I've been wearing a 21mg Nicoderm CQ patch and have been struggling to stop smoking for the last 2 years. Recently, I noticed that the veins in my wrist have 65 - 80% smaller than they should be. This is vague, but sometime in the last 8 years, I think that this has happened before? And when my veins were reduced, so was my stamina.
I'm planning a 17.2mi transit hike soon. Considering the state of my body from other more recent matters, I'm concerned about it. But I bet that when I take that hike without a patch, my veins will be more normal. I can tell you this, my problem is not hydration.
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2017/02/08
Training, Day 02
Correction... yesterday, I walked 10,141 steps, or 5.13 miles and burned 700 calories. That's probably putting my maximum distance of 11 or 12 miles hiking on-road.
Today, I walked 8,630 steps, or 4.58 miles and burned 599 calories. It was about 30°F. What was different about today is that I started using a new pair of cross trainers that I kept in a box until I was ready to get serious about training again. Now that I am, it was time to throw the old ones away. It snowed out there and I really should have had my YakTrax on. It was an inch of very fresh snow and I was getting traction for the most part, but it felt like I was getting resistance from it (particularly at the balls of my feet).
With that said, I was also breaking in a new pair of cross trainer shoes today. I can feel the rubbing against back outer area of my ankles. This might result in blistering?
Today, I wore a sweat suit and anti-wicking long sleeve shirt under my rain coat, windbreaker pants. and a winter hat. My rain coat and windbreakers are made of a similar material. I was sweating in certain specific areas, which at first seemed like overkill. But I must have reduced my speed in the later half of the walk, which reduced my body temperature and it became good enough.
Yesterday and today, I was wearing a 21mg smoking cessation patch. Right now, my blood vessels are constricted because of the nicotine and the caffeine that I had from a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee today. My blood vessels will be coated with the ill effects of smoking and a bad diet full of greasy foods for weeks to come. That junk is lining them and hiking is a very vascular activity. I bet three weeks from now, there's going to be a boost in my performance stemming strictly from my diet.
Don't hold me to that yet. There's a modification that I need to make in my living quarters that will help bring this all together.
Because of the falling snow today, the one piece of gear that I didn't get to test was my new Columbia TurboDown 650TD vest. If it would have been 30°F without falling snow, I would have tested it's performance instead of the using the rain coat.
Today, I walked 8,630 steps, or 4.58 miles and burned 599 calories. It was about 30°F. What was different about today is that I started using a new pair of cross trainers that I kept in a box until I was ready to get serious about training again. Now that I am, it was time to throw the old ones away. It snowed out there and I really should have had my YakTrax on. It was an inch of very fresh snow and I was getting traction for the most part, but it felt like I was getting resistance from it (particularly at the balls of my feet).
With that said, I was also breaking in a new pair of cross trainer shoes today. I can feel the rubbing against back outer area of my ankles. This might result in blistering?
Today, I wore a sweat suit and anti-wicking long sleeve shirt under my rain coat, windbreaker pants. and a winter hat. My rain coat and windbreakers are made of a similar material. I was sweating in certain specific areas, which at first seemed like overkill. But I must have reduced my speed in the later half of the walk, which reduced my body temperature and it became good enough.
Yesterday and today, I was wearing a 21mg smoking cessation patch. Right now, my blood vessels are constricted because of the nicotine and the caffeine that I had from a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee today. My blood vessels will be coated with the ill effects of smoking and a bad diet full of greasy foods for weeks to come. That junk is lining them and hiking is a very vascular activity. I bet three weeks from now, there's going to be a boost in my performance stemming strictly from my diet.
Don't hold me to that yet. There's a modification that I need to make in my living quarters that will help bring this all together.
Because of the falling snow today, the one piece of gear that I didn't get to test was my new Columbia TurboDown 650TD vest. If it would have been 30°F without falling snow, I would have tested it's performance instead of the using the rain coat.
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