Stupid weather. We were supposed to fly out yesterday evening but the flight could not land due to the snowfall and clouds. It's more of an airline policy than the conditions as the smaller carriers will land in almost any weather but Air Canada won't.
Have done well with the glucose regimen - I average the lower 100's. But I'm now wrestling the urge to sample sweet snacks. Just a little and the numbers spike. I will hide during holiday gorgings. Need to maintain a tight diet till the end. Sigh...
Well, a barely white Christmas. Unusual. Temps will drop below 0°F Monday, finally. Staying as busy as possible next 4 days. Have a great Christmas, y'all.
Our forecast is temperatures in the 40s/50s and rain. Happy (hopefully dry, in the weather if not the imbibement sense) Christmas everybody!
Back to running after a few days off. I wasn't sure how well it would go, given that yesterday's rather oversized dinner probably hasn't fully worked its way through and I haven't been running for several days. But my fitness tracker came up with a suggested workout that I decided to do - it was based on heart rate so the sort of thing that if running proved very difficult I could always lower the pace as needed. I was pleasantly surprised to run the entire way around one of my regular loops but also to finish it in slightly less time than the workout time. Since I've been working with the training plan that's currently on hold I've found my speed and endurance are both significantly improved but perception of effort is much less. That makes it more likely I'll start out too hard, hit an anaerobic wall and blow up, and end up walking enough that it slows my overall time. The kind of pace that would match my 10k personal best time often feels like I'm bimbling along so I'm more prone to push the pace, but then pushing the pace on the uphill sections is how I blow up and lose a lot of time recovering.
2nd vaccine tomorrow. Reportedly not that effective against Omicron. Sigh... Got 2 employees out and carrying oxygen. Big slice of the crew was out. Mandatory vaccine or testing will likely be instated after all - how, is yet to be figured out.
The vaccines are effective against Omicron, and omicron is at a point now where it's traded severe symptoms for rapid spreadability, i.e. if someone is hospitalised they're out much quicker. I just had my booster, and they're talking about a fourth shot, but I have no intention of bothering with it at this point. COVID will become just another yearly coronavirus, and I don't trust Pfizer and others to be so socially responsible that they aren't milking things for profit. All three shots were Pfizer (I only trust that WW2 medicine). I had COVID before getting my first. It was awful and I should have been hospitalised. But I've had enough.
I'd recommend avoiding it (I'm in a high risk group). In fact, we likely had omicron, or a normal cold/flu/lung/thingy. But since COVID seems to be the only thing going around...
I have not taken any of the various medications and to my knowledge have not been infected haven’t had any illnesses at all. Of course I haven’t been to a doctor for an illness in 25 years (strep throat ) Oh. Note to self. Ran a mile today (with no one chasing me) for the first time in 30 years and carrying 20 pounds I didn’t carry in 1991… I made it without dying (although I confess to praying for death during the last 1/4 mile. Made it in 12 minutes. Can’t say I’m proud of anything other than surviving at age 58. I am so out of shape but I’m going to fix that today was day 1
Chief Medical officer here in BC is assuming everyone is going to get omicron at some point. Don't think any in our family has had any variety yet.
I find it curious how some sources are saying that infection counts are all but meaningless now and we should be looking more at hospitalisation rates, while others are still acting as if the sky is falling with every new confirmed case. Just about everybody I know who has had it lately has had little more than a cold (even if a nasty cold) and every single one of them has been vaccinated. My wife and I aren't vaccinated at all and ever since we had the original COVID, back in the days when the government either believed or wanted us to believe it was confined to the Pacific Northwest, we haven't had so much as a mild cold. When the virus can apparently cross the entire country without the government knowing it's hard to take them seriously on much of anything else. Of course when the vaccinated can apparently spread the virus as easily as the unvaccinated the only logical thing to do is to exclude the unvaccinated from, well, everything. Because science.
You'll be running a marathon before you know it! Seriously, a guy I worked with years ago figured he needed to lose some weight when he sneezed and fired the top button from his shirt across the room. He started training and within 12 months had run his first marathon in a whisker under four hours. I don't think I really have any interest in running for that long, but usually when I hit one milestone it's only a question of time before I look to the next one.