The ARC Race

I put it out there. It scares me to announce such a specific plan such as running a race for a goal time.  That’s scary.  Now everyone knows. Do they think “she can’t do it, it’s too much faster than her last race” or “what a risk she’s taking trying to reach for such an aggressive time” or “she should never run a race with a goal pace like that”…endless thoughts went through my mind regarding what everyone would think.  I started some good self talk and the conversation went a bit like this: You always make every attempt to [...]