Today I read a thought provoking post from Lindsay over at Cotter Crunch.  Her and her husband are in New Orleans getting ready to race.  But her post was about the 80/20 rule.

She says that 80 % of the time she is on and 20 % she is off.  I am assuming she is like me and 80 % of the time you eat clean, you work out, you feel positive and then 20% of the time you cut yourself some slack and eat cake, drink wine, rest, and recover and sometimes lay in bed all day

I like this way of thinking.  It allows you some forgiveness in this mad rush of a world where we are expected to be perfect or darn near perfect!

For me being perfect means:

• being “on” at work
• working out
• eating clean
• skipping on the wine

But sometimes we can be 20 %

With that said my 80% looked like this this week:

• 3-6 mile  runs in the dead of morning.  Starts out dark but becomes beautiful with early morning light before the run is up.

• lots of veggie filled salads and smoothies in a bowl

• and lot’s of sleep to recover from long days

Hopefully I will have some 20% this weekend.  Bill says he has a surprise outing for me on Saturday night. 

Can’t wait!

Can you relate to the 80/20 rule?

Thanks for that post Lindsay!  I obviously loved it   And I hope James does well this weekend.