{"id":265,"date":"2009-09-27T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing2\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-09-27T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T18:54:00","slug":"its-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/2009\/09\/its-climb.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s the climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve asks: Why do we need goals?<\/a> and I’m going to answer with some lyrics from a Miley Cryus song<\/a>, as lame as knowing the lyrics to a Miley Cyrus song may be:<\/p>\n

There’s always gonna be another mountain
I’m always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose
Ain’t about how fast I get there,
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side
It’s the climb<\/p>\n

I’ve pontificated about this before<\/a>, but Steve’s post for this weekend and my overall weekend experience have me thinking on the subject again. I think we, or maybe I just mean I, have to be striving to be living, to be engaged in life and not sleep-walking through it. As Miley says, it’s not the mountain; it’s the climb.<\/p>\n

This was a weekend where all that uphill slogging paid off. Friday I ran five miles at my marathon goal pace (leaving a mere 21.2 to go). Saturday I led a pitch I’d previously backed off of and didn’t even find it hard. Sunday I ran off-road with Steve and Kevin, not comfortably but without slowing them down much. Monday morning I have sore glutes, bruised knees, memories, and, always, goals.<\/p>\n

Hi Coroner, 5.9 (P1, 2 & 3: Dawn)
Try Again, 5.10 (Todd)
Coexistence, 5.10 (TR)
Pink Laurel, 5.9 (P1: Todd; P2: Dawn)
Something Scary, 5.10 (Todd)
Double Clutch, 5.9 (TR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve asks: Why do we need goals? and I’m going to answer with some lyrics from a Miley Cryus song, as lame as knowing the lyrics to a Miley Cyrus song may be: There’s always gonna be another mountainI’m always gonna wanna make it moveAlways gonna be an uphill battle,Sometimes I’m gonna have to loseAin’t… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gunks","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}