Daily Total: 6 miles; Weekly Total: 13 + MARATHON; Per Mile Pace: 8:15; Days Until Marathon: 5
I have yet to find an ideal time of year to train. However, I can easily dismiss the coldest months of winter (which are really quite mild in Santa Barbara) and allergy season from the list. There are always holidays, birthdays, weddings, engagement parties, i.e., reasons to celebrate and digress from the training regimen. This past weekend was Halloween and I wasn't going to skip out on one of my favorite "holidays" in the year 2010 just so that I might qualify for Boston next weekend. I guess these are the hard truths of amateur athletes. Instead of "no pain, no gain", it's "no fun, no gain."
The moral of the story is that conditions will never be ideal. I've been feeling on the edge of a cold/flu for the past week or so, but overcoming it by a hair. I may wake up Saturday, November 2nd at 4:00am feeling ecstatic and energized or like a trainwreck. I at least know that despite any conditional feeling, I'm committed to having fun.
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