To run or not to run...

After all the hill repeats, intervals, tempo runs, and CrossFit workouts I am truly faced with my hardest training day yet...NOT running! I fell into a groove this week and ran to many miles before the end of my training week. This normally would not be a problem but the run that was scheduled for today is a hard tempo run. Now I have to face the hardest challenge of proper training which is telling myself you do not improve by running 1 tempo run. I can do plenty to side track my running by cramming this run in today but if I do run it is not going to improve my times. Running (or any other endurance sport) improves after weeks of training are totalled up. It's the sum of all the parts that count. That includes recovering properly. So thats what I'm going to do today. Take a day off. Play some video games. Watch some movies. Definatley NOT RUN!