100 things: a series of posts on health, fitness, and figuring out how to be strong. (#84)

Showed up this morning for a workout with Tal (I have to link to her FB page here!) And explained what's up with my health currently: headcold/allergies, stuffy ringing partly deaf right ear, a little coughing from drainage.

She said since I had some goings on with the lungs, she didn't think we should work out.

Her rule of thumb is, neck-and-up, OK to work out, neck-and-down, no.

Huh. She said I should rest. I said since I'm here I'll just do enough gentle elliptical work to warm up my hands and get blood flowing a bit.

And I did, 20 minutes on the elliptical, maintaining heart rate right around 115 the whole time.

Feel a bit warmer/looser, she lent me the massage cane to help me work out a cramp in my back (I was showing off for delphid last night and hinked up my shoulder from stretching "cold", I DO know better...)

Now I am cut loose 30 minutes sooner than I expected, guess I'll return library books, then go home and start a to do list.

Slightly discombobulated.
Will call the advice nurse too since it's been a full week that the ear has been painful, stuffy, bothering me.

OK, off I go.

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