Woe Is Me

Being sidelined sucks. I did almost nothing Saturday. I was up past 1:00 AM working Friday night, but got a decent sleep. I got up at 8:30 and scrambled to get the rest of my work done before noon. Once that was done, I went to watch a local rugby game. A few hours of standing made my back ache as if I was out on the field getting knocked around. I paced around at about a whopping 600 steps an hour, and that is about all I did on Saturday.
In my 9 hours of being up, I averaged 1.81 METs. Putting me well under my target activity level and therefor target calories.

Why Only 9 Hours With Activity?
I got up at a decent time for a Saturday, 8:30; but after standing up watching a few hours of rugby, I came home sore and not wanting to do anything. I watched a bit of TV, then forced myself to get up and do something. I worked around the house for about an hour, but then laid back down and quickly fell asleep. This was at 6:00 PM. I woke up around 10:00 PM but didn't really feel like getting up and doing anything. So I watched some TV till I fell back asleep, pretty intermittently till I woke up for about an hour at 7:00 AM then on and off till about 9:30.

I got over 10 hours of sleep over a 15.5 hour period. So Saturday I was up only 9 hours, and now it is late Sunday night, but I am not tired and need to get up at 5:30 Mondy morning. In my last post about sleep, I mentioned getting more consistent. I utterly failed this weekend, and hope it doesn't take me too long to recover. The only good thing is that it won't hurt my traing since I am taking some time off to heal my back and hip.

Pain in the Butt

Well actually it is in my hip and back, but it is affecting my training, my activity, and my sleep. I don't know if it is an injury from rugby 2 Thursdays ago. Or if it is a result of bad mechanics working their way up from my busted ankle, which doesn't hurt too much, but does affect my gait sometimes. It has been getting worse over the last 10 days or so, but I am taking a few days off rugby and volleyball, and spending some extra time stretching and doing specific exercises to make it better.

Activity Down
Last week compared to the previous, my vigerous activity was down 50%, and my moderate activity down about 25% According to the GoWear Fit, I burned over 400 calories per day less last week than the previous week. Sleep was a win loose this week. I ended up with about the same sleep last week compared to the previous. There were 3 factors involved in this. The pain made sleeping worse, some improvements in my schedule and environment made things better, and I slept way too much Saturday and Saturday night.