Rest/Stress Part 2

My plans to run today were destroyed by a recent tendency to hit the snooze button for an hour and then just turn it off and go back to sleep. I'm a long time insomniac of sorts - or perhaps just on a different sleep cycle. My normal bedtime is 4:00 am, and even when I have to get up early, I find it difficult to go bedwise any earlier. So I will get 8 hours of sleep if its possible (or 9 or so like I did today) but if I have commitments, sometimes as little as 4 hours a night. It's probably one of the biggest factors interfering with me getting active, as I usually have to use what is left with the day (as I can't really work at night anymore despite being up that late anyways) to get my external responsibilities completed.

And that's what happened today. Hours and hours straight of reading rhetorical theory on style and figuration, drinking bodums of year-old coffee that I found. This led up to my group meeting, and by the time I was done that it was...well, now.

At least I had a bit of a jog home, despite my lack of proper running shoes and wearing tight jeans. Tomorrow is another day. And if I'm good, I can still get 5 runs in this week.

Plus my left leg is feeling aces again.

Stay true.

Edit: All of my time stamps are messed up! I must have accidentally set the wrong time zone. This makes me look lazy in light of this post. I am not giving up on running at 8:00 at night, I'm giving up at 11:00.

Day of Rest

More like day of stress. Having been at school from essentially the time I woke up to nighttime as it is now, I haven't found the time to get out for a run today. As usual, there's the constant threat of being crushed beneath the stacks of reading that need to get done this week. There's also another wave of marking coming my way, which I'm sure will motivate me to run, as I will want to do anything but read undergrad assignments. I'm also just generally feeling discouraged schoolwise, as the ratio of negative-to-positive feedback has felt like the absolute inverse of my previous education. But at least I'm starting to see this whole running thing as a break from that anxiety, as opposed to a whole other layer of it.

Anyways, I hadn't planned on getting out today in the first place. After yesterday's 5k achievement, I noticed that the toe that was bothering me the other day was really hurting me. Like, almost causing me to limp when I took a stroll to the LCBO. My left knee too felt pretty stiff, and today has felt even tighter, so I figured I may be pushing myself too quick. Back at it tomorrow though, taking it slow to start maybe.

At least I got my usual daily hour or so of walking in though.

Stay true.