In my last post (“Six days of rucking and doing street photography are ahead of me.”), I mentioned that I will be sleeping for 10 hours during the upcoming days.
Today (I wrote this text on the 14th of March, 2025), I will provide more details on this one. The truth is that since I finished reading Marcel Proust’s masterpiece “In Search Of Lost Time” (I read it from the middle of August 2023 until the end of 2024), I changed my habits during the weekends or days off. Earlier, I was waking up at 10 a.m. and started reading books (it was happening even before I started reading Proust). Often, I went to sleep at 2 a.m. so that I was sleeping for eight hours. Today, I aim to sleep 10 hours. Even if I go to sleep at 2 a.m. I plan to wake up at 12 p.m. In practice, it means I read less in 2025 than I used to sleep earlier. Still, today, I am sleeping longer.
I feel the need to do it.
Undoubtedly, it is connected with rucking. I feel my organism needs more time to recover from this hectic activity. I know that many people tend to boast that they do not sleep longer and that they wake up at 5 or 6 a.m. I am not one of them. I feel that a long sleep is necessary for my mind and body. It gives me the power to ruck, walk, work, and write. In general, I will be aiming to sleep 10 hours during my weekends and days off. I feel I will live longer thanks to doing it. Does it mean I will sleep 10 hours during the upcoming few days when I won’t have to work? Not necessarily.
With my beloved Kamilka, we decided to go to the Tatra Mountains (Zakopane city) tomorrow.
Our joint decision to go on this trip means I probably won’t sleep as much as I want during the next few days. Still, there will always be exceptions. Also, I do not plan to ruck and expose my body to cold by walking in frigid temperatures. I will be eating from morning till dusk, and I will feel comfortable. I will return to my usual routine (fasting, rucking, and exposing my body to cold by wearing summer clothes while walking and doing street photography) after our return to the capital of Poland. Undoubtedly, during our stay in Zakopane, I won’t give up doing street photography.
