Day 67

Once again, time passes without a training walk. Here are my current excuses/explanations:

• Illness - I had a pretty gnarly flu over the holidays and was stillcoughing until about Sunday. Respiratory stuff really takes it out of you, especially when you feel like your lungs aren’t filling up to capacity.

• Other Exercise - Despite the illness, I have been going pretty faithfully to my workouts with Art. When you get a full hour of intense strength training, it’s easy to justify not doing more exercise. And when you’re already not feeling well, the justification threshold is low, almost nonexistent.  Plus I feel sore all the time, which Art tells me is normal, but man, it is still annoying.

• Work - Despite my happy retirement, I am still doing some law work here and there. One of those projects is a murder case in which I am responding to a 105 page, ten issue brief on behalf of a DA’s office in a nearby county. It’s been a while since I’ve had a project that big, and its weighing heavily on me. Plus I have another big project in the on-deck circle, so when I’ve finished working on it for the day, I’m not inclined to do much other than decompress.

So there you go. I was ready to sit out another day on Sunday when Josh asked me if I was up for a walk. How could I say no?

We walked the golf course I live on and talked about life. It was a good walk for both of us.

Now that the big murder brief is pretty much done, I’m going to pledge to walk every day for the foreseeable future. 

Tonight, I walk with Lisa - she’s been wanting to exercise with me for a while. We’ll see how she does!