SINGING (WALKING) IN THE RAIN

Yesterday, I have for the first time changed the time of the day for my hike. I went in the morning, after breakfast, instead of the late evenings I´ve been used to. The reason was that I get very tired physically lately, since we returned back, and in the evenings, after dinner and feeding our huskies, I usually almost sleep while walking or just standing. I feel like I am having a lack of sleep. So I decided to follow the needs of my body, as on Friay I couldn´t get myself to take the hike in the evening, and went to bed instead. We trained the dogs quite early in the morning too, and the whole day Conny and I worked in the forrest, clearing our training trail from summer grown bushes, so I had quite a lot of excercise anyway.

So, yesterday I walked before noon. I also walked further up the road, prolonging the distance as I promissed in the last entry, from 2,5 to roughly 3,2 km. I still have to measure it properly. And I walked in a pretty heavy rain. By the time I was back, there weren´t many parts of me dry :)
But I felt good - somehow like an extra acomplishment, something like testing my will, as I didn´t use the weather as an excuse. So that felt good :)

With prolonging the distance I have also noticed something - knowing that I will walk further, as I planned it, was easier for me to pass the old turning place, having my mind set on a longer walk. I also started somewhat "relaxed" tempo and worked myself up to a more steady performance and noticed an increased speed further down the trail. There are also some slite uphills and downhills on the new stretch, and I found out having no dificulties, or need to slow down on the uphills.

I also walked with a sharp speed (without sticks) a bit under a kilometer yesterday afternoon, to work on the trail in the forrest, without heavy breathing.

All and all, as I don´t have any personal trainer to tell me, I feel and believe, I can move on to much longer distance, thinking of 4-5km. I will try it out and see how I feel. At this point though, I believe it is only a matter of the psychical part, not the physical.

Well, but now I am off for a fruity breakfast (yes, if you noticed the time I am writing this, I slept in today, to catch up with my needs) and then a long time aimed for walk in the forrest with four grown up puppis.

More about today later, looks like I´m gonna excercise and sing along in the rain again :)

Katerina