The cool thing about taking a break is that you don't have to train after a schedule. You can wake up in the morning and just do what you feel like. If you don't feel like training then just don't go. If you feel like going jogging, then go jogging…
On Thursday I was planning on going jogging if the weather was nice again, but when I woke up it was cloudy and I couldn't even see the sun. So I just spent some time on the internet and read my book. After I had lunch I decided to go jogging because the sun was finally shining. I went down to the river but soon noticed that I'm not too fit. I felt tired and my legs were sore and it really annoyed me. I turned around after 20min and had to tell myself not to stop and just walk home. When I finally got home I felt like I just did a long run or an interval training, but it was only 40min of slow jogging.
I think that's the thing that sucks the most about taking a break, you feel like you're a beginner, you feel out of shape and struggle to keep up a pace or to run a distance that you can normally do easily. I find it hard to find the right mix. Not to do too much and really take a break, but still do enough to not have to start from zero again after the break. It's also weird that I always think it's going to be hard not to train a lot anymore and that I'm gonna be bored and everything, but once the break started, I have to watch out that I train enough because somehow I just get lazy and can't be bothered going training anymore, so I even have to motivate myself :).
Because I don't train so much anymore, I'm also not as hungry so I eat less what is a good thing because otherwise I'd quickly gain weight. And I'm less tired, that means I wake up earlier in the morning and don't get tired during the day – also a good thing :).
Friday was rest day (again), but at least the sun was shining all day. I used the morning for writing emails and applications, doing some strength exercises for my ankle and reading my book. In the afternoon I did some sunbathing while I was reading my book. Later I went for a walk (I had to do at least some sort of exercise :)) and did 50min worth of stretching – that's a loooong time! :).
I can't wait to get back to my normal training routine again, this just isn't doing it for me. I'd much rather be outside running some intervals or some hills and get sweaty and tired. Or do off-skate in the park, or… just something. Anything is better than sitting around feeling kind of guilty and thinking about what I would feel like after a hard training session (I loooove this feeling).
After we got up today, my boyfriend left to go to Timaru for the day (I didn't want to go with him cos that would have been soooo boring) so I stayed home. I wrote some emails and prepared my mum's birthday present. After I wrote this I'm probably going to read my book, have lunch and go to club training. I'm going to have to walk to the bus station for about 20min, so yay. The weather forecast says it's gonna be pretty windy and cloudy the whole weekend so that won't be any fun at all. Why on earth does it always have to be windy when we go skating on Saturday?! And why is it always cloudy or raining at the weekend after the weather has been beautiful all week long?! Like I said, no fun!
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