Gym: Bad mood
Going to the gym in a bad mood is a bad idea. You don’t so much use the machines as attack them. Your choice of music (or at least my choice of music) turns to the loud and aggressive which will invariable have a very fast tempo, which leads to an extreme workout. Most embarrassing, however, if the fact that this kind of workout seriously elevates your heart rate and if you ignore the little red flashing warning light on the bike you end up with one of the gym staff explaining to you how a heart rate of 220 is not something I want to sustain for too long a period of time and perhaps I might want to ease the cycling back from 180rpm to between 80 and 120.
Still, I managed to get 0.75km done on the crosstrainer, and 7.5km done on the bike. No swimming as I’d run out of drink by that point and was also wanting to leave a little bit of energy for the walk home. I might see if I can do 1km on the crosstrainer and 10km on the bike tomorrow as the pool is causing my eyes to get very sore and the goggles I’ve ordered don’t arrive until next week. If I take it at a slightly more sedate pace I might be able to do it. We’ll see how it goes.
