YO! It’s 5 AM!

And it’s here. Marathon day.

Whole-wheat bagel with peanut butter and banana? Check.

Coffee? Check.

Two reluctant dogs not understanding why their morning walk is so ‘effin early? Check.

I feel excited, but calm. I am at peace. And I am so touched and happy by all the wonderful support my friends and my family and especially my husband has given me over the past several months. Every long run, every Saturday I was too tired to function — he took care of things for me. He even is getting up with me at 5 a.m. to sit in the rain cheering me on for 5 hours.

Speaking of rain — bring it.

I leave you with a word from Danny Dreyer:

Peak performance is not about racing. It’s about having a clear vision of how you’d like to improve yourself, setting a goal that embodies that vision, learning and practicing, and training your body to move in a direction of your vision. When the time is right, throwing yourself into a single event is a means to acknowledge what you’ve done and learn what still needs some attention. … It happens when you bring all that you are capable of to an activity before you and sustain you through it.

(…) A peak performance is when you accomplish what you have set out to do, and it is rarely an accident. It’s intentional from the time you start your first training workout to the last stride of your event.

 

Pattie Reaves

About Pattie Reaves

I'm a new mom and renegade fitness blogger at After the Couch. I live in Brewer with my husband, Tony, our daughter Felicity, and our two pugs, Georgia and Scoop.