It's 10 a.m. I'm looking forward to meeting a friend in Philly for dinner tonight. We're hitting a Thai restaurant I haven't been to before. A BYO, my kinda place. I'm hoping that I'll have a bit more "pep" by then.
We had a kickin' thunderstorm last night, and I was out sleeping on the porch. Really nice. I slept very well, with the exception of maybe a half-hour when I lay awake enjoying the lights and sounds and the very brief mist on my face. I fell asleep again with lights still flashing in the sky. When my phone's alarm woke me up at an unusually late 7a.m., I just wanted to roll over again and have another night's sleep.
I get like this sometimes. I don't know why. I used to think maybe I've inherited a bit of my mom's bipolar disorder, but now I think it might be more related to nutrition and just the everyday ups and downs of life. I am a bit over-sensitive in my interactions with other people. I do tend to take the wrong stuff personally and make too much of situations that are really benign. Whatever. It always passes, and so shall this, I suppose.
It doesn't really help that I'm taking a day off of the swim, bike, run thing. No training today. When things aren't going exactly the way I prefer, it's nice to concentrate on something I can control, my training, but today there is no time. Everyone says you should have a day off now and then, to rest, but I'm a HUGE believer in "active recovery." I'd rather have a low-intensity workout of some sort -- maybe a 25 minute run or a thousand meter slow swim -- than do nothing at all. Especially on a day like this. I usually get cranky if I don't have some sort of energy outlet during the day. Today I'm not cranky, though. Not yet. Just a bit down.
Today's goal: Pep up before dinner and have a really nice time with my friend!
[Photo is the view of Philadelphia from the Belmont Plateau, from the Creative Commons at Flickr: Sunrise at Belmont from Starbuddie84's Photostream]
