I am so close. Christine is feeling good about Sunday. We may be having a really early start but I don't care. Let's do it. I haven't really allowed myself to think about what it will feel like if I don't make it, and I'm not about to start now. But there's a quote someone shared with me right at the beginning of my training that I just fell in love with and especially now that I'm 2 days out, it feels appropriate.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
No matter what happens I am thankful for this journey. I am thankful for the people I've met, trained beside and been inspired by. I'm thankful for the personal growth its caused in me. I'm thankful for the incredible support I've felt from my friends and family, even my family overseas. Whether or not I make it across, whether or not God and Lake Erie allow me to make it across, I still have all that, and that's fantastic.
That being said, I'd really like to make it across, and I'm going to give it my all.
K.
P.S. Did I mention I was on the radio today? :P
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