For once I'm happy to be manipulated

RUN 4 miles in 40 mins

Yeah, I know, yesterday I was happy to think I needed only 3 miles today and then I went and ran 4. I'd like to say that it was too gorgeous of a morning to not run more (perfectly still air, shorts and t-shirt temps, colorful early sunlight, hazy just-past-full moon) led me to do this. But in all honesty I decided before I went out the door that if I was feeling good I'd do a full 4.

Gorgeous, perfect running weather. Gimme more!

I might have a new 4 mile route. I've always done to the TGP pavilion and back as a 4-miler. Today I did LP via Russ to MS, NE around the park staying on Park to Jeff. Right at the Jeff stoplight, literally as I was crossing the street, the 2-mile beep! There and back again.

Then off to therapy, where for once I'm happy to be manipulated. The past few days were up and down for my back. Friday after therapy it felt so freaking amazing that it really opened my eyes to just how bad it was in terms of pain, discomfort, and poor flexibility. Saturday's 20-miler was racked with pain. Sunday's 30-miler was so much better?! Yesterday I was tired all around so it's hard to conclude anything.

Today she really focused on the right side of T10, a painful spot. And up higher, maybe T6, on the left. She did a lie-on-the-left-side, pull-the-hip, push-the-shoulder rotation that oooooooh yeah hit the spot for pain and tightness. I felt like my doggie when you scratch that perfect spot near her tail -- more more more.

A few new exercises for rotation including the lower back, then the cold e-stim. Then what might be the biggest bonus yet -- K Tape on my back and shoulders. It's to cue my posture and muscles. I said that while I expected the Camelbak to make things worse, it didn't maybe because it reminded me to mind the back. So she tried the K Tape. NICE!! I'm sitting up more and walking taller with the pull of the tape. Can't live with the stuff, can't get a full range of motion, but it's working!

No other effects yet of today, I think the tape is impeding some movement, but I am noticing it's easier to look over my shoulder while driving, for example.

Doing some nutrition research after this weekend. Green plantains, like I used in my cracker recipe, have upwards of 50g of resistant starches per 100g. Hmmmm......   Sushi rice is mostly amylopectin, the easier to digest starch, while other rices have more amylose which is the resistant starch form. Basmatic is high RS, Jasmine is low RS. So I'm guessing my digestive issues over the weekend (that lasted at least into yesterday: swollen belly, that feeling of 'needing-to-go-more', and the ... ahem... D...might have been due to the sudden introduction of plantains. I haven't eaten them in some time, but I do eat fufu flour which is a mix of casava, plantain, and yam. Interestingly, this weekend was the first time I'd eaten fufu in awhile too....

Resistant Starches Per 100g, type of RS not specified:
Unripe banana = 5-34
Ripe banana = .3-6
waxy or sweet rice = 3
carrot = 1-2
baked potato = 1
roasted and cooled potato = 19!
plantain/green banana flour = 35-68!
cooked banana = 1
cooked plantain = 3.5
tapioca pearls = 5.  
The units are grams RS? Just copying the numbers for comparison and reference. Not sure where fufu flour fits into that.. prolly high. But I don't eat much at one time. Or I won't be in the future!

Thankfully it probably wasn't the jelly beans or rice. And I've been looking at maple recipes. I need to get the maple into a candy or hardened form, since it FOAMS so damned much in my flask. Certainly don't need more air in my belly!