Dee's Alaska Adventure

I woke up this morning with my right knee hurting bad. It is the one I bruised pretty good in my wreck a couple days ago. It has been feeling pretty good but this morning it is not. Not sure why. Probably a combination of things. Going up hills yesterday I could feel it "singing" a bit, but not bad. At this point, unless it heals quickly, I am considering the "biking/running/walking" part of this trip over. If it gets to feeling better I may do some walking. I came to this conclusion at about 2 am this morning. Laying there in my sleeping bag unable to sleep thinking about the "death of a vision" and the disappointment of it. I have long contended that the main reason people don't set goals is the pain that comes from the disappointment of not accomplishing them. As I lay there thinking about being old falling off my bicycle with aches and pains unable to finish strong with my goal of running to Fairbanks, instead limping in, riding in the car with my 80 year old mother. I thought, "I could make myself depressed if I keep this up". The cure for overcoming the sadness of failing to accomplish a goal is to set another one. So my goal is to have another B-HAG (big, hairy, audacious, goal) or maybe 2 or 3 set before we get home to Jefferson from this trip. I do think I will make it a little easier than this last one, but challenging. My mother is trying to cheer me up right now so I better go give her a hug and laugh at her jokes :-)