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Stress?  Lack of Sleep?  Not Enough Dogs?

Why, oh why is my VO2 Max score going down?  I honestly don’t get it.  I do have a bit of injury to my knee, and injury can lower the number.  But so can “overtraining.”  3 miles a day is a lot for me recently, but I have trouble believing that it is excessive.  Do I need to cool it?  Do I need to alternate days or do I need to let my knee get better before doing more walks?  These are all good questions and I have no answers.  I need to know a trainer!

I finally got a chance to pay the guy who mowed the other day, and he offered to let me walk his dog for the additional upper body exercise.  He’s not wrong actually, but I don’t really want to burden myself with a dog on my walks.  I know he’s been really busy and doesn’t want to have to stop and do that, but I also feel busy and don’t want to do that.  

I’ve been mush today.  Just absolutely worn out.  I don’t know if there is a reason for it.  My average sleep time is a little low recently.  Maybe I’ll try to force myself to stay in bed.  I tend to just get up for the day if I wake up after 4:00am.  By that point, I’ve usually gotten a full night’s sleep, but I have been getting to sleep a bit later.  I just need a day to completely sleep in and not stress over broken things in my house.

I also haven’t been getting in the reading I want to get in.  I keep stopping and starting.  Stress?  Lack of sleep?  Something is going on.  I just need to chill out and figure out what my problem might be.

[Walk #346, 1.18 miles]

  • Location of Walk: Banner Park, Guthrie, OK
  • Magpie: trumpet vine seedpods

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I Am Not Waiting for the Train!

So, I feel a little bit guilty for so strongly encouraging Justin to walk so far.  Only a little bit though.  It is good for him, even if he doesn’t like doing it.  I need to be nicer about it though and signal him when we are at half a mile, so he can decide if he wants to head back home.  We went up to the train tracks; I intended to go across and under the bridge next to the creamery, but a train not only came through, but stopped.  It would have taken a long time.  We started to hear the train moving again around the time we got back to the house.  I can’t be waiting half an hour for a train.

I started taking glycine yesterday on some recommendations I had seen.  I’m going to do it for a month and see if I notice any results.  I’m pretty skeptical of supplements, so I don’t think I’m likely to attribute just anything to adding glycine.  I also got some more B12 as mine has been missing for a few months.  I misplaced so many things during the move!

Hopefully I can get the rest of my walk in, but I’m going to take it easy until then.  I really want this knee to stop hurting.  I will say it does feel better today, but not ideal.  Even with the naproxen I took, there is a twinge of pain.  

[Walk #345, 2.18 miles]

  • Location of Walk: home to train station & back, Guthrie, OK
  • Magpie: black walnut