As for my performance, I did manage to be among the 25 competitors that made it to the finals but I consider anything short of finishing the whole course a disappointment. Those that saw the final episode witnessed me punting on an "easy" obstacle and while I have plenty of excuses for my failure it simply comes down to a lack of preparation and execution.
I do admit that I was in worse shape than last year but the nice thing about being a climber is that my base fitness level would have been more than enough to complete every obstacle pretty easily if I didn't do anything stupid. The real crux was more a matter of focus as I was there alone with Björke and wrangling a one year old doesn't really give you much time to concentrate (or sleep for that matter). So it goes. In season 1 I walked away feeling cheated and this year I left feeling like a big disappointment. The plus side is that I'll be better prepared for next year and I'll certainly put in some time learning to use those little trampolines.
Here are the Youtube clips of my "semi-final" run and a very short "finals-stage 1"
You can catch a glimpse of Björke at the beginning and end of the clip. I'd like to think that his crying was just his way of yelling support for his dad....
It would have payed to familiarize myself with those little trampolines. I knew I had a bad hop from the get go and had to change trajectory mid air. Unfortunately this forced me to grab the net low with straight arms which is not the way to do it. I guess I was stressing over the time but I should have taken a couple moments to do it right. Sucks to fail on something you've never had a problem with before.
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