taking a break
I am taking a morning off from my fitness routine. 'Is this a good thing?' you ask. Sort of.
Although I'm not getting any fitter today, because I'm choosing not to keep to my scheduled bike trainer session this morning (although I don't generally feel very fit immediately after doing one—broken sweaty mess is more like it for a while), I am probably not going to tip over into a physical shut-down through being over tired.
Shut-downs due to being over tired, over training, and extra low in energy are a problem with me trying to keep fit with MS.
There is a balance point. Annoyingly, the balance point isn't in the same place all the time. Physical ability and strength can sometimes be a resource that I feel able to call on like it's a free refills coffee place. Other times I feel maybe the cup has a hole in the bottom because refills don't seem to last long.
The signs were there from wake-up this morning. Slept an hour later than normal. Hit my shoulders on the walls of the landing and the door frame of the bathroom on my bleary-eyed way there. Knocked my toothbrush over when reaching out for it instead of picking it up.
Some of you are shouting "Well, I do that too, before my morning caffeine hit." I've been caffeine free for over two years due to heart problems now, so it's not normal for me to 'need' it to be functional from the start these days.
J was already up and shouted 'Good morning!' cheerfully up the stairs as she heard me moving about. I struggled to find the energy to make my good morning reply loud enough, or cheerful enough. "Oh," she said, "it's one of those days is it?". Yep.
I realise it's Monday, and my routine calls for a 40k fairly steady ride with some higher pace sprint intervals in it. I ask myself if I should do it today, if I'm already a bit low.
The fact that I'm feeling a bit uncertain about it tells me all I need to know really, but there's some guilt about missing it in there to fight too.
But I've been doing this for nearly 18 years now. Try to get fit, break down because I went too far, rest, lose fitness, struggle to get back to into it again, put on weight, disgusted at self, get back into it, get pretty fit, go too far, break down...
I'm taking the day off from it today. I can just shift the schedule by one day this week. Maybe more if it's still warning me. Don't force it. Come back sooner.
It's a good thing.
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