The shock felt nowhere around the world...
I tend to agree. After the last three days I was immediately suspicious. While people like to attribute wild swings in performance to "heart", "guts", and "determination", my personal experience is that long aerobic workouts are determined to a far greater extent by physiology than emotions.
BTW, wth is 'snarking'?
Do you need a partner and some flavored fluids?
;-)