Back out of CFS

 I have stabilized a few weeks ago and now I can do 4 x 1 block jogging without triggering PEM. I can walk 3 miles at 100 steps per min, nonstop, too. Then, 2 weeks ago, I hiked Hunter Creek Trail for about 6 miles, almost nonstop in less than 3 hours. 

The exercise limit still exists though. I struggle all day with shitty fatigue and ache if I do 2x8 pushup the night before. Or walk 6 blocks at 104 steps per min. But the PEM is shorter and fewer in between while I can walk further and faster. So, I'm now classifying myself as "substantially recovered".

I moved to Reno and that may have created a Novelty Effect. Or, my dopamine system could've been exhausted after the trip and now recovered. I have  no idea, but time will tell. If I slip back in a few weeks, the bounce-back must be a temporary Novelty Effect from the move. If I continue to stay substantially recovered, the temporary relapse must've been from the dopamine exhaustion.

Back in CFS

 Now it appears I'm giving back all gains from the trip. 4 block jogging is now reliably putting me back in PEM struggle for 2 days.  Fast walking appears to be putting the pressure too. I may have to give up and go back back to the old way -- walk at 90 steps per minute, no jogging -- if the PEM struggle continues.  Bummer. Skiing will get me out of the hole, except that there is no snow on the mountains. November has been dry since the storm at the beginning of the month. I'll have to figure something out to get me out of this CFS hole if snow doesn't come soon. Maybe explore Nevada, now that I moved to Reno. Something, anything, to bridge me  over till the snow accumulates.