The Scorpion...

Ran a St. Patrick's Day 5K in 22:09 this morning. Steve, the Coach of the Personal Best Clinic had told me to stay out of my top gear.

He felt that my best long-term strategy was to run the race as a Tempo Run and save my best - what there is of it - for Boston. His reasoning was that after a 1:34:07 Half Marathon less than a month ago, I had nothing left to prove to myself and too many opportunities to fuck things up for myself...

I lasted with Steve's strategy for about fifteen minutes. A scorpion will always be a scorpion....