I just booked my travel arrangements for Percona Live 2023. In case you missed it, one of the most important MySQL Conference of the year is happening in Denver from Monday May 22 to Wednesday 24. I will be there and I am giving a talk about how HubSpot operates Percona Server / MySQL with Vitess in Kubernetes. My colleague, Mali Akmanalp, is also speaking about the tools we provide developers at HubSpot to keep their query workloads efficient with as little involvement from the database team as possible. But this post is not about our talks, it is about running and mountain climbing.