cardio

sorry about the rant... it happens sometimes.

I went ahead and did 45 minutes of moderate cardio (heartrate in the 130s-150s) at lunch time and it felt pretty good. 30 minutes on the treadmill at various speeds from speed walking to running at 5.5mph and hills from .5% to 5% (walking the steeps, running the flats) you get the idea. I followed that by 15 minutes on the eliptical... pretty steady at level 8 and cooling down the last 5 minutes at level 5. Felt pretty good tho I did get a stitch in my side during the treadmill bit... I breathed deep and ran thru it tho and when it passed I was pretty pleased with myself for not stopping.

Nutrition for the last three days has been pretty abismal. I didn't feel like eating much again today so I just followed my appetite: English muffin w/pb for breakfast, vegitarian minestrone for lunch, cheerios with skim milk after work and chicken breast with home-made marinara and some mashed red-potatos for dinner. I had my morning latte for the first time in four days too and man was that wonderful. So for Sunday I was at about 250-300 calories (sorbet and saltines), minus everything from the day before that my body decided to purge (heh!), Monday was probably under 1000 calories and today might have tipped the scales at 1100 if I'm lucky. I seriously need to work on getting some nutrition into my body tomorrow or the muscle/strength loss from this little bug is going to be real and noticeable.

The good news is that I finally feel like I am getting rehydrated so the 4 litres of water have been usefull despite the extra bathroom breaks. Pee early, pee often as I imagine Jim would say, given the chance.

I think I'll spin tomorrow morning... I suppose that means I should go to bed now... yes... I think I'll do that. Nighty night!

Posted by Lexy at March 9, 2004 09:51 PM