Day 4,120—One Run Until the Badger 100: Last Day of July—

 

         I thought of how this summer began and what I did the first couple of weeks of summer while I was running. I’m not sure if this race was the carrot I thought it might be. I am looking forward to starting on Saturday morning, but the logistics of getting there are annoying, and today I have so much to do. Still, I also need to prioritize time with my family because it is my last day with them for a while, and unofficially my last day with my daughter during summer. She has another two weeks before school starts, so I will still spend time with her, but not like it has been the past two and a half months.

         We’re going to Grant’s Farm, which I feel mixed about because we have been there so many times this year. I would like to go to Cahokia Mounds because I haven’t been there since I was a kid, and I wanted to go there over the summer, but I don’t think it is going to happen unless I figure out how to go there tomorrow morning before leaving on my trip.

         I shouldn’t be in a bad mood, I should be focused on today and tomorrow, and running 100 miles in a different state! So many things I should be happy about, but I am scared about the new year and sad that summer is almost over.