Lift Heavy Run Long Podcast - Inspire. Be Inspired.

Beefcake #16 I don't know why I thought it would end any other way. It had been set up perfectly. The collapse was inevitable. The flow of emotions would fill up like a fire hose, only to find a kink before it's certain explosion. The impending meltdown could have been predicted by any adult who had ever been a child. Kids are that way, especially when tired. You already know this, but allow me to feel like I know something. We were on family vacation, there were nine of us.  We were at the beach, as the kids enjoyed the week off from school for fall break. Five adults and four children had spent the entire day "relaxing", the way that many Americans relax. We cooked breakfast, gathered swimsuits, cleaned up, packed up, forgot chairs, applied lotion, wrestled slippery kids, lost beach toys, found beach toys, rolled in sand, washed off sand, re-applied sand, and don't forget lotion. We watched them build sandcastles, and we watched them be destroyed. We lost kids. We found kids. We sent them to play with oth