My Journey With Health And Fitness – Knowing When To Take A Break

Thursday my husband, sister and I went on an excursion for the day. We started out at a very large gardening centre where the store had changed into being a Christmas store. We spent quite a while wandering through and purchased some awesome dip and soup kits. We then went out for dinner and finally on to a movie set that had been transformed into a winter wonderland. There were lights, carolers, vendors, food trucks just to name a few things. All in all it was a good day.

As previously mentioned on Thursday I hit my 300km goal by December 12th one day early. I have to say my joints were not happy, Hips, knees, ankles, all were saying, hey lady you are less than a month away from 60 yet this is what you decided to do? My bad ankle was a little swollen (though not too bad) so put on some anti-inflammatory cream. I admit, after the walk in the deluge on Wednesday my whole body was tired. It was time to recognize I needed a recovery day.

So yesterday much to the surprise of my family I did no workouts, absolutely nothing. There was no 5:30am fitness class, no 7am walk to the beach, there was zilch. Even with the hours of shopping I didn’t hit 10k steps nor did I close the rings on my Apple Watch meaning I didn’t meet a single daily go. And you know what, I am ok with all of that. As a matter of fact today and tomorrow I am only doing a single 10km walk each day. And again I am ok with this knowing that next week it will be 15km walking each day after having done a fitness class.

Sometimes you have to recognize when it is time to give your body a break. I’m still on track to log at least 450km by the end of the month which quite frankly is still pretty impressive. I’ve met my goal and am proud of it. Now, it’s time to find a new challenge.