I seldom get nervous about races these days and yet at 4am Sunday morning, I awoke from my deep slumber desperately needing the bathroom and my first thought on waking was, "yikes, I'm racing today!" I crawled back under the covers for another couple of hours snuggled up next to Wilson and Tillie, and drifted off into a troubled sleep as I thought about my race in just a few hours. Anybody would think that I was about to race some crazy ultra or compete in some major international event, but no, I was getting in a tizzy about running the MEC 15km road race in Edmonton. Crazy eh?! As you know, I tend to do more ultras these days, and both my training and racing is generally focused on longer sustained runs rather than relying on a good v02 max and running at or above lactate threshold. My last road race was months ago, whilst rep sessions have only just reappeared in my schedule after an absence of a good 3 or 4 years. The thought of racing for just over 9 mil...