“Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.” 
― John Bingham

     There are reasons to enter races, even knowing that I will be in the slow corrals.  There is no one else to depend on to finish for me.  I have to do the work....every step of it. There is no one to say, "you're old(ish) so you don't have to finish."  Yes, I do! No excuses.

(trying to motivate myself to get out the door today...fear of failure works for me)