Relaxing holiday

Another good day up at Guilderton today, although a much easier day on the training front. In fact today has been a really nice recovery day. The weather today in the Perth region has been solidly wet, one of the first days of proper rain for the year. The sort of day where you relax inside and take it easy. The weather worked out quite nicely since the whole family really needed a restful day after the last couple of busy days. I guess that is another nice thing about being on holiday, actually having the time to recover. I had woken up with the intention of doing a bit more training, but in the end I didn't really feel up to it. Now I am sort of glad I didn't. As a result I am feeling pretty good today after the solid day of running yesterday.

I did get in another bit of swimming today. A bit more open water swimming in the river. Very pleasant swim in the rain as it turned out. The swim was a little bit longer than yesterday, but not by a lot. I enjoyed it so much though that I am keen to get out for a longer swim tomorrow. Just get out, not worry about pace and roll the arms over for a while. Should be nice.

The plan is also to get some running in tomorrow too. I have a bit of an interval run on the program, which will be the first one of them that I have done since returning to training. It won't be anything to intense, just working at a slightly quicker pace than I have been doing. Should be a good session hopefully. The trick may be finding a section of road in Guilderton flat enough to do it.

Away from training I had an interesting epiphany today. All through this morning I couldn't shake an underlying sense of guilt, but I couldn't put a finger on why. I hadn't missed any training, which is typically the source of any guilt I feel. After a bit of introspection I realised that I was feeling guilty about not being at work. I couldn't help feeling I was dodging work, pulling a sicky or something like that. I should point out that I am not doing anything like that. I am here on holiday, using leave which I have legitimately accrued. Using days off that I have approval to use. In short I have done everything right with respect to work, but I couldn't help but feel that I was in the wrong. Once I had this realisation I was just a little annoyed. It isn't an indictment on my work specifically, but more on work in general and the expectation that it puts on us. The link that work = life can be so invasive in our society that I felt it without even realising it. And this is coming from me who is so proud of maintaining a healthy work/life balance. Frustration.

Still once I had that realisation it helped me to relax and stop feeling the guilt. Knowing what was causing it and then knowing that I had no reason to feel that way then helped me to get over it. Tomorrow I can just start the day feeling that way.