I'm again awake early. Largely because of the itchiness from the sunburn I got on Thursday and Friday. I've been using aloe vera and hydrocortisone cream to ease symptoms, but it's going to take another day or two to subside.
I should have bought sunscreen the weekend before this one. I bought some yesterday and used it, but I had already gotten burnt.
But on the good side of how I've had outdoor time 5 straight days, I've walked 11.3 miles and biked 30.9 miles. Feels so good to move again.
Running had been such a huge and important part of my life. Now I'm finally getting healthy again and I can see running as part of my life again one day.
I was terrified 3 months ago thinking about what was ahead of me. Packing up things into boxes, leaving the area I had lived in my whole life, moving across the country...
Doing all that while still navigating life each day with a meager number of spoons...
But somehow here I am now on the other side of the country and I have The Amazing Ginza with me, a feral cat that I tamed and seduced into indoor life over the past year.
My own body is starting to work properly again and exercise has
13.4 mile bike ride, covered that much distance because I wanted to see if I could, though using a bicycle, cover the half-marathon distance which was my favorite running distance for racing.
It also gave me the chance to try out the legs on some hills and see how I'd do there.
Hopefully if things continue going well with my physical health, I can do that ride once on the weekends and it'll be good to help build strength in the legs.
I rode 5.7 miles to get to the first significant uphill, although I put some extra distance on that portion by investigating two small spur roads, going out and back some on them.
Coasting on the downhill on the way back, the GPS says I reached 27 mph. Which felt precarious some to me but perhaps in time I will become accustomed to the feel of being on a bicycle getting up over 25 mph.
I intend to take an easy walk this afternoon after my lunch digests and the insulin bolus I used for it has dwindled down. That will give me walking steps and help with circulating blood to the muscles that were used while cycling this morning.
Tomorrow I will make a very easy day after Friday and this weekend. Just a gentle walk and some sort of casual bike ride of around 30 minutes.
Took a shower and now feel much cleaner, but still tired. Ate a small meal before showering, I'm trying to make a goal of always eating soon after a strenuous activity, the scientific evidence seems to show that nutritional absorption is at its best in the time soon after strenuous activity.
So I've now had 3 meals today, a breakfast, an early lunch, and a late lunch or early dinner. I'm still hungry and will eat a 4th meal. Gotta feed this recovering body.
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