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today, I freaking hiked Mt. Monadnock.

considering the shape I am in, it took probably wayyyyy longer than it should have, but Tim is amazingly patient and tells good stories.

it motivated me to get back into shape and do things like that more often.

my limbs feel kind of dead. I struggled the whole way up and felt like a real burden (just like I was afraid of) and got passed by little kids and grandmas and whatnot like the whole time. I bitched about a lot of things - I was sweating RIDICULOUSLY on the way up and could not catch my breath, I was tired, I hadn't eaten, etc. on the way down I bitched about my cankles (they killed, like really killed) because they kept rolling on the rocky decent, and I bitched about the mobs of insects that swarmed me all of a sudden, leaving one on my eyeball and three in my mouth in one fell swoop.

and yet, I got to the top, and I realized that views like that are why it's always worth it.