Superior Trail 50 Miler coming up. Not too much thought about it. Wish it would get here already. I'm pretty tired of people asking me what I think I'll do there. Then when I tell them. They give me a response of."Well it's a pretty tough course." Saying it in a way like maybe I should rethink my goal. Like I've never ran a tough course before. I plan on it being tough. I trained with the intentions of it kicking my ass. With the exception of a few little taper tantrums. I feel more ready than I've ever been for a race. If everything comes together like a think it will then I'll have a great day. Maybe even my best ever. If it doesn't then I'm still going to have a pretty good day.

The hard training is over. I ran 45 miles two weeks ago pacing at Leadville. Which I came away from feeling great. Since then I've run everyday as hard as my legs would carry me. Running as many vertical miles of that as I could find. There weren't many miles in which I wasn't either going up as hard as I could or down in the same fashion. Some days felt great and some felt like shit. The goal was to keep my legs as tired as I could. While dancing with that fine line between good training and over training. Mentally I'm ready. That's the big thing for me. That's what usually gets me. After kicking my own ass the last two weeks. Mentally I'm ready to handle the pain of trying to run 50 miles at a hard effort. I'm ready for the pain. BRING IT ON...My only prediction is this. I'm going to Minnesota in a week to run as hard as my body will let me go and then I'm going to try and run even harder. It's just that simple. I have but one plan. Now its time to execute that plan...