Day 45: Caffeine, Tablets, and Mile Stones

After the run last night I don’t like to do back to back late evening runs then early morning runs.  There would have been less than ten hours between the two jogs.  I may go nonstop on a daily basis but there has to be some down time for recovery.  Speaking of recovery today is the first pain free day since my excursion to the gym.

That is why I walked this morning.  At 5AM it was already humid as heck and you were chewing your air as we made our way around the neighborhood.  Kelly went with me after the dogs gave her no choice but to get up.  I am happy we went this morning to get it out of the way because I was dragging this afternoon. 

Where is the energy promised to me by the exercise books.  If it wasn’t for caffeine at work today I could have crawled under my desk and took a nice afternoon nap.  It didn’t help that my office window faces due west and it get warm in cubical in the late afternoon.  Holding my eyes open was a painful exercise. 

I thought I was going to go home and do some weight lifting or yoga but I was completely beat.  Again, so thankful I got up and busted it out this morning.  This is the kind of evening where you have the best of intentions but intentions only get you so far. 

I had a few things in the garden to tend to and then the evening was all downhill. Believe me it is going to be an extremely early evening for me.  I don’t know if I will make it to 9:30. 

If I am early enough what I would like to do tomorrow is get up and do a 45 minute jog.  See if I can circle the neighborhood twice before work.  I would like to start having a bigger breakfast too. I am still getting hungry by 10:30 in the morning.  The only way to make more time for breakfast is to get up even earlier. 

I am also working on putting all of my exercise videos on my tablet.  That way I can watch them anywhere especially the ones that don’t require weights like yoga.  This idea occurred to me while watching my last exercise video.  It would have been easier to have the screen down on the floor with me instead of craning my neck to see how they were doing an exercise.  

One last thing, today was another mile stone for me.  After my walk this morning Run Keeper sent me at “Good Job” email informing me that I had hit my goal already which was to do accomplish 20 miles in a month.  I thought it was a big goal when I set it but after I received my email I realized I do a minimum of 60 miles a month.  I set a new goal of 75 miles in 30 days it seemed like more of a challenge. 

Daily Recap:

Matt:     30 Min walk around the neighborhood

Kelly:     Exactly the same