Col de Balme

But it was a very different sensation, one that I have had a few times but just haven't really thought too much about it.

Um, but yeah, when I actually got up to the highest points of the course, so up at the Col de Balme, I was breathing really great.

I felt, felt really good.

It was going down lower where I'm think- I think it's air quality.

Started feeling stronger and stronger.

Had said to a few people that I recaused, I was like, "Oh, I can breathe again.

This is great." Um, ran across the top, got to Col de Balme, had made up the places that I'd lost and some.

Um, and was a bit behind schedule at this point, but it was like, "Okay, if I can continue to build off of this, then that's great.

And the highest section.

It was, it was up, uh, Col de Balme, so it was over 8,000 feet and-

Oh, boy

... like, it, my hands were so cold I couldn't, um, you know, collapse my poles.

[laughs] Um, but I, I was excited.

Just, like, I just wanted to go out.

I wanted to also run Col de Balme when I could, when we weren't socked in so I could see the views, 'cause everyone was like, "Oh, it's so beautiful up there." And when we got up there-

Yeah