when you're fantasizing about marathons

Something's not quite right.

I used to run a lot--30-35 miles a week in my heyday. And never once did I think to myself, "If only the six miles ahead of me was a six-page paper to write, then I could do it, no problem."

Yesterday, while staring at a blank page of legal paper, I thought: "If this dissertation was a marathon, then I could do it, no problem."

So, it's like that...