{"id":25620,"date":"2018-06-16T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=25620"},"modified":"2018-06-16T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T15:08:55","slug":"june-16-2018-breathe-just-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=25620","title":{"rendered":"June 16, 2018 – Breathe. Just… Breathe."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got out of thenclimb briefing. I\u2019m hyperventilating. I think I\u2019m woefuly underestimating this thing but keep telling myself at worse is five crappy days. Everybody else is going on about hiking boots, camelbaks, altitude sickness pills, gaiters, layers for clothes. I\u2019m renting $94 worth of gear from the guides (taking maybe a fourth of what was on the list) and just cracking my knuckles to go up the mountain. That\u2019s a plan. It\u2019s a terrible plan, but it\u2019s my plan.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, met the mayor of Moshi and here we are standing in a field with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll be on top of that thing in four days.<\/p>\n

Or at least that\u2019s the plan.<\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t freeze,\u00a0get altitude sickness, or fall off a cliff.<\/p>\n

Like I said, it\u2019s not a great plan. \u00a0But we will see what happens tomorrow. \u00a0 And the day after that. \u00a0And the day after that. \u00a0And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got out of thenclimb briefing. I\u2019m hyperventilating. I think I\u2019m woefuly underestimating this thing but keep telling myself at worse is five crappy days. Everybody else is going on about hiking boots, camelbaks, altitude sickness pills, gaiters, layers for clothes. I\u2019m renting $94 worth of gear from the guides (taking maybe a fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}