A North Vancouver woman has just completed the Gobi March and has written her first account of the race. Below is an excerpt from her blog – give me a good reason – a mediocre’s  struggles to be average . Trust us, what she has accomplished is anything BUT average!

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obstacles are those frightful things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals

It was my anchor on Stage 01.

Ask me then if I was enjoying myself and I would probably have slashed your throat with the blunt knife in my swiss card. It could well have been the toughest day of my life. Although I was feeling great to go by the 9am race start, I seriously doubted how I was to cover the longest distance of my life. You see, I have a weak mind. For someone who had never covered more than 34km or sustained more than 6hr of activity, completing 39km with a 10kg pack qualified as a daunting task.

Wondering in the vast, desolate and arid land, baked by the immense heat, the mind took a form of its own. It is perhaps time to withdraw. There is no way you could finish this distance in this temperature. Stop at the next checkpoint. Quit and you can still volunteer. I learnt quickly the need to evict these thoughts.

After what felt like a lifetime, I saw the bright red banner and a smiling E welcoming me.

Me 1: Evil Mind 0

Continue reading on phyllislum’s blog …