This past week was a definite break from the training plan. And from any form of discipline, for that matter. My annual Christmas escape gave me ample reason to abandon the usual hardcore adherence to the pursuit of higher fitness, and to live life with reckless abandon for 5 whole days.
Days were spent immersed in exploration, a return to the ocean, and beautiful cocktails. Evenings were made for lingering in dimly lit, intriguing spaces with feasts of fresh oysters and more cocktails. There was very little time for working out.
I wasn't a complete slacker. Dave and I did manage to get out once or twice to run through the city streets and down to the Embarcadero, but those were slow runs with lots of photo stops. The hotel had a very nice gym, too, and a couple of times I went there to fill up my bottle at the FloWater station (because all those cocktails were quite dehydrating). We even made plans to hit the gym early, before we started our day's adventures:
D: "It's 7 AM. Wanna get up and go to the gym?"
P: "No. Do you?"
D: "No. Let's get breakfast."
We got back into Cleveland last night, to a pelting rain and a prediction of colder weather to come (finally!), and a brand new resolve to get back to training. Maybe we felt the need to shake off all those celebration beverages and expensive crab platters. Or maybe that one week off left us refreshed and ready to focus. In any case, it felt like we were off to a good start, like the new year came a week early.
We grabbed our rain gear and headed out for some intervals. And managed to not celebrate our newfound momentum with anything with gin in it.
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| Wearing running gear, for proof that I actually did |
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| Cask is a high-end liquor store |
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| Decorated for Christmas at the Park Central lounge |
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| The Dorchester, at the Slanted Door |
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| The Princess Leia, at Novela |
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| The Clift Manhattan, at the Clift |
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| Fisherman's Wharf |
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