The puzzle I'm working on today is what to do when one is not training for anything, but the miles stay high and there is, therefore, a risk of injury.
I really want to do a long run tomorrow, to fill in a gap in my map, in my ever-increasing knowledge of the area around Bracknell. For that is where a long run will inevitably take me: into the forest and the countryside surrounds.
I want to do a twenty miler, but I know that that is precisely the distance at which niggles begin to appear. If you run it slowly, it just means more time on your feet, which again means niggles.
I'm maintaining fitness now at a somewhat reduced level from when I actually had a race for which to train, and of that I'm proud (despite the 'reduced' level apparent in my now slower average pace). But it also means the long run will be slow.
Fitzgerald's 80/20 running is my current training read (as opposed to just running read, or fiction about running read, or speculative read), and it definitely convinces one of the need for a lot of slow running in one's programme. But remember the 20 part: that's the part where you run fast, and it's also the part I'm currently not doing at all.
Why would I? What is there to run fast for? No races until September after all, so I rack up the running time, the mileage, and fill in the space in my map. I'd like to do a fartlek session soon, but I've never heard of doing one in the middle of a 20 mile run.
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