Sometimes it just hard.  Joyce Carol Oates once said, “I write and write, and rewrite, and even if I retain only a single page from a full day’s work, it is a single page, and these pages add up.”   When I’m writing, or running for that matter, I try to remember Joyce’s words, but I still don’t think I’m getting anywhere.   Below I write of a guy whose competitive drive was similar to  the famous writer, but man, he just couldn’t win…