Afternoon Coffee Notes
1. Yeah yeah. Coffee is a morning drink. It’s afternoon. But I am drinking coffee, so I figured I’d try posting some notes. Especially since I forgot to post any yesterday.
2. Not sure this will get posted to the correct blog or as the right persona. I just accidentally posted something here that was intended for Alterior Motive. You might have even seen it briefly. If so, sorry about that.
3. Funny thing happened on my run today. First, some context. I’m on week 5 of my Couch to 5k program. The first day of week 5 had me run three times for 5 minutes each. The second day of week 5 had me run two times for 8 minutes each. I was a little worried that today would be something crazy like two 10 minute runs. Nope. Not crazy at all. Just one run. Of TWENTY minutes. That’s, like, real running. I was terrified before I started. As it turned out, it wasn’t hard at all. Physically. Mentally, I struggled a bit for the last 5 minutes.
4. Turns out, I’m an idiot. But you already knew that. I’ve been using the Get Running iPhone app for my Couch to 5k running. The app is great, but I’ve long wanted to play music, or something, between the cues from the Get Running app. I’d just been “playing” silence up until now. But anybody with an iPhone knows that I could have been playing music all along. I just needed to get the music started from my library (using the iPod app) and then switch to the Get Running app. The music would continue to play, and the iPhone will automatically fade the music during the Get Running cues. I just noticed that there is a Couch to 5k podcast that kinda does the same thing as the Get Running app, but using the app together with my own music is much better, as far as I am concerned.
5. I had a doctor’s appointment today. The doctor suggested that with my weight loss and increased activity, I might be able to get off my cholesterol meds. I currently take 20mg of Lovastatin for high cholesterol. I have zero side effects that I know of, so in some sense I’m not in any particular hurry to get off of it. On the other hand, reducing my intake of drugs is probably a good thing. So the plan is to stop taking it for four weeks and then get my cholesterol checked. If it is in a decent range, I can stop completely. If it needs tweaking, then I can try taking 10mg instead of 20mg. Hopefully there will be some change. If I’m at 250+ like I was before I started taking the Lovastatin, then I’m probably going to have to stick with 20mg.
