Calling it a Day

It has been a long day.  Slept in, had some meetings then after lunch I finally got a chance to get a run in.  20 miles, 5000 plus feet of elevation gain and I did it breaking in a brand new pair of shoes.  Today was not one of my best feeling or fast days and everything just felt a lot harder than it should.

Had a long talk with one of my runners last night.  She finally confessed to fucking off the past month pretty much and not running like she should be.  (Which as a good coach I already knew.) She had just ran her first Marathon in December and was pumped to run another and get a nice PR in March.  Well, the holiday, a vacation, getting hurt in crossfit classes (which I do not approve of for runners) and just being lazy has really set her back.  She should be doing a 10 miler for her long run this week and now she can barely get through four.  Merde'! I don't think she will be able to pull it all together to run the National 26.2 in March so I think that I will have her focus on the half marathon, back off the miles in training and have her focus on speed.  We will discuss that on Monday.

Tomorrow will be an easy day running.  My miles for the week are done as of today, so tomorrow I will just run some recovery miles very slow and enjoy them.  I still need to start packing.

There was a beautiful sunset tonight and it was just one of those perfect moments in life.  Have a good rest of the weekend!