Welcome to Conejo Joe's Marathon Training and Running Blog. This started in April 2009 when I decided to start training for the inaugural Santa Barbara Marathon. Since then I've run several marathons and a number of other local races, while highlighting and babbling about a variety of things running-related in here, including training specifics, race reports, dealing with injuries (and I've had plenty of them). disappointments, successes, local races and so on.

I've been running since 1993 and have logged well over 60,000 miles since then. With over 30 marathons and a personal best time of 2:35 many years ago at the Los Angeles Marathon, I have a few things to say about running. My hope is that these posts provide you something of benefit, be it useful advice for your own training, a grin or two, or perhaps some motivation.

For an archive of past posts by date, visit THIS LINK.

May 09, 2009

You Won't Regret Taking a Break

May 09, 2009/ Conejo Joe

While this is advice is for all marathon runners, it is particularly geared towards the obsessive ones that feel guilty when taking a day off. I place myself into this category.

Thursday night I was really tired and could barely drag myself out of bed on Friday morning. Not to mention, I had run for an hour on Thursday morning and had a bit of a sore knee. So I took Friday off.

All better today! My knee problem is gone. My energy is back. I ran this morning with a spring in my step.

Take a day off when you need it, even if you had planned to run that day. Your body is trying to tell you something. Don't feel guilty about it.

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