I took yesterday off because I thought that the Cherry Blossom 10 miler was Saturday morning (this morning). It wasn't. I was emailing with a friend on Thursday about when/where the packet pick-up was on Friday, to which she responded that it was actually Saturday. I, slowly, deduced the race was actually Sunday. That threw my entire training for a bit of a loop.

My plan was to take Friday off, run Saturday's run fast, on fresh legs, and then do a long run Sunday. I couldn't really swap the Saturday and Sunday runs, because it would be impossibly to know if I'm ready for a fast marathon after having expended myself in a 17 miler on Saturday. But could I rest another day? Well, I compromised. I ran the 8 miles from my house down to the packet pick up. I would have liked to not have run at all, because even today my legs surely lost a bit of their "oomph" that they would have had tomorrow morning. Now, even if I push myself tomorrow, if i come up short, I will wonder how much of it is a result of not being ready, and how much is a result of having run today.

I can't obsess about this stuff, I know, and I won't. I'm a tad concerned that I won't be able to fit in a long distance run, my last of the training. I just don't have time to do it on Monday, unfortunately. And, the sooner it gets to Boston, I don't want to have expended myself at that distance.

So......what to do? I guess have a good night and see how the run goes in the morning.