100 Miles in 2 Days: Part 1 "The Challenge"

This is an old story, but a funny one. My senior year of college (we won't talk about when that was), I was at a bar and ran into Benji, one of my old roommates. He was an outdoorsy guy too, and we had been on a couple of caving trips together. As we started talking, Benji told me that he had been planning on calling me to see if I wanted to go backpacking. He said that he wanted to hike 100 miles in two days, and that all his other friends were too chicken, but he knew that I would do it. I told him he was an idiot. Benji then accused me of being scared, which I vehemently denied. However, my ego can only take so much, a little known fact that Benji was well aware of. He continued his assault on my manhood and after an excruciating 30 seconds, I was on board. We picked a weekend, shook on it, and had a beer to celebrate this brave undertaking. When I awoke the next morning (morning being a figure of speech) the first thing that came into my pounding head was, "100 miles in two days." I ran the whole night and discussion through my head and decided that Benji was probably drunk and would forget about it, or chicken out and hope I had forgotten about it. A few days later I ran into Benji on campus. He hadn't forgotten about it. He made sure that I was still in, and I told him that if he planned it, I would be there. To be continued . . .
Matt B