10:30PM - [Scene Opens: Macbook lit] After spending waaay too long to sign up for NUT 50K and purchase flight - Go on TrainingPeaks.com to re-tweak Annual Training Plan (ATP) for 2019 and set training plan and goals (6 hours of Running, Swimming, Biking, and Strength) for next week
11PM - Lay in bed debating if I should have signed up for 100k
11:15PMish - Imagine 5k of climbing through the woods of Oregon feeling effortless
11:30PMish - Wish I had taken a sleepy pill, but too late to start now
11:45PMish - Listen to wife snore, rain starts to pound the windows [End Scene]
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5AM - [Scene Opens: Laying in Bed] Mind Yelling “Move Legs!!!”
5:05 - “If you don’t move now, you might as well cancel that flight and race registration. These next 5 minutes will determine your success or failure over the next year”
5:09 - Body responds in begrugeoned peon voice: “Yes Me-Lord...”
5:10 - Music in, Spotify on Workout Mix, Bathroom, Weight, Multivitavin, Brush, 10oz Water, Shave (in that specific order) - Body starting to feel awake half-way through shave
5:15ish - Scramble to find backpack, coat, and cram swimsuit and work clothes in bag because I didn’t pack the night before (slept in running shorts and workout top). Can’t find sweatpants, so I run to the bus in short shorts and winter parka zipped so only my eyes show.
5:36 - Bus arrives, boast to wide-eyed bus driver that “Ten more degrees, and it’s t-shirt weather” like a real Minnesotan.
5:56 - Listen to Keanu Reeves by Logic, feel like a gangster
6:05 - Start first workout of next 215 Days [Scene Just Begins]
