



This morning, DH and I went for a run...he accompanied me for 2 out of my 4 easy miles. I tried out my new HR watch. It comes with a few disadvantages. It is not the most accurate; it does not give a constant heart rate reading; it is trickier to use than the chest strap monitors - cold or damp fingers or wrist can give you no reading or wild readings; and it takes some getting used to...the watch has to fit snugly and you have to apply the right amount of pressure to coax out a HR reading. But I like it because it is simple; it does not have the cumbersome chest strap, which my previous HR monitor did.
I am a little suspicious of the readings it gave me at different points during the run. According to the 220-age method, my maximum HR is 186 and training HR should be between 135 and 160. On the 4-mile run, my HR swung between 120 and 150, and at one point dipped to 100...does that mean I dozed off mid-run?
Our 4-year old neighbor, Ryan paid us a mid-morning visit. He checked out our Halloween decorations and was suitably impressed. After pottering about a little, he left us and we got down to business, cooking potloads of food to last the week. We are getting good at this. DH chopped veggies at lightning speed, while I concocted a watery chicken curry, sambhar, cabbage poriyal and vazhakka kootu in record time. (Sambhar is a spicy gravy made of toor dhal and vegetables. Vazhakka is raw banana; Poriyal and kootu are a kind of stir-fry). My parents in-law stayed for lunch.
And now, finally...a refreshing cup of cardamom tea, and blog time!
4 comments:
Sounds like you had a productive, yet nice weekend. Prepping meals for the week is the best thing I have started doing. It helps me plan while saving me cooking time during the week.
so much of your food looks good. I will take some of those crepes, chinese takeout, and some of the sambhar, which sounds great! I would love to get into cooking food on sunday for the week. such a good thing to do!
Sounds like a typical shopping trip . . . I too always end up with everything but what I started out to buy. Way to be organized with the cooking!
It's mid morning here and after see the breakfast pictures I want to head to iHop ... yum it looks so good.
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