Hi,

I'm considering going on a holiday maybe over Christmas for a week or two but I don't want to spend it lazing around getting a huge arse just to struggle and suffer big time when I to come back to training.

If possible it'd be great not to loose a lot of fitness while I'm away.

So my Q is since I think other people on this forum are probably active people by nature:

What's the best active holiday you've ever been on - what did you do? Hiking, rock climbing ....? Pros and cons?

I spent christmas in hawaii back in 05. Did lots of surfing, boogieboarding, and swimming. Hiking and rock climbing sound awesome.

Caving,you use muscles you dont know you have

Jesus Girl take a break it will do you good. You wont lose your base fitness that takes ten days, so whats the problem chill it will do you more good rest and repair.

I see your point Scrap CC

At the same time I like outdoorsy activities and while I'll definitely need a break by then it won't only be from training but uni work aswell.

Maybe doing something active will help keep my mind off of my thesis while lazing beside a pool will let my brain drift straight back to the dreaded thing!?

Maybe I'll go somewhere I have the option to do something adventurous if I feel motivated to but not do a lot of it.

Otherwise I'll let myself have up to ten days completely off distracting myself with non strenuous sight seeing instead


Caving definitely sounds adventurous CC Monkey but isn't a bit scary crawling through a dark cave wondering what it would take to collapse, what lives down here and what if this space is so narrow I can't turn around to get out again!

Do they have caving for sissies Monkey or do you have to be extremely resistant to claustrophobia?

Despite being an Australian and having many surfing beaches not too far away for me to visit - I have never learnt to surf so that's not a bad idea either AirJordan CC

Originally Posted by Sharla

I see your point Scrap CC

At the same time I like outdoorsy activities and while I'll definitely need a break by then it won't only be from training but uni work aswell.

Maybe doing something active will help keep my mind off of my thesis while lazing beside a pool will let my brain drift straight back to the dreaded thing!?

Maybe I'll go somewhere I have the option to do something adventurous if I feel motivated to but not do a lot of it.

Otherwise I'll let myself have up to ten days completely off distracting myself with non strenuous sight seeing instead


Caving definitely sounds adventurous CC Monkey but isn't a bit scary crawling through a dark cave wondering what it would take to collapse, what lives down here and what if this space is so narrow I can't turn around to get out again!

Do they have caving for sissies Monkey or do you have to be extremely resistant to claustrophobia?

Despite being an Australian and having many surfing beaches not too far away for me to visit - I have never learnt to surf so that's not a bad idea either AirJordan CC

They almost never collapse Sharla,theyve been there for thousands of years,New Zelands got some great ones

Well if youve got 2 months to spare do what I did climb Everest

Serious Scrap? you climbed Mt Everest?

Gee and I though my trip to Mt Fuji was cool. I cycled there from Osaka and cycled home again - 3 days cycling there, three days cycling home. One day climbing the mountain on foot.

Cycled 896 km according to my speedo and started out alone but met up with a Korean cyclist who basically saved my life by teaching me how to find the safe route number one in Japan because until I met him i was cycling on the route no one only meant for heavy traffic - trucks travelling between Osaka and Tokyo.

He went on to Tokyo after Mt Fugi but he'd taught me what I needed to know to cycle Japan safely by then.

I thought that was extreme but I stand corrected

- Really Mt Fugi is a bit touristy now - taken half way up by bus and then have poles with rope tied between them guiding you the rest of the way up!

So I won't have 2 months to spare and anywhere cold enough to give me frost bite really doesn't appeal but if you were serious when you wrote that you climbed Mt Everest - what was it like?

Can you PM me a book you wrote about the experience or something?

Of course if you were only joking I'm looking like an idiot yet again!