I'm just now catching up with the outside world after having no electricity at my house for some 36 hours. A pretty violent storm moved through the Memphis area Saturday evening and knocked out power for about 188,000 homes, according to our local utility provider. I do not have one of those new-fangled telephones with a cellular data plan, so I rely on my electric-powered wi-fi router to move about in cyberspace.
I paddled for 60 minutes Saturday morning and felt incredibly tired in the boat. That listless, lethargic feeling persisted for the rest of the day. I had a workout scheduled for Sunday but I thought about pushing it back a day to allow myself a bit more rest.
Then the storm happened, and I learned that a big pecan tree had fallen in the back yard of a rental property I own. It didn't hurt the house, fortunately, but I did have a big mess to clean up. And so I spent yesterday morning cutting up the tree with my chainsaw. It was neither a workout nor rest. It was just... work.
This morning I got back to business, doing a round of the current strength routine and then heading down to the river. I warmed up, did three 8-stroke sprints, paddled up the Mississippi to the mouth of the Wolf River, and did my "start-to-boat-ramp" workout, just like I had done back on the sixth of May. This time I started each piece six minutes after the previous piece; that tightened my recovery interval a bit, but not as tight as it was during my workout on Thursday. I tried to paddle back up to the start in quick order so that I would have 30 seconds or so to sit at the starting line and await the start, just like on race day.
The workout today felt a lot more taxing than it did on May 6. I was tired from the strength workout and I'm sure I was feeling yesterday's logging work as well. I'm hoping for a good night's sleep tonight.
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