Seldom do trumpets blare to celebrate your accomplishments. Rarely are your sacrifices and efforts fully appreciated by those around you. No one will ever truly understand what your journey meant to you. Make sure that you cherish the moment as only you can. This will be the last comic that I post for a very long time. Thank you very much for reading.

You do not need to execute a perfect workout to win a race. You do not need to perfect your mobility, or breathing, or diet, or foot strike or posture or sleep habits to win a race. You need to win the race, everything else is just window-dressing. It is important to remember this during setbacks, or when facing other metaphorical monsters.

Louis Zamperini, famous for surviving first an extraordinary amount of time adrift in the Pacific Ocean without food or water and then for years as a brutally mistreated prisoner of war, remarks in his biography that if he knew what he would have to endure after crashing his plane in the ocean he would have simply committed suicide. Sometimes not knowing what you have to face, deciding only to endure until you cannot, is the best way to exceed your limits .