Race To The Finish

It was very clearly a race, even though never explicitly stated. At times, I pulled ahead; sometimes, another one of the five front-runners managed to get around me and take the lead. Even though we were hiking with 30 other people, they were unaware of the intense competition taking place at the front of the group. All of us wanted to be the first camper to the campsite. Not that we were going to get anything special for getting there first; it was purely for bragging rights, a way to demonstrate that this hike wasn’t even a challenge for us.