Cardio - July 24th, 2008
So I did manage to get my cardio done this morning. I started off walking around the pool (stepping over the cat) but felt that heel rubbing a bit so I stopped at 20 mins and put a band-aid over it. Funny, but it didn’t bother me at all on the treadmill yesterday. It must have something to do with how I’m walking on the concrete outside. So I decided to do another 2 sets of 20 mins, but at about 7 mins… I had to pee. I thought I could ignore it, but nope, no way. So I stopped at 10 mins. I did finish off with a 30 min walk though.
It’s a good thing I did it this morning though. It suddenly got warmer and at the moment it’s pouring rain out. Oh and I love this piece of our current weather warning:
“A FEW OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OF 50 TO LOCALLY 75 MM. ISOLATED STORMS MAY SUPPORT LARGE HAIL TO 3 CM AND BRIEF STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL. BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY ALSO FORM WITH A TOUCH DOWN POSSIBLE.”
50mm = 1.9685 inches (whole lot of rain)… and funnel clouds… hey, just say the word… tornado. 
I joke about it, and I shouldn’t. We don’t get a lot of them here but I know other places do. The only quick information I could find was that between 1984-1997 different counties here in the vicinity got anywhere from zero to 12 of them. Also, I’m sitting in the only county that had none. The yearly average is 14, and most of them are small, doing only minor damage. Hail we’ve had two or three times this year. I could do without hail today as some of my beefsteak tomatoes are starting to get bigger.
Anyway, just adding my cardio information for the moment.
From the HR monitor:
| Exercise | Time | Cals | Max HR | Avg HR | Max % | Avg % |
| Walking outside | 0:20 | 123 | 139 | 126 | 78 | 71 |
| Walking outside | 0:10 | 66 | 139 | 131 | 78 | 74 |
| Walking outside | 0:30 | 204 | 143 | 133 | 80 | 75 |
| Totals | 1:00 |
393 |
I haven’t decided what I’m going to do this afternoon… probably nothing. I’m not really in the mood to cook, and I’d have to shop to keep going. I was thinking of making some pizza shells for the freezer, however, I’ve got tentative meals planned until Sunday so I might leave it until Tuesday of next week so we could have a fresh pizza that night.
You are really doing fantastic with the exercise! You should be proud of yourself. Keep up the good work.
What goes into a tomatoe curry? I LOVE curry!
have a nice day.
Joy
Maybe we got our shoes mixed up, Anne! I got a blister today, too, and I can’t figure out why! Same old shoes I’ve worn on the treadmill every single time for the last 3 months. The only thing I can figure out is that I upped the speed a little bit yesterday and started getting a little bit of a rub and today I kept the speed up as well and almost have full-blown blisters! Probably have to take tomorrow off unless you can get my tennies to me!
Don’t you hate how the damn bladder is always interrupting exercise and sleep! Can’t remember the last time I slept more than 4 or 5 hours at a time. My grandkids can sleep 12 hours and come downstairs and still don’t have to go to the bathroom! So much is wasted on the young!!
Joy - It’s a basic curry sauce but instead of cream or coconut milk I thrown in a can of diced tomatoes. I took some pictures of the chicken tonight and I’ll try and get the recipe up sometime tomorrow. I was going to do it tonight, but I’m tired, so I’m going to try sleeping earlier than usual.
Patty - I’m pretty sure mine is that I’m not tying them tight enough. I started off and thought they were too tight, then loosened them. I caught it before it was too bad, and tomorrow is a lift day so I should be okay (only a short cardio warm-up). On Saturday though I will be doing a fair bit of walking so I’ll wear a band-aid over it. I will likely skip Sunday’s cardio though. You gotta take care of your feet. And yeah, the bladder thing is a pain sometimes. I don’t notice it much when I workout inside as the washroom is only about ten feet from the treadmill. If I’m lifting I have (at the moment) a 90-sec window if need be, but I rarely need to. It just seems to be when it’s least convenient, isn’t it?