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Dec 2019
8:23pm, 28 Dec 2019
44,203 posts
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runnerbean
Tomorrow I shall be ‘owning the sofa’ and refilling my spoons ...after I’ve seen you Miss Summers
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Dec 2019
8:40pm, 28 Dec 2019
15,463 posts
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Sharkie
Ooh, the gang's all here! (Almost) 
Tomorrow, or sometime, we can discuss what does and doesn't constitute a rest day. I admit to stretching the rules in the past. You know, "X' amount of walking is ok." Well sometimes it is, but quite often it isn't. And if that yoga or Pilates is challenging then are you really having a rest day? I'm not sure, but I think not.
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Dec 2019
8:50pm, 28 Dec 2019
5,211 posts
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Sigh
Since we are almost at year end, I've had a look at the record on Streak Watch under the training summary page.
2019 (so far):
208 days running, which increases to
243 days including all activities
Therefore 119 rest days.
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Dec 2019
8:54pm, 28 Dec 2019
18,595 posts
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Dvorak
I had a run streak of 112 days. It ended due to injuries sustained in two races. I wrangled a blog from it https://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog/5988/2009/8#blog167277. I've also had a couple (at least) of thirty days, and a couple more started but abandoned due them being a bit rubbish. Rest days are definitely a good idea (although with only a mile minimum, quite a few of my run days would count as rest days for many here).
(Also, rereading my blog reminded me that it's over ten years since I've been in Rome, or indeed anywhere in Italy )
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Dec 2019
8:55pm, 28 Dec 2019
59,867 posts
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swittle
What's wrong with steak?
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Dec 2019
9:10pm, 28 Dec 2019
44,471 posts
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Bintmcskint
Oooh, great thread!
I'm a big believer in rest days even if I don't always find them easy.
Eddie writes them in capitals (ie REST) and I stick to them because I know that they are important and make a difference.
SLEEP is also important and I'm going to do that now (or at least try).
Definitely watching this thread
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Dec 2019
10:14pm, 28 Dec 2019
2,308 posts
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Chance Gardener
Breathe.
There is the inhalation.
An exhalation. The pause between breathes (which varies). I do breathing everyday. I am on a breathing streak. I could give you reasons for breathing but you would not find them a revelation.
Taking a break from stress is good. Maybe taking a look at why you introduce the stress in the first place can be beneficial too.
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Dec 2019
11:13pm, 28 Dec 2019
33,721 posts
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Merry Christmas & Happy New G(rrr)
Where's the Eh? icon?  G
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Dec 2019
2:06am, 29 Dec 2019
2,309 posts
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Chance Gardener
You are right, as always, Happy G. The above is marzipan.
I cannot give the reasons, I only sing the tunes;
the sadness of the seasons the madness of the moons.
I cannot be didactic or lucid,
but I can be quite obscure and practic-Ally marzipan.
So. Let me take you by the hand and lead you nowhere, The thread of the thread - as I understand it - is that after 3 or 4 days training one should have a bath, a cup of tea and a good lie down for 24 hours (not necessarily in that order) and that this a good thing to do because it enables continuous repeats.
I would have it that this is not necessarily so and attempted to liken running to breathing. Breathing is stress free - one does it everyday, as is eating walking reading etc, etc. A runner maybe terribly, fiercely, passionately fit - but not actually healthy. Better to get healthy rather than rested. If the rest day facilitates the continuance of bad habits - that muscle imbalance, over-training or what-have-you, is eventually going wreak havoc. A rest day may be good for a runners brain, but in and of itself is neither here nor there.
Everybody is different and suited to different routines. Train to be able to train the next day. Recovery runs always work. Do your HRV test regular like. And to quote Binks 'there's no running problem that can't be fixed by more running'. Read 'The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing' and live healthily ever after - but not too much Mervyn Peake mind.
When Aunty Flo
Became a crow
She had a bed put in a tree;
And there she lay
And read all day
Of ornithology.
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Dec 2019
2:33am, 29 Dec 2019
5,095 posts
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Corrah
I like this as I tend to be a bit all or nothing. My problem just now is the overwhelming urge to fit in as much as possible and not all running.
Generally Friday and Sunday are my rest days and I need to try and keep it to that.
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