I shifted my wake up time 15 minutes earlier to 5:30 this morning. As the sun rises earlier, I want to rise earlier as well so I can run or garden before it gets hot. Ha, garden. I kid. The only gardening I do is weeding my lilac bush’s area. I woke up with the alarm, but had a hard time getting out of bed to run. I lingered in bed, thinking about the dreams I’d had. Ambrose was in one of them. We were sleeping in a tent in a parking lot for some reason and both got up to pee, then found another location to cuddle a bit. I cried a bit.
I did finally get up and run a mile. It felt good. Hard, but in a balanced way. Neither leg was hurting worse than the other or in a particular spot. Neither of them liked the uphill. I think it’s time to start doing more two mile runs. I tend to take that first mile to warm up to my pace when it’s chilly outside. It was supposed to be in the 50’s this morning, but it felt colder with the wind.
As much as I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning, I wanted to go to work even less. After three nights in the woods, I just wanted to be back out there. Listening to the birds all day and the frogs all night. Getting to see the stars every time I woke up to pee. I mean, I suppose I could do that at home, but that would wake me up. I did go to work. It was just with great reluctance and under protest.
During exercise release, I did the next week 4 workout in the Shoulders & Arms level 2 program. One of the new moves for week 4, the banded arm circles, is really hitting that crunchy part of my left shoulder blade – in a good way. I’m hoping to work the painful crunchies completely out of the area. I think I’ll be ready for pull-ups again once that gets worked out. I keep track of how many days I’ve kept up my Move U streak on a calendar, and on that same calendar I’m keeping track of how many days I have left on probation. By some amazing coincidence, today was day 269 for both of those – 269 consecutive days of doing Move U and 269 days left on probation.
After work, I did a tank of mowing. This second round seems to be going faster than the first. A lot of what I mowed last time hasn’t regrown very much, and I think the work I did with the hoe helped as well. I moved a lot of rocks that were making it hard to mow, so I’ll keep that up as I continue on the mowing adventure. The strings continue to be a pain in my rear, but using three of the small green ones at a time does work for a good while. According to my app, I walked 1.3 miles on this mow.
Then I showered and got some dinner. I didn’t know what to eat so I heated up a frozen tamale and had it with salsa. Filling and spicy. With my earlier wake-up time it’s bedtime now. I’m going to try and do some weeding tomorrow morning before the sun comes up. Hot springs in the evening, so it will be mostly a rest day. For my body, anyway. I feel like my mind isn’t getting good rest. Coming up on that 10 month mark and PMSing. Why did my cycle have to sync with his death like this?