a sloth is walking with a cane and wearing a green shirt and pants . Alt: a sloth is walking very very slowly and wearing a green shirt and pants .

Hoping that a much more sedentary day today will have helped to Reset my body ready for the Summer Term at school, which starts tomorrow 🤞

I'm still learning about #Pacing to avoid #PEM symptoms 🙏

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Visible Health HRV graph from daily morning check-ins

Visible looking stable

EliteHRV 8 out of 10 Readiness

KubiosHRV VERY high readiness 92%

Wednesday morning and my HRV is still creeping upwards, day by day 😊

Stable

In Balance

And Ready for the day ahead.

#Pacing and HeartRate monitoring to avoid overexertion.

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher

40 out of my daily 30 pacepoints used

53 of my 60 minutes of Moderate activity

Had to stay late at work, marking mock exams.

It's 6pm and I'm ten #Visible_health
PacePoints ahead of my (heartrate-based) daily energy budget...

& I'm at my #KiActiv (movement-based) daily limit too.

Feet feel 'heavy' - a sign of #PEM starting.

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Decline from exertional heartrates above 110bpm down through 'activity' heartrates until I got home. Then mostly Rest since then.

Having PPA time yesterday afternoon allowed me to start reducing my HeartRate by 3pm 👇

This @visible_health HR graph clearly shows its general decline throughout the rest of the working day (until 5:45pm).

A long and busy 9-hour workday 🙏

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher #Pacing

Resting heartrate now as I'm reclining

15 minutes of deliberate REST to bring my body back in balance before teaching my next lesson and then undertaking my Lunchtime Duty 🙏

#LongCovidTeacher #PartTime #LongCovid #Teaching

Every alternate Friday I get to leave work early.

And as I had a pretty sedentary morning, despite teaching 3 lessons, I just walked the length of Goodrington Sea Wall #Paignton

#Torquay in the distance across #Torbay

Glorious sunshine 🌞 Welcome to the weekend 🙂

#LongCovidTeacher #Devon

Introduction to my approach

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EliteHRV output from Friday

A rare post for me on all of the Facebook groups that I'm in, for Long Covid, Pulmonary Embolism Recovery and the like...

A summary of my recent approach to keeping going and avoiding #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM

#HeartrateMonitoring #Dysautonomia #LongCovidTeacher #HeartrateMonitor #LongCovid

Morning Stability 4 out of 5 - Looking Stable

With another #UKHeatwave starting, and with our destination, mainland Europe, also predicted to be hot, very careful #Pacing will determine whether I start my Summer Break #PEM-free and Stable.

Image below is from the #VisibleHealth app.

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Walking in Covent Garden 0.3 PacePoints Sitting outside 0 Church 0 Cafe 0

Taking it easy and confirming that it's the case via the #VisibleHealth app.

This. Is. The. Life.

#London #EasterBreak #LongCovidTeacher

Kubios app says 7% Readiness - very low

Kubios app said 48% Readiness this morning - Low

A challenging couple of days, but still no #PEM symptoms for over a month 😊

These were my #KubiosHRV 'Readiness' scores yesterday morning and first thing today 😮👇

Heading in the right direction, I suppose!

I'll sleep well tonight 🙏

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher

Monday lunch time.

Three @visible_health PacePoints ahead of my daily PaceSetter and still have 4 hours left at work.

Had my feet up for the past 30 minutes, but heartrate stubbornly won't drop down...

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#Pacing to avoid debilitating #PEM

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone with the words getting somewhere netflix below him Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone with the words Now we're getting somewhere.

Full teaching day and I even used the stairs a few times (but the elevators/lifts more!)

With my heartrate alert reset to 127 b.p.m. it didn't go off at all!

Am I being naive, or am I getting better?

#LongCovid #PEM #LongCovidTeacher

Visible Health Stable

Kubios HRV 56% Readiness

Full-on Monday. Got to lunch time, but heartrate monitor is alerting me repeatedly at 120+ b.p.m.

Not the best baseline first thing this morning 👇

Not much I can do in the context of a busy teaching job.

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher #PEM

Visible Health Morning Stability output from their app. Noting a much lower Heartrate Variability than my normal readings.

So, I have just updated my @visible_health data for the morning, also including some Heartrate Monitoring via my index finger...

Reckon I've been infected with something.

The last time this happened was late September.

Will test for Covid now...

#LongCovidTeacher

Graph showing well-spaced energy expenditure across the whole day

Today was OK!

Home, 14 hrs since I left for work.

My #KiActiv smartwatch confirms that my pacing was good, with some useful rest-breaks. 52 minutes of 'moderate' activity, yet kept within my 4000-calorie daily energy expenditure.

Day off tomorrow: easier pacing 🙏
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Graph: The Visible Health App. shows that my hearyrate varability has been steadily increasing for a whole week.

...and my HRV (Heartrate variability) is rising steadily; a sign of recovery and improvement 🙂

#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher #PEM

Careful pacing needed today.

#Friday #Pacing #LongCovidTeacher

12 hours into the working day and walking up stairs just now with my tuba has exhausted my legs; I usually use the lift/elevator.

Feet-up in the staff room for 40 minutes, then a final Funk Band performance before heading home 🙏

#LongCovid #PEM #LongCovidTeacher #TubaPlayer

And the Visible Health app. shows that my body is STABLE 🙏

Today is my usual Tuesday off work. I'll be resting a lot, but also taking part in my sixth Nuffield Health online Group Rehab. Session.

Next week it's the long-awaited Half-Term break 🙏 and our first in-person session 🙂

#LongCovidTeacher