...I may not look like a marathon runner, but today I sure feel like one...as a small corner of ELITE Nation gets ready for some "road-time next week...

As you know, we have the privilege of working with many sports.  Over the last  many months, tri-athletes, runners, marathoners and adventure racers have looked to us to help push them in the direction of their finish line...

...with a series of PB's (personal bests)...actually in 100% of our racers in the last year...over previous their previous seasons...we are now faced with the Legendary BOSTON Marathon only 10 days away...

...the runners are physically ready to taper, the race day plan down to the mile and hydration schedule have been proposed...but the greatest achievement in these folks from what I saw in a meeting last night was the confidence and readiness to face their opponent on race day...knowing that they have already "slain the dragon"...

...BOSTON is not conquered on race day, it is conquered on the road during your training, at "the box" for the months leading up to the day of the race, with the food choices you have made throughout the months, but most of all in that 8 or 9 pound sphere you balance on the top of your neck 24-7...once you "own your journey"...all you have to do is experience it!

So to my good friends...John and Jen Craig who are testing their steel as a father-daughter team, Carla Pindera who is also running Boston on the 19th and the lovely Melissa Armstrong racing on the 18th of April...Onward and upward, past Welsely Hall, through the Newtons and straight to the NEW YORK Marathon!

...and for the rest of us that reside in ELITE NATION...what a great analogy the BOSTON can be for your day to day life.  Sure it is going to be tough, there will be some long hills to climb, some "flats" you can "stride-out" on...but it is how we are prepared to face these challenges that determine our success...and it comes down to the basics.

PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION...and thanks for letting ELITE be part of your "RACE DAY"

Stay tuned for ELITE NATION Update coming soon!

ELITE NATION..Strength within...PRIDE THROUGHOUT,
Your pal,
fISH