Many memes were birthed during the Covid years; drinking wine out of coffee mugs while on Zoom calls, the generation home-schooled by daytime drinkers, the infamous EBITDA-C, and many more. We clearly were a bored, unstimulated bunch while locked up in our houses for those months.

The practice of reporting important financial information while adjusting for the impact of Covid has come to mind while I’ve been trying to get on top of this “thynge” (read last week’s report for clarification on my use of this word). The adjustment that I have made over weekends, mentally at least, is for ‘social’.

By social I mean a late-ish night with a group of people, involving the consumption of more than a glass or two of wine. Not bottles, mind you, but enough to have an impact on sleep quality as well as leaving a slight residue the following day (I’m thinking that I may start using that phrase as a euphemism for feeling hungover).

This was the first week since I took a week off due to having a cold, that my exercise has returned to normal, even if I had to dodge rainy weather to do that. It seems as if this is reflecting in generally lower numbers, even on post-social days.

The daily BP reading is taken first thing after waking. What I’ve done on a few days is to take another reading about half an hour later, once I’ve had my cocoa drink and been on the couch with my laptop getting the day going. Interestingly, the second reading has been significantly lower on each occasion (in brackets alongside).

With two weeks left of this experiment/project, the numbers must do the talking. I don’t know if I’ll get below the threshold, but the variability in the numbers has seen some daily readings getting within sight of the target.

The Week in Numbers

Sunday (post social)
BP: 151/91
Bike: 90 mins, mostly zone 2

Monday
BP: 140/87

Tuesday
BP: 142/84
Bike: 4 x 4 (four efforts, each lasting four minutes, at 90% of max HR)

Wednesday
BP: 139/86

Thursday
BP: 150/93 (142/83)
Bike: 90 minutes on trail, of which 29 mins in zone 4

Friday
BP: 134/83

Saturday (post social)
BP: 150/89 (140/82)
Bike: 80 minutes on trail, range of zones, with a burn in zone 4.