Sunday is the day! I have spent the last few years leading up to this! I am running the Pikes Peak Marathon! That is a trail running race where you run to the top of Pikes Peak (14,125 ft) turn around and come back down. It is a full 26.2 miles and an elevation gain of 7,815 feet. I am a little freaked out right now. Am I ready? Will I die? This is stupid, why did I sign up for this? For my fiftieth year on earth I am celebrating by killing myself! I have trained so the likelihood of death is small, but it is still gonna hurt. I picked this crazy thing to give me a goal that was not easy and would require discipline and hard work to reach, to test myself. I turned fifty and I need to know I can still do whatever I set my mind to. I need to know that I am not dead yet, nor am I close. I still have a lot of things I want to accomplish in my life, things I have not been able to do yet. This crazy weekend tells me I don’t have to give up yet, they are still out there for me to achieve and the effort I give toward them is still worth it! So to all my friends and family who are over fifty, I say, let’s go get um!