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Tailwind Nutrition in Scott, my tip of the trail today for Tailwind Nutrition is this.

Our schedules have been off a little bit, so we haven't been able to hold one another accountable to the morning run.

And so, too often, I have rationalized with myself that, hey, sleep is training too, right?

Only if you're training.

If you haven't been doing any training.

If sleep has become a larger part of your training than running, then you'll become very good at sleeping and not that good at running.

I'm an expert, by the way.

Another excuse when I'm horizontal with my head on the pillow and the covers up by my head is, I can run the afternoon.

That's never going to happen. There are too many things to come up in a busy day that never let that happen.

Even though in the morning you think, hey, it's a little warmer in the afternoon.

You know, I can get out there later.

Never happens.

And so, I've implemented the strategy, which is an old strategy, but sometimes we're reminded of it, therefore the tip.

I decide the night before I commit myself.

That's when I make the decision. Am I running or not?

I don't wait to debate with myself after the alarm goes off because guess what?

At 4.30 in the morning, I can very easily rationalize that sleep is good training and I can run in the afternoon.

But that night when I go to bed and I set that alarm, decisions made.

I'm up and went out there and ran and had a glorious run this morning.

It was fantastic.

Loved it.

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