Well maybe no bears. Still, the last week hiking in Mexico has been a huge confidence boost. For a while now people have been asking “How’s your training for Everest going?” Before today I never knew how to answer. I mean, HOW do you train for the world’s highest marathon while living in the flat lands of Illinois? I’ve done everything I can think of: the altitude room at Well-fit Performance, endless amounts of treadmill time on an ever increasing incline, the stair climber, strength training, etc. But until this past week I had no idea if any of that would translate into the real world of high mountain trekking.…