AM: 10 easy miles on the beach. Good since I was feeling yesterday's run.
One of the maddening frustrations of running, or engaging challenges, depending on your mood, is marshalling all the aspects of running leading into a goal race.
Slowing, patiently building a strength foundation, and getting right with your speed and race pace are hard by themselves. Merging those threads together so they support and complement each other only happens for me once or twice a year if I'm lucky, and the window does not stay open long.
I'm grateful I still have a couple months of training, even if the road does look long, hot and dusty from here. Quite a bit has gone right, and some hasn't, but I'm still a ways from where I need to be.
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