Hey everyone, I'm registered and training for Vineman, my A race, and a friend is trying to talk me into doing another half, High Cliff, a month before the race. It's a fairly local race with a lot of hills and a trail run. This is my second season in this sport and did a half last year, Spirit of Racine, but am not sure about doing two back to back.

At first I thought it was because I had little experience. So I got more. Then I thought it was because I needed to lose weight. So I lost it. Then I thought, maybe I needed to train harder, so, harder I trained. And now, having exhausted all other possible explanations, I am forced to consider that perhaps I'm just inadvertently attracting obstacles by fearing they'll appear.