Time off?

NYCNorma

posted: 12/20/2012 at 8:34 PM

Do you ever take a running "vacation?" If so, how long? How often?

MJ5

Chief Unicorn Officer

posted: 12/20/2012 at 8:38 PM

One week every December, which for me is turning into 2 weeks due to a car accident and strep throat.

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srlopez

Eye of Sauron

posted: 12/20/2012 at 8:47 PM

Quote from MJ5 on 12/20/2012 at 8:38 PM:

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.

And once again Mr. Wizard (aka: Stevie Ray) explains the internet.

MilkTruck

posted: 12/20/2012 at 9:33 PM

Quote from NYCNorma on 12/20/2012 at 8:34 PM:

Do you ever take a running "vacation?" If so, how long? How often?

Vacation from running? or Vacation for running?

Did an angel whisper in your ear and hold you close and take away your fear...In those long last moments

rgilbert

posted: 12/20/2012 at 10:09 PM

Quote from srlopez on 12/20/2012 at 8:47 PM:

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.

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

K L Duke

2013 Goal: 365d+2013mi

posted: 12/20/2012 at 10:09 PM
modified: 12/20/2012 at 10:10 PM

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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