Overly Busy Weekend
Jan. 19th, 2016 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aWeekends are my panacea. They're my tonic. They're the time that I rest and relax from the busyness of the week. They allow me to work hard and return refreshed. Without them, it feels like the burdens on my shoulders grow larger and everything grows tighter around me week by week.
So, it's important that I get to actually relax on the weekends and when I don't, when I dive back into the week without true weekend, it's like diving into another exhausting day without a night's sleep in between.
Sadly, last weekend wasn't that restful.
Saturday was very busy because roleplaying was at my house. So the morning was spent cleaning and chatting with Kimberly, then folks arrived and we started gaming, then the gaming ran late, then Kimberly & I chatted with Donald & Mary for a while after gaming. It felt like I didn't come up for air until 7pm. (Then Kimberly and I watched TV, ate dinner, went for a walk, and it was 9pm!)
Sunday was better, though Kimberly & I spent a lot of time moving from one activity to another. After dinner it seemed like finally time to relax ... and then an attack on RPGnet ate up the next several hour of my evening. Dammit.
This all felt busy in part because I've been roleplaying less. It's certainly something I want to do, but the sessions have been a bit unpredictable since before Thanksgiving, so it's an activity that I'm less used too. (Hopefully that'll be changing around in the near future).
I think things also felt extra busy because of the lack of bike-riding. Usually even when I roleplay I bike out to Endgame and back, and that gives me an hour to stop my head from a'whirring, but that wasn't possible on Saturday. (Sometimes in the past I've gone for a bike ride before gaming at my house, but this Saturday I was up late the previous night because I'd had problems sleeping and Kimberly was unexpectedly home in the morning and it was raining part of the time, so ...)
I made up for things a bit on Monday. Because I'd been working on Sunday night, I knocked off a bit after 2pm, then bike up to Lake Temescal, where I wrote and read some up in the park. It was pleasant and did indeed remove some of the stress that accumulated (and more importantly didn't disperse) during the weekend.
On the ride I was a bit irritated to find that I'm still having troubles getting up to my cardio zones while biking, thanks to the upgraded med level for my blood pressure. I've been trying to get 30 minutes of activity a day, minimum, and I ended up with only 17 on Monday because for much of my ride up to Temescal and just about all of it back, I was sitting below the fat-burning zone that marks the start of cardio fitness. Grr.
My heart rate is definitely lower than it has been. However, the biggest problem seems to be that my Heart Rate Recovery is through the roof. My pulse rate drops extensively and quickly the second I stop exercising ... which apparently can nowoccur if I just take it easy while biking for a minute or two. That's generally supposed to be a sign of very good health, but when trying to exercise, it's a bit frustrating.
So, it's important that I get to actually relax on the weekends and when I don't, when I dive back into the week without true weekend, it's like diving into another exhausting day without a night's sleep in between.
Sadly, last weekend wasn't that restful.
Saturday was very busy because roleplaying was at my house. So the morning was spent cleaning and chatting with Kimberly, then folks arrived and we started gaming, then the gaming ran late, then Kimberly & I chatted with Donald & Mary for a while after gaming. It felt like I didn't come up for air until 7pm. (Then Kimberly and I watched TV, ate dinner, went for a walk, and it was 9pm!)
Sunday was better, though Kimberly & I spent a lot of time moving from one activity to another. After dinner it seemed like finally time to relax ... and then an attack on RPGnet ate up the next several hour of my evening. Dammit.
This all felt busy in part because I've been roleplaying less. It's certainly something I want to do, but the sessions have been a bit unpredictable since before Thanksgiving, so it's an activity that I'm less used too. (Hopefully that'll be changing around in the near future).
I think things also felt extra busy because of the lack of bike-riding. Usually even when I roleplay I bike out to Endgame and back, and that gives me an hour to stop my head from a'whirring, but that wasn't possible on Saturday. (Sometimes in the past I've gone for a bike ride before gaming at my house, but this Saturday I was up late the previous night because I'd had problems sleeping and Kimberly was unexpectedly home in the morning and it was raining part of the time, so ...)
I made up for things a bit on Monday. Because I'd been working on Sunday night, I knocked off a bit after 2pm, then bike up to Lake Temescal, where I wrote and read some up in the park. It was pleasant and did indeed remove some of the stress that accumulated (and more importantly didn't disperse) during the weekend.
On the ride I was a bit irritated to find that I'm still having troubles getting up to my cardio zones while biking, thanks to the upgraded med level for my blood pressure. I've been trying to get 30 minutes of activity a day, minimum, and I ended up with only 17 on Monday because for much of my ride up to Temescal and just about all of it back, I was sitting below the fat-burning zone that marks the start of cardio fitness. Grr.
My heart rate is definitely lower than it has been. However, the biggest problem seems to be that my Heart Rate Recovery is through the roof. My pulse rate drops extensively and quickly the second I stop exercising ... which apparently can nowoccur if I just take it easy while biking for a minute or two. That's generally supposed to be a sign of very good health, but when trying to exercise, it's a bit frustrating.