Gu

I'm eating Gu now. Today, I ate Lemon Sublime. I felt like I was swallowing a huge booger...think oysters on the half shell, only 3x bigger. They pack a bunch of vitamins and carbs. Yum.

Completed 7 mile goal after work today.

My toes and knees are starting to feel the stress of the distance.

But my mind is becoming less and less manic.

One of my favorite books is called "The Art of Loving". It's by Erich Fromm on the theory and practice of love. In it, Fromm writes --

"Most people listen to others, or even give advice, without really listening. They do not take the other person's talk seriously, they do not take their own answers seriously either. As a result, the talk makes them tired. They are under the illusion that they would be even more tired if they listened with concentration. But the opposite is true. Any activity, if done in a concentrated fashion, makes one more awake..."

I find this to be true in my marathon training. The more I work on my concentration, and continually re-focus, the more awake I feel. My alertness lasts hours into the night, keeping me up until midnight or later...hence, I write this blog.