If I learned anything from my first time through half ironman training, I learned how important rest and recovery are. Every fourth week of my training plan is billed as a 'Recovery Week' and unlike last time, I'm took it very seriously and actually dialed back the activity level a lot. I definitely took advantage of New Year's Day being on a Monday. 9+ hours of sleep, lots of laying around with the bunnies, and generally doing nothing productive!
I also think that this week couldn't have come at a better time since Mr. R&R and I had some family obligations this weekend that would have been very difficult to make work had there been a full week of training on the calendar. That said, I'm very happy that the holiday season is finally over for us. It's been great seeing family, but it's also difficult trying to accommodate these events. I'm not even going to talk about the food. I think it's sufficient to say that I look forward to getting back to my normal eating habits/schedule.
The coming weeks of the training plan have a big increase in volume as we move through the second half of the 8 week base phase, so getting back to our regularly scheduled lives will be very important.
How was your holiday season? Do you have multiple events to attend or do you keep it more low key?
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