Lazy

I've been in real holiday mode for the last two weeks. After Canberra I flew out the next day to Port Douglas with Sarah and her parents Gary and Reby for a week in FNQ.

It was absolutely glorious up there - the weather was a sensational 28 degrees every day with no humidity and a slight breeze. We had a great apartment with it's own pool and BBQ area, a couple of blocks from the beach and a couple of blocks from the main street of Port D. Spent a day driving up to Cape Tribulation and checking that out, went out on the Reef for 3 amazing dives (saw a beautiful sea turtle, a huge moray with a head the size of a great dane, rays, a reef shark, enormous groupers and more coral and fish than I've ever seen in my life).

We went bushwalking and swimming in jungle streams at Mossman Gorge, drove the winding coastal road to Cairns and caught the skyway to Kuranda, chilled in Port D and rode bikes on the beach, all in all a perfect little holiday. Check the snaps.

Recovery-wise my legs were kind of sore on Monday and a little stiff on Tuesday, but were fine by Wednesday, although I had very litle motivation to run. I did a couple of short slow jogs on the beach - 20 mins one day, a day off, 40 mins, a day off, 1hr 30mins. Also a couple of swims in a public 25m pool I found, but that was it.

Since getting back to Sydney on Monday the situation has been dire. It's been raining and grey and every morning I've woken up at 5am with outstanding plans to go to yoga, take a ride or get into the pool. And every day I roll over and go back to sleep, then end up slobbing for the rest of the day!

I haven't been on the bike for a proper ride in like a month, ditto with yoga. I've had a few swims and on Tuesday I ran into the city for HuRTS which was 12 x 3mins (1min recovery).
Total 48 mins, max HR 184 (!) and average HR 166.

That was a good session I was quite happy with, but apart from that it's been pure laziness and sloth which of course I don't feel good about, but in another way it's ok to let myself go a bit and get the hunger back for exercise. I was feeling pretty jaded coming into Canberra and ready for a break, but then again I have had a pretty massive 12 months without any real break in routine. It's been really enjoyable and the results have been great too, but maybe I needed a couple of weeks of sloth to reignite the fire!

I'm starting to feel it already... time to set some goals. The only thing I have on the horizon right now is the SMH Half Marathon in mid May.