My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Day For Recovery

It was a very long trip home yesterday. In order to save money we had opted to skip the direct flights and instead travel from Cancun to Mexico City and then after a 2 hour layover on to Vancouver. That meant by time we got our luggage and did the 45 minute cab ride home that we didn’t get here until 11:30pm BC time (which would be about 2:30am Playa del Carmen time). Of course upon entering the house the dogs went absolutely nuts (today the corgi won’t let my husband out of her sight). For me I am never able to just arrive home and go straight to sleep (my husband definitely has that skill set) so by time I felt I had wound down enough to give sleep a try it was now 1:00am BC time.

I had already decided that I was going to need a recovery day and I was really glad I made that decision. I was wide awake by 4:30am this morning but didn’t want to get up as my husband was sound asleep and I didn’t want to disturb him. Instead I laid in bed until finally giving up at 6:30am. Funny, my getting up did not in anyway disturb him and it was quite awhile longer before arose from bed. I will admit, I was beat. That was a long day of traveling followed by very little sleep and I admit my body ached. No guilt at recognizing this was likely to happen, just focusing today on catching up on all of our administrative things that needed to be done.

But there is a plan. I have already committed to doing Dry February and have decided to actually start on Monday. That will give me a great opportunity to work on my training and get myself back to where I really want to be. I’m already imagining getting off the treadmill and hitting the outdoors again (after this next artic vortex rolls in this weekend). Let’s see where this next month takes me, hopefully back on the right path for my journey.