O Little Town of Bethlehem!
I made it! I had the pit stop for my illness, and then had trouble getting motivated again, but I have finally made it successfully 80 miles. The journey started on December 4, so it took me 33 days. Which really when I think about it, is still impressive. I ran 80 miles in 33 days. And I made it to Bethlehem before Epiphany, which was my new goal after not being able to make it by Christmas. A few final thoughts about my journey to Bethlehem. Tonight I debated about how far to run. I only had 6 miles to go thanks to 2 other post-sickness runs I had done, so I thought about running 3 miles today and then finishing the other 3. Or I thought about doing 4 since that was my standard for most of December and then I would just have 2 to go. Then I thought, but I could do 5 and be closer. But if I did 5, what's 1 more just to finish? And I realized I wanted to get there. At one point I was singing to myself O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy