Grindstone 100--5 days to go
What do you do the week before a 100 miler in the mountains? Not much. Short runs. More sleep. Avoid stress. Try not to look too often at the extended weather forecast (looks good right now, but with a bizarre discrepancy between weather-underground and weather.com...stop!) Find something to do with all that "extra" energy you would have used up in early morning runs or weekend long runs. I was almost giddy with it this morning. Also important, if hard: don't second guess your training. What has worked for me for the past 4 (injury free) years has been a 3-day/week schedule (the runs tend to be long). I've done marathons, 50 milers, and 100s on that schedule. And faster than than I was running the previous 5 years. I recommend this to over-45 runners in particular. But there's always that little voice, getting a bit louder before a major event like this, suggesting maybe a 4th or a 5th day would have helped. May...