Sat 7 Jan 2006 - Impromptu Fitness Test

I'm all alone at home this week. Cherie's gone (left yesterday) to the holiday house (Seaspray on Ninety Mile Beach, Vic) for a girls weekend/week and the kids come and go (more go than come). I've just sold my bike and as luck would have it my car is playing up and out of action. I'm sort of stranded a little bit. As the car is out of action I walked to Philip's (brother) house which took me about 18.5 mins. Half way through the walk a light bulb went on and I thought why not make this walk a start of a fitness or heart rate test. On arriving at Philip's I checked my heart rate. No gadgets, just the old fingers at the wrist method checking the number of beats over 15 seconds. I'm quite happy with 76 bpm and after about 4 mins it was down to 60 bpm. The 4 min gap is just an estimate and during that gap I was gas-bagging and moving so not the best way to get a lowest rate possible. Hey, it's just an indication, at least after 4 mins or so it was heading in the right direction. In a month or two I might do another 18 min walk at the same pace and compare readings. Weight My weight is holding steady at 76.0 kg.