20 Mar 2012: The Rowing Song

Never heard of this before, I Googled “rowing song” and turned up this little gem. Lash the oars to our hands and let us pull, indeed!

Summary

Time to bed (previous night): 22:00

Time got up (today): 03:00

Daily water intake: 3100ml

Mood (1 to 5):

Morning 4

Lunch 5

Night 5

Journal

03:00 – 1 multigrain weetbix with small amount of skim milk, glass water

03:30 – Gym (see below)

04:30 – Multigrain cracker with vegemite. Glass orange juice

05:30 – Bus, meditate, rest

06:15 – Riverside walk

06:45 – Long Mac, muesli bar, banana

09:30 – Morning walk then sliced banana, apple yoghurt, nuts and seeds

11:30 – Lunchtime walk

12:00 – Salad bowl (lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cucumber, carrot, ham, cheese, egg)

15:00 – Banana

17:30 – Meatloaf, salad and corn on the cob

18:45 – 6.5km (ish) bike ride, completed in 29min

21:00 – Few snacks, mostly of the “away from the goal” variety (see notes)

21:30 – 6.5km (ish) bike ride, completed in 25min

22:30 – Milk, bed

Gym

5 minutes bike warm-up – 2.088km

500m warm-up row – 2m 25s

20 pushups (all toe), 20 crunches, 20 squats

1000m row (100/100 intervals) – 4m 45s

15 pushups (all toe), 15 crunches, 15 squats

1000m row (100/100 intervals) – 4m 29s

10 pushups (all toe), 10 crunches, 10 squats

Stretching

Notes

While the evening snacking was not good, and the snacks were of the “away from the goal” variety… I actually managed to exercise a fairly high degree of discipline and self-control. Levels of which would have been totally alien to the 2011 version of me!

So in that sense, a success…