Archive for October 2024

I used to live in Perth, Western Australia.  I was right on the coast and that part of Perth was built on sand dunes, meaning the hills were extremely steep.  My daily workouts consisted of running along the beach and biking up and down those steep hills.  And there was a particular hill that I wanted to conquer.  First time I got a quarter of the way up before the wheels on my bike simply stopped turning.  Eventually I made it half way up only this time when the wheels stopped turning I didn’t have any strength left in my legs and I fell off and just lay there too exhausted to get up.  Eventually after a few weeks of failure, I made it to the top of that damned hill.  And, once conquered, I could never allow myself to not bike to the top.