A busy day, and annoying symptoms (probably allergy)

[redbird]

I was out yesterday from just after 8 a.m. until almost midnight: normal enough, but I'm not used to it anymore.

I started by going to the gym; the basic morning workout. (Details below, for anyone interested.) Then I called eleanor, who said she would welcome company. I picked up my new sneakers (o frabjous day! Two pairs of proper boring walking/exercise shoes, which fit and don't leak!) and went down to Chinatown, where I had duck with black bean sauce at my usual place, and told someone else at the table, when she asked, that it's a Chinese restaurant, not a Vietnamese one. It seemed a slightly odd question, given that she'd already ordered and, thus, seen the menu, but harmless enough.

Ellie mostly wanted quiet companionship. We talked a bit (I listened more than talking), and I read about 50 pages of Ian Macdonald's Out on Blue Six, which I probably should have asked to borrow. We also went out, so Ellie could buy groceries for dinner; we stopped off and I had ice cream and she had fat-free frozen yogurt. (I let the man give me a taste of that but, as fat-free dairy tends to, it tasted thin to me.) I spent a lot of time stroking Norton, the more social of Ellie's two cats, and quite a bit with the irrepressible Morgan, her dog.

And somewhere in there I started sneezing, and then coughing. By dinnertime I was feeling decidedly short of breath and unhappy, and strongly suspected I was coming down with something. Dinner was the two of us and Emily WINOLJ, who I had not met before and quite like. I left a bit after ten o'clock, and took the M20 bus to the subway, rather than walk the seven or so blocks. (Those of you who know me will know that this is an indicator of my not feeling well, especially since it was a pleasant night out.) I coughed quite a bit on the bus. The A was local, but I sat and played Bubblet on my PalmPilot, and contemplated the merits of getting a car service for the walk home. By 207th I was feeling a bit better, and I didn't cough much walking home.

I went to bed without taking the cough syrup I'd planned on, hoping I didn't need it; a few minutes after lying down, I coughed, got up, and took the medicine, then slept happily for nine hours.

Today I feel basically fine, albeit still a little weak and slightly congested. I thus strongly suspect this was an allergic reaction. I think I can rule out lunch, because it's a dish I've had before at that restaurant. Ergo, I have probably developed an allergy to either Norton or Morgan. This is not good, though it's better than having some brand new lung/upper respiratory infection, or a recurrence of last Fall's bronchitis or pneumonia.

Gym numbers:

Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 151
Assisted chin-up, 6
Calf machine, 60 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Bench press, 60 pounds, 12, 12, 11
Seated leg curl, 95 pounds, 15; 90 pounds, 15, 12: I stopped the second set at 12 because I could feel that my leg muscles were giving up and handing the work to my lower back.

Tricep pulldown, 50 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 35 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Leg press, 260 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Bicep curl, 40 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 35 pounds, 15
Lateral raise, 5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15

Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {2 on each foot}. Unusually, I had slightly better balance on my left side.

Hip adduction, 115 pounds, 6. Stopped because the machine was pressing on a previously unnoticed tender spot on my left knee
Hip abduction, 100 pounds, 12
Stretches

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Admiring your numbers and learning about what to record ... what is the colour code?

[redbird]

Basically, I use green for "better than the last time I did this" and red for worse, where "better" equals a higher weight and/or more reps. If I increase the weight and deliberately drop the number of repetitions as a result, that counts as better.

Basic black is the default color, and what I use for holding steady.

I don't color-code if I haven't done the exercise in question recently.

I vaguely recall using a bright pink for something a while ago, but not what it was.