Brett has Retired from RAAM

After blistering 118 degree temperatures, climbing mountain after mountain, and pushing his body to the limit, Brett has retired from the race. In the end, when his body was starting to buckle, he chose to dig deep and keep pushing, inspiring everyone around him, and ground out an epic last 5 miles before retiring from RAAM. He is incredibly grateful for all of the support he has received from his crew and the community and hopes this experience will inspire others to try difficult things even if failure is likely.

Theodore Roosevelt said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

A “did not finish” is better than a “did not start.”