Been thinking about this some more as I deal with the fallout. It's not just that I tried something and it didn't work that well, which, after all happens from time to time. I thought I was sensibly incorporating the performance/injury feedback I'd gotten from previous training cycles and tried to optimize, or at least improve, my decision-making process by finding a coach who, as far as I could tell, was the guy for my goals. Then I went to the considerable expense of hiring the guy. Then I got basically the exact same results as I did in the previous couple years when I trained myself: modest progress and an injury that hamstrung, so to speak, the rest of my offseason's training. Arguably worse results, because it's not something I've hurt before! "Great coach ----- has slots available, hire him, that should help you find your weak points and avoid cognitive errors that get you hurt and slow you down. But doctor, I am (already being coached by) -----." I don't trust my own decision-making, but I'm not sure who else's I do trust!
"When they think you're crude, go technical, when they think you're technical, go crude", so I went crude, and now I'm dealing with the injury again. Is this what people are talking about when they say "I used to", when they say they got old or took an arrow to the knee? Life's way of telling me my goals are too ambitious? Fuarrrrrrrk.
/deerdiary
"worst" "training" "block" of my "career" (sorry)
Alternatively, if it makes you feel any better, I remember a Hanleypoast about how he'd had his best results shortly after a bad flu. At any rate, I've been known to think about this when doing 10 pushups and going for a walk while too sick to do anything else.