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Winter Spine Race – Into the Darkness

Where Cold Meets Courage

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Winter Spine Race – Into the Darkness

By: Pawel Cymbalista
Narrated by: Pawel Cymbalista
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And there it was — the Border Hotel wall. Right there. Close enough to touch. Close enough to kiss. So I did… because after dreaming about this moment for years, why pretend to be normal now?

For seven years I followed the Spine Race like some people follow royal drama — obsessively, emotionally, and with absolutely no chill. The sheer scale of it never made sense to me. How do humans move for that long, that fast, through that much misery? Every January I’d watch the dots crawl north and think, one day that’ll be me. I tried to enter a few times, but the waiting list treated me like an unwanted Tinder match. One year I finally got in… and had to decline. That one hurt. Proper heartbreak. The kind you feel in your shins.

But I kept testing myself. Different distances, different routes, different versions of suffering. And somehow, all those miles led me here.

©2026 Pawel Cymbalista (P)2026 Pawel Cymbalista
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