Fear Is The Mind-Killer

72 hours from this moment, this moment that I'm writing this..."the gun will go off", so to speak, and I will begin what will be the most difficult race I've ever run...The Vermont Spartan Beast. It will test me, it will try me, and it will push me to my limits. It will show me what I'm really made of. And y'know what I've come to accept?

I must not fear.

I must not fear The Mountain. I must not fear The Beast. I just have to put one foot in front of the other and do it. It's JUST a hike up a mountain. A really long hike...up a really steep mountain...with lots of obstacles...

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