Took a rest from working out yesterday, got into teh gym for the lifting part of the working-out ~11:45 today, with my blood sugar presumably far past the spike from a 9:45ish PowerSauce bar.
Did 3 abbreviated circuits (cutting out chest press, ab crunch, arm extension and lat pulldowns) for endurance, one level below my normal high-weight levels:
arm curl: 12x 30#
overhead press: 12x 50#
row: 12x 70# / rear delt 12x 30#
leg curl: 12x 70-90#
squat press: 16-20x 230#
After teh office, I went back to run 3.3mi / under 39m: 1mi at 6.5, cooldown, .75 mi at 6.5, cooldown, 1mi at 6.0. Coming up on the 2.3mi mark toward the end of the second cooldown, I didn't feel up to another stretch at 6.5, but I said to myself, I just cracked out a mile at 6.5, surely I can finish relatively "easily" with a mile at 6.0. What strange times these are when a mile at 6.0mph is "easy".
Not at all shabby for only having eaten 1 PowerSauce and 1 can of mango "nectar" all day. (Vitamins and omega-3 caps don't count.) Now, however, I am punching myself in the face with a footlong tuna sub, because that's Subway's $5 footlong of the month. To be followed with a pint of SR a bit later, most likely.
I don't think I've done a whole run at speed since Jan. 12, when I took the course at 5.7mph. I think it's getting to be that time again.
I'm not really much into sweets; salty is more my thing. When I was drinking heavily in 2008-09 I plowed through a lot of pretzel sticks, and tortilla chips because they were cheap. More recently I turned to plantain chips, which, depending on the brand, CAN have a fairly well-balanced potassium:sodium profile; but in the quantities I eat them, it's still too much salt in general. I also revisited my sunflower-kernels habit briefly, but again, too much sodium, and the omega-6:omega-3 profile is poor. So I'm in some kind of doldrums when it comes to snacks.
Yesterday I refilled my empty fridge/freezer, and for the first time in months, brought home some canned tuna and chickpeas to supplement the steady diet of microwave burritos. I would like to whip up some brown rice, but what I'm lacking is a "kitchen", with, you know, a kitchen sink, and by "kitchen sink" I mean a sink suitable for washing dishes. I have a bathroom sink; it's just not the same.