Alehouse - I've commented on your streak thing previously, in which I've owned up to streaks of 365+ myself. The more the streak goes the more it has to be preserved. As part of my lifetime, mostly unsuccessful, battle against obsession, I've tried to avoid getting myself into that "one more day" situation. So much so, that I found myself last week sitting in Madrid airport between flights reading a book thinking "what would Ron Hill be doing now"......and resting the urge.
However for me the weakness is, and always has been, total weekly mileage. I try to cope with this in a rather feeble way. Back in the day, when 100mpw was de rigeur, I would only target 90mpw, but that would have to be week after week! At the moment I say I'm "only" running 45-50mpw..........but really means 50mpw every week. To achieve this I spend every day from Tuesday onwards working out what I have to do to hit the target.
So....week to date 39m, means easy 5m tomorrow followed by 8m on Saturday to hit 52m for the week (all helped by yesterdays 10m). Then of course it all starts again next week, the key to which is at least 10m on Sunday.*
* Excerpt from the diary of an obsessive.
