Today my mother suddenly had a stroke that took out quite a bit of her ability to verbally communicate. It was painful watching her not be able to be herself. In the hospital, she wanted so desperately to make contact with and become the intimate stranger friend of everyone she met, that I felt I had to do it for her. It made it okay that I was "only" doing it on behalf of her. In a way its nice to crazily expect everyone to want to know you, and you to want to know them. That's her thing.
Heart rate monitoring is cool. I do this loop around the house that ends with an uphill, and I really leaned in to that uphill, as my heart rate in "Zone 4" (within 20% of a 'theoretical' max) shows.
I think calories will be an interesting measure, not from the mindfuck of thinking I have more calories to consume or banking negative calories, but just from the seeing how many watts of energy I generate, if I were a "generator". Clearly when that number goes up on the same walk, my fitness is probably improving. Also that bar chart of how much time during the exercise I spent at different profiles, will be interesting to see as I progressively work on certain standard sets of exercises.
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