Bacon
Today was my 5th day in a row of classes. I’ve been really busy with work and kids and holidays lately and it’s been hard to do more than 2 or 3 a week. But I’ve managed to practice now 5 days in a row. It has been going well. I’ve felt really strong for most of it.
But toaday was different. I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night, and I made the mistake of eating a bowl of cereal about an hour before class. And sometime after Trikanasana the strangest thing happened.
I started smelling raw bacon. You know how when a smell gets in your nose and even when the source is gone, you still kind of smell it. That’s what this was like, except that I haven’t had any bacon in a while, so it wasn’t residual from my morning feast or anything. It just was kind of always there. It came and went some, but it really never went away.
Needless to say, this was very distracting and made me kind of nauseous.
Today became an excercise in pacing myself. One of the things a few of the teachers have said is that I look like I’m giving it my all for every posture. But today there was no way that was going to happen. I had to really pace myself so the smell of BACON wouldn’t overpower me.
Strange, isn’t it? Maybe I was just hungry.
