Sometimes....

You want to just stop.

You don’t feel good

Your mind tells you ‘you can’t’

Your legs feel the pain

You look at the path ahead with fear

You wish you were back in bed

You beat yourself up

You struggle to get into your groove

You can’t see the wood for the trees…

Sound familiar? In life. On the trail. Sometimes we just don’t have the energy, the motivation/momentum or the inclination. & when I was faced with the very steep incline on St. Leonard’s mountain on Saturday I felt all of the above. 

My muscles burned, my breath was hard to catch, I was defeated & down in the running dumps. There are days when running is harder than others. 

This weekend my functions & feelings were fatigued. & running felt heavy & laden with problems both physical & mental.

BUT I made it to the top. Yay to the yay. Slowly but surely. With mind over matter. I didn't think I could reach the heady heights. BUT I did finish on a mountain high. & after 12.5k of uphill I think it was a pretty massive mountainous challenge to conquer. I believe in redefining MY impossible!