Weekly Wrap-Up: Rest Week

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Welcome to my latest weekly wrap-up! This week I’m linking up with Wendy and Hoho again, so please be sure to check out more Weekly Wraps there!

It has certainly been a week.

The stomach issues that hit me hard on Sunday had me feeling out of it all day Monday. By Tuesday I was up and eating, but didn’t have too much energy. On Wednesday, I decided i wanted to move a little and went out for a 2 mile walk. I ended up nauseated about 20 minutes into my walk and struggled to get home as my legs grew increasingly achy. I decided it was best to take another day of rest after that. By Friday evening, I decided to try another walk and we went for our usual 1.1 mile walk around the block. I was tired by the end and had slowed down some, but I made it through, so we went farther Saturday morning. By Sunday, I was ready to run again. It was a hilly run with high humidity, so I ended up walking almost the entire second half, but I made it through 5.5 miles! I was proud of myself for getting through those miles regardless of how much time I spent walking!

Other than a few walks, it’s been a week of rest and I think my body needed it. I hadn’t thought much about putting recovery weeks in my current training cycle, but I know how important they are. I guess I just had it in my mind that because my weekly mileage is so low and I’m rebuilding my fitness that I really didn’t need recovery weeks. Now that I’ve had a somewhat amped up version of a recovery week, I’m kind of excited to see how the next four weeks of training go. After that we head off to Australia!

While I was laid up with my digestive system resetting itself, I finally registered for a race! I’ll be running the City of Oaks 10K while my husband runs the half. I’ve run this race in Raleigh several times and it was actually the most recent race I’ve run, so it will be nice to be running in some familiar territory. We usually drive over the day before the race and get a hotel room. It’s nice to have dinner in Raleigh and relax a little before we run. This year the race is on November 4, so Colleen temperatures should be in play. I’m excited and think it will be a good jumping off point for thinking about half training leading up to April.

As for my nutrition this week, I actually did less worrying about my diet because I didn’t eat much of anything for two solid days. By Tuesday, I was able to eat some of my normal stuff, but my appetite still wasn’t back in full force and I kind of dealt with that most of the week. As a result, it kind of jumpstarted my weight loss again after a frustrating few weeks. I stepped on the scale mid-week since I missed my “official” weigh-in on Monday but I decided not to make anything “official” because weight can fluctuate a lot when you have been sick on your stomach.

That being said, today I am officially at 15 pounds lost since June 25! That means I have four weeks left to get the last 5 pounds off before we leave for Australia! I’ll be careful in Australia, but I’m not going to go crazy about it. This will be a vacation after all! When I get back, I’ll establish new goals in My Fitness Pal and get going again.

It feels really good to be in this place of making progress and starting to get myself back to where I was before pregnancy.

So, while this week was unplanned in a lot of ways, I think I’m much better off for it. How do you deal with recovery weeks in your own training?