Winter Blues
I didn’t run last week. In fact, I didn’t do any fitness activity last week except for some snow shoveling. Why, you ask, would someone who is training for the Boston Marathon take a week off? Well, it wasn’t planned. I just got a bad case of the winter blahs and couldn’t get motivated to run. The weather was horrible, I was tired….all of the usual excuses. I would say that this is rare for me, because I typically never miss a single workout let alone a whole week of them. However, it is not without precedent. I did the same thing last year about this time.
The bottom line is that marathon training, especially in the middle of winter, is extremely draining, both mentally and physically. Sometimes you just shut down and are forced to take a mandatory break. Last week was one of them.
Will the week off help or hurt? Will it cost me 5 minutes in the marathon or will it save me a serious injury? Who knows?
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 01/28/2008
- Time: 05:00:00
- Total Time: 1:25:37.00
- Distance: 10 miles
- Average Pace: 8:33.55/mile
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Winter Blues
January 29th, 2008 1:48 am
Brad Hefta-Gaub says:
With your fitness base, a week off is no big deal at all. In fact it probably did you some good.
No worries!