Well Deserved R&R
It’s way too easy to make excuses for missing a training, but it’s also easy to ignore your body’s pleas for what it needs. When you feel a certain way, have a craving for something or just feel ‘out of it’, chances are your body is desperately trying to tell you what it wants. This past week, after coming back from a week of racing at the North American Champs which was after a summer of even more races, I felt drained. My cross country coach had told me to take the week off, which I had initially planned as just some light cycling and strength. But when I woke up in the morning with the feeling of lead in my legs, and just not being able to think hard about something (even after my coffee), then I knew I had to change my plan. Resting and recovering are different things, and what my body needed was a full sit-on-your-butt-and-binge-watch-Netflix week. And there is nothing wrong with that! There’s this whole idea that high level athlete’s have to be go-go-go all d...
