The bigger picture

Today is the big day, the day we (Alex and I) will break the two-digit barrier. In preparation for the Disney marathon we will now race 100! laps to end every practice.
At the end of Wednesday's practice we did 70 laps, which it still high for me. We alternated leading every five laps for the entire race. (this is a great way to keep yourself from dropping off, if not for this I would have dropped from the lead half-way through) But I did learn a great lesson from this, racing really is 30% physical and 70% mental (or something close). With about three laps left to go Alex asked if I was "ready." I really didn't understand what he meant until a few moments later. He sprinted the last three hundred meters. That may not sound impressive, but we had just kept a hard pace for 6,700 meters!

I was expecting a push from both of us to cross the line first, but nothing like this.

We were both ready to drop, but he truly embodied the lyrics,"you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that **** out of you."

Remember, any racer with quick feet can win a 100m, those races are about 99% physical. But for Marathons, you really have to pull that stuff out of you.