Overdue, Reworked, Video overload, Deflating game, No Sleep

It was overcast Friday after work so I decided to go get my run out of the way.  Somehow I hoped that since it was my second consecutive week of running that I would feel at least a little better than I did the week prior.  That hope was not realized.  I had my Apple Watch on so I got some stats from the run that illustrated just how much of a struggle running has become.  My average pace was an awful 10:26 per mile for the roughly three mile run.  For some perspective, when I ran my last half marathon six or seven years ago I averaged 8:30-8:45 per mile for 13.1 miles!  The thing is, I am running that slow because my body feels like it is working really hard.  My average heart rate, despite the slow pace was 155 beats a minute which is what I would expect if I was running much, much faster.  Part of the drop off obviously is my age, part of it is lack of consistent running, and part of it is running at 188 pounds instead of 178 pounds.

In addition to the slow pace and high heart rate, my body just felt like shit overall.  It used to be just my IT band or knees that I had to be concerned with.  Now you can add the lower back to that list.  The first three or four laps sent a little jolt of pain up my back with every stride until I fully warmed up.  Despite the near endless stream of running setbacks I refuse to let it die from the list of consistent physical activities, something Cindy thinks I should do.  I told her that as soon as you start shrinking your perceived box of physical capabilities it starts a vicious cycle where you keep doing less and less.  I need to keep pushing out on the box to keep it from shrinking too fast.

Saturday morning I did a thorough cleaning of the chicken coop, something that was way overdue.  The reason it hasn’t been done that often is it is a royal pain to unhook all of the tech I have out there between solar power, wifi, smart switches, cameras, and security dvrs.  It was time to work through the pain.  The inside of the coop was gross with black dust that is a combination of dirt, sand, feces, feathers, and dander.  The two shelves in there had a later of this scuzz on them as well as the walls.

As I slowly pulled items from the coop I tried to clean them at the same time.  Things like the two fans were especially gross but even stuff like extension and power cords had scuzz to be removed as well.  Once I got everything out I pulled the fresh water hose from the house down to the coop and started blasting away at the walls, shelves, and ceiling.  Waterfalls of black liquid were everywhere.  I also brought in a brush, bucket and soapy water to scrub some of the especially nasty parts.  All in all I spent two and a half hours cleaning and reloading the coop.  It was a good exercise because it allowed me to throw out, organize, and rewire stuff in a less messy way.  This is something I need to do much more than every couple of years.

During the afternoon I did some more work on prepping the one hobby room bench for more printers, attaching three 18″ x 18″ pieces of plywood to the shelf in order to adequately support an I3 Mega printer.  I also did more organizing, condensing, and throwing out.

Later in the day I got out and washed the Tesla.  I wanted to do a couple projects to it on Sunday that requires the car to be clean.  While I was doing so I rolled video where I talked about whatever Tesla related things came to mind.  Evidently I had a lot of thoughts.

My Sunday was very busy with two things, shooting video and then editing video.  I produced a total of three videos during the day, two regarding PEV rides and one with small Tesla projects.  The one PEV ride was me trying again to ride from DD to home on the One Wheel Pint, something I tried to do once before and failed.  When I tried previously I got 8.4 miles before the battery was empty.  This time I was actually successful, getting over 10 miles.  I pulled into the driveway with 1% left of the battery.  Feel free to check out the blow by blow if you have time.

Cindy and I did a tag team effort for mowing the grass.  I mowed the front half of the yard and Cindy followed by doing the rear portion.  We had not had a ton of rain last week so things weren’t too hairy.

I stayed up and watched the Eagles game.  The Birds play was very frustrating at times but they still had a legit shot to win at the end until Zac Ertz came up about a foot short on a fourth and long pass.  The more concerning thing was the amount of injuries that sprung up in the game.  DeSean Jackson, Alshon Jeffrey, and their second tight end all went out early and stayed out.  Wentz even missed a few snaps because of concussion protocol.  He also took a painful looking shot to the ribs.  Last year the team got crushed by excessive injuries, they were the second most injured team in the league.

I suppose all of those injuries last year was the reason the Eagles sat a ton of starters through the majority of pre-season, hoping it would curb the injury bug.  If this is a pre-cursor to another injury filled roster it’s going to be a long season.

I’m not sure if the was the excitement or frustration from the game but I slept like absolute shit last night.  No exaggeration, I bet I woke up at least 30 times.  I’m not quite sure what the explanation is but hopefully it is a once and done event.