I do “lymph breathing” daily, wherein you inhale/hold/exhale at a 1/4/2 ratio. For a baseline, this might mean an 8-second inhale, a 32-second hold, and a 16-second exhale.

Disclosure: I vaguely recall coming across a study showing that this was inconclusive at helping to cleanse your system. I feel better after this breathing, so I do it. There may be further research one way or the other; Google Scholar may turn up something.

I am a mouse compared to a distance titan like you, but I always spend several minutes (at least) stretching after any sort of workout, so as not to lose limberness.

Separately, and because flexibility comes in different types, I stretch differently on different days. I have the following stretch days:

Dynamic (think: leg swings)

Isometric (*after* workout, ease into stretch, tighten for ~6 seconds, loosen for 2 seconds as you go deeper, then repeat 1x or 2x more)

“Natural Flexibility” (giving props to eponymous book, which actually isn’t much outside of the similar-to-isometric idea of squeezing for 40 seconds a few times per stretch

Yoga (supposedly, passive stretching weakens muscles, at least temporarily, but yoga mixes many types of stretching and feels generally good for the mojo, so I do it)

For sleep, I do a hot bath with several cups of Epsom salt; also, a magnesium supplement called Natural Calm can be nice. Men tend to be low in magnesium, it’s said, so both of these hit the spot for me.

As a follower of your saga on your blog, I hope all is well and swell for you in Wyoming.

Best,

-James