I had the opposite experience--for the three weeks before Christmas I didn't exercise even once (normally I work out during lunch breaks, but for those three weeks I was either running errands or going to looonnnnng meetings that lasted all afternoon so I just never took a break) so once Christmas was over I was back at it hard during the week I was off of work, trying to regain the ground I lost. It's amazing how quickly I lose my level of fitness when I stop exercising like that. So I spent the week after Christmas riding, running and doing pilates. It'll still be a while before I'm back to where I was (getting old sucks) but it felt so good to not have to go to work each day so that I could actually put time into my workouts!

Sarah