AM - 3.6 miles, most of it w/ Andrea (she is doing some modified Gallo-walking these days). Then rode my bike up to work - only marginally faster than it takes me to run... and significantly slower than my race pace in the marathon. PM - Biked home and then went for a short walk. Renee Metivier Baillie did an interview w/ RW yesterday... I thought this quote was a pearl of wisdom and worth sharing for those who didn't see it... "It's hard for a runner to get it into her head that this workout doesn't matter. You measure yourself sometimes based on your workouts, but I'm beginning to realize -- and you think I would have realized it a long time ago -- that it doesn't really matter what you do in practice. No one sees that. No one cares. It's important, yes, but it's what you do when you get to that race [that counts]. I've been leaving it too much at practice. I didn't show [at the Trials] how hard I'd been working because I was in pain ... I was very upset afterwards. You want to be able to do everything you can, and if you don't make it, at least you gave it your best shot. I didn't feel like I was able to, and it was hard. But I learned a valuable lesson from that. I'm 30 now, but the lessons still come!"
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