sometimes it doesn't come free

I was not feeling super-motivated this morning when my alarm clock went off - the weather was crappy, I had a long week at work and was feeling pretty drained, and all of my regular training partners had other stuff going on, so I was flying solo. Nonetheless, I ended up getting in a pretty decent interval workout on roller skis. I resorted to my 4th favorite training partner - my iPod Nano with the Yonder Mountain String band on shuffle repeat.

I don't care who you are, some days are just difficult to muster the motivation to get in quality training, and I've found that occasionally allowing myself to use a mental crutch like listening to music can be the difference between getting a full workout in or not.