Ten Days

So we are back from Utah and (somewhat) readjusted to being back to work. I'll post a skiing recap this weekend for sure but first, I didn't do my weigh-in post yesterday!

Yesterday's weight was 131.2 and todays was 130.4 so I think it is safe to say that I didn't really gain on vacation! I was about 133 when we got back on Sunday so I feel like things are just recalibrating to my normal level of eating/activity. Hopefully I'll be back in the 120's soon!!

After my failed 20 miler before we left on our trip, I decided to take a few days off of running to let me knees (and my pride!) recover. Somehow that turned into 10 days since I also didn't run while we were in Utah, although I got plenty of exercise skiing. After we got back I was pretty tired/sore from skiing for three days so I didn't run until Tuesday. Taking that time off was definitely a help physically, but it has been a struggle mentally - more so that I expected.

I didn't realize until I started thinking about it, but ten days is probably the longest I have gone without running in the past 18 months (I guess that officially makes me a runner?!). And especially over the past several months I have put so much mental effort into planning my runs, actually running, and tracking the results that 10 days off was just really weird for lack of a better word. I know that my body is physically ready and the time off helped it to recover, but I feel like I've lost a bit of my 'mental momentum' after not focusing on running for a over a week. So now I am just trying to pump myself back up and finish strong with my preparation because the marathon is only 17 days away!!

This weekend I will probably try to do 12-13 miles, and hopefully no knee pain! That would be a nice confidence booster for sure!!