Between Overconfidence & Self-Doubt

Since I achieved my big running goal of finishing a marathon in under 3 hours, my running life has been slowing down enormously. I realized this while talking to my wife Lisa during a relaxed run last week. In the past, the preparation for a marathon was much more intense. Not necessarily in terms of training, but emotionally.

Although I have at least ten marathon training cycles behind me and have run even more marathons, the preparation was always very upsetting.

I always felt that everything wa...