Thursday
100m warmup, stretches
3 x 15 single squats w/ 80 lbs
rowing machine - 2 min sprint - 550m
Friday
2 mile hike
100m warmup, stretches
25 min - Stairmaster hill program level 15
6 x 15 sec /w 45 sec rest - sprint intervals on bike, level 15
Stair runs - two floors Fowler center
147.8 lbs this morning. The feet feel better, not 100% but I'm still going to try and run tomorrow. I may stay on the grass. Very cold today, may even snow later. But I'm going to the weight room tonight and may even get out on the mountain bike today. This is one weekend I'm glad to not be racing. Bad weather, damp and very cold... won't get much above 35º today.
I feel a bit of weight gain, eating the forbidden foods like pizza over the weekend, toast and butter, and yesterday... one of my favorite treats: Brown Cow yogurt with crispy Browny Bark cookies. Pizza and that type of yogurt, which is comparable to ice cream in fat, are things I might eat once a year. Since I got the good news in Feb that my cholesterol was down to 163, and my calcium CT heart scan score was zero, I've taken license to eat more liberally. Since Feb, I've eaten about a dozen eggs or 2, and I'm on my 3rd container of butter/canola oil blend and am eating toast. It won't last though. I don't like feeling heavy, lethargic, slow. My Dr. told me the calcium CT scan is the definitive test for assessing heart disease, short of a catheterization. My dad had the same CT test and it was 'off the scale' bad - indicating significant if not severe heart disease, but since his catheterization showed 50% or less blockage, he has taken that as license to continue his bad eating and sedentary lifestyle. Knowing that could easily be me, it serves as an example. If anyone has 'license' to eat liberally, it would be me... but I'll snap back to my normal healthy lifestyle as soon as I hit the track. I can live on fish and vegetables, fruit, nuts, and protein shakes quite happily. It's only when I stray off into 'carb land' that I start feeling it. And now, I have that nominal little fat band back. It's just a few lbs but I can feel it.
When I did that hard rowing machine sprint for 2 min on Thurs, I got that feeling... the feeling I get when starting a training cycle not in shape. Not simply fatigue, but a sick feeling. Reminds me of that old paradigm... 'the idea of being a 400m sprinter is far better than the reality of actually being one'.
The bottom line is this: even with rigorous training, I can still gain weight if I eat the typical 3 meals a day and eat anything I want.
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