Say what?

Below is correspondence I had with my running Coach yesterday. To reduce its overall length, some sentences are paraphrased. I also omitted a lot of the "clutter".

Me: How bad of an idea is it to run 12 miles the day before Sundays 25k. If it is not too horrible of an idea, please give me a strategy for running both.

Coach: Really, really bad idea to run 12 miles tomorrow. You need to prepare and focus on your own race. Sorry for the quick response.

Me (2nd email): The SMART schedule calls for 4-miles tomorrow. What's the most you recommend running tomorrow. I feel good. Plus, I really want to pile on the mileage I missed earlier this month.

Coach: 36 hours before the longest race of your life is not a good time to pile on mileage! If you want to do extras next week, so be it. The best thing you can do for your marathon is prepare for the race Sunday.

All that and I still did extra mileage. SORRY COACH. No purposeful intention of going against Coaches advice, but it just happened. Sean and I measured out a 26 mile course for him. I planned to join him five miles from the finish line. Originally I wanted to run the second half with him, yet decided to adhere to the coaches response. Anyways the mileage came up 1.5 miles longer than expected.

I felt really good. No damage done with the exception of disobedience to coaches advice. You'll forgive me, right Coach?

For those wondering, Sean ran 30 miles in 4:00 hours, including restroom/water/traffic stops. I slowed him down for the final 6.5 miles. He's a machine.

Activity: Run
Mileage: 6.5 miles
Time: 1:05:33 -- 10:05 pace
Splits:
10:31, 10:19, 10:41, 9:53, 10:15, 9:20, 4:34 (0.50 mile)
Location: Kingwood
How I Felt: 10