2.6 Mile Walk in the Pine Hills Neighborhood
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Today was better than yesterday, but I still needed to rest for quite a while after getting home from work, and had no desire to drive anywhere after that... so I took a roundabout route to and from the store. It was a gorgeous early fall evening, cool and breezy but not cold, and even peaceful when cars and trucks weren't roaring by. At one point I even heard some geese calling faintly from overhead, but there was too much light from the street to make them out against the night sky.
As much as I enjoyed walking tonight, it also reminded me of how much I miss not being able to go for a good run on a night like tonight...
I hacked up enough gunk today that my lungs are a bit less congested... maybe tomorrow I can get back to doing some YRG and some riding again.
JMH
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2013
Still Sick...
Monday, September 23, 2013
Had a decent day at work, some coughing but nothing uncontrollable... so I planned to take advantage of the gorgeous sunny afternoon and go for a walk before getting work done this evening. Instead, once I got home I struggled against wanting to crawl into bed (which I probably should have done...) and eventually barely managed a walk over to the store to pick up fruit and orange juice. Looks like I need to relent and take some cold medicine tonight to make sure I get enough sleep. Sigh.
JMH
Monday, September 23, 2013
Had a decent day at work, some coughing but nothing uncontrollable... so I planned to take advantage of the gorgeous sunny afternoon and go for a walk before getting work done this evening. Instead, once I got home I struggled against wanting to crawl into bed (which I probably should have done...) and eventually barely managed a walk over to the store to pick up fruit and orange juice. Looks like I need to relent and take some cold medicine tonight to make sure I get enough sleep. Sigh.
JMH
Friday, September 20, 2013
Getting Sick Sucks
Friday, September 20, 2013
Woke up this morning with a sore throat and clogged sinuses and things went downhill from there. Very annoying given that it was a really beautiful day and I was looking forward to going to one of the Columbia Land Conservancy's full moon walks this evening (at High Falls Conservation Area - right behind my parents' house and an area where I've spent a lot of time in the woods, long before it was a conservation area.)
Tomorrow is supposed to be warm and sunny too, and I'd been looking forward to spending a few hours on my bike. Stupid viruses...
Most annoying of all, when I went to cancel my motel room for tomorrow night (I'd been planning to go to the Where the Pavement Ends trail race in CT on Sunday morning) I discovered that I'd just missed the deadline to do so. I'd go down anyway and give it a go, except it's supposed to rain during the morning... and spending an hour in the rain isn't likely to do me any good if I'm trying to recover from the bug that's gotten its hooks into me. So I'll also be paying for a room I won't be using.
And since I barely had the energy to crawl into bed when I got home - today also ended my streak of getting outdoors for at least half an hour every day (since June 4.) I knew that once work started back up I'd miss a day sooner or later... but I was hoping it would end up being more on the "later" side.
JMH
Friday, September 20, 2013
Woke up this morning with a sore throat and clogged sinuses and things went downhill from there. Very annoying given that it was a really beautiful day and I was looking forward to going to one of the Columbia Land Conservancy's full moon walks this evening (at High Falls Conservation Area - right behind my parents' house and an area where I've spent a lot of time in the woods, long before it was a conservation area.)
Tomorrow is supposed to be warm and sunny too, and I'd been looking forward to spending a few hours on my bike. Stupid viruses...
Most annoying of all, when I went to cancel my motel room for tomorrow night (I'd been planning to go to the Where the Pavement Ends trail race in CT on Sunday morning) I discovered that I'd just missed the deadline to do so. I'd go down anyway and give it a go, except it's supposed to rain during the morning... and spending an hour in the rain isn't likely to do me any good if I'm trying to recover from the bug that's gotten its hooks into me. So I'll also be paying for a room I won't be using.
And since I barely had the energy to crawl into bed when I got home - today also ended my streak of getting outdoors for at least half an hour every day (since June 4.) I knew that once work started back up I'd miss a day sooner or later... but I was hoping it would end up being more on the "later" side.
JMH
Friday, April 19, 2013
Frustration
Friday, April 19, 2013
Being sick all last weekend put me behind the proverbial eight-ball at work, and as the week progressed it became increasingly obvious that spending 8-9 hours in the car this weekend wasn't an option. So no Muddy Sneaker 20k for me tomorrow and more importantly, no time spent with my sweetheart this weekend (who has been sick herself.) Phooey.
After repeated tries to get the shop that's supposed to be working on my car on the phone this afternoon, I finally gave up and drove over there. When I spoke to them on Wednesday at lunch time, the car was supposedly almost completely taken apart (well, the relevant parts were) and the replacement parts were there - meaning another 4-5 hours of work and it should be done. Today I found out that none of the repair has been done yet, so it looks like Monday afternoon is the earliest I'll get my Civic back. Which means I'm stuck driving the damn loaner Forester around for another three days. I don't think it would aggravate me quite as much if I thought they were actually working on the car and it was just taking a long time because the mechanic isn't used to working on Hondas... but I suspect instead that most of the time it's been there (1 1/2 weeks now) it's just been sitting there with nothing happening, probably with other vehicles getting priority. All I can say is, once I have my Civic back and I'm confident that job was done right - that's the last time this shop will work on one of my vehicles (after 13 years of doing the major work needed on both my old Soob and my Civic) and I will not be going there to buy another car when the Civic reaches the end of its cost-effective life in a few more years.
Arrgh.
JMH
Friday, April 19, 2013
Being sick all last weekend put me behind the proverbial eight-ball at work, and as the week progressed it became increasingly obvious that spending 8-9 hours in the car this weekend wasn't an option. So no Muddy Sneaker 20k for me tomorrow and more importantly, no time spent with my sweetheart this weekend (who has been sick herself.) Phooey.
After repeated tries to get the shop that's supposed to be working on my car on the phone this afternoon, I finally gave up and drove over there. When I spoke to them on Wednesday at lunch time, the car was supposedly almost completely taken apart (well, the relevant parts were) and the replacement parts were there - meaning another 4-5 hours of work and it should be done. Today I found out that none of the repair has been done yet, so it looks like Monday afternoon is the earliest I'll get my Civic back. Which means I'm stuck driving the damn loaner Forester around for another three days. I don't think it would aggravate me quite as much if I thought they were actually working on the car and it was just taking a long time because the mechanic isn't used to working on Hondas... but I suspect instead that most of the time it's been there (1 1/2 weeks now) it's just been sitting there with nothing happening, probably with other vehicles getting priority. All I can say is, once I have my Civic back and I'm confident that job was done right - that's the last time this shop will work on one of my vehicles (after 13 years of doing the major work needed on both my old Soob and my Civic) and I will not be going there to buy another car when the Civic reaches the end of its cost-effective life in a few more years.
Arrgh.
JMH
Monday, March 11, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
DARN BEAR...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
... whatever this bug was, it bit and held on for a bit. Ended up going home early yesterday and spent most of my time until mid-day today in bed - which seems to have done the trick. This afternoon I was able to eat without feeling like I might throw up, and the mild fever I was running seems to have passed as well. Now I just have to wait for my digestion and energy levels to get back to normal... but that beats being unable to stay awake for more than a couple hours at a time.
JMH
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
... whatever this bug was, it bit and held on for a bit. Ended up going home early yesterday and spent most of my time until mid-day today in bed - which seems to have done the trick. This afternoon I was able to eat without feeling like I might throw up, and the mild fever I was running seems to have passed as well. Now I just have to wait for my digestion and energy levels to get back to normal... but that beats being unable to stay awake for more than a couple hours at a time.
JMH
Sunday, February 24, 2013
AND SOME DAYS THE BEAR GETS YOU...
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Woke up with a headache, slight chills, and a feeling in my stomach that warned me to very careful about what I ate and drank, unless I wanted to see it a second time around. My guess is a mild case of food poisoning. So no long run, no long walk, no bike ride and so far no grading the large stack of papers I brought home on Friday... nothing but a day spent mostly asleep in bed in hopes that lots of rest will give my body the strength to kick out whatever it is that has its teeth in me.
JMH
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Woke up with a headache, slight chills, and a feeling in my stomach that warned me to very careful about what I ate and drank, unless I wanted to see it a second time around. My guess is a mild case of food poisoning. So no long run, no long walk, no bike ride and so far no grading the large stack of papers I brought home on Friday... nothing but a day spent mostly asleep in bed in hopes that lots of rest will give my body the strength to kick out whatever it is that has its teeth in me.
JMH
Saturday, September 22, 2012
BAD TIMING...
Rochester Marathon Unlikely for the Turtle
Saturday, September 22, 2012
The signs were certainly there... last night my easy ride was much tougher than it should have been, and I was ready to fall asleep by around 8:30 PM... this morning I woke up feeling generally crappy and went mildly downhill from there. Nothing too drastic, but there's no question my body's trying to fight some sort of bug off.
There was a time when I would have said no big deal, I'll just run a slower time... but the reality is, if I haven't made a miraculous recovery by the end of the day, running the marathon tomorrow is a bad idea because (1) I probably won't finish (not a distaster, but it would be really frustrating, and would also involve complicated logistics of Ann coming to get me somewhere along the course and then getting me back to my car near the finish - and the area near the finish is nuts) and (2) I stand a good chance of walloping my system enough that whatever this bug is will take a really solid bite out of me and I'll end up being either really sick or sick for an extended period of time, or both.
It's particularly frustrating because in the last day or so I reached a point where I have been really looking forward to running on Sunday.
Sigh...
JMH
Rochester Marathon Unlikely for the Turtle
Saturday, September 22, 2012
The signs were certainly there... last night my easy ride was much tougher than it should have been, and I was ready to fall asleep by around 8:30 PM... this morning I woke up feeling generally crappy and went mildly downhill from there. Nothing too drastic, but there's no question my body's trying to fight some sort of bug off.
There was a time when I would have said no big deal, I'll just run a slower time... but the reality is, if I haven't made a miraculous recovery by the end of the day, running the marathon tomorrow is a bad idea because (1) I probably won't finish (not a distaster, but it would be really frustrating, and would also involve complicated logistics of Ann coming to get me somewhere along the course and then getting me back to my car near the finish - and the area near the finish is nuts) and (2) I stand a good chance of walloping my system enough that whatever this bug is will take a really solid bite out of me and I'll end up being either really sick or sick for an extended period of time, or both.
It's particularly frustrating because in the last day or so I reached a point where I have been really looking forward to running on Sunday.
Sigh...
JMH
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