Training Log Archive: mjuliusIn the 31 days ending Dec 31, 2011:
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Saturday Dec 31, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0 (sick)
Better but not perfect sleep. Difficult to get to sleep with sinus drainage and fits of coughing. Still malaise and general under-the-weatherness.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Friday Dec 30, 2011 #
Note
slept:6.0 (sick)
Sleep still poor. It's just hanging in my chest. Low energy and coughing wakes me up throughout the night. General malaise.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Thursday Dec 29, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0 (sick)
Sleeping like crap. Sinuses better but it's still in my chest. A little productive cough. Feeling, at least, on the downslope.
1. coffee 2000 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 2000 ml [1/2 decaf]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor.
Wednesday Dec 28, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0 (sick)
Better sleep. Still congested.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
It's been several days since I quieted my head and it's shown. Feeling these last few out of sorts and even depressed yesterday. There is a palpable imbalance and tendency to melancholy that happens when I am not diligent. Even with so little as I have done, I feel better when I do.
Hard floor and my head difficult to control. Less leaping around and more just diffuse and finding myself thinking of something else. A lot of meta thought too. What I am going to do later, say later, write later. Silly.
Hard floor and my head difficult to control. Less leaping around and more just diffuse and finding myself thinking of something else. A lot of meta thought too. What I am going to do later, say later, write later. Silly.
Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0 (sick)
Chest cold, productive cough, poor sleep, no energy.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Monday Dec 26, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0 (sick)
The light hangover has settled into a light head cold.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Sunday Dec 25, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0
Poor sleep and generally under the weather following a Christmas Eve party with the other foreign teachers. No beer [sadly] since eliminating glutens from the diet so it's a steady infusion of vodka and wine. It's the second night that we have had alcohol since this change and I haven' yet gotten the hang of celebrating with spirits and wine. I have to say that I am much more fond of nursing a beer than a cold shot of vodka.
1. Coffee 1500 ml
1. Coffee 1500 ml
Saturday Dec 24, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
2. spicy lunch
2. spicy lunch
Friday Dec 23, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
Solid sleep. The magnesium citrate is remarkable. Feeling rested and not my usual grogginess in the a.m.
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Hiking & Running 32:33 [4]
shoes: RunAmoc Dash 5mm
East Laoshan > Olympic Hill
Road and trail. Ouch. Hills!
Road and trail. Ouch. Hills!
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor. Mind still wandering but body in a deep state of warm relaxation. Feeling nice.
Thursday Dec 22, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.5
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
+ Taking a daily Magnesium Citrate, Calcium & Vitamin D
- Vitamin D [D2 ergocalciferol] 500 IU
- Calcium 500 mg
- Magnesium [as magnesium citate/malate] 250 mg
+ Taking a daily Magnesium Citrate, Calcium & Vitamin D
- Vitamin D [D2 ergocalciferol] 500 IU
- Calcium 500 mg
- Magnesium [as magnesium citate/malate] 250 mg
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor. Mind like an impatient dog that wants to jump out of my arms to chase whatever. I've got to continually, exhaustively pet it and bring it back.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
+ Magnesium Citrate & Vitamin D
+ Magnesium Citrate & Vitamin D
C • test 3
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
hard floor. A few days off and and I am resistant to the quiet.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
1. coffee 1500 ml [1/2 decaf]
Hiking & Running long 3:00:00 [2] 9.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
From Fuximen Station / Rainbow
Home via Fuxing w/ Hannah
Home via Fuxing w/ Hannah
Monday Dec 19, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.5
Woke up a few times through the night with post test anxiety. Debating at least twice in the night about getting up, turning on the computer and checking whether the score posted. It's a good thing that I didn't. I would have been non-plussed at 3am and then never gotten back to sleep.
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Sunday Dec 18, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Relaxed body, not so much mind.
Hiking & Running 55:38 [3]
East Laoshan neighborhoods, Olympic Hill and neighborhood. Finished at the market for sweet potatoes and cabbage.
Saturday Dec 17, 2011 #
Note
slept:6.5
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Friday Dec 16, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.5
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ Magnesium Citrate [last night]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Monkey monkey. Tense with a little underlying worry about wrapping up this chemistry class. Difficult to get quiet.
Thursday Dec 15, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
1. coffee 2000 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Wednesday Dec 14, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
Difficulties getting to sleep and intermittently disrupted.
Temperature and humidity drop last night. Skin dry and tender but not as bad as a few days ago. Why so bad on some days and not others?
- Moisturizers? I was out a few days ago...when esp. bad
- Better sleep? Saturday was the 'woah nelly this hurts' day following two seven hour nights of sleep.
- School stress. I was putting in a lot of last minute work for the module
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Temperature and humidity drop last night. Skin dry and tender but not as bad as a few days ago. Why so bad on some days and not others?
- Moisturizers? I was out a few days ago...when esp. bad
- Better sleep? Saturday was the 'woah nelly this hurts' day following two seven hour nights of sleep.
- School stress. I was putting in a lot of last minute work for the module
1. coffee 1500 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor relaxation. A little smoother today.
Hiking & Running 24:13 [4]
shoes: RunAmoc Dash 5mm
East Laoshan > Mtb park
Tuesday Dec 13, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
1. coffee 2000 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor cold today. Too impatient to slow down enough and really relax. Hello, feedback loop.
Monday Dec 12, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.5
1. coffee 1200 ml
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
+ 100ml Yakult yogurt [Lactobacillus Casei]
Hiking & Running 34:48 [3]
shoes: RunAmoc Dash 5mm
Mixed Road/Trail
East Laoshan > Olympic Hill Mtb Paths
Nice and easy. Feeling good!
East Laoshan > Olympic Hill Mtb Paths
Nice and easy. Feeling good!
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Hard floor relaxation practice. Takes me most of 9 minutes to even get to the beginning of relaxed. Mind still wanders around aimlessly.
Sunday Dec 11, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0
It's a wonder what enough sleep and 76% humidity [vs yesterdays 36%] will do to my skin. The dryness and the poor choice to wear old synthetic longjohns was a disaster to my skin. I noticed that the cloth had worn through the skin and caused me a number of small abrasions. It's what I felt all day long as I taught. So bad and painful that it was difficult to remain 'present' in my classes.
1. coffee 1500 ml
1. coffee 1500 ml
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
More relaxation practice. Mind meandering around. Not so good at the required focus.
Saturday Dec 10, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0
Two days w/ seven [alarm interrupted] hours and I'm feeling it.
Skin is in real bad shape. The weather has turned a sharp, dry cold and my skin is really in sorry shape. This is as about as bad as it gets. Today's spicy lunch surely won't help.
1. coffee 1000 ml
2. spicy lunch
Skin is in real bad shape. The weather has turned a sharp, dry cold and my skin is really in sorry shape. This is as about as bad as it gets. Today's spicy lunch surely won't help.
1. coffee 1000 ml
2. spicy lunch
Friday Dec 9, 2011 #
Note
rhr:56 slept:7.0
1. coffee 1500 ml
Thursday Dec 8, 2011 #
Note
rhr:58 slept:7.5
1. coffee 1000
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
It's really apparent how easily I can be distracted and unpresent.
Wednesday Dec 7, 2011 #
Note
slept:10.0
Ten hours again. I don't know if this is good or not. We have been reading lately about how necessary a long healthy sleep is in the paleo-verse but this is pretty intense. Still, I feel rested.
1. coffee 1000 ml
1. coffee 1000 ml
Hiking & Running 24:38 [4]
shoes: RunAmoc Dash 5mm
East Laoshan to the Mtn Bike Park and home. Sluggish after about 10 minutes, hitting walls at 15:00, 19:00 and 22:00. Contemplated a walk home but pushed on and just finished. Good days, bad days.
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Spontaneously tense and my mind pre-occupied. So much so that I was startled at the end. I am distracted and unfocused. I can feel it and the session only makes me more aware of it.
Tuesday Dec 6, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.5
1. coffee 1500 ml
On Sunday, Hannah and I stared out at the weird white haze that made seeing even a block away difficult. It looked like a "white out" from inside a blizzard but as it turns out it's just the pollution. So bad that they had to reroute and cancel more than 200 flights at the airport on Monday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16034087
It's still gray murky today.
On Sunday, Hannah and I stared out at the weird white haze that made seeing even a block away difficult. It looked like a "white out" from inside a blizzard but as it turns out it's just the pollution. So bad that they had to reroute and cancel more than 200 flights at the airport on Monday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16034087
It's still gray murky today.
Hiking & Running 31:33 [4]
Began this in a pair of Keds with the intention to just jog hike my way around the neighborhood and Olympic hill but never really slowed down. Had a particularly good time on the Olympic bike mountain bike trails on the north side of the hill, pounding through the narrow trails and intermittent stone paths.
Running trails is a blast. Enough so that I yanked, halfway through, my earbuds out so that I could listen to the sound of my breathing and the swoosh of evergreen limbs as I wound around the corners. More please.
Running trails is a blast. Enough so that I yanked, halfway through, my earbuds out so that I could listen to the sound of my breathing and the swoosh of evergreen limbs as I wound around the corners. More please.
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
More relaxation preliminaries. My head was a little hyperactive. Overstuffed with what is on my plate at the moment but my bodies gets to a state of relaxation, a warm generalized state, sooner than ever. I think it's a little progress.
Hiking & Running 5:00 [5]
Hard push/sprints to the Electrical Grid office to recharge our card after the power went out. Arrived at 5:56pm only to find out that they are, in fact, open 24 hours. Hey, you got something to drink in here? Oh never mind and a walk home.
Monday Dec 5, 2011 #
Note
slept:10.0
Ten hours? Really?
1. coffee 1500 ml
1. coffee 1500 ml
Sunday Dec 4, 2011 #
Note
slept:9.0
Good sleep last night.
Also, skin was really bad last night. Gave in to the warm olive oil that stung on penetration but stayed with me through the night. Skin is feeling better today, too.
1. coffee 1500 ml
Also, skin was really bad last night. Gave in to the warm olive oil that stung on penetration but stayed with me through the night. Skin is feeling better today, too.
1. coffee 1500 ml
Hiking & Running 1:11:30 [3]
Shijingshan jogging hike around the neighborhoods, Olympic Hill [slippery slopes of snow on the north side trails] and to the market by the 5th Ring road.
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
Piecemeal relaxation session on the hard floor.
Saturday Dec 3, 2011 #
Note
slept:7.0
Good sleep with the Magnesium Citrate but not enough hours. I hate alarm clocks.
1. coffee 1500 ml
1. coffee 1500 ml
Friday Dec 2, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0
1. coffee 1500 ml
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
More on the hard floor. Working up from my feet, relaxing a little at a time. Awareness of the contact between the hard plane of the floor and contact with my body. Feel better for hours afterward. Amazing what a little focus of relaxation has.
Thursday Dec 1, 2011 #
Note
slept:8.0
Feeling better today. Much less congested and ill. Drinking a daily morning bowl of 'bone broth'. Chicken bones and feet this week. Last week was lamb. Wondering if the vitamins in the marrow are making me more resilient.
Also, the last two nights we haven't been using the Magnesium Citrate to rest and the difference is palpable. I don't rest quite so deeply and wake in my usual groggy self.
1. coffee 1600 ml
Will likely drop the coffee [or at least drink it in long intervals] next year.
Also, the last two nights we haven't been using the Magnesium Citrate to rest and the difference is palpable. I don't rest quite so deeply and wake in my usual groggy self.
1. coffee 1600 ml
Will likely drop the coffee [or at least drink it in long intervals] next year.
Meditation warm up/down 10:00 [0]
On the hard floor with a focus on relaxing and relieving tension. Interesting how my body will spontaneously tense unless I direct attention to it.