morning / weekend

[jazzfish]

I am not precisely a morning person. Given the choice I prefer to sleep late. I do, however, get up and get moving faster and earlier than just about any other Non-Morning Person I know. I am capable of being a morning person when the need arises.

I attribute this to my intense hatred of clock alarms. Rreep rreep rreep. Easily the most consistently annoying way to be woken up that I've encountered, and should it happen to catch me in the middle of a dream I spend the next six hours in a state of mild grogginess. Because of this I've developed a pretty good internal alarm. If I set my alarm clock for quarter of seven, I'll usually wake up on my own a little after 6:30. (Unless I really need the sleep, in which case my brain's interrupt isn't high enough priority to abort the SLEEP instruction.)

Which is why I was able to say, sometime after midnight, "Well, if I'm not too tired I'll wake up at 5:30 to go running," and have it actually happen.

Most of my running problems are still with the breathing. Legs, fine, feet, fine, ribcage, hurts to expand. Stupid lungs. I also still can't do hills much at all, but this is less of a problem now that I no longer live in the mountains. (Speaking of which, cthulhia's suggestion to walk the hills /did/ help me get past that particular problem stage. So, thank you muchly for that. And also for the third piece of real mail to arrive at my apartment. Much appreciated.)

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A good weekend, overall. Saw frogs and dolphins and rays and sharks and a three-legged turtle at the Baltimore Aquarium with uilos, ezredshoes, heptadecagram, jmax315, and pictsy, and then had a delicious late lunch with the above minus heptadecagram. Took uilos to Teavana (yes), saw bits of a sunset, hung art, determined that it's probably getting on time to clean the bathtub. Had tasty pizza and interesting conversation with nixve. Plus the aforementioned book and tea. Yeah. A bit of Sunday oddness aside, quite good. More like this, please.

Comments

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, we must have just kept missing each other. (At B'more and then at Teavana.)

[jazzfish]

Gah! It does rather look that way. Curse you, world that seems so small yet is still large enough that I can miss people!

[laughin.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.humankinetics.com/products/showexcerpt.cfm?excerpt_id=2982) is an interesting article on breathing while running. I think what has helped me more than anything is yoga. In yoga I learned to breathe.

[jazzfish]

Nifty! Thanks muchly.

Breathing is surprisingly tricky to do right. S'one of the main things I got out of voice class.