoot me a dm and I'm happy to talk to you all about the training and, and what I learned along the way. But today's focus is. The event itself, and I will wrap it up with, I think I've got five or six different lessons that I learned about. Completing the Everesting 29 0 2 9 Trail challenge, which I'm just gonna start calling it the Trail Challenge 'cause it's, it's too much of a mouthful to just keep saying Everesting 29 0 2 9 Trail Challenge every time I say it.

So the trail challenge. You know that, that's three marathons in air quotes, three marathons, three days. Let's get into it.

So day one. Thursday morning. Thursday morning, July 10th, and I set my alarm for 4 45 in the morning. Because the challenge starts at 6:00 AM. I know that I've got a bit of a morning routine that I have to go through, and [00:05:00] I also know that I have to eat something.

And from my training, what I figured out was I'm going to, instead of eating because chewing that much food to get that much protein and calories in in the morning is really, really hard for me, especially at that time. So instead of eating, I'm going to drink a smoothie, which was great. I trained with a smoothie. It's the same smoothie I drink every morning. It's got about four 40 grams of protein in it. It's got a ton of calories in it. I can add more calories by putting some full fat yogurt in it. Strawberry. It's great. Love it. Love my smoothie. Put on my sunblock, put on the protector, it's called Salty Britches on my feet so that I don't get blisters. I've got my race day kit picked out, you know, a black shirt with a sports bra and [00:06:00] some great shorts. I've got my shoes. I, everything is there. I, I'm all ready to go.

And I sit down to do my Morning 5-10-5. So it's in the Best Life Planner. You've probably heard me talk about it on this podcast before, but I start every day with the Morning 5-10-5: 5 things I'm grateful for, 10 dreams I achieved and I write them as if they have already come true, Five things I'm looking forward to today.

And that was the first time at about five 30 on July 10th, on day one of the trail challenge that I realized it was my dad's birthday. And I know that that sounds ridiculous, that I've been training for this, this event for six months and I don't even realize that it's his birthday until I'm getting ready to, to go out and start the event.

But it's because for the entire six months when people ask me when the event was, [00:07:00] I would always say it's the week after the 4th of July. So I had not keyed into the dates at all. I kind of knew that like the 13th was in there somewhere. I felt like the ninth was in there too. But I really, I, I hadn't looked at the calendar enough to know what the actual dates were.

So here I am writing my Morning 5-10-5 I realize it's my dad's birthday, and if you've been around here for a while, you know that that is an important date for me because literally everything I do at the School of Midlife can be traced back to my dad's birthday in 2015 when he retired from his job at 66.

Okay? He did that in 2015, July 10th, 2015. Then he had a heart attack and died five months later. Everything that I do at the School of Midlife is talking about not waiting until retirement, not waiting until the time is right, but actually making [00:08:00] your life as good as you can while you're here , and not dying like my dad did so early with so many plans that he didn't have a chance to, to accomplish or didn't have the opportunity to experience.

So here I am in my room and I'm getting pretty emotional because like I said, I finally realize it's July 10th. This would be my dad's birthday. And he's not here. And I didn't realize that until right now. And Mike hadn't flown in yet. So I'm literally in a hotel room, five 30 in the morning. It's dark and I am just sobbing. I like, I can't quite get it together.

And the one thing that. Invariably happens for me, to me, at the beginning of any event that I have trained for, is I get super emotional. Because [00:09:00] I start thinking about all of the preparation and the sacrifice. All the work I've put in, all the fun that I've missed out on, you know, especially this year. A lot of concerts or weekend dinner parties, and, and I didn't go to those because I knew I had to get up early in the morning because I had an eight hour training day ahead of me, or a seven hour hike I had to do. So I chose to not do a lot of the things that I really like to do.

And I always think back on those things and it always is an emotional start to the day for me. I mean, this. Event in particular, I, I changed a lot of my schedule around so that I could accommodate the training. 'cause the training was a lot. I mean, it was almost like a, having a second job. But even when, you know, I talk about missing out on things on the weekends, but my weekend and Mike's weekend and our friends' weekends, they were [00:10:00] all, for the last six months have been planned around my training schedule.

Even when we went to Mexico on vacation, it was still, how can I get the miles in while I'm here? How can I get a thousand step ups in? I actually did those on a

street corner in Mexico because the sidewalk was probably 10 inches above the road and I just stood there during rush hour traffic, doing my step ups in the middle of San Jose del Cabo. It was, I'm sure fun to watch, but regardless, there's been a lot of time and attention putting into the preparation for this specific event, and I'm always emotional at the beginning of an event.

So much so that it's really not uncommon for me to to cry a little at the start line because all that emotion is bubbling [00:11:00] up. Well add all of that typical pre-race emotion bubbling up to the fact that I've just realized it's my dad's birthday and forget about it. I was a complete wreck at the start line. And even after I got to the point where I kind of got my shit together and I wasn't crying anymore, I was still super emotional.

Like I could feel it in, in my throat. I couldn't quite breathe. I, I wasn't really crying. I was more tearing up, but I just had this lump in my throat and, and I couldn't breathe. Well, anytime you're gonna start an endurance event, you should be able to catch your breath, right? I mean, we're not moving yet. We we're gonna have to climb several mountains. So like, get your shit together, Laurie. You got, you have to be able to breathe.

So what I did is I waited until everyone else started at 6:00 AM. And the beautiful thing about this [00:12:00] event is you can start anytime between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM. You have to be on the course by seven or they won't let you on. I just waited until the entire field went ahead of me at 6:00 AM. And at about, I don't know, 6:15 maybe. Maybe a little later than that, I started. And it was lovely because I was on the trail by myself for the first couple of miles and I'm watching the sunrise over the mountain peaks and I'm thinking about how grateful I am to have this opportunity, and how I'm just not letting the lesson that my dad taught me, I'm not letting it go to waste.

I'm actually putting my money where my mouth is, and I'm doing something to honor his legacy on his birthday. I'm making sure that I'm honoring, like I'm living this lesson that you can't [00:13:00] wait. You can't wait until the time is right. You can't wait until retirement. And I'm walking the walk. I'm, I'm like, I'm doing it. I'm climbing a mountain by myself.

I went into that a lot in the prior episode of the School of Midlife podcast. If you haven't listened to that yet, that's, that's definitely worth a listen. I talk a lot about my dad's legacy. I talk about the top 100, how that informed how I work with my coaching clients now, all of that goes into the work that we do at the School of Midlife and why I feel like it's so important there. I'll drop a clickable link in the show notes if you haven't listened to that episode. I think it would really be worth your time. Got a lot of really good feedback on that one.

So if you haven't listened, go back, listen to that. But let's get back to the TRAIL event. So, day one was billed as the hardest of the three events because there were over 18 [00:14:00] miles at Elevation. And Elevation is relative here. Um, at when they were talking about at Elevation, they were talking about over 9,000 feet. So, Over 18 miles, over 9,000 feet. So that's pretty high. And if you're not training at Elevation, then they can sometimes take a little while for you to be able to catch your breath. And sometimes people can't catch their breath at all, right? Because they live in Atlanta, they live in Houston, or they live in Florida, wherever.

But much, much lower elevation. Really the entire thing. The entire course. All three days were at Elevation because even the base camp was at 6,800 feet, so everything feels like it's at elevation. But day one was supposed to be particularly hard because we were so many miles above 9,000 feet.

When it came to me though, day one was a breeze. The first [00:15:00] four miles were so strikingly similar. To the first four miles on my home trail. I, I mean, I'm looking at my pace. My heart rate is always where it is for the first four miles. I get to the first aid station, which is four miles in. It took me just over an hour or so, an hour 10 maybe to, to hike up nearly 2000 feet. That's exactly what I do at home. I was like, this is gonna be a breeze. No problem at all.

And you know, I'm largely hiking by myself, just like I did on the trails. I'm listening to the Smartless podcast on my speaker because I forgot my headphones, ironically. That's exactly how I had trained with my favorite podcast episodes on my phone listening through the speaker, because most of the time I was training solo. I mean, Theo was there, but it's, [00:16:00] it's that exact question that they've been asking women, would you rather meet a bear or a man in the woods? Well, yeah, and most of the time I'm by myself, so I wanna be able to hear what's happening around me. And I accidentally left my headphones on my desk in Boise for the event, So just like normal hiking, just like normal training. I've got my pack on, I've got my poles, I'm hiking, I'm listening to my podcast. Everything is great. I'm right on pace. I mean, this is exactly how I trained.

My plan going into the event was to hike all of the ascents, all of the uphills, and then run the downhills if they weren't too steep and the flats, and that's exactly how I had trained. On day one, there was some beautiful, runnable downhill. I mean, we're talking running through Aspen Groves that are just [00:17:00] these tall white trees with these lovely green leaves just fluttering in the wind against this crystal blue sky. It just stunning, gorgeous views. Um, we're running through some wooded trails around a mountain ridge line. Just stunning, beautiful, and I was really, really in my groove for the first half of the day.

Then the desense got steeper and I am not super surefooted. I, I kind of feel like that must be some sort of a muscle that you tone up. I, I, I just don't have the confidence. I am not surefooted so I go very slow on the downhill, and so, you know, I'm 16 miles in the day's going great. I feel good. My body feels good. The hydrating plan is going well, the eating plan is going [00:18:00] well, and I stop at aid station 16. No big deal. Scheduled stop.

Coming out of Aid Station 16 by myself, so I've got a little more than 10 to go, I meet Michele from Connecticut and Mike from Boston and Scott from Wisconsin, and we became team LFG, Let's fucking go. Up until mile until eight, station 16, I'd been hiking by myself, and I am not being dramatic here when I say I finished the TRAIL challenge because I was lucky enough to meet Michele and Mike and Scott at mile 16 on day one.

Your ability to finish any of these events are a true testament to your own hard work and [00:19:00] preparation. But there is absolutely no underestimating the community. I invariably meet incredible people along the way at every single event that I have ever done, and, and these three were absolutely no exception. I find that it's just easier to finish Well, to even just do the event. I mean, 'cause there's a lot of hours spent in the doing.

It's so much easier when you find someone who can be there to help buoy up your spirits when you're lagging. And I know we all did that for one another at at different points. We were all individually in our own pain caves, where the finish line seems impossibly far away or where we start questioning our own life choices. Or we wonder why was this ever a good idea? Why, why did we think this was a good idea to start with?[00:20:00] 

And what I found is if you're by yourself, you just might quit. But when you're surrounded by a support team, when there are other people counting on you, when there is at least one other person to metaphorically lift you up.

I know Michele and Mike and Scott did that for me throughout the course of the weekend, and I can only hope that I play a small part in helping them complete the TRAIL challenge too. But, and yes, we all finished. Out of the 330 participants, 78% of the people finished. 78% who started the challenge on Thursday completed all three days. The four of us all completed it, so that was great. Team LFG crushed it.

Anyway, we finished day one and that's that by any measure is a great accomplishment, right? 20, we'll call it 27 [00:21:00] miles for day one. And 5,500 feet of elevation gain. I finished in just under 10 hours, so we put in a good day. It was great.

After you are off the mountain, That's like when prep for day two begins. Because you have to make sure that you take in some fuel. You need some food, you need some hydration. And then they have this beautiful recovery tent set up. So there are cold plunges and theros and massage therapists and foam rollers and guided stretch. If you've developed blisters, you can go get them taped by professionals. If you want, you can sit and have a hydration iv. I didn't do that, so I don't know much about that, but I know a lot of people sign up and sat there.

The recovery is so important because you gotta do this thing again tomorrow and you gotta do it again the next day. So [00:22:00] you have to think, Not only am I feeling good right now, but you have to really have some foresight about what do I need to do at the end of day one? I'm off the mountain. What do I need to do to set me up for day two, and to create that foundation so I can finish on day three?

Honestly, I felt great after day one, Mike and I went out to dinner. I got a 20 minute massage, went to bed, thought this is gonna be great.

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Day two comes around. Just like day one, I have my morning routine. I drink the same strawberry smoothie. I put my clothes on, do [00:24:00] my Morning 5-10-5, no crying on day two, I got that outta me for day one.

I meet team LFG at the start line, and before we know it, the event starts and we're off. And the sun is rising to the East and we're talking and we're already at mile marker one. I mean, that happened so quickly, and I think it, it surprised all of us that we were already a mile in, but it also kind of bolstered our attitude. I mean, here we are. We're making good time, we're enjoying ourselves, we're plugging along. It completely seemed like it was gonna be a repeat of day one.

And for the first 12 miles it really was. We left Park City. We headed west to the US Olympic Park where we were. Our team was actually interviewed at the aid station, which was at the top of the Bob Sled course. [00:25:00] Um, they wanted us to be inspirational. We totally were. Michele, I, I think I'm, I'm remembering this correctly, but Michele and Scott focused on the opportunity that we had in front of us, how grateful they were for the community and our families.

Mike reminded everyone that we paid to do this, right? Not only in the dollars spent to participate, but also in all of the time spent in training and the time spent away from our family. So even if our bodies were a little sore on day two, remember that we get to do this, so we opted to do this, that we have paid to do this, so let's keep going.

And I talked about, if I had any doubts at the start of day two, I'd realize that I hadn't come this far to only come this far. So yeah, I had done day one, but that's not why I came to Park City. I came to go all three days. So let's get our ass back on on the trail because we didn't come this far to just come this far.[00:26:00] 

We're plugging along at a great pace. We all felt great. We hiked to the top of the same exact ridge that we did on day one. But instead of being rewarded with that lovely run through the Aspen grove and the single track through the wooded area, we get to the top of the ridge line and then we are facing a descent that from the top completely scared the shit outta me.

If you are a skier, this is what it's like. You're skiing down a run and you get to a point where you can't see over the hill in front of you. I am not a super aggressive skier, so that to me always means I need to stop and just have a peek over the hill here to figure out what is ahead of me.

Same exact feeling when we're climbing up over this ridge. We [00:27:00] get to the top of the ridge and then it's almost like the entire mountain just falls off in front of us. And once I'm able to get over the ridge line and look at what is ahead of me, It's probably about a 40% grade super steep of red shale. I, I think it's shale. I don't exactly know, but it's, it's loose and it's rocky and when you step on it, it like gives way. Super steep, super lo loose rock all the way down, maybe a half a mile. I don't know. I mean, 'cause you can only see part of it. And then once you get to that part, then it it just keeps going. So maybe half a mile.

I don't know. All I know is everyone was slipping on the rock, myself included. You know, I'm using my poles to just stay on my, my two feet if I can. [00:28:00] People are completely falling around me and you know, as soon as they go down, then you hear the, like of the rock coming. It was madness it was awful.

I, I was so slow. I was trying my best not to fall. I was super grateful that my team waited for me at the bottom because they were faster than I was, um, faster as relative, but they got down before I did. Thankfully, they waited for me, and I was just thankful that I had made it down.

We're rewarded by this mountain road, which albeit , a very rocky mountain road, the kind of road that you, the kind of rock that you feel under the sole of your shoe, every step you take. It's super sharp. The edges, I mean, your, your feet are kind of angry at this point, but it's still very [00:29:00] loose rock, still downhill, but at least relatively flat or much, much flatter than what we had just come down, which I ended up nicknaming Satan's Gullet. Red Shale, Satan's Gullet. Very steep. Yes. Hated it.

So we're on this mountain road and then we encounter the next uphill. That hooks into a trail called crazy miner, M-I-N-E-R, like miner. We're back in the trees, we're back on a single track. It was so great. I, I loved the break from the hot sun. We're on Crazy Miner. Everything's going pretty well until we reach a series of switchbacks, again with the loose rock. But these switchbacks, single track, but more like half a single track, they're super narrow and they were pitched towards the edge of the hill. Super [00:30:00] loose rock pitched towards the edge of the hill. And it might be a little dramatic for me to say that if you slipped on the trail, you'd fall off the trail and die. I, that might be a little too dramatic, but you would definitely get hurt because it was a decent fall off the side of the hill and

uh, it scared the bejesus outta me. Because I'm not good on downhill anyway. It's steep. It's narrow. There's a cliff on one side, a lot of loose rock. Mike led team LFG down the switchbacks like a pro. I followed right after him, constantly asking Michele and Scott behind me. Do you wanna go ahead of me? Because I, I was so slow. Scott, As it turns out, we later learned that he was a kind of an expert at running down trails. [00:31:00] He was coaching Michele and me along the way.

Once we were finally off Crazy Miner, We're back on the mountain trail. We all made it down in one piece. We're super thankful for that. Michele confesses that she was close to tears a number of times on that trail. It was, it was so steep. And, and Satan's Gullet and Crazy Miner all within like three miles of each other. So here we are, first 12 miles of the day, Wonderful. These three. Awful. Awful.

And we're finally back on the mountain road. When I look back over my shoulder at the trail we had just come down, there was a sign marked for another trail or maybe the trail we'd bent on, it's super hard to tell, The trail was named [00:32:00] Tombstone, so yeah, it might have been dramatic for me to say that you could die if you slipped and fell off the trail.

What wasn't dramatic that day Two, I had never in my life been on a more technical hike than day two. From mile 12 to the end, it was the most difficult hiking day of my entire life. All of the descents were so steep that I couldn't run them. Which meant I was also on the hill a lot longer than I expected for day two.

I mean, day one. Also long day two though, definitely longer than I had planned. And, and when you're training, like I had been for six months and, and all of my training was very consistent as far as my pace goes. You know, I think maybe if I have a really rough day, maybe I'll be on the hill for nine hours, maybe 10, if it's really [00:33:00] long, day one was very nearly 10. Day two was shaping up to be even more than that. In fact, I finished I think at about 10 and a half hours on day two.

Mike and I went to dinner that night at the restaurant, at the hotel, and we were talking to another guy who was doing the event and his wife were sitting at the table next to us and we were commiserating on how tough day two was, particularly because it was so steep. And this guy, he looks like his full-time job might actually be doing these endurance hiking events, endurance running events. I mean, there were real athletes at this event. People that do this for a job, not those of us who, you know, take it up as a hobby just to see if we can do it and, and spend essentially the equivalent of another full-time job doing the training.

But this guy, 100%, looks like he does these events all [00:34:00] the time. And in my mind he's saying it was tough, it was steep, So I'm feeling completely validated. Until there's this other guy at the table across from us who hears us talking about, says he liked day two more than day one. He said, because he doesn't like going downhill. He doesn't like going down steep hills. And endurance dude guy and I are like, what the fuck are you talking about? Day two was all these steep downhills, it, steep, technical, hard, complicated.

I, I, I literally was speechless. I, I, I'm doing kind of what I'm doing now where I'm, I'm waving my hands about and trying to come up with something to say to this guy. 'Cause what do you mean? Day two better than day one because you don't like steep downhills. It was just bizarre [00:35:00] to me. I am not sure what he was thinking, but it was ridiculous. Day two, hardest day of my life. And of course, what do you get rewarded with for day two? Finishing? Day two, you get to come back for day three.

It turns out girl has a lot to say about the 29 0 2 9 TRAIL Challenge, so I'm gonna split this right now into two parts. You've just listened to part one, come back for part two.

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