My mental NSV

So... a small NSV today: I followed my own advice!

I am constantly commenting to other posters on here that it's okay to take a day off or do easy workouts if you're not feeling great, but it's always hard for me to take my own advice.

Not so much with the days off... believe me, I've had PLENTY of those. But because I don't work out 6 days a week, I tend to feel that I need to push myself 110% in every workout that I do get to do.

Today, though, I just wasn't feeling it. My allergies were killing me, I had a headache, my nose was running, just wanted to take a nap, blah, blah, blah...

But, I got on my bike and decided to do some slow mountain biking without a lot of climbing. I worked on practicing obstacles and looked around at the scenery while I was riding the smooth stuff. Before I knew it, 2.5 hours were gone, I had a huge calorie burn even though I'd been going slow, and I was in a great mood.

I used the momentum of feeling good to come home and cook myself a yummy dinner to replenish all the calories I'd burned.

So, why is this an NSV? Because for once I felt like I was in a good enough place that I could take it "easy" without losing ground. And... as it turned out, I probably got ahead :-) Oh, and now I'm less of a hypocrite ;-p

edited to correct a typo.