Soooooooo, I took some time off. I hurt my back a bit doing squats Thursday, so rather than push myself too hard I took a step back. Thursday I spent all day preparing for my Memorial Day Weekend trip to CA, so I didn’t run or lift. My 30 days of sobriety ended this weekend, and with authority! The holy temple of my body was desecrated a bit this weekend…..boozing, ice cream, shitty food, and many a good times!
But, back to training. One of the beautiful things about routine as practice is that nothing ever really changes in a single session, but each individual session is the road to change itself…
It’s important for me to jump right back into things after taking a break, and as I’m entering week 6 of 12 I wanted to make sure I didn’t lose any of momentum I’ve been building and wanted to jump right back in. Thus, despite incredible exhaustion from this weekend and not getting home and into bed until midnight, I dragged my ass out of bed to do some chest/triceps with casey this morning. Not surprisingly, it was a HARD workout, and I was not lifting my best. One of the crazy side effects of being healthy is how sensitive my body has become to anything that’s outside my normal eating habits or sleeping routine. After a weekend of shitty eating, lots of boozing, and not much sleep I could literally feel the weekend reflected in how many sets I could do. Nonetheless, it felt great to lift, was nice to catch up with my man Casey, and a great kick start to another beautiful day in boulder.
Gonna sleep like a rock tonight. But damn, it was all worth it. Mike, and Julia, that was a rad f’in wedding.
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Running this morning went fairly well. I started off feeling good, reaaaaal good. My first 3 intervals were pretty solid, and I’m definitely feeling that within a week or two I should be able to up the ante a bit by bridging at least one of two of my interval charges with jogging instead of walking.
By sets 4 & 5 I was pretty worn out, and definitely feeling a bit tired. Also, though the meds I’m on have definitely helped my sinuses, I’m still coughing up a lung everytime I run and getting really congested, so still some work to be done there.
I’ve been trying one or two new daily practices in my life, one of which involves me starting to really get into ending my showers with cold water. It’s such an intense in the body experience to go from warm and comfortable, to cold and shivery! It’s an amazing experience to practice relaxing into the cold water, not running from it. And boom, suddenly your body has equalized and all is fine.
Good stuff.
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