I am having a hard time believing it will be 40 degrees tommorrow morning. I was pretty overheated wearing a long sleve t shirt today. I'm not looking forward to the cold and am worried about how long it might take me to warm up on Saturday. I had a hard time warming up this morning, it took two good miles before I felt good. All I could think about was how I never 'warmed up' ever last SGM. I hate all the psycho pre-marathon hypochondria. I have to remind myself how happy I am I can run, and to have another few hours on my legs out in the desert canyons of Southern Utah. I ran Utah Valley to make up for the terrible experience I had last year, but the truth is, I won't feel vindicated until I get to St. George and run the dang race again. I just want so much to have a 'good race,'one I can be proud of. But running a good race takes me so much concentration and effort and I doubt myself. Hobble Creek was a very good race for me, the best I've ever run, but all I can think about is how I had just come back from vacation, happy, strong and well conditioned having run two full weeks on soft sand--and that more than half the course was downhill. I want to believe I have it in me to be tough 26.2 miles, but digging deep for that long hurts and it's scary. Which I guess is why I want to conquer it. | 