Do You Own Your Successes?

About three weeks ago, I was fifty or so flight of stairs into my workout. I'm going to try to climb Mt. Hood in early June. The training has gone okay, but I have my doubts. I've not lost the weight I thought I'd lose, to be honest. That happened when I trained to ride my bike across the country, too, and everything turned out fine. And yet I worried. What if I didn't make it? I started feeling defeated, even with eight more weeks to train. I began to wonder if I had what it took.

But I...