Feb 28 2012: Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

4:15am start to the day, up and out to the gym happily and willingly, a decent session and a nice stroll by the river once I got to Perth.

This is rapidly becoming my definition of a GREAT day.

Food:

Breakfast: 1 slice dry toast with vegemite (pre-gym) 2 weetbix and skim milk

Mid-morning: Banana, blueberry yoghurt, almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, pepitas, sunflower seeds

Lunch: Toasted foccacia with tandoori chicken, spinach leaves, tomato.

Mid-afternoon: Handful of grapes

Dinner: Chicken curry, browen rice and daal

Evening Social: Few nibbles, bit of cheese, couple of mini toasts with dip

Drink:

Plain, filtered water: 3800ml

Skinny long macchiato – no sugar

Glass orange juice

Activity:

Gym (details below)

2.8km riverside walk to office

Extended lunchtime walk, along the river a little then back around into town

Down stairs Level 8 to Ground x 2

Up stairs Level 1 to Level 8 x 2

Step count – lost track at 12,000 or so

6.5km (ish) cycle ride x 2, 2 hours apart, 35 minutes out, 26 minutes back

Gym:

5 minute warm up on bike – 2.039km

600m row – 2m 48s

15 push-ups (7 toe, 8 knee), 15 fitball squats, stretching

800m row – 4m 13s

Stretching

600m row – 2m 48s

Stretching

Physical, Mood etc.:

**Morning – **Woke up at 4:15am, mood solid and balanced, ready to start the day

**Lunch – **GREAT!

**Night – **Tired, hot, sweaty (after bike ride) – ready for bed, never even switched computer on!

Notes:

Toe push-ups back in the mix today, which is great. Hit the 2km goal for the warm-up bike ride, second successive day. Need to keep that up now.