Weekly Recap: Running in Paradise (2/26-3/4)

And Taking a break (finally)

Last week, D and I headed to the Bahamas. It was a work trip for him, but it was a complete vacation for me. I had all these ideas that I was going to do blog planning and product planning, and all kinds of other planning while on vacation, but I decided I needed the break from everything to let my mind rest. I've been go, go, go for years now and haven't truly unplugged maybe ever? So this time, I took a break.

We also left B home with grandma and grandma, so it was a week to just be us. I wasn't anyone's employee, boss, consultant, or parent. And it was awesome! I did yoga outside, I ran, I went to the beach, I made a fused glass pendant, and relaxed. I also made some new friends. It was a good week, you guys.

We left on Thursday, so I still had a few days of the normal grind at home. I wrapped up a work project (mostly) and made sure my freelance clients were good to go while I took a break, and then packed it up and headed to paradise.

Before leaving, I did get in a few workouts, including an easy 3-miler on Tuesday and my first speedwork session in a long, long, long time on Wednesday! I hadn't intended to do speedwork, but when I felt the track under my feet, I couldn't help myself.

I ended up doing a fairly easy speedwork session (as far as speedwork options go, at least) to just get my legs to remember what it felt like. After a 1 mile warm up, I ran the straights (15 times) hard(ish) and walked or jogged/slogged the curves, then did a cool down lap. Overall, it went well. No pain and my legs kind of remembered what to do.

Unfortunately because of the work projects I needed to get done, I didn't have time to get to yoga or strength before heading out on vacation. But I did get to do yoga in the Bahamas, outside under the palm trees. I'll call that a win.

Not a bad place to do yoga (or to walk and go Shelling every morning)

I also walked several miles every day while in the Bahamas, so even if I wasn't getting all of my workouts in, I was walking constantly. My Fitbit was really pleased with me then entire vacation and never yelled at me once to get up and move more.

Workout Summary

  
   Monday
    Off
  
   Tuesday
    3 mile run (easy)
  
   Wednesday
   Speedwork (3 miles total, run the straights 15 times, slog the curves)
  
   Thursday
    Travel day  
  
   Friday
   Yoga
  
Saturday
3 mile run in the Bahamas (easy)
  
   Sunday
   Off
  
   Totals
   
     3 runs/9 miles

     1 yoga

       4 TOTAL WORKOUTS

In general, it was a much, much, much needed break - both to unplug from work (for me), unplug from the blog and side business efforts, take a break from parenting (even though I missed the little dude like crazy) and spend some time with D just the two of us without the general nuttery of daily life (even if he still had to work on the trip).

I'm planning to post a vacation recap (in pictures), so I'll just post a few here.