I was talking with a young woman today. She was lamenting her disappointment in a bad workout done earlier. She was less then a third of the way through before feeling too discouraged to continue. For a little background, this athlete is 20 years old, has a very young running training age, is very mature for her age and participated in many other sports before she got into running. About a week and half ago, she stepped her weekly workouts from two to three hard efforts for last week. This is her first time trying to do another three hard days week and she failed.
To her this was grandiose and represented many things to her running but to me it was laudable. Not her distress, which is a window into the depth of her well of passion, but rather I mock the idea of that day's performance being a long term understanding of her ability. Almost all that start the sport, and far too many that have been in it a while, fail to see that one bad day is due to us all now and then. It happens, especially when you add new stress such as a week of three workouts. The cure is simple; a couple easy days of running and then she will try again later this week conquering it and her fears.
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