invincible pace
After you’re apprehensive, then excited, then eager, then reflective, then bored, then in pain, then in some more pain, then in abject pain, then doubtful, then despairing, then considering quitting, then planning quitting, then resigned to quit, then (and in my experience only then) do you find yourself in the absence of ambition but still moving and faced with the immediate and endlessly repeating question: “do I stop now, or keep going?” Every decision to keep moving, keep moving the feet, yields a forward motion at your invincible pace. Maybe someday you’ll stop, but at that moment your progress in inevitable. Finding my invinicible pace is what ultra events are about for me. I’d forgotten mine for a few years. I found it again at the Dairyland Dare.
Many thanks to everyone who made the ride happen and special thanks to Allison, Francisco, Steve and Angela. It was an awesome day and I am glad to have shared it with you.