tom ford

Maybe it’s the snow on the ground…or the high caloric intake…or even the general exhaustion from the late nights and last minute preparations.  Maybe it’s just all that being nice.    But holidays are not good for my running.  Went out for a 7 miler this morning and felt like I was crawling.   The moments of denial that found me saying “as soon as the holidays are over” rose up to greet me this morning on the run.   Ugh!  I need running/holiday rehab.

I once read that Bill Gates takes a week off every year to catch up on his reading.  He shuts the whole world off and just feeds his soul.  I have always thought this was a brilliant idea.   I stayed in yesterday and read a book (Little Bee–great read…highly recommend it) and snuck out with my husband to see a movie (A Single Man–Tom Ford’s 2 hour long Gucci movie featuring the sublime Colin Firth as a gay man in the 60′s…loved it!).   Now to just add the running element and a de-tox diet free of butter and sugar.   A declared stay-cation of exercise in the AM and nothing after that…nothing pressing anyway.

So maintenance runs and strength workouts by morning, books (so many “best of 2009″ lists to tackle), movies (so many Oscar contenders to view) and family games by night (children to talk to–gameboys to shut off)…holiday/running rehab at my house.

And perhaps, if I have time on a break from doing nothing, I will work on my running New Year’s resolutions…maybe not.

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