95 tops 90

There was this Everest challenge at Sir Sam's this year, its purpose was to raise money for their Ski Patrol.  No prizes, just recognition of your accomplishment.  I had my reservations when I signed up for this challenge in June, as their logging system was a google form, and it was an honour system for logging the number of climbs you did on every visit.

The challenged ended on Aug 30 when they put the leader's name on the webpage. I even did another 4 repeats on the last day of the challenge.  I had asked how far behind I was as I was had completed 95, and found out the leader had logged 90 climbs.  Unfortunately the distance log form only captured 80 of mine.  But Strava logged all 95 of my climbs.

There was no prize, only bragging rights (even that I felt a bit robbed of since another person got the recognition.  I did send along my strava links as proof of my 95 climbs).  

I do not intend to do this challenge again.  I like having a variety of different ride options - mtb, gravel, road.  This took some of the fun out of mtb this summer for me as I was trying to do volume vs quality.  And I rode solo for a lot of it.  Almost all of it.  It's not like there's ton of trails.  But I did accomplish some PRs.  I had never climbed double digits on a single visit.  I did it 2x.  I never ride there Sat & Sun.  I did that pretty much every visit to get to 95.  My next goal was 100.  But I was cut short, and kinda done with mtb this season.

I took a selfie when I hit 88, and had ChatGPT generate an animated version of it,  I thought I would post it anyways.