I just couldn't stay completely idle. My activity OCD kicked in (1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3) and I went to Gold's and did a GXP on the cross country ski type elliptical. I couldn't get up to better the 75% of MHR on the usual #12 setting so I had to boost it to #14 to get to the 85% target. This is in keeping with something I noticed this week while checking my resting heart rate. It has been hovering around 72 bpm for the last year or so and this week it dropped to 64 bpm. I'm not sure if this is an indication of recovery from chronic overtraining or what. Maybe one less GXP per week? Don't know at this point, but it's hard to lose the VO2 max numbers I've managed to retain and achieve. Experimentation may be in order. Hit the foam roller and stretched.
Ran into one of the younger engineers in the printer room at work this morning. He's a martial arts and lifting type too and we hadn't run into each other for a few weeks so were chatting. I was telling him about straightening out the teens at the dojo on how to do clap push ups. We got a chuckle out of it as a couple of other people drifted through the printer room who know both of us. One them expressed some teasing disbelief about my ability to do clap push-ups. To which I responded, "Don't ever challenge an old guy without the ass to back it up." So dropped and knocked out 10 which ended up drawing a small crowd of passers-by. Icing on the cake? I'm fortuitously wearing my Old Guys Rule polo shirt today. Priceless.