It is an amazing gift that you have if you can line up on a starting line in February for a ten mile road race with the assumption that you will finish. Most people can not do this. So if you can, you really have no reason to get all wigged out because you did not finish as fast as you wanted to. We are all guilty of this. Once you can run a 10 mile race, you want to run it faster. And once you have run 10 miles fast, it seems to be the end of the world if you do not match or exceed your performance next time.
Fast is relative of course. I heard too many people say today, "I ran really fast, for me." For me. There should be no need for the apologetic acknowledgement of one's own accomplishments. You know if you ran fast, it should not matter that your definition of fast and another's definition are so far apart. I have run the Jones-Town & Country 10 Miler six times in the last seven years. It is one of my favorite races, and I have many times run great races there . Great is not what it used to be. Today I ran a good race. I have gotten faster over the last two years, so that a fast run today could not hav been imaged two years ago.
Right now I am sore, and exhausted. In seven weeks, bring on Boston.
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