Calm before the storm

It's never easy the week before your race. You reduce your training and your body starts to feel sluggish and wants to get going. But you resist. Then your mind starts to take over saying "you haven't trained enough". This is normal and you must stay focused. My task tonight will be getting packed as tomorrow night I travel to Aberfeldy for the race briefing and then on Saturday morning at 8.30am (quiet civilised!) I enter Loch Tay will 300 competitors for a deep water start - I.e punch up, notcivilised! You have to plan your equipment right down to the last detail as you have to separate your bike and run gear into different bags and if you forget something it could be the end of your race before it starts. Finally tomorrow I am having my bike checked over as the gears were playing up the other day. So two more "sleeps" to go and game on. I can't wait to get started.