It’s finally time to take some rest!

Resting doesn’t necessarily mean doing nothing. It’s just the practice of doing a little less work than the previous 3 weeks in order to recover and get ready for the next 3 weeks of increased training load.

The intensity pretty much stays the same but what changes is the duration of each workout. Instead of having 7 sets of 1 minute efforts we have only 3 or we bunch them up differently with longer rests in between.

The key is just to do enough work to still get the blood flowing while also not doing too much so that your body can repair itself throughout the week and you are able to train hard the next week.

I had to skip my first swim of the week (and the first workout in general in 4 weeks) because of some scheduling issues but all in all I am happy with the week.

I had some quick sessions at the beginning of the week and then lowered the intensity but still had the blood flowing.

I also had a half marathon race scheduled but opted not to participate because the coming week will be a challenge so I don’t want to start it from a hole I dug myself.

The only interesting thing was the Sunday run where I was running in sweatpants and a t-shirt while others have covered every part of their body but for the eyes. I don’t know who of us had a more confused look while looking at the other person.

Let’s tally up the numbers and call it a day.