My Journey With Health And Fitness – Taking A Week Off

I need to start this post off with a couple things. Firstly, huge congrats go out to my friend Cheryl who ran 10k for the 1st time today. I swear we will be running a 1/2 marathon together next year. Secondly, I didn’t post on Thursday because of wifi issues. Our service here in Mexico can be horrible and it was so bad I couldn’t get wifi on my laptop and I hate having to type out posts on my iPad. However, I decided today I would suck it up and get a post out with the iPad anyways. That was the point where my husbands asks if his Bluetooth keyboard would be of any use. Well hell yeah!!!

We got to our condo in Mexico Wednesday afternoon. In order to reduce the cost of the trip we had opted for a red eye flight Tuesday night to Mexico City and then a flight over to Cancun. It wasn’t too bad but I admit we were pretty exhausted when we got here. I knew there was no chance of doing a run Wednesday but we opted to walk to a restaurant for dinner so I at least got a few km’s in.

I woke up early on Thursday (because I had set an alarm) and went, screw this and immediately went back to sleep. This is the point where I acknowledge I had a couple of choices. I could force myself to keep to my usual routine or I could take some time off to enjoy my vacation. I went for the latter. Don’t get me wrong, I refuse to take the entire 3 weeks off from my workouts. As I have done in the past I set a deadline for when I will be back at it and I thought 1 week was fair and I could easily handle it without any sort of loss of momentum. I originally thought I would start back at it on Monday but then I realized that I would be getting up early to watch the Queen’s funeral and quite frankly that is something I am not willing to miss. The problem is by time it is over it will be far to warm here for me to go for a run.

We have now order some new, high speed, fibre optic wifi which will be installed sometime in the next week. While I will do my best to post on my regular schedule it will all come down to if our wifi cooperates. If it does I will talk to you all on Tuesday.