My Journey With Health And Fitness – Time For A Recovery Day

We are continuing to do the deep clean of our home. Yesterday it was doing our living room area after having done the hallway and main bathroom on Monday. When I say deep clean I mean everything from washing walls, doors and baseboards to cleaning blinds. If we keep going at this rate we should have everything done by the end of next week. Then it is just general tidying every few days until we leave for Mexico.

I got up this morning and it was pouring. I had checked and the weather app said it might clear up after my fitness class but it didn’t. As it is Thursday it is my high intensity strength class and as always it was brutal. I realized part way through that my legs are killing me. This is likely because I have done several consecutive days of some pretty intense walking getting ready for my challenge which starts on Monday. I decided maybe I should be taking a recovery day.

Now don’t get me wrong, this has a lot to do with the rain and the fact that I should have done a run today. As you know, I despise running on the treadmill so just could not bring myself to do it. I worked out what this would look like. Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day so I can just switch the run to doing it before the weekly Friday coffee group. Note after that I will go for a 1 1/2 hour walk which I timed out after the coffee group met yesterday. If I do a small run tomorrow then I should be good to do a 10km run on Saturday (which I honestly look forward to).

I’ve also decided that I am going to get in some sort of walk today, maybe just not as long nor as intense as I have been doing. I am well aware I need to recognize that my body does occasionally need that time to recover. I’ve been doing this for a while now and have learned the importance of listening to your body if you want to be successful at meeting your goals.

And so I shall give my body (especially my legs) a bit of a break today and hopefully they will be happy with me again tomorrow.