If you are wondering where the comments have gone, I had to cut and paste these three entries from where I accidentally submitted them with last week's dates. So, when you cut and paste text, the blog comments do not follow. But getting the dates correctly entered on the current events feels important to me right now. So... in spite of the weeks of 8+ hours of sleep I am still uttlerly exhausted. I think I have finally iced/ rested away the major pain in my thigh. But I can tell that I've had the crap beaten out of me mentally, emotionally, and physically in the last 2 weeks. It's not that I got sick or injured that matters so much as the timing of it. It's a major blow to my confidence that I'll have the strength to do at least 4 long runs before the first weekend in October, and still recover my stamina for endurance and strength for speed. Regardless, I have been enjoying the cool, moquitoless mornings taking it easy at 9:40'-10:15's. It can always be worse. So I shall not complain. | 