Its like telling a kid not to put his finger in the plug point...but seriously, I am trying to alert people to how few days that they can actually take "off running" given the goals posted. The good news is that on long training days you can do run-<insert sport>-run workouts and quickly develop some buffer, or catch up for lost time.
Also keep in mind that this is winter for many of us, which means the possibility of getting sick...that will throw things off pace in a hurry so:
- Don't touch your face
- Wash your hands when you get home and wash before meals
- If you are at a party with appetizers/snacky food, eat with your left hand cause you are shaking hands with right hand, or better yet, don't eat that stuff with saturated fat and laced with everyone's germs :-)
- If you are at a gym, do not touch your face with your hand...all the equipment after xmas is covered with germs big time due to gym volumes
I realize this sounds extreme, but if you want to train and avoid sickness (sometimes impossible), its good to stack things in your favour, especially on a long three month stretch like this which is not a sprint, and more of a mental contest of putting up training in small bouts. Its easy at first, but it takes a lot more to stick though it between the 30 and 50 day mark...if you can make it through that, it becomes almost automatic and a day without running starts to become foreign.