This daily blog is getting to be less and less.  I think it is because I am writing every single day.  That was pretty fun at the beginning as I started a training schedule.  But now the training is just routine.  It is part of my day like brushing my teeth.  Who wants to hear about the details of that.  These long training days were really challenging and exciting when I started, but have slowly become easier and more ordinary.  Which is not great for keeping up a blog, because I have little to write about.  But it is great for a life change.  It is great that I have made such a shift in my mind set.  Before I started this training I had my longer run that would do once a week or so that was a five mile loop or six miles out and back to the beach (the beach run was really pushing it for me), but now those are my short run days.  My entire perspective of what I am capable of doing has shifted.  I have learned to love the long days, the intervals, and challenging myself beyond what I thought I was capable.

I feel confident in my training.  I am not AT ALL looking forward to the race.  It will just be a day of suffering.  I knew all along that I would not love race day.  But I signed up for it to do the training, which I have learned to love.  I have no doubt I will finish the race.  It will just be long and hard.

I did have a great ride with Ryan last week- Marshall-Petaluma loop.  And this past Saturday I went on a ride (47 miles) with Kim and Dave which was fun and pretty easy - so I am hoping that I will feel the same on the 31st