Day 3,825 —Countdown to the Farmdale 100: 1 more Run—

I am in line to pick up my daughter and I remembered I haven’t written 

anything yet today. I knew there was something else I meant to do, but it was the last real workday today. Tomorrow I will work closer to a half day in preparation for the race. I remember when I first got into these ultra runs, I refused to consider doing a run like this on a normal school week, but why not? If not now, when? If I can’t do it under normal stressful conditions, what does that say? If I wasn’t working, I would be stressing about school and writing every day. I wouldn’t be okay with consistent but sometimes low-quality output, but I accept it because I write every day and that’s like anything. Sure, maybe under the right conditions, a lot of people could be astronauts and or athletes, but it isn’t about doing something under the “right condition,” which is a difficult concept because we do a lot as an individuals to cultivate ideal conditions, but in a way does that make it more difficult for us to adapt and be flexible?