A: How was your trek last weekend?

B: It’s nice. We set out early Saturday morning and covered some 50 miles in a day. At around 5 p.m., we started to feel we couldn’t walk any further but when we saw the town in the distance we got our second wind. The sceneries in the wilderness at this time of the year were great.

Note: A second wind is a renewed sense of vigor after becoming fatigued, a fresh conviction that one is able to achieve one’s goal, a burst of energy following exhaustion. The word “wind,” in this case, refers to “breath.” The idea is that one becomes fatigued and is out of breath, and then becomes reinvigorated and catches one’s breath.