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July 24, 2006
Sleep and Exercise
(Delmer and the boys are on vacation, having left at home nothing more than free-roaming vipers. This entry should appear sometime Monday morning.)
It was just over a week ago that I had some sleep problems. Two nights in a row I had trouble falling asleep and both nights I woke up early and had trouble falling asleep.
One of those nights I woke up at 12:30 a.m. I couldn't believe it was only 12:30 -- I'd only been asleep for about an hour. At 3:30, not having fallen back to sleep, I got up, showered, and prepared to go to work. As I dried off I felt a bit sleepy and decided to give sleep another shot. I met with success.
The other night I awoke around 5 a.m. and didn't even try to go back to sleep; I just shot off to work.
Every six months or so I'll have a couple of nights of poor sleep. Sometimes this will extend to as long as five nights. It's nothing I worry about.
Every night following those two nights I've slept like ... something ... something that sleeps really soundly. A well-fed lion maybe. A porn star. I've slept like a porn star. I don't know what it means or if it even has what it takes to make it in mainstream conversation -- but it will do here.
I've slept really well. I've gone to sleep almost immediately and I haven't had any instances of waking in the middle of the night -- which is uncommon almost any night; I normally wake up once or twice and look at the clock. Not last week though.
And yet, I've been really tired and sort of worn down. Not sick feeling, and during the day I feel pretty good. It's when I get home that I'm beat. If I sit in my recliner for even just a moment it's all I can do to get back out of it. I can't say I've been eager to take strolls or ride the bike.
I still rode -- I did two 30-mile rides and a 17-mile ride -- and when I get on the bike I feel OK. The other nights I had four-mile strolls and felt OK after the first couple of steps. Friday night I had to force myself to get out and at no point did I feel good about the walk.
I probably just need a break. We'll see how things are when I get back from vacation.
Posted by delmer at July 24, 2006 12:18 AM