Monday, October 28, 2013

Day 159: Liverpool or Bust

I know that I am going to be stuck on a plane for over 7 hours.  If you have never experienced this I can assure you its not good.  When you cross the pond to Europe you leave at night and arrive in the morning.  That means you need to sleep.  Now I usually don’t have any problem sleeping on a plane, actually I am so good at it it’s like I have a super power.

On multiple occasions I have fallen asleep after they have served dinner on the plane and woke up as they were serving breakfast. When the I land I have had 5 to 7 hours of sleep.  I wouldn’t go so far as to call it good sleep, but sleep none the less.  That is exactly what I intend on doing on this trip as well.

Why not help myself out a little and burn off some of the nervous energy I have.  When I got home I hit the pavement.  I ran as hard as I could for as long as I could knocking out the first half mile in under six minutes.  I slowed when I started feeling the oncoming side stitch and leg cramp.  Before the first mile I had to walk for a minute to catch my breath and walk out the pain. 

I then kept up a decent pace for the remaining time I had left.  Eventually doing just over two miles in 30 minutes and sweating like a fat kid whose counselor just found his Milky Way stash at Fat Camp.   Now I am ready for my plane ride to Manchester. 

With the remaining time I had left I set up my FitBit.  It’s another fitness monitor that keeps track of you exercise, how many minutes of activity you have, how well you slept, and so on. I am very interest in taking it for a spin on vacation.  We spend a huge amount of time walking everywhere and now I will be able to track it.

Daily Recap:
Matt: Run/Walk/Rualk before getting on the plane

Kelly: TBD

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