Funk. Not the good kind.

Over the past three weeks or so I've been having sort of a running funk.  I haven't been motivated at all to go out and hit the trail.  It's probably partially due to the fact that winter is finally upon us here in CO.  Even if temps reach the 50s during the day, it's still freezing early in the morning when I love to run.  I also suspect slight over training.  I increased my weekly mileage rather quickly last month but not to a point that I shouldn't be able to sustain pretty effortlessly.  The past couple of weeks I've backed off, only doing about 20 miles per week.  My long runs have been completely terrible.  My body just isn't into it.  My short runs (less than 10 miles) have been relatively spectacular for some reason.  Which, instead of exciting me, really kind of pisses me off.  Here I am training to run ultra marathons and the only area where I'm seeing significant improvement is in my short runs.

A week from today I start a 10 day vacation with most of the time being spent in New Mexico.  I'm hoping the slightly warmer weather and change of scenery (trails) will motivate me to get back on track and start the new year off with a running bang.  246 days to Leadville.