For my scheduled half hour

For my scheduled half hour of cross-training today, I hit the elliptical machine for the first time in over a month. I did a 28-minute interval program with 5 minutes of cooldown. I have to admit that I didn’t work very hard; my average heart rate was only 160. But it was nice to get a workout without worrying about how much my legs might or might not hurt.
I slept until 1:00 today. One o’clock!! I don’t think I’ve slept that late since college, and I must say — it felt good. Of course I’m now sitting here at midnight wide awake, but hey. It felt gooooood.
My brother Brian used to make us laugh because, unlike most kids, he would put himself to bed. Most kids will fight to stay up as late as possible, but not Brian. When he was tired, he went to bed. No fanfare either — most of the time we’d just look up and ask “where’s Brian?” We’d find him sound asleep in bed. I think he still does it even today. He’s tired, so he goes to bed.
I, on the other hand, have always had the opposite problem. Hell, half the time I’m up late for no good reason, just messing around on the computer or watching junk on TV. There are nights that I don’t get to bed until after midnight, only to have to get up for work the next day. Why was I up late? Who knows! No reason.
So a part of me feels that by sleeping until 1:00 today, I was just making up for months of going to bed too late. The gloomy weather and constant rain only helped. I woke up once at 9:30 to the sound of driving rain and had to get up close the window. But I was dead to the world until afternoon.
And it felt good.