Went up to Solitude, with no goals other than to ski around and find a cool viewpoint... 
While snapping some photos, I remembered the day Andrea and I skied a great line off that ridge (Stupid Chute, left of center) and realized it was exactly two years ago today. There was SO MUCH snow that winter. I'll try running again at some point. Not today, though. I don't really feel like it. That's like 6 days in a row... definitely the most downtime since I got serious about running again. Spent a lot of time thinking about my March/April training this spring during my solo travels over the past couple days. For two marathons in a row, I had something "big" planned just about two months after the marathon. And two times in a row, I'm not even going to make it to the starting line of that second event. When I look at most (but not all) of my best performances, I've had a very large chunk of "old school" base training come first, before I started jumping into workouts. I didn't do that this time, and forced the issue because the 25K was on the horizon. Instead of letting it come naturally, I pressed too hard, tried to force the fitness, and I paid the price. Sometimes you get away with it, and sometimes you don't. I should have backed off a few weeks ago when my workouts were consistently a little subpar, and I knew I was a little off. The best I can do now is learn from my mistakes and not repeat them three times.
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