Thursday 7th September 2023

I was worried last night that I wouldn't sleep well but to my surprise I did! According to my watch I slept for 7 hours and 16 minutes. 3 hours and 8 minutes were deep sleep and 3 hours 58 minutes were light sleep. I didn't feel tired at all when I woke up so I managed to stick to the plan and go swimming at 8am. Before I went I ate an apple but nothing else because I didn't want to make myself feel sick. Unfortunately I left some of my stuff at home so I had to run back and missed some of the swim but it didn't really matter because I stayed in the pool for longer than the last time I went swimming and had a total of 27 minutes active swimming, whereas last time I only swam for 20. I had a max heart rate of 167bpm, minimum 87bpm and my average was 120bpm. This was better than last time as my max heart rate was 168bpm, minimum 75bpm and my average was 134bpm. I don't know if this means I've improved or just that the way I swam was different or something, but I'm going to continue to track it to find out.

When I came home from swimming I ate a ham, cheese, lettuce, cucumber and sour cream and chive dip wrap and drank a protein shake. I also took 15mg of Ritalin (10mg slow release and 5mg fast release) so I could do some Uni work, which I was doing until I decided to write this post. I'm hoping that exercising will improve my mental functioning and make my work easier, I just hope I can keep this new hobby up when I go back to Uni. Anyway, I think that's everything so I'm going to go back to doing my languages until I have lunch and then I'm going to work at 4pm to do the close.

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