In Need of a Rest Day

Today I went for a 12km walk over two hours in 26°c heat. According to the Suunto 5 Peak I have depleted my resources. I am at just three percent now. I need a proper night of sleep and some rest to recover.

Productive Training

According to the Suunto app I am in productive training and my fitness is increasing, but in the process my form is declining. I am, at least theoretically overtraining. This is not unusual for me. I walk, cycle or run every single day. It has been my routine for years.

Waking Earlier

What is not routine is getting up at 6 or 7, to do sports in the morning. Usually I do it in the afternoon, after a productive morning. I prefer to study and blog, before I go for my daily walk, bike ride or run. I prefer to be fresh, when I need to think, and procrastinate once my focus is gone.

Looking at Steps With the Apple Fitness App

Earlier I noticed that I could change which metric I was looking at, so I chose to look at steps rather than calories burned. I am currently losing patience with the Apple Watch and Apple Fitness App. The phone knows how many steps I have taken, and yet it insists on showing the data from the Apple Watch.

Cruel Weather

There was a time when we would be desperate for good weather so that we could do things. Now I want the opposite. I'm tired of the never-ending sunshine and never having an excuse to take a rest day. If the weather was bad then I could think "tomorrow I'm staying in.

The weather forecasst for the rest of the forseeable future is sunny and warm, and I'm tired of it always being sunny. I never exptected that I would want rain.

The landscape desperately needs rain. It rains, but so little that the ground doesn't soften enough to absorb the rain, so we're back to walking on dirt, rather than mud. In the last two or three months, maybe even longer, I have had to clean my shoes of mud twice.

I miss the rain. I miss the excuse to stay in and study. When the weather never changes, rain becomes a treat. I never expected that I would want rain

And Finally

I wrote this post a day early because tomorrow morning I'll be procrastinating rather than studying.