Restarting week 6

[liv]

I've been away for just over a week, so I made a positive decision not to try to keep up running while I was on holiday, but to restart as soon as I got back. I was worried that I would have lost a lot of fitness, but actually I was doing quite active things while on holiday. A fair amount of walking, much of it uphill (since I visited a place that's much more hilly than my hometown of Cambridge), and even some kayaking, which is totally my favourite form of exercise except for the bit where it requires you to find a boat and some water, so I never actually do it.

It seemed sensible to restart week 6 after the break, so I did that this morning, with jack, and I improved my pace from the 9'20'' /km the first time to 9' /km today. A good run, I felt like I had extra in the tank if I'd wanted to go further or faster. I think it helped that I'd had enough sleep and enough hydration and the weather was cool but not cold, and maybe I just got lucky, but it's nice to have such a positive experience after taking a break.

Comments

[felicitygs]

That's great! Sometimes a break is just what we need. Plus the weather cooling off is a huge help, I bet.

[angrboda]

This is pretty much the same deal I made with myself. :) We just returned home from a week's holiday yesterday. I've got one more week of my holiday before it's back to work, but we're just at home, so I've decided that I'm getting back out there tomorrow even though it's going to be raining solidly through the day. (Husband, of course, totally showed me up by cycling a total of 160 km during the last week, but I think he might actually be a bit mad...)