After four days, over 90 hours, thirty mountain top peaks, I completed the circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe in California. Alongside almost 200 other entrants we explored the terrain, the Tahoe Rim Trail and each of our individual souls. While the runners that I was with were not explicit THPL community members we all have a similar purpose – to find out what happens when you combine, a big goal, a lot of miles of running, the mountains and just 100 hours. It is hard to explain directly the way that exhaustion, and a constant drum beat of running with the beauty of the outdoors bring to us and our lives. The edges of life are touched and there is an amazing emotional feeling that builds when improbable goals connect with the reality that each of us take on every day. We can really do more than we think we can and we can prove this in big ways with adventures like this – or in our regular daily lives. The living examples of what we can do to confirm this and their range of impact are there for us to do with as we see fit. This past weekend just another instance of the choice to go big and to prove that we can do that whenever we want. Here is to each of our adventures and the great things that come when we take them on.

Loving life when I finish amazing adventures.