Day 72

Day 72 started with chores and coffee. Man I love a weekend. I didn’t get to a workout unit around 11. It was warm and people were out. I passed 3 mountain bikers and missed the cool but found something encouraging. 

I felt the weight of the time that I was taking for that morning hike but no weight at all from the distance. 

I felt hot and some of the hills will always be an effort but what was, at the beginning, a real effort in distance is fine now. 

My foot hurts less and my distances are greater. 

I love that. 

In the afternoon we went to the gym and I benched the bar 4 times and got it in and off the bracket myself. 

Tiny but significant progress. 

I had a great time in the circuit room and in the free weight section. 

I’ve decided to use my body weight as a goal for things like leg press and bench press. I’m not sure if that’s a good metric or not but I really should be able to push and pull what is essentially myself. 

A weird thing happened in the evening. 

Because my son started to get a migraine at the gym we left earlier than expected. I therefore had a good bit of energy left as I hadn’t run in the morning. 

So while watching (so much) YouTube in the later evening I got on the bike and just rode for the pleasure of the motion. 

We did normal Sunday chores like laundry and trash but mostly took it easy for the day. 

I drank only 58 oz of water but also 2 big coffees. 

I read several recipes that were so close to looking good like apple puffs and cabbage salad and even some breast but even though they had sugar and cinnamon and ginger they also all had so much egg.

Whyyyyy

C’mon Shakespearean cooks 😵‍💫