When I was studying for a degree in Integrative Medicine, we had a saying: the day begins the night before. Essentially, this champions the idea of prevention as being key to good health. If you want to wake up tomorrow with good energy, what you do tonight counts.
It probably wasn’t until I really got into trail running that I realized just how helpful this advice could be. Because I wasn’t training for a marathon or anything, I just scheduled my long runs when they worked with the rest of my life, always leaving a couple of days in between to allow my legs time to recover. Sometimes it felt great to lace up my trail running shoes and go for miles, other times it felt like I was dragging a piano up the trail.
