Same as yesterday except...

Pushup pyramids to 5 - 27 more pushups than yesterday.
100 crunches - 60 more than yesterday
10 lunges per leg - same as yesterday... couldn't believe how sore my legs were this morning so left the number alone.

Time to eat and then be almost late for work.

Bit o exercise

I'm not going to bike when it is wet out like this... But I can start making an effort at "daily"
exercise, so this morning i did 10 lunges each side, pushup pyramid to 4, and 40 crunches.

The ride home

Really pushed myself tonight.

Checkpoint
1:06:48
24.3 kph
27.06k

whole trip (4 extra blocks in there)
1:39:59
20.2kph
33.79k


Great... no allergies the whole trip, get home and THEN start sneezing.

Got up on time this morning.

Body didn't like that. At all. I totally blew my sleep schedule by going to bed a few hours late and sleeping-in way too long Saturday, Sunday, and went to bed 11:30ish last night. Getting up at 5am today has meant my mental acuity is down and I was also in a great deal of pain - I'd say 4 or 5 on the pain scale, and remember I typically pick a number 2 lower than other people - 3 is enough where I may or may not use pain killers. First time I've needed pain killers in about a month.

Brought the bike to work on the Bus. Not going to bike home, will leave it here for tomorrow - just need to focus on sleeping well tonight.

Friday Biking

Note to self... Never wait till 10:15 pm to bike home again.

1:45:21
19.0 kph
33.50 k

A grocery store to call home.

I have lived in my house for 2.5 years. In that time, I have had nothing but contempt for the local grocery stores. The closest, Albertsons, is the worst store around. Second worse - two Safeways about the same distance away. Then a sorta-eh QFC. I get very irritated by cookie cutter grocery stores which all seem to require their own "super duper deal" card which you have to have or they charge you 2x what anything is worth.

Growing up on Bainbridge, I was spoiled to have a Town and Country at my disposal. There is another one in Poulsbo called Central Market (Take it from me - that is the best fookin' grocery store there is, period). There is another one North of me 4 or so miles on Aurora, but is kind of a pain to get to.

Tonight, I was going through greenwood on the prowl for any place with produce as I was too late for my produce stand Lenny's Market and saw "Greenwood Market". The produce there is FABULOUS aaaaand, they are owned by the same chain as the other good places mentioned in the previous paragraph.

I bought
3 boxes of Good Earth Original tea (I meant to get 2 decaf, and accidentally did it the other way around). This stuff is YUMMY, and getting increasingly more difficult to find it anywhere - most stores that carry it have an empty shelf where it belongs. You'd think they'd wise up to that and order more.
3lbs of organic broccoli (their deal of the day - 98 cents a pound)
3 organic cucumbers (98 cents each - looked WAY better than the 78 cent normal ones)
Hmmm, looks like she only charged me for one.

Non-organics:
1 pounds of radishes
2 lbs clip top carrots
1 pound fuji apples (2 apples)
Bananas
1 pound green beans
2 green bell peppers
2.5 pounds of rhubarb (to make rhubarb custard, YUMMY)

Can you say snack heaven?! Now I have to start eating it because I'll be upset if I let any go bad. NOM NOM NOM!

Two steps forward! For you organic officionado's out there - cool it. I am doing WAY better than I was by even buying what I did, and right now I'm just not willing to pay your typical organic costs pesticide worries be damned.

Researching an Elimination Diet

I have discovered that "detox diet" is the wrong term for what I am interested in. I want an elimination diet. One where I exclude all reactive foods for two weeks, and then one at a time introduce foods with a single reactive chemical and see if I react within 2 days. If there is no reaction, introduce another food. If I do react, back up for 5 days before trying a new one.

Here is the wiki on what I am talking about - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_intolerance

I have done this kind of diet before - It sucks at first, but ultimately it made me feel wonderful.

I am having some real problems finding what I want. Maybe I need to go to the book store, the internet is not providing me with very good answers.

Charles

Ride home

Southerly headwind slowed me down (last time there was a northerly speeding me up)
Work to where 145 intersects the lake:
1:10:28
27.03k
22.9 kph

Entire Trip
1:40:30
33.47k
19.9 kph

breakfast and afternoon biking

While tending my bees yesterday, I got stung on the thumb - basically right before I got started. I must have grabbed directly on a bee accidentally. itchy itchy scratch scratchy!

I missed breakfast and forgot to bring snacks in to work today. Holy smokes does that make a difference in how good I feel. Making up for it now.

Left my Bike here on Friday - means I can bike home today. Not sure why I have taken my bike home in the past, by leaving it at work I am more likely to ride home sooner than riding to work. Today it means leaving my motorcycle here at work, but I am okay with that, maybe I'll bike back to work tomorrow. (tomorrow is a do not bike home day... Dentist appointment in kirkland).

Harder yet faster

I used the fact that there are no morning meetings on Friday to get myself to bike in to work - an hour or so late. Been long enough that I cringe in the morning, so I needed to use anything possible to do it... and I did.

More painful today than previous two times - butt hurt a lot, and muscles only had that happy warm glow for about 10 minutes 35-45 minutes in to the ride before they started complaining. But... The numbers are definitive, I am still biking stronger - averaged 1kph faster today than previously.

I've had my one step back - time for two steps forward.

Marymoore checkpoint
1:24:29
30.77k
21.8 kph

Trip total
1:46:27
34.39k
19.3 kph

rollercoaster

I have been nailing the sleep schedule for a week, but not sleeping so well. I do not feel rested. My mind is not sharp.

I had grape nuts today, but within half an hour didn't feel satisfied for the morning. Once I got to work, I ate one of the apples I had packed, and that staved it off for a while... Then by 12:30 I realized I was *seriously* hungry, much in the way I used to be hungry before I was eating breakfast. I waited too long to eat, but today it was more than that.

The result is I am now on the ol' glucose/insulin rollercoaster I have been very accustomed to for the first time in a few weeks - and it feels HORRIBLE.

W.T.F. mate?

Energy levels depleting Capitan!

Interesting.

After biking to work, I am depleted that day, but my energy levels the following days are much higher.

I am noticing that it has been long enough since biking that my energy levels are falling fairly dramatically - I don't like getting home after work being completely depleted...