More Ready than I realized

OK, so if you have been around me over the past few weeks you most likely have heard me mention(and probably more than once) that did not feel at all ready for my upcoming Half-Ironman in 2 weeks. And while I may not have trained to the extent that I wanted or as frequently as I wanted, today I realized that I am further along than I thought. You see I woke up this morning and decided that I had to do something about this self doubt, so I did what only seemed natural, I decided to run for 13 miles and see how long it would take. Well, as the title says it, I am more ready to race than I realize. I may not be ready to win it, but I am ready to race. At first I didn't think I was doing that well when I came to the 11 mile mark, that is until I passed a couple that I had already lapped once and they gave me that "didn't we just see him" look which made me look at watch to see just how slow I was going. Thats when I realized I wasn't going slow, instead I was setting a new Personal Record. I finished the 13 Mile run with a little bit of heaviness in my legs and my watch reading 1:28:28. Thats right, I set out for a 8 min/mile pace and inadvertently ran a 6:40 pace and still felt strong at the end.

While there were a couple of times that I was questioning my motive for the spontaneous long run, in the end I realized it was exactly what I needed to snap out of my doubting.

So I say with complete confidence that "I am ready to race, and I can't wait to get out there and push the limit"