Five Thoughts on Sounders reaching the CCL summit

Max Aquino / Sounder at HeartSEATTLE — There’s a funny thing about reaching the summit, it’s not necessarily the halfway point of the climb that’s the hardest. It’s usually right before you reach the peak. You think you’ve done all of the hard work navigating the steep inclines and uneven terrain, but there is still a little bit left to go.

There’s always a little bit left to go.

Sometimes you pass hikers who are making their way down, and you ask them how much farther it is, and when they say, “it’s just over there,” you look and realize, it’s not.

Not yet.

So you keep going, keep pushing past the pain and soreness, and while you curse those hikers for misleading you, you continue on, because…