This was a little area of slippage. I was supposed to go to a two-day seminar in Scottsdale, taught by my mentors, Dorothy & Mort Satten. The training site is just about 10 miles away and I do like to ride my bicycle to and from the training. It gives me a chance to clear my head both before and after the sessions, which are often very heavy. So, my Marathon training schedule designated these two days as cross-training and I planned to get two hours of bicycle riding in on each day, which was really double the amount of cross-training the schedule called for, but you can’t change the distance of the seminar or only bike one-way, so I figured that would just be bonus exercise.

However, when the seminar got canceled, I allowed my cross-training to get canceled along with it. I planned an alternate activity for Friday that would have me up too early to do any other exercise, but I didn’t bother planning any replacement for Saturday’s exercise, either. So, this was a bit of laziness on my part, but I’m going to allow myself a slip-up here and there without too much self-punishment. If it starts to become a pattern, I’ll have to do something about it, but I’m going to rationalize that missing two cross-training days is going to be okay.