Don't know if y'all have been reading these, but I liked this one:
http://deadspin.com/failure-is-an-option-or-why-youll-always-be-a-loser-a-470226630
Mmmmm...beer
It's ok to have a bad run, but I wouldn't call that failure. Not sure where he got that training plan, but it doesn't look good to me. 3 mile runs twice a week and then a 12 mile long run?
-Dave
My running blog
Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!
I missed the 3 miles twice a week thing. Where does it say that? The only details I read were on race week where it had him run 6 miles in three 2-mile runs, which he thought was too little. But I may have missed something.
He posted a picture of his schedule, it doesn't show the full week, but I'm guessing Monday is a similar length run to Wed.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18jm0k4m69qg7jpg/k-bigpic.jpg
If he was able to handle the 12 miler, then he'll probably do ok, but I think more frequency and more mileage on his shorter runs would help him. I was running six days a week, 30-40mpw, before I got my long run up to 12+ miles.