However, it wasn’t all easy going for Fillmore. An interview session post his record-breaking run had him saying, “I set myself the goal of breaking the record as a rookie, but as the practice weeks started I realized how limited is the time that you get on each of the three sections. Then on race day, it's the first time you actually see the whole mountain. There's no warm-up, no sighting lap, just line up and go, and give it everything you’ve got. I wasn’t sure that it was going to be possible to break the record on this 14,000-foot mountain. A lot of things were unpredictable, like the conditions and the elements."