"Climbing hills is hard work", she says, out of breath after racing through another round of hill work on her bike, preparing for the Young Survival Coalition's Tour de Pink www.ysctourdepink.org. But then again, life is hard work - and anything worth doing, well, ditto.
But a hill is really an opportunity, right? A new perspective. When you're at the bottom, there is a journey ready to unfold. Climbing up the hill, even out of the saddle, you feel vulnerable, yet strong, engulfed by the power of a potential victory. And ultimately, the top. Seeing the rest of the road unfold before you, perched high above the labor to get to the pinnacle. Knowing what you might have sensed before you started up. But confident that there really "ain't no mountain high enough" that you can't climb it.
Knowing this today is why I ride.
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