To steal the nomenclature of hikers I am taking a zero day, a day to rest and recover and make no progress on the hike. Though I will probably do a thousand miles in my head thinking about jobs that need doing and budgets that won’t be met.

I would love to claim the day off was because I have enough sense to back off occasionally when the stress on my body is starting to creep up, but it’s mainly because I have to drive someone else to a medical appointment today. The irony of the appointment not being for me hasn’t gone unnoticed. I also lifted something that would definitely had one of those warning stickers with two people required to lift on it. I’m the one on the left.