Slacking

So I've been slacking a little bit with these posts lately, much like how I've been in general since I've finished the marathon.  But I think I'll get back to it because I do kind of miss this, but here are some of the posts that I'll be posting about in a little bit.

-Full race report from San Francisco
-My adventures around google and "the mothership"
-Tales of lots of bread
-San Francisco anecdotes

But today's post is about something else that I've really come to realise over the past few weeks. A break (or an extended hiatus) can do wonders for training.  After SF, I didn't lace up the shoes for.... over two weeks actually until Julie asked if I could "teach" her how to run.  I still don't know what that means but currently it just means running with her.  But on monday's run I didn't run particularly quickly, I didn't run it because I needed to, nor did I have anything to accomplish on this run but run.  It's kinda nice not to have to hit splits, match paces.  But the bigger thing behind taking a break is you don't want to burn yourself out, it's no fun when you don't enjoy what you have to do like 5 days of the week and for extended periods of time. I had contemplated running the Edmonton marathon this weekend, and it was going to be awesome too because it's pancake flat (Which might possibly be where I attempt a bq assault) but after going for 8 months, I didn't have another month of training and racing in me.  So if you're ever getting to that point where you don't feel like you have the drive to go out and run/bike/flounder or anything like that, just take a break, it will actually probably do you more good than to slog through the training.

~Cheers