Scheduled day off! I have finally gotten to a point where I understand the value in taking days off from running so it's not nearly as difficult as it used to be :)
Logic of Long Distance always has great philosphocal blogs about running. This is an excerpt from his Toughness post -
"Being mentally tough is less about confronting pain and more about controlling the attention. The toughest racers are those who allow their attention to be "consumed by the race," as a friend recently described it. Being tough, paradoxically, doesn't mean confronting the largest amount of pain. What it demands is literally not feeling the pain at all--keeping the attention absorbed in other things, like controlling the body, competing with rivals, maintaining the rhythms of the running motion. When we achieve a race like this, we usually call it a breakthrough. What has been "broken through" is an old preperception, an old habit of attending to an image of the self or of pain that was supposed to come but didn't."
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