Awake. Feel sleepy sided but I slept better. The sunburn itch is subsiding and this morning was first time in some days that I didn't need to immediately apply hydrocortisone cream to anyplace on my body.
Ginza was of the opinion we should continue sleeping when the alarm went off today. But I got up and so did she though she wasn't bouncy like she often is. I've had my breakfast and have fed her hers.
Today's my 6 hour workday. I hope to take a walk of more than 3 miles and a cycle ride
Feels so good again to be thinking about what kinds of physical activity I want to do during the day. For so long I might think about wanting to do something, but simply couldn't.
With the way how for many many years my body had been slowly starving for macro and micro nutrients and how now I'm finally starting to get the last ones that were needed, is how incredibly hungry I get...
how incredibly hungry I get while eating and after eating, it's like my body senses the needed nutrients coming in and it makes me even hungrier because of how many years I was unknowingly deprived of what I needed.
Right now I feel really good and I'm looking forward to the bicycle ride I'll be taking around 1 PM. It seems that yesterday's very easy walk and very easy bike ride did me a lot of good. Yesterday I felt a bit physically dragged down.
But that easy walk and bike ride got blood to circulate to the legs and probably helped. In fact yesterday after I was done I seemed to feel more energetic than when I had started out.
Zone 1 can do a lot of good for an old gal like me.
Another sign of me feeling better is how I've got Youtube videos of people hiking in the Cascade Mountains playing. I'm pretty sure that in the summertime I will be feeling good enough that I would like to visit a place or two in the Cascades and walk around and hike some. Won't be thinking to do anything too adventurous, but something on the gentle side that at least lets me experience the sensations of being in really tall mountains.
To make sure I don't forget, I put the sunscreen in the bike helmet. That sunburn I got last week was horrible and it's finally fading away and not itching constantly.
16.2 mile bike ride done. Just a simple out and back route, on the way back it rewarded me with a pretty gorgeous view of the Cascades in the distance..
After the bike ride, took 30 minutes to check blood sugar and drink some water, then went out and walked 3.5 miles. So this was a big day, due in part to how tomorrow's forecast is pretty miserable and I'll likely only do a minimal walk and/or cycle at most.
Quickly heated up a big dinner after the walk. 2 chicken thighs, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots. So now that's digesting and hopefully delivering the needed nutrients to help me get stronger and healthier.
It was about 4 weeks ago when the Garmin 45 arrived because I finally felt like my body was ready to start responding properly to exercise and I wanted something to give me measurements that would be useful to judge improvements in my health.
But I don't think I could have ever imagined that a month later I would take a walk of 3.5 miles and a bike ride of 16.2 miles in a day.
I'm beginning to think about targeting a half-marathon to run in for next year. That should be possible.
honestly, Ginza is doing really well with having become an indoor cat. It really seems like she has decided that moving inside is a lot easier and more comfortable for her. I think maybe she knows that she's beginning to get older and slower and she's basically like, "Yup, retirement to a more comfy living space is fine with me." 2 good meals a day, treats, and one or two snuggle sessions, she's enjoying her new life.
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