It's been at least a month, probably a little longer. So it was high time I dusted off the running gear and flung myself onto the trails round here.
I relocated Carli's C25K podcasts and downloaded those then put them in their own folder on my new iPod Shuffle. I decided - since I have been running reasonably regularly and was up to being able to do at least twenty minutes non-stop - that I would start week 3 again so as to ease myself back into it slowly. It was fine. I felt pretty good, actually. Have to say that Carli's idea of rock music and mine don't exactly match up, but that's okay. I might see if I can find some different downloads as I really don't much care for her choice in music.
After 28 minutes of running and walking, I'd burned off over 400 calories according to my heart rate monitor (which also monitors calories burned, time spent exercising and so on.) I wasn't ready to come home, so I carried on walking for another 32 minutes, keeping my heart rate around the 116 mark. It reached a high of 159, which is 86% of maximum heart rate for me. Higher than I'd like, really, and higher than is usual for me after just three minutes of running, especially as my resting heart rate is in the low sixties ordinarily. Or is these days, now that my blood pressure is on the lower side of normal.
Having said that, I just checked my BP (I've been home about three-quarters of an hour and have had a mug of cocoa and some grapefruit) and it's 111/75. That's a ten-point increase in diastolic, which may be a residual from the exercise or a sign that being a stone and a half heavier than I had been is having an effect on me. Yet more motivation to get back to exercising regularly and to stick with it.
Tomorrow I may stick my ankle weights on and head out for a brisk walk for half an hour or so. Or I could fix the water bottle onto my bike and take it out for a spin; while the snow holds off I might as well get out and about.
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