Eddie Pinero

Never satisfied.

On to the next.

The flat ground always arrives.

And you might not know what this means, but you will.

It's been the truth of every run I've ever taken, every mountain I've ever climbed, and overall, every challenge I've faced in life.

It's the reminder that's carried me when my lungs burned, my legs felt like lead.

It's been there when the finish line seemed impossibly far away.

And the idea kind of reoccurred to me perfectly a few days ago on a run up Pinnacle Peak, which is a duo of mountains about 20 minutes up the road from me.

Essentially, two connecting mountains.

You run up one and then down it, and it connects to the other mountain, which you run up and then down.

Once you've completed that, you kind of turn around and you just retrace those steps.

Up, down, up, down.

It takes about 40 minutes, and I've done it about 10 times now.

And the hardest part is what I've called climb three, right?

That's the point where you've run up, down, up, down.

You turn around to do it all again.

And it's technically your third ascent.

You know, the start of the journey back.

And it just so happens to be the steepest part of the climb and the longest part of the climb.

It feels like endless steps, right?