206.8 must be patient

   I went to the community center last night and used their rowing machine and their arm pain machine.     I planned to bring my pad to sit on, but forgot it.   I was trying to be very careful not to hurt my tailbone this time (last time I wore right through the skin), but this morning I found that I was not careful enough.  Ouch.

  Besides that, the rowing was good exercise.   I can burn calories at over 1000 per hour, but then I could only 20 min because my backside hurt so much.   But I did manage to burn over 300.  Then I did the arm machine which was almost pure torture for 8 out of the 10 minutes.    I used a whopping 60 calories!  Enough for 1/2 a coors light.

  The treadmill is a much better deal as far as calories used verses unpleasantness.    But I knew I'd be running in the morning and didn't want to tire my legs out the night before.

  And I did run this morning.   I almost didn't, since I stayed up until almost 1am working on a new City of Heroes story arc.  It was way fun, but that meant only 4 hours or so of sleep.    My rationalization for not going was that my heart palpitations seem more frequent when I get less sleep, so I'd better not run today!   But that would mean running on Friday morning, which may make me extra tired Friday night, I got up and went anyway.    No heart pain or strangeness of any kind happend.

  I did 4 min warm up at about 6mph, then 18 min at high intensity, which is probably between 8 and 9 mph.  Then 11 more min at 6mph again.   We will count that as 4 miles.   I'm hoping to do twelve miles today as it will be a weight-loss day.    My body has to refill leg, back and arm glycogen today, and I'm going to let fat do that.    Hopefully I will be saying goodbye to another 1/2 pound.   Going to have to avoid pigging out at dinner.