{"id":8609,"date":"2017-04-19T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:36:27","slug":"daily_882_-_cycling_for_sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/daily_882_-_cycling_for_sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 882 &#8211; cycling for sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0882_bike.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been cycling to work several times a week now &#8211; since the ski trip I feel that I need to move more.<\/p>\n<p>Not every day. Yet. Firstly, because of the unsettled April weather &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to cycle in rain or snow. Secondly, because I&#8217;m not strong enough to combine 20 km a day with twice-weekly strength training, and still have enough energy in the afternoon\/evening for everything else that I want or need to do.<\/p>\n<p>The situation at work keeps going downhill fast, and physical exercise is the best way to clear my head somewhat for at least a little while. Cycling, gym workouts, digging in the garden&#8230; I cannot focus enough to read, and relaxing activities such as knitting don&#8217;t distract the brain enough.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening I&#8217;m still full of adrenaline. I literally feel like I have stress hormones up to my eyeballs. (And when I use the word &#8220;literally&#8221;, I do mean &#8220;literally&#8221; and not just &#8220;general expression of emphasis&#8221;.) Probably they extend above the eyeballs as well but I cannot feel them up there because there&#8217;s not much muscle up there. My body is ready to flee or to fight, almost twitching, looking for an outlet for the nervous energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cycling to work several times a week now &#8211; since the ski trip I feel that I need to move more. Not every day. Yet. Firstly, because of the unsettled April weather &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to cycle in rain or snow. Secondly, because I&#8217;m not strong enough to combine 20 km a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768,777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2","category-working_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}