This has been a long week.

Aside from work, I had meetings, dinners, briefings, etc. the past 4 nights. As a result, I missed a run last Wednesday morning. I managed to sleep at 10:30 the night before but when I woke up at 4:30 I just didn’t feel right. At that point, I needed to think fast. If I begin the internal debate on whether to run or not, it may end up with me not running but not falling back asleep and getting the rest I postponed my run for. I managed to follow my first rule which was to get at least 6 hours of sleep. I had a slight sore throat but nothing serious. However, I had an important meeting with a client at 8:00 in the morning and given my goals for the year, I couldn’t blow that meeting if I ended up ragged after the workout. I decided to go back to sleep and wake up 2 hours later. Thankfully, the meeting went well.

I never slack off my training schedule, but I do worry that when I don’t train for some reason or another Iwill end up finding more reasons not to do so in the future. Obviously, I have a hierarchy of priorities : Family, Work, then Running (although there maybe times I have confused the latter 2) and that is the first basis of my decision to run or not. I also check my physical well-being. I won’t run through a cold, because in my experience it results in more training days lost when it becomes aggravated to a full blown flu. I can run with a cough though and maybe some leg pains. There is no hard and fast rule but I do know that 1 missed workout will not negate all my previous weeks of training.