Bless you!
It's warmer today, and damper, and as a result, I'm allergic to everything. Achoo!
Today's weight: 129 pounds. Temperature: 97.2?F.
We went running this morning in the cemetery, three times round in about 25 minutes. The dog got bored halfway through the second time, and started trying to
herd me... bashing me in the leg. He was running into my bad leg, annoying me mightily. I don't much like going round and round the cemetery; I get bored, and lose my oomph much faster than I do on my usual out-in circle runs.
"But the cemetery is a measured distance," A. protested.
"We have
Mapper!" I keep telling him. This little piece of ware, for a mere few dollars, lets you pull in a map image (from any of the many map sites around the net, or one you scan) and draw out your route(s) -- then you simply enter in a scale for that map, and there you are. Distance automatically calculated. It's a magic little toy, and I like it -- but A. actually got in the car and
drove around the cemetery to get his distance with the odometer...
He also pointed out that in the cemetery we can let the dog run free. However, since he wants to boost his run-time up to 40-45 minutes, and the dog is growing bored and tired at twenty (he -- the dog -- is a sprinter for sure, not an endurance athlete) that's not going to be such a big deal.
And, most important, it is just more interesting to get out there and do big runs with changing scenery, lovely though an old cemetery is. (I remember when I was still contemplating ultras, there was one held round here in a -- relatively -- small park. Fifty or a hundred kilometres, run on a
five-kilometre loop of trail. I would go mad.)
Starving. I've been taking occasional doses of
Lean System 7, a "fatburner", primarily for a bit of energy in the morning while I do (ugh!) fasted cardio. And, unlike ephedrine-containing products, this one appears to make me ravenously hungry, all the time. Who knows if it is doing any fatburning? I'm just in it for the guarana. I suppose I could simply pop a couple of caffeine tabs instead.
Eaten, or doomed to be eaten, thus far today:
Meal one, 1/4 cup 8-grain cereal, mixed with some almond sugar-free syrup and a couple tablespoons sugar-free apricot preserve; omelette of a half-cup egg sub, a 75g can smoked tuna, and some Pindjur. Green tea.
Meal two, spaghetti squash and flaxseed smokey frittata with tofu cream and sugar-free syrup. (While at Sobey's, I also went to the customary shelf of the
Mori-Nu tofu. And there it was, as usual. Clearly, A. was in his occasional "I see nothing" mode, and whoever the staff person was who told him they didn't stock it anymore was stupid, on crack, or both.)
Meal three, red cabbage braise, 3 oz chicken, and a new kind of hot sauce
(roasted hot peppers!); aduki bean/vanilla mush with some tofu cream.
Meal four, which should be post-workout, should be a pumpkin oatcake with probably pumpkin-y frosting.
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at 9:31 AM EDT