Getting home again

Wednesday, I needed to get my bike back home again and it took pretty much as long to get back as to get in, hitting every single red light all the way back, pretty much.  Competitive cycling was the order of the day as I tried (and succeeded) to keep up with a pretty nippy guy in a London to Paris pair of cycling shorts.  Didn't feel too dead at all when I got home, so it bodes well for doing both directions in one day.  Hopefully I'll remember to use my bike computer trip meter properly on the next rides so I'll get the actual distance for the journey.  TfL says 15km dead on for each direction (apart from it getting a bit confused about a non-existent one-way street on the way back, suggesting a weird spiral around Clapham Common at the bottom and thus adding 0.6km to the route).

Lovely omelette cooked by Mr TOTKat for dinner, this time with smoked salmon, mushrooms and some sweet onions to counter the salty salmon.  A couple of slices of toast on the side as I was quite low on carbs for the day (even for me) and I had a reasonable amount of glycogen to replace.  I wish I could cook omelettes but I always end up with scrambled egg, I just can't do it!

As dinners go, it's nice and light, if a little short on veggie variety.  I liked it though.

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1867 2273]
Protein (g)	145.3 (31.8%)
Carbohydrate (g)	181.0 (37.1%)
Fat (g)	63.1 (31.1%)
Fibre (g)	25.3
Fruit & Veg	9.6

Won't be making that again

Second run through the new weights routine today and this time I had my HRM. Very good burn and amazingly high heart rate during the squat, clean and presses and Mike caught up with me during those, so that was cool. Not the longest routine and the cool down is shorter but the burn is about the same in total.

I am quite impressed with the Powerplates for stretching afterwards; it really seems to make quite a difference. But. It gives me terrible cramp in my feet when I'm doing the quad stretches. Not sure what to do about that. I shall ask Mike about it at my next session.

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop vanilla, fruit compote and flaked almonds
S - Nakd Bar (Cocoa Loco)
*gym*
S - 1 scoop chocolate in skimmed milk
L - salad; spinach, edamame beans, sweet peppers, capers and roasted chicken fillet with lemon juice
S - one incredibly ripe pear
S - carrots and houmous
D - omlettey thing with mushrooms, cheese and chopped ham
S - toasted banana and raisin malt loaf

Dinner was horrible. It was an experiment and I can report that it gave a negative result. Yick. It was just waaaaay too dry. 6 tbsps egg white [was supposed to be 3, but I forgot I froze it in 6s], 1 whole egg, 1 scoop natural, black pepper:-


Even spread with Philadelphia and a few chunks of Pie D'Angeloys as well as the mushrooms and ham, it was dry as all hell and just unpleasant. So. I won't be making that again. Perhaps less egg white, or topped with a generous smear of yogurt and it might be nice. But this just wasn't. Nope. Very unimpressed.

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1748 2200]
Protein (g)	181.0 (42.1%) !!!
Carbohydrate (g)	139.3 (30.4%)
Fat (g)	52.4 (27.4%)
Fruit & Veg	7.5