Not much for early mornings these days

I find that I go in cycles with respect to getting up early. I can make it a part of my routine and it becomes almost normal. Other times, I find it wears me down. By early mornings, i mean getting up before 6 am. For the past several years I have been swimming about 3 mornings per week. It was been great and has resulted (ironically) in me getting to work earlier than if I did not swim. When I don't swim, I take my time getting up and getting to work and don't roll into work until about 9 am. when I swim, I am done swimming at 8 am and get to work before 8:30am.

But for the last couple of weeks, I have felt tired and have only gotten up early a couple of times to swim. I have swam at lunch time a few times to make it up. (now that i think of it, i did get up early twice this week- today and monday) Today, I swam about 2500 metres which is a bit longer than I have been swimming. My left shoulder gets a bit sore which means I am doing something wrong or have a weakness causing overuse of that shoulder. (or it could be old age) Yesterday, I did nothing. I was going to go to a yoga class but opted to skip it and get home early. Tuesday, I ran about 8 k and felt sluggish. Monday I swam. Today, if the weather holds out, I am thinking of going for a 40 k bike ride (bike ride number 2 of the season)

Cycling on March 13th

Yesterday I went for my first bike ride of the season. It was great. Tyler Read and I went for an easy 40 k ride. The weather has been fantastic and bodes well for lots of early spring riding. Otherwise, I also did a spin class yesterday and went for a couple of short fast runs with my friend, Rob, last wednesday and friday. I did hot yoga on wednesday and friday as well. I swam on thursday and did a spin class on thursday evening.

Today, (Sunday) I ran about 13 k and felt a bit tired. That is not surprising as I did about 3 hours of exercise yesterday.