Resting Heart Rate Inching Up
Yesterday, my resting heart rate inched upward a few more beats. Normally in the fifties, it was 72bpm yesterday morning. 72 couldn't have been correct, so I took it again. 72. Again, and again. 72. It's said an elevated heart rate indicates the body is recovering from something or needs to rest. My workouts have not been intense at all although I've felt blah towards my exercise for the last couple of days, but not sick or ill. Time for some intervention at the Pho Noodle House. This was part of the plan this week as my pre-race meal, but it usually occurs a day or two before the race and sometimes the night before.
I threw down a bowl of brisket pho soup and a cafe sua da and then proceded to swim 2K in the afternoon at Stacey Pool. One of the better swims this season. It looks like brisket pho soup and cafe sua da are on the menu for Saturday night, before Sunday's Cap 10K.
My heart rate was 52bpm this morning. Hmmmmmmm.
Circumstances arose one day which delayed preparation of the dinner of a Soto Zen master, Fugai, and his followers. In haste the cook went to the garden with his curved knife and cut off the tops of green vegetables, chopped them together, and made soup, unaware that in his haste he had included a part of a snake in the vegetables.
The followers of Fugai thought they had never tasted such great soup. But when the master himself found the snake's head in his bowl, he summoned the cook. "What is this?" he demanded, holding up the head of the snake.
"Oh, thank you, master," replied the cook, taking the morsel and eating it quickly.
tags: heart rate, pho soup, cafe sua da, Cap 10K
1 Comments:
resting heart rate can be affected by a lot of stuff including; hydration level, caffeine, amount of sleep and, as you've mentioned, if your body needs a break.
it's very interesting stuff. i pay attention when i'm in serious training mode. :)
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