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What's Important

I ran ten miles this morning, and it really seemed fairly easy except for being unusually warm for early January.  This was the last longish run of training for the Charleston Marathon next weekend.  Those who've run a marathon will appreciate how good this last semi-long run feels.  Today, it didn't matter how I felt, or how fast or slow I ran.  Today's run was simply cover the distance, get from point A to point B without hurting something in the process. What lies behind the run today made it so seemingly easy to do and relatively unimportant.  In the previous four months I've run nearly 500 miles, including a half marathon in Spartanburg,  three fifteen mile runs, an eighteen mile run, and three twenty mile runs.  I've run after dark in the evening, before the sun has come up, in the rain, when there's frost on the pumpkin, and when it's been so warm that I've shed my shirt before I've finished.  No, I'm not in the best shape of my life, bu