{"id":3153,"date":"2014-12-08T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2014-12-08T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:51:00","slug":"rest-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/rest-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I did not run.\u00a0 I did not bike.\u00a0 I did not swim.\u00a0 Coach told me to take a rest weekend and that&#8217;s exactly what I did.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my body heard &#8220;rest&#8221; and immediately decided to get sick.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m still working on fighting off whatever this horrible bug is.\u00a0 Perfect timing too, since this is yet another choir concert week.\u00a0 I feel like I just did this.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, having a rest weekend was fairly glorious.\u00a0 I did a ton of laundry and cleaned up the house a bit and then I just felt like I had all this free time, time usually spent prepping for a workout, working out, and then refueling and showering afterwards.\u00a0 It was amazing.\u00a0 Now I understand how non-athletes get so much done on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean I&#8217;m giving it up?\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 I felt like I had too much time this weekend.\u00a0 I spent a number of hours watching tv and working on a baby blanket gift that I should have started weeks ago.\u00a0 I also slept a lot.\u00a0 Which was enjoyable, but I missed the endorphin rush that comes with a hard workout.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s good to sometimes give your body a rest.\u00a0 Relax.\u00a0 Breathe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a light week this week (and three choir rehearsals and three concerts) and then it&#8217;s back to the grind the following week.\u00a0 So I shall be back to my grumbling about hard workouts very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I did not run.\u00a0 I did not bike.\u00a0 I did not swim.\u00a0 Coach told me to take a rest weekend and that&#8217;s exactly what I did. 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