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It's two o-clock and the sun is going down!
Today was awesome
I swear I'm borderline
I wanted to wake up and stretch but noticed my legs were kind of sore, and I realized it was all from the "warm up" I twice a day before I stretch. The warm up was too difficult, and I decided to bike around to warm up. I went down Nobel till I hit the big avenue to downtown, Bay. There's a big foresty median where a trail and creek run.
Now, a thing about my legs. I'm doing way, way, better. My only problem is that my glutes and calves are still very strained, but my vastus lateralis is doing way better; no debilitation and all it asks for is a stretch. But what's odd is that if I'm warmed up and stretched, doing precisions, leaping from point to point, makes my legs feel better! And it's a lasting effect. Rather than my knees giving out, the more control I put into it the more my glutes take the impact, as their suppose to. It like realigns my muscles into their correct squat sequence.
My calves has been really tight lately, but as always, I can't help but mess around a bit. So I started balancing on a wooden rail an inch thin. What really surprised me was how easy it was! I would go for 30 feet, even squating and walking below branches in the way. Though thin, the surface was flat, and my shoes helped. I just they don't hurt me on rails; thin shoes or no shoes at all really gives you a great grip on rails. There was a bride with no guardrails nearby. Only a 2 by 4 laid along each side. If I'd had to estimate, from side to side the bridge was about 6 feet wide. Two people could walk past each other without much effort. I got really stoked and made my attempts, failing at times, but always taking the impact well. By this point I had realized my legs were doing fine, so I was even more into it. I finally got it alone the safest part of the bridge. I then tried in nearer to the middle, where the river ran, and tried it there. It was lots of fun but I stopped after one precision made me squat too far and I felt a pain.
I biked home, stretched while eating some oatmeal, and left to downtown. It was a beautiful day, and biking made it a wonderful day
My glutes are sore, so I'll rest them. Going to go hiking tomorrow, doing some rail work on campus beforehand. Gonna find some spots for good laches and gibboning around
What an incredible mood swing, and I feel like I know what I was doing wrong that kept me so bogged down the past week. This feeling, today, is how I want to feel and live my life. It's how I felt whenever I was in touch and mindful. I really like it. And seeing as I don't have any clear identity at all, this one is the one that would make me the happiest
Hooray for biking! Yay for parkour! And the sun and cats and air and trees!