easy day

I'm taking it easy to day. Maybe a bit of swimming on my way home from work. I've had some good workouts this week and I'll be doing Philly Distance Run on Sunday - don't want to over do it. Tomorrow, weather permitting, I'll swim in the morning followed by a longish bike ride. Not sure if I'll hit my 19 hour target this week - kind of hard with a race at the end of the week.

Read a couple of articles last night. One was about a guy totally obsessed with endurance sports. He had some pretty good insights to what drives that kind of personality disorder ; ) My sister actually sent the article to me in my birthday card - she said it reminded her of me. uh-oh!

The other article I read was about training and racing - fairly practicle ideas. One that I particularly liked is that you should expect to feel bad, really bad during an endurance event. Unlike a 10 mile race for example, where you're sore and breathing hard and generally uncomfortable because you're pushing yourself - this is actually a pretty good feeling by comparison because endorphins coarsing through your system.

A long distance endurance event is different from the dead-legs feeling when you didn't fuel or pace yourself right and lactic acid has done so much damage that your legs are toast. The feeling I'm talking about is when you just have no energy left and can't go on, but of course you can if you have the will power to push yourself - it is all in the head at that point. All of the training is done and physically you are capable.