Blood, toil, tears & sweat

At the risk of being a quote-crazed blogger, here are some mid-week thoughts that speak to the events of my life right now. I couldn't find any by my favorite stoic, Marcus Aurelius, that fit the mood but you'll make do with the others just fine, I think. 

Image: Andy Won via Photoree

And, yes, you'll be seeing a bunch of desert imagery from me over the next month as I wrap my head around the memory of utter solitude that was my person under the endless span of a desert sky when I last did this race. I know what it feels like but I can't fully remember.