Greg's Running Blog

Today’s cardio was excellent. I have kept my average heart rate really high and it burned calories off of me big time! I was watching the season final of Dexter while doing the cardio and I think the intense episode kept my heart pounding, not only the workout. I can’t wait for Dexter to come back on!

Well I had skipped my cardio yesterday and I almost missed it today. I generally do my cardio in the evening after my kids go to sleep. On photo days it gets pushed back a bit later after I complete the photos for the blog entry. But tonight it got postponed even more.

My father-in-law is in town for the next three weeks, he arrived yesterday, but his luggage didn’t make it. So the airline said they would deliver it tonight between 5:00PM and 9:00PM. Sounds good, right? Well we get a call from the delivery company around 6:00PM that he’s on his way but he’s delivering several other luggage and he wouldn’t make it to us until around 10:30PM. At this point I’m getting a bit miffed but I think, sure that will still work, I just wait and do my cardio right after he gets here. I had to man the door as I told him not to ring as the kids were asleep. At 10:45PM I called the guy and he was nowhere near our place. So I knew he would interrupt my cardio, I just wasn’t going to wait any longer.

So I did my cardio starting at 11:00PM, the guy arrived around 11:15PM and my wife and father-in-law took care of the luggage. I was pretty pissed that I had to be up that long and wait for nothing. Had I known he was coming that late I would have done my cardio before then. Regardless, I did put in my one hour and that’s what matters.

Today I couldn’t do my lunch cardio as we had a company birthday lunch. So all I did was my 60 minutes of elliptical at the house. I’m well into the second season of 30 Rock now, Biggest Loser is over, Grey’s Anatomy is over, Flash Forward is over, I guess there is just not much else to watch on TV.

Since I’m fending off a bug I went easier on the cardio at lunch. Then for the evening one I was ready to pack it in and call it a night without actually doing it. My nose is running like crazy and it’s getting stuffy at the same time. The skin is getting raw under it from all the nose blowing, not a good feeling. I took NyQuil last night and DayQuil in the morning. I’m not sure if it does anything but hopefully the placebo effect will make this cold pass quicker. However, while on the elliptical I have noticed that my heartrate was significantly higher than anticipated. I was going to take it easy but my heart just kept racing. I think it had to do with the fact that my nose was all stuffed up and I was deprived of oxygen because of it so my Vo2Max was not as good as usual, not that it’s all that spectacular to begin with. Since my heart rate monitor knows nothing about my stuffy nose my calculated calories were probably higher than the actual ones tonight. I really hope I get to feel better by tomorrow, I’d hate to miss work and working out.

Elliptical

• 60 minutes
• 123 avg heart rate
• 526 calories