I haven't been in the best place mentally the last couple of days. I'm usually a pretty happy person, but every once in a while I spend too much time inside my own head and it gets me down. It tends to be worse when I get out of my routine. Fortunately I'm feeling better this morning and a nice long walk helped. I've never before understood people who said they get a feeling of mental well being from exercise (e.g. "runner's high") - actually that's not true, I did experience some of that once before in my life but I chalked it up to other factors - but I'm starting to get it. I feel much more peaceful when I've just knocked off a good hike.
Since I'm planning on taking the 24th off from work and likely the 31st as well I've been plotting what I'm going to do, exercise-wise, for the extra days. Another reason to love weekends - I can stretch out the mileage and not even worry about whether I should cut it short and go to work.
If I ever get on top of things at work I might end up being the zen king.
Anyhow I have a couple of cool ideas for different routes on Christmas Day and on New Year's Day. Both are going to require some extra time and some extra patience but are very doable. Patience is the hardest part for me.
Breakfast: 2 eggs fried in a bit of real lard, 5 strips CF cajun bacon, coffee
Lunch: Double cheeseburger, fries.
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| Oatcakes postponed to 12/25. |
Snack: Chips and onion dip. I just put "don't buy onion dip" on my list of new year resolutions.
Dinner: None. Ate too many chips, not hungry. Probably going to have a couple glasses of wine though.
Exercise: I had one route in mind for today but decided to save it for the 25th so I changed mid-walk. Did a different loop instead, adding an extra segment toward the end to tack on some more mileage. Ended up clocking in at 3.3 miles on the dot and just a minute or two over 1 hour. It was a beautiful morning, upper 20s, no wind, not many people out and about. Love it.
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