The goal is near.

As I mentioned before, I have been trying to make it to the top of the a local "hill". The climb is about 900 ft in 2.5 miles. Pretty hard for a beginning, even though I am in pretty good shape. Twice now, I have just run out of poop with less than 150 yards to go -- it's just too steep at the very end near the water tower.

I definitely burn up the breaks on the way down!