no bake desserts

After so many 20 mile training runs over the past 11 marathons, you would think that distance would no longer be a “mental” problem.  It still gets me worked up, a bit frazzled,  and, I’ll admit, grumpy a day or two before.  Last week I questioned my 9 mile tempo run which would have totaled 12 miles with warm up and cool down. Then I questioned doing a 20 miler the following day.  Then a funny thing happened:   instead of running the tempo run, I ran an easy, enjoyable 8.  That run changed my outlook for the long run. I [...]