I am coming off what might be the longest stretch I have ever gone without exercising. As you might have seen in my training log (link in the homepage sidebar), there is a huge hole between Oct 4 and Oct 17. A week of that time was spent in Florida, visiting relatives. Summer didn’t come to us this year, so we had to go hunt it down before it was too late.
It was unbearably hot in Florida, and I’ve had a nagging knee injury, so it was all too easy to just sit by the pool, or if I got ambitious, wade into the surf. The net result was that for two straight weeks my heartrate did not climb above 80. I don’t think that has ever happened before. The most exercise I got was literally walking to and from our hotel room to the beach. All 100 yards of it. Our kiddo struggled with the travel, the time-change and the relatives, so when we weren’t in the water, we were napping. Sleep, eat, swim, repeat. That was the routine for seven days. The disturbing part is that I was okay with it. I usually go stir-crazy if I am deprived of a workout for a few days. But in Florida, it didn’t upset my mellow. The warm sun can do strange things to a man.
While I hadn’t planned for a two week layoff, I think it did help get rid of the knee problem. And now that I am feeling pudgy and lazy, it has given me a little more motivation to get back into the routine.
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