Once the training is done and the trip is planned, most of the work is over.  Then it becomes an exercise in patience and waiting.  Everything seems to take a long time and you have no choice but to simply wait for it to be over, whatever "it" is.  Your frame of mind is that you feel ready for the race (or you wouldn't be there) and you want to start running.  Mostly so you can get it over with.

Syracuse to Skukuza

Kruger National Park and our trip through Swaziland

Durban before the Race

And then, of course, on to the 2002 Comrades Up Run.