No doze day 3

This was tougher mentally than physically.

I went to bed sometime after 12:20 and seemed to take a while to fall asleep (I don't look at my watch when I'm grasping for sleep because this stokes anxiety).  I awoke at 5:40.  Admittedly, my husband was snoring, but correlation does not imply causation!

5:40 seemed way too early.  Perhaps I should not look at my watch when I wake up this early.  I had a few moments of indecision, during which the doze monster pulled my eyelids shut and my limbs deeper into the mattress.  Don't get up!  What is there to do at 5:40?  Stay and writhe in that unsatisfactory grey zone for a couple hours and then spend a few more hours feeling like a shitty zombie!

I got up and turns out there is stuff to do at 5:40: install application updates en route to burning a 2nd copy of Eno's Music for Airports, which seemed like the perfect music to accompany a run at dawn, but my copy is at work (and, incidentally, it does not sound like music from 1974).  Anyway, the updates were slow to load and 6:00 am was marching into view, and I grabbed something else and hopped on the TM at about 6:01.

It would have been wonderful weather for my dog, but his paw is not quite--but almost--healed, and I figure we'll test it on Friday and then take him on trails for a longer run on Sunday.  It's a shame for him, but good timing for me because running on the treadmill suits me these days.  What I need to get from running these days is something which the hills here cannot provide: relaxation.

I didn't warm up, I just cranked it up and joggled it until I found a good speed.  Usually, when I run on the treadmill for a longer run, I break it down into 20 minute sections for water/mental breaks, but I was still shaking off the fronds of sleep and the prospect of starting and then stopping when completely finished was more suitable somehow.  Unfortunately, my CD hit a glitch at about 17:45; I fixed it and drank some water and then hopped back on for the longer haul.

Another thing I do when I run on the treadmill is fractions.  For example, for the usual 20 minute segment, 10 minutes is 1/2, 12 minutes is 3/5, and so forth.  I've never done fractions for 60 minutes before and it was a nice distraction.  I also tried to think of form, but though things generally felt comfortable, albeit slightly like an out of body experience at first, I didn't feel as efficient as I would've liked until about 37 minutes in.  I enjoyed several moments of ease and then I hit a bit of a mental block coming up to 40 minutes.  I felt so tired!

I always forget the trick of speeding up when tired: there is more than one type of fatigue and sometimes rising into the next gear works.  It did work this time.

4.75 miles in 1 hr.  Woohoo!  The treadmill's wonky calibration is actually growing on me for the same reason that I run in miles and not km: less of them!  Doing 4.75 instead of 6.5 is easier.  I walked until 5 miles as a cool down.  5 miles!  Woooooo!

clamshells and shoulder exercises afterward.  Yesterday, my nap was so-so but maybe today's will be more solid.