Ho ho hum.

Still nothing too exciting happening in my part of the neighborhood, unless you count going to a great-uncle's funeral as exciting (I don't).

Eased up a bit from my initial pace after doing 5 consecutive days of workouts; yesterday was more or less completely off, and today was pretty light. I'll likely keep tomorrow light too and get working again once the week starts.

I've started doing some gymnastic bodyweight exercises in an effort to improve my core strength further/because it's quick to do and a good long-term project. I was heartened by the fact that I could go straight to the tuck planche without needing to build strength; I lack the pullup bar to work the front lever, but've been doing a position similar to the leg raise we do (think dips with legs fully extended) to at least work some of the same muscles for now.

Planning to give running another try by mid-week, depending on the weather (it'll be nice to be able to feel my ankle to know how it's progressing); in the meantime I've been doing lots of alphabet spelling with my left foot and toe raises as well (for some reason the top of my foot/bottom-front shin muscle is pretty tight) in an effort to rehab. It's been pretty good just walking around and working out, but it's still obviously not at 100% when I put weight on the side of my foot the way I rolled it (which is to be expected, I guess).

Also, if you're looking for extra reading and aren't Seigs (I know he already reads these blogs), I'd reccomend checking out Art De Vany's blog. The stuff on evolutionary fitness is really interesting, relatively practical, and a time-consuming read (he's been blogging since March, there're lots of long entries). That and this site have been my main sources of inspiration/general workout structure thus far for the break along with a book I have chronicling the training methods of Bruce Lee. Knowledge is power!