OK - my first week of my last two weeks of hard training is done. In the books. Yesterday and today were tough. I think the hardest part was getting out of bed. And not allowing myself excuses to not do what needed to be done. Perhaps that's the greatest gift of hard training for a race - not so much self discipline as learning to listen to the more subtle voice of delayed gratification. It would have been easy to quit at 15 today instead of going back out to get the 20 that I felt I needed. Physically I'm sure I would have been fine in my conditioning if I had skipped it. I'm in shape and it's doubtful the extra mileage at this point is needed. However - at mile whatever during the race - I'll know I went back out there and ran the hard miles. And that will make all the difference.
Peace,
Eric
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