You will beat him with your mental toughness. You already know the
long hill from 21 to 23 is no big deal, but your competitor will fold.
I am having the opposite problem as you - OK quality, but no
consistency. That knee problem in March gave me an excuse to slack off
for a month, and in my idle time we bought a sailboat. Needless to
say, no idle time now. However, I ran a 5K and a 4 mile race about 10
seconds faster than same ones last year and the Green River marathon
in 3:11:44 at 71% PE. OK given the lack of training, but with Twin
Cities only a few months away, your training tip is just what I needed
to make up my mind to find the time.

--- In CoachMadDogBytes@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Duguay" <ManiacMutt@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In CoachMadDogBytes@yahoogroups.com, "Kent" <ksizer@> wrote:
> >
> > Your advice is right on target - again. Must be looking at my
> > database entries.
>
> Kent ~ My consistency is OK, but I'm having trouble doing it with
> quality. Which I really need because one of my AG competitors from
> Florida, whom I haven't beaten in a long time, is also running the
Twin
> Cities Marathon!
> };9(
>