100km Hikuri UTMB Puerto Vallarta Race Review

In the last 10 days, I have done a 100km race, a temazcal and mushroom ceremony, went to see Tony Robbins, flown 6 times (20+ hours), and got quite sick. I have been on a roller coaster of emotions that need to be unravelled here on paper for you guys to see and digest some of my lessons. Let’s start.

So I booked this 100km race with a buddy of mine, the Hikuri 100km in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Much prep needed which monopolized at least 20% of my energies in the last 6 months. Prep went fine except I got sick right before the race as luck would have it.

So I arrived in Puerto Vallarta sick, with 10 hours of travelling with all my equipment: vest, gels, bars, poles, light, cap, heat gear, etc etc. The race was on the next day. Clock was ticking. We had the not-so-brilliant idea of renting a car and had to wait 1hr30 before they would give it to us, which would mean important sleep time loss.

It was already 7 pm by then and we still didn’t have any food in, nor did we pick up our racing bibs. After buying food at Costco, we stopped to get the racing bib; it was 8 pm by then and the race packets hadn’t been distributed since 7:30 pm, so we’d have to get them at the starting line tomorrow at 5:30 am at Mascota (the race…