De-training.

[Sweder]

Man, this running malarky can mess with your head
I reckon you've answered your own questions pretty well MLCMan, and in turn posed a few for the rest of us. It's such a personal experience - or should that be, with a fiem nod to Mr Sheehan, an experiment?

I too like the idea of running one mile each day - or, at least, running every day so that the act of running becomes part of daily life. Less is more turned, after a few weeks off through illness, into less is less. Such are the vagaries of finely balanced schedules.

If you feel like it, go for a run.
I like that best of all, and, with no immediate race plan on my table, will take up the mantra as my own.