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Do you ever take a running "vacation?" If so, how long? How often?
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Mile 5:49 - 5K 19:58 - 10K 43:06 - HM 1:36:54
One week every December, which for me is turning into 2 weeks due to a car accident and strep throat.
A car accident? You ok?
As for me, I don't take intentional vacations (from running.... I have taken running vacations, though), but Real Life has a tendency to hand them out.
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Vacation from running? or Vacation for running?
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
This. A twisted knee. Wisdom teeth + secondary infection. That kind of thing. I do cut back when I'm not feeling it, though.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
No time off for me :-) If things are easy, I run. If things are hard and stressors are high, I still run. Hot and humid, I run because it makes all the other runs seem easier. Cold and windy, I run because it is still easier than when I was running in Afghanistan during a massive surprise dust storm exactly midway through my 10-miler!
No time off. Not even for New Years! (I am doing a race on 12/31, "Beat the Ball 5K" Which starts at 11:35pm and I can be done by 11:58pm in time to see ball drop on the big screen they have set up, and on 1/1, doing the "Hair of the dog" 5K at 8am... So... No, no break from running.
Note: I have only been running 2 years and loving it, so maybe with more years done, I will feel more like adding in some breaks :-)
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