Day 1

I started the first day of my off season with a time honored tradition today. I slept in.

You know when you are training full bore and you drag yourself out of bed and think "it would be so nice to just stay in bed this morning", but you never do because you know you need to do the work. So you get yourself out the door into the cold, dark morning and get on with it. Well this morning I just stayed in bed.

For me this is what the off season is about, letting yourself take those lazy options for once, because normally you never do. Soon enough you are going to have to go back to doing the work, so I always think that this is the time to give yourself that break, let yourself relax and be a little bit slack when that is what you are feeling like. Lovely.

Of course I don't want to be too slack. I am viewing this couple of weeks as a break rather than an off season so I don't want to completely blow out and have to rebuild from scratch. Rather I am keen to refresh myself mentally and physically and then get on with things. As such I am working hard to avoid the usual off season pitfalls such as eating stack of junk food, sitting on the couch all day. I can't say how successful I am being, but the intention is there. Still, it is worth keeping in mind, an off season is a period to refresh, it isn't a period to throw all your usual good habits out the window. The harder you fall now, the more work that will be required when the season gets going again.

With all this in mind the plan is to do some exercise tomorrow. In fact my wife has specifically requested it. Not because I am getting annoying already (probably), but more because she knows that I function better with exercise. It might be nice spending the morning in a warm, cosy bed, but strangely enough it doesn't seem to work for me when it comes to the rest of the day. It won't be a long or a hard session, but get out the door I shall.

Probably.