During the holiday season, it’s easy to let yourself get run down.\u00a0 I’m pretty much the poster child for running my body into the ground, though during 2012, I made a conscious effort to not do that, and I’d say it worked out pretty well, even with running 6 half marathons this spring and a myriad of other races.\u00a0 I stayed relatively healthy, and even when I did catch a cold, it never really turned into a full blown cold.\u00a0 Mostly just sniffles.\u00a0 Not fun, but not too bad.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, that meant making tough decisions.\u00a0 More than once, I had to cancel plans because my body was crying out for rest.\u00a0 I should have planned ahead better and maybe lightened my workouts so that I would be able to go out with friends, but now I have a better idea of how my body handles certain stresses and what I need to do better next time.<\/p>\n
It also meant that my workout log makes it look as if I was a total slug last week.\u00a0 The only workout I did was running a five mile race on Saturday.\u00a0 Of course, I also had three long choir rehearsals, two choir concerts, a week of 9+ hour days at work, and all the commuting that goes along with all of these things.\u00a0 I was barely home last week.\u00a0 Getting home after 11 and then leaving for work before 7 doesn’t leave for a lot of free time.\u00a0 So instead of getting up an extra hour (or more) early, I opted to sleep.\u00a0 I was still struggling, and the nights without choir, I cooked a few meals so I would have food to eat over the coming days and then I went to bed early.<\/p>\n
But I came out of the week healthy. Tired, but not sick, which is what I wanted.\u00a0 So the lesson is to make sure that I find balance.\u00a0 Do what I have to do, then figure out when I can do what I want to do.\u00a0 Workouts fall on the line between things I have to do and things I want to do.\u00a0 They’re not quite as important as sleep and healthy eating, and unfortunately, I have to choose my job over working out (it’s how I pay for my running habit, after all).\u00a0 But they come first after all the “have tos” are done.<\/p>\n
So the lesson here is to make sure that you take care of yourself during this busy time – and during the whole year.\u00a0 Try to eat well, or at least eat balanced.\u00a0 Get plenty of rest.\u00a0 Drink your water.\u00a0 And workout when you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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