I will try the “eating” trick. I switched to consuming mostly a powder supplement called Tailwind. So far so good. Your mouth doesn’t feel much like chewing towards the end or even during the middle of long races. It comes packed with 200 calories plus a bunch of other stuff. :O)

Awesome man, I wish you luck. Nothing like getting that last long training run under the belt.

When I was doing triathlons a few years ago I learned that when I wanted to give up it was a reminder to eat. Amazing how much more motivated and cheery I got after some sugar 🙂

The second loop up was brutal and I really did want to quit and just turn around and start back down, but I just kept pushing forwarding reminding myself I needed this. I needed the distance and the time on my feet to get me ready for the big race. My mind was trying to hard to save me from pain. But I pushed through. My previous training allowed me to recover reasonably well. And now I just wait for the big day to see if all of my training has been enough.

I will admin to being a bit nervous as this race only has about a 30 to 40% finish rate, but I hope that is because too many people just do not train like they should. Here is hoping that I have done enough and that at the right times, I can turn my mind off and just push through.

BTW, your times are phenomenal. My fast 5K is 22:36.
cd :O)

Yes, opportunity cost is a massively undervalued concept to understand. It is largely an ‘unseen’ cost by most so they don’t realize when they are paying it. Definitely a topic for a future post 🙂

Great example. I suspect we limit ourselves in ways we can’t even see, which is what makes it impossible to break out of these patterns.