I committed one of the cardinal sins of training today. I swear I had no idea it was going to be this bad but somehow my delinquency got out of hand. The sin is this: skipping workouts and "making them up" later. I have in the past strongly condemned this practice. But this week I was pulling myself through hand over hand and somehow there were afternoons when a run simply wasn't in the game plan. I kept thinking, "I'll do it later..." This is actually extremely uncharacteristic of me. I had decided (just after sunset Wednesday) that I would make Wednesday a day off and do Wednesday's recovery on Sunday so I knew I was going to run on Sunday and I was looking forward to it but when I got ready this morning I added up my skipped runs from the week and realized that I had missed THREE HOURS of running. Um, three hours is not exactly insignificant. Wow. I am impressed with myself for getting into this situation. I know & I've preached that there is no pushing back workouts, there's training windows you either fill with workouts or you miss the opportunity. You can't clump all your training together on the weekend and rationalize that it averages out for the week. I wanted to run anyway so I ran but I realized that if it was anyone else I could spew a lecture on why not to do overdue workouts.

Even now I'm not sure if I would have done the week differently though based on what I was doing, how I felt, and how much I enjoyed my run this morning. (Except for the serious bruise on my shin from running into a chain-- it was fog colored like everything else this morning.) I don't know. It feels like a minor moral dilemma. Any thoughts? I know it is a much more prevalent issue for athletes with a more complicated priority list.