O'dog's Act II

[antlers]

Tomorrow I'm going to get outside on my bike.

Hey O'dog...hope it's a good ride. This is from one of today’s best mountain ultra runners after he won the Leadville 100 mile trail race.



“The walls of life necessarily close in at moments like this. Everything, everything becomes about the current step. Each step has a wall constructed around it that prevents seeing forward or looking backward. There is no thought of how far one has already come or of how far one still has to go. Occasionally, wrenchingly, the mind endeavors to poke its neck up, scale the barrier that surrounds each step, peer over the top, and see out. If it is successful the results are borderline-catastrophic. Game-ending. The enormity of the task, the context of miles and elevation that bracket each step are simply too much to bare. The only way the thing can be done is to brace up those walls around each step and do one's best to not peek over.”

-Anton Krupicka, from blog 8-2-09

I though a deep thinker like you would appreciate it.