Deth

Last night I slept great. I slept straight through the night again, too. This past week has been a good week of sleep.

I was going to take an easier day today after those heavy squats yesterday, or at least that was the plan going forward from the time I woke up. I took my time, enjoying my coffee this morning early while tweaking my CSS and templates a bit for this site.

Somewhat early this morning, I decided I would get out into the garage gym and get a workout in. I don’t understand why I am repeating the vault WOD this year, since so many of the workouts were dumb and simply a waste of my time. Today was one of them, but it fit in with what I wanted out of today. Just move.

I relaxed and toyed with the stuff for this website again after I was done, but I was finding myself wanting more of a workout. I wanted something more challenging. The weight vest popped into my head. I didn’t touch that all summer, with my summer of mostly the bare minimum.

I thought of it when I saw a workout that was 20 rounds of 5 burpees and 10 hop overs. Yes, hop overs are fucking stupid, but it did make sense with my goal today. The WOD went pretty well. I will say that the last 5 rounds or so were pure hell, but that’s what I signed up for! I was happy with how I did on it.

When the going got tough, someone who has inspired me over the years kept popping up in my mind, as they have other times when I wanted to quit.

I have been pretty pleased with my fitness-related activities recently. I’ve been out of my comfort zone more consistently in both the intensity of the met cons and also in my weights lifted for my pure strength. Certainly, I missed that over the summer, but I wasn’t in a good state. Truthfully, I was in a much worse mental state than I really led anyone to believe, but I also knew it would pass.

My fitness is getting better again. I’m not close to the state I was in last winter by any means, but it is improving. Life goes through seasons sometimes, and this hasn’t been one of my best. I woke up, and I am alive, and I can still do things at nearly 50 years old that I couldn’t do when I was a teenager, so I’m doing something well, right?

Music for today was Cailleach Bheur