Sure, I would buy that revenge is best served cold...but I am talking about my eggplant-makhani-feta experiment. Out of the fridge it was good. As a bed for a cooked pre-marinated tilapia filet it was yummy. The eggplant skin even dyed some of the cheese purple, which I found amusing.
Saturday BC and I ran about 18 miles in about 3 hours 20 minutes. While it felt slow it also felt good. Even though my hip and hamstring became quite unhappy, they were less painful by the end than in the middle. I have been trying to keep my heart rate as close to 150 beats per minute as possible for a long run. I averaged 158. Phew.
Turns out that for the last year or two I have surely been training all of my runs with a heart rate much too high. A resting rate for me is maybe 50. The first 14 I did this year was at 174 or so. No wonder I had been getting slower and fatter.
It has been about a month or so of the lower heart rate training. In the super July heat I was walking SO much of the time. But, when seeing BC for the first time in about a month he remarked (without prompting or financial/sexual repayment) "you have lost weight." Boom. It worked. Of course it would work more if I weren't treating stress with wine, cheese, and sugar tonight. Ah...ha.
So lesson is, don't push as hard has you can all of the time.
or
Too much stress is not a good thing.
or
Wine and cheese and sugar in moderation is okay, as long as I run tomorrow morning too.
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