I’ve thought about some of the distress i’ve felt in the past months during training and found that I think since i’m so intense on training and staying injury free, that i’m over-doing the aches and pains that i’m feeling. I found that when I take my mind off of the pains/aches, its not as bad, for example, my groin I was complaining about yesterday. When I sit and think about it, and rub it because it was sore, it bothered me, but when I forgot about it (thinking about more important things), it was non-existent. I kind of saw this trend through the hamstring aches, and the foot aches, etc in the past few weeks, just thought i’d comment on it.

I don’t want to say that i’m not feeling pain, but I think I over-think it and freak myself out over things that just aren’t that big. I guess this is part of the mental game that you struggle through while training for something like this. (guess we’ll know for sure after we run today, eh?)

Late edit-
Well, I survived my run with no additional pain. I just did a short 2-mile jog down the highway and back, with no pain. I walked a bit, and then lifted some weights. My big shocker was when I stepped on the scale. I put on like 2-3 pounds in the last 2 weeks. NOT GOOD FOR MY TRAINING! I think its time that I focus again on the core fundamentals that I got away from, and I know flat-out what I HAVEN’T been doing:

— First, I haven’t been writing down my food each day at www.fitday.com … this causes me to overeat and not be responsible for the little snack here or there or the MASS AMOUNT OF ICE CREAM I HAVE BEEN CONSUMING. Yes, I can admit it, I have been consuming ice cream like no tomorrow. Its something about that tastykake chocolate cupcake turkey hill chocolcate ice cream that gets me. I shouldn’t be doing it. I also ate like a pig yesterday. So thats the first step.

— Second, I need to get back to lifting weights again to some degree. I got away a bit in the last 2-3 weeks just for logistical reasons (well, in part that its dark in the mornings when i’d like to do it.)

— The last thing I can say is that I HAVEN’T BEEN DRINKING WATER like I should have been. I’m down to drying out and being dehydrated … it makes the difference when I drink water, it really does …

I’ve worked TOO HARD on this to let it go by the wayside, so we’ll get focused again and get back on track. There are less than 4 weeks to go! I have to make it! Who best to criticize me, but me? Right?