Friday,
March 11, 2016
I had a good day of hiking around the farm and from
there, drove to the park for my Survival Workout. Normally I would have left the phone in the car, but I
needed it bouncing along in my pocket to record the steps I would take.
It was a tough workout. I managed 20 different stations and moved quickly between
them to maximize the effort. My
push-ups are down, hitting only 78 on the first set, but up from the 70 I was
able to do earlier in the week. Once
I hit my stride again and find myself doing the workout three times a week, I’ll
probably work my way back to 100 in as little as four weeks…just in time for my
61st birthday fitness challenge.
I climbed into the car and found that my steps were
over 13,000. Interestingly, my
heel was not hurting with each step, which must be a tribute to the constant
icing and the night splint I’ve been wearing to stretch out the calf muscle.
Tomorrow would be the beginning of three days of
cleansing I would be doing to prepare for my second colonoscopy in three
months. The doc had found a
precancerous polyp on the last test and since it hadn’t been a ‘clean’ look, he
wanted to do another. I’ll be
taking three different kinds of laxatives over the next three days, which
should easily get all the shit out of me.
Since I was going on liquid food Saturday and only clear liquids on
Sunday, I decided I deserved something special. I put together some rice pudding and stuck it in the oven
for the 90-minute bake time and sat down to watch a movie while icing and
splinting my heel. I hate to wait
for food, by when it came out of the oven and I had a cup, I decided it was
worth it. I had another couple of
spoonfuls before going to bed…the end of solid food until Monday afternoon.
Survival
Workout: 60 minutes.
Training
Heart Rate: 100-150 bpm.
Calories
Burned: 600.
Bonus:
13,500 steps for the day.
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