Sandy Beddor - Testimonial
I want to thank Woofie for all his help and expertise during the past 4 months. I live in Colorado and had the opportunity to visit Africa, climb Kilimanjaro and travel through many parts of Africa earlier this year. I am an endurance adventurer. I have traveled to many parts of the world and participated in many types of adventure and endurance activities. For example, a few years ago I went with a group to Patagonia and ran through three national parks in Chile and Argentina.
Since I live at 8700 ft and train even higher, I was not too concerned about being able to summit Kilimanjaro. I knew all about altitude and have even had some altitude sickness in the past. However, the episodes were very temporary. Well when I went to Kilimanjaro over the spring of 2005, I was kicked in the gut and did not summit.
Not summiting really weighed on me. In addition, I had already scheduled an endurance adventure through Ecuador just 6 weeks after my return from Kilimanjaro. Once I returned to Colorado it became clear to me very quickly that I was not recovering fast enough from climbing Kilimanjaro. So as a good athlete I began looking for some help. I searched on line for coaches that specialized with multi day adventure runs and races. I found a website that had a link to a coach nearby. I emailed this coach, explained my situation and he then referred me to Woofie. Once I contacted Woofie and explained my situation, he felt he could get me ready for Ecuador.
As I trained with Woofie, many of his techniques were counter to what I had been taught and how I had trained in the past. For example, he really wanted me to rest a lot¸that drove me crazy BUT I decided to put my faith and trust in him and in the end it all worked out.
Now remember I said that not summiting Kilimanjaro was really weighing on me? Well as I was getting ready for Ecuador, I had the opportunity to put together another Kilimanjaro trip for August/September of 2005. So of course I let Woofie know that it was my intention to climb Kilimanjaro again and soon after Ecuador.
Woofie took this challenge up and we continued to train after Ecuador. As it turns out, on my trip to Ecuador I met two of Woofie's friends. Then I knew for sure that Woofie was a real person!
The major improvements that I did for this training were three fold. 1st I really listened and took heart to Woofie preaching about hydration and replacing those electrolytes. Next I really did do the workouts, about 90% of them anyways and those were not easy, especially with work and life in general. The third thing I did was listen to when Woofie had me rest. My mantra was: Build muscle and endurance during the rest phase-hard to do but very essential.
So on my second try to climb and summit Kilimanjaro, I was successful. In addition, I was able to take the hardest route, The Western Breech and I was strong the entire time!
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