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Getting to sleep and staying there has been a real pain for a while now. Personally? I think having more sunlit hours is beginning to push me toward... I don't even know what to call it. I used to wake up this time of year, or begin. How do you wake up from BEING awake? Yeah... I hadn't anticipated this part. And being that some parts of the winter were brutal to get through, a bit, I didn't think the change of the sun would be quite this potent, nor so potent so early. Wow, when spring officially gets here, and then summer? I'd better... figure something out. Either being in good enough condition to really thrash, or begin hiking trails and staying out overnight, perhaps long fishing trips. Hmm... I wonder if fishing is like picking up women, if you aren't intent on it, just using it as a time killer, the fish come? Seriously, I don't know what that is, but I might try it. It couldn't HURT my fishing. And damnit, I want some native trout sashimi, and developed fishing skills, before I go. A little lemon, perhaps lime, salt, pepper, and a decent fillet knife, fishing gear, a license, and the will and way to get out there. Raw, eyes and all. Yeah, well, I do think with my stomach quite often.
I am pretty much through the pain. The problem is, my appointment doesn't fall on a Friday as I had thought, somehow. Which... makes for an additional drive, and day out, and makes swimming three times this week more than just a bit unlikely. If I could fit a swim in on the way back, I could do that. But getting out the door four times in a week? You just can't quite understand my limits, especially when I push everything I've got through my system when I swim. So, the choice is whether to swim today or Friday, or maybe on the way back to cut the trips down to two. Honestly? I'm thinking Friday but will consider how I feel on the return trip. As much because my sleep is so off, and becoming perpetually awful, I have to be up very, hugely, early, tomorrow morning, and I would rather be recharged more fully before getting in and kicking it out in the pool.
Stats are wonderful. Bp was 117/76, with a 73 pulse, blood sugars after a day of eating bits and pieces, then an hour after supper last night, was 101, and weight is 274.8? When did that happen? Well, it's only a three to six pound loss from my pretty static usual ranges. Folks, if medicine and exercise don't kick something over... This is the area where nerves could get jittery. I have about six to nine months before they will test me again. If improvement is anemic, or non-existent... I may have to figure out how to disappear within rather than without, and only partially. Even if function improves to the point of typical human function... that isn't enough. As Becker said, and anyway... it's never sharp enough.
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I don't know if this is an aging thing, but I do not feel the effects of a workout immediately or within the first 12-18 hours. It is after 24 hours that my body suddenly discovers that it was stressed somewhere back there.
ReplyDeleteI asked one of my bosses who regularly works out about his recovery time. He is older than me by at least 5-8 years, and he says three days is what it takes him.
So, ok, maybe I'm expecting to be ready to hit it again too soon, for pushing fifty next year.
Hmm, you are only a few years older, by the way.
ReplyDeleteI'll check on that. But I usually find that if I don't feel pain overnight, basically after a sleep session, that I won't feel it.
Energy recovery is a different thing, and is extremely... variable... or has been in the past. I think it is getting better but it's still a work in progress.