Diarmuid Connolly has admitted the strain of a relentless year of action with club and county is taking its toll.
The Dublin attacker will look to lead St Vincent's to Leinster club SFC glory in O'Moore Park today (2pm) to cap another 12 months bursting with silver.
Having scooped the Sam Maguire with a replay defeat of Mayo at the start of October, Connolly's attentions turned to atoning for last year's Dublin SFC final loss to Ballyboden.
They did just that with five-point success against Castleknock last month and now have the opportunity to capture the provincial crown against Rhode of Offaly. Connolly is ready for one more push.
"We're in a good place. We're really looking forward to the game," he told RTÉ Sport.
"It's not the physical part of it, for me anyway. The body feels good, but it's being able to switch off. It does consume you.
"There's not a day goes by where you don't think about what you're doing, what you're eating, when's your next training. It's the mental side of things.
"For me that's the hard part of it. We'll get over [today's game], please God we'll get a result and we can have a couple of weeks of down time."
Vins' win in Parnell Park against Castleknock was sweet redemption after the heartache of 12 months ago.
Connolly said lifting the cup gave the class of 2016 a taste of what it means to pull on the shirt.
"You heard about the history, you seen all the pictures on the walls at the club and stuff like that, but I actually didn't really live it until we won it ourselves.
"It was a huge target at the start of the year but the target has been reached and we're in another Leinster final.
"Disappointment was there alright. We were going for three in a row and trying to make a little bit of history.
"There was a big gap there of no success, so you don't take it for granted."
Connolly puts the club's success down to having the right foundations, and revealed there was a burning desire within the camp to silence the doubters.
"We've good underage set-ups and been able to bring players through and blood them into the senior setup," the 29-year-old added.
"We also had good management at senior level. Obviously the players were there but the guidance and leadership was also there as well.
"We were written off a little bit this year, which I thought was funny.
"People were saying we were over the hill and little bit older and we're doing this and we're doing that. I know other teams didn't write us off or take us very lightly."
