Recovery & Repair

Rather than repetitive daily logs, I’m gonna just cut to the chase in my report for October… 

Wednesday 1 November

Morning on sacrato, four laps pretty good, full program on rower, also pretty good. Evening in the garage, the best walking I’ve done in years; no dragging or shuffling, good strides, good posture about half the time, arms relaxed if not swinging. Seven laps without degrading at the ends. Otherwise, periods at home of full body tremoring, full body calm. Slept well last night, 7 hours in bed and without pause. Typing awkward. No RLS.

Thursday 2 November

Using yesterday evening’s walk as the Gold Standard (at 90%) this morning’s was 75% and this evening at 80%. I’m thrilled. The pattern until about a month ago has been — increasingly good movement, a crash for a week or two, then a crawl back up, and repeat. The past month has set a new pattern where the “good” periods have been longer and stronger, and the “bad” periods have been milder and shorter. Sleep last night was interrupted once but I was able to get out of bed without real difficulty. Typing awkward. No RLS.