Christmas Day -- short and sweet

Christmas Day -- short and sweet

My family and I celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve pretty much- due to the many divergent paths everyone takes on the day itself, -- a small dinner, opening gifts, exchanging stories, all that

This allowed me to sleep in a bit today, so I did -----

--- after a hazy, lazy start to the day, I decided my caboose was too sore to do 45 minutes on the spin bike,  and with a few obligations looming for the afternoon, I told myself I would just do a brisk 2k on the rower, then go do some other Christmas related stuff ---

I typically start a rowing session with the damper set on 1 to serve as a warmup, but 3 minutes in, the time was looking good, so paused a few seconds and turned it to 5, --- Keeping my eye on the 500m split time, I  thought I was looking good , so at about the 5 minute mark, I told myself to  -  "Hold on -- we're going for it !"
   ----- a few minutes later and I was staring at my new 2k PR  (9:40)  ----  granted, this isn't a time that will astound anyone , -- kind of in the "not fast, but not slow either" category, -- kind of like a 7 minute mile for a runner     -- but seemed like a tough hill to climb back when a 2k was in the 12 minute range

---- so pretty happy with that result cold with no warm up, -- and I did an extra 3k at a slow pace just to add a little more duration to my workout

  -- Curious thing, my max effort single 500m time has usually been pretty good and I have it down to sub 2 minutes, but haven't been able to extend such an effort for another 6 minutes at that pace


 ----------  Rest of the day was spent messing around with preparing a turkey  ---  meal frequency was thrown out the window today .   I spent so much time messing around in the afternoon tending to food, I didn't take time to eat anything ---

  Dinner I stuck to the same principles I outlined in the Holiday Eating blog entry from a few days back
    Just a plate of turkey and "light" Mac 'N Cheese (kind of an oxymoron, but 2% cheese was used to prepare- still a boatload of calories to be sure)  ------  No dessert tonight, since it was kind of a late dinner,  but I left the option of a midnight snack in there just in case --- but as im writing this, its close to midnight and I have no desire for pie

So that was it, and I guess that's that for Christmas Day 2013.

Set a 2k rowing PR and roughly stayed true to my own holiday eating guidelines (except I blew it on staying fueled throughout the day otherwise )

Given the current state of my personal fitness, I cant think of a better present to give myself,  -- and I hope anybody reading this had as good a day  , no matter how they spent it

Merry Christmas and Feliz NAvidad

- Doug