Back in Sewanee and it's lovely. Temperatures in the upper 70ºs, mostly sunny. Did the Roark's Cove Rd climb again today. It wasn't a PR but a suoer hard effort because I hadn't done it in a while and I started to fast. My HR was in the mid 160s at the beginning of the big hill. I think this my have been a record for time of HR over 180, almost 7 min. Climb time was only 25:38. 24:50 is my post op PR.
Max HR - 187
HR over 164 - 20:53
HR over 170 - 17:02
HR over 180 - 6:54
Avg HR - 170
Avg speed - 5.2 mph
Total time - 25:38
I think my HR was exceptionally high on this one because I did a ride with a friend immediately prior to this climb, that included a minor hill.
I'm now approaching 4 months post op. I can run up a small flight of stairs, so I'm probably good to go for stairmaster. I did my first stadium stair session after my first surgery at about 23 weeks. I just past 16 weeks so it's going to be a while although I feel the healing is on a similar schedule. All bets are off on whether I can sprint train again, but if so, I wouldn't say Indoor Nationals end of March are out of the question, but that is pushing it.
Lipids Up
My diet was going really well until last Friday and Sat when I ate a bunch of rich cookies from Whole Foods. Plus, I had spent the week at Roya's and neglected to bring my lipid lowering supplements - Bergamot capsules, juice, and niacin. I have dropped a little weight, about 145 now. I fasted Sunday and had a lipid panel on Mon. It was pretty bad. Total Cholesterol - 220, LDL - 152, HDL - 37, and the worst TriG reading ever - 174, and worst ratio - 5.9. Instead of allulose only, I had been adding raw sugar to my tea and coffee. That didn't help. I'll get back on the supplements and tighten up my diet and test again in a month or 2. Wow, what a difference those cookies made - in case you had any doubts that diet affects blood lipids.
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