It's been a full week since I laced up my running shoes and went out for a run. I thought this week would take place 3 weeks ago, but after marathon #1 did not go as planned, I decided to dig in for a for more weeks to give marathon #2 a shot.
Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed some downtime this week. I could not totally commit to being a couch potato, but I definitely took it easy. Not surprisingly, my legs were pretty beat up this week. I spent some quality time pool running and on my yoga mat. Both felt amazing.
My week off was also about enjoying a little more unstructured time. Friday afternoon, as we discussed upcoming weekend plans, my co-worker and running friend Sarah suggested "doing something I wouldn't normally do" to celebrate my accomplishment. This was great advice and I found a few things to meet the criteria.
1. Sleeping on the couch
I fell asleep on the couch Friday night. I love my couch and LOVE napping on it. At night, however, I'm always too nervous I will fall asleep before setting an alarm, or wake up in the middle of the night, move to my bed and then not be able to fall back asleep. But with nothing planned for Saturday, it didn't matter when I would wake up. With 2 minutes left in the Celtics game, my eyes started getting heavy. At some point I heard the Celtics won by 10. I thought I just dozed off, but when I next looked at my watch, it was 4:56am. Nice.
2. Sleeping in
I did eventually crawl into my bed early Saturday morning and without an alarm, planned to sleep until whenever my body decided to get up. Apparently the magic time was 10am. I have not slept that late since...
3. Chocolate cake for breakfast
When I finally did get up I was hungry. And some left over chocolate cake looked delicious. And tasted delicious too.
4. Us Weekly and coffee in bed
After "breakfast" I took a cup of coffee back to bed. With the rain pouring down outside, it seemed like a good excuse to stay in bed a bit longer and catch up on some reading. I bought Us Weekly in case I couldn't sleep and needed some mindless reading while in Vermont last weekend. Turns out, it's good lazy Saturday morning reading too.
As nice as my lazy weekend was, I know I could not do this every weekend. In fact, I'm really glad it rained to deny me the temptation of wanting to do something fun outside. But I'm getting ready for my first run tomorrow morning and soon enough, I'm sure I'll be itching for a training plan for my next marathon.
