2.9 out of today's 30 pacepoints
Very RESTFUL day
NINETEEN Pacepoints behind today's #VisibleHealth Pacesetter
And well-within my Movement limits too.
Giving my body a good chance of defeating this most recent bacterial infection beneath my molar tooth 🙏
Out of balance 2 out of 5
1 Readiness. Sympathetic Nervous System dominating
KubiosHRV 20% Readiness
My three HRV-based apps are clear:
#VisibleHealth
Out of balance, 2 out of 5.
#EliteHRV
Readiness 1 out of 10. Sympathetic Nervous System dominating.
#KubiosHRV
Very Low (20%) Readiness.
Today is one of the days when my #VisibleHealth armband comes into its own - I feel absolutely fine and ready to rock and roll, but have a very low Stability score, so unless I keep myself in check today I will set myself up for a big crash in 3-7 days' time.
Pacepoints graphic
Heartrate graph
P A C I N G
to avoid running faster than my #VisibleHealth pacesetter 🙏
Activity (heartrate between 80 and 100bpm) in 10-minute sections, with Resting HR in between.
A cheeky 30-minutes of gardening (moving some heavy plant pots and emptying some of them).
Whilst my partner does most of our gardening, despite my #LongCovid I am still very strong, so I do the heavy-lifting.
But only for a few minutes at a time, as my #VisibleHealth heartrate data show 👇
Visible Health PacePoints graphic
It's 4pm and, as usual, I've Rested for most of today (Saturday).
I've used just a third of today's #VisibleHealth PacePoints (3 out of 30) and yet I've used three-quarters of my #KiActiv 'Moderate Movement' budget for today 🤔
It's beautifully sunny outside, so I'm heading out, stick-seat in hand.
10.6 out of today's 30 Visible Health pacepoints - 13 behind today's pacesetter. Well below my pacesetter line on the graph.
Well-within my 'energy envelopes' for movement and for #VisibleHealth pacepoints.
Still RESTING all evening, for sure.
I really hope this continues.
#Pacing to avoid the #PostExertionalMalaise associated with my #LongCovid 😊
Morning Stability 4 out of 5 - Visible
Readiness of 10. Perfect SNS to PNS balance
KubiosHRV 68% Readiness
READY and IN BALANCE for Friday's teaching.
Heartrate Variability (HRV) trending upwards nice and slowly again ✔️
#VisibleHealth Looking Stable ✔️
#EliteHRV 10 out of 10 ✔️
#KubiosHRV Normal Readiness ✔️
My optimal morning-check-in readings and I know from experience that Fridays are easily paced 🙏
Visible Health graphic showing that I'm almost 10 pacepoints behind today's Pacesetter
Heartrate graph shows lots of Activity (blue) but very little Exertion (red) today
LOVING the new #VisibleHealth graphics to further help me to watch my #pacing and to guide my further activities.
It's a rare Thursday afternoon and evening with no Parents' Evening and also no orchestra rehearsal, so I have an extra six hours to play with...
...AND I'm well-behind my Pacesetter 😊
Done some painting. (DIY not hobby) Now absolutely cream crackered.
Having my elbows above my shoulders is absolutely knackering for me.
Probably doesn't help given how I've been the past few days.
But first coat (hoping that's enough) is done and seems ok.
7.3 pacepoints used #VisibleHealth
Visible screenshot. 4 out of 5. Looking Stable. HRV up, Resting HR down.
EliteHRV Balance between Sympathetic and Parasympathetic activity. 10 out of 10 Readiness
Kubios 66% Normal
Plenty of Rest and a good night's sleep.
Body is back in balance and Ready for Wednesday 👇
#VisibleHealth Stable
#EliteHRV In Balance and Ready
#KubiosHRV Normal Readiness
#Pacing to avoid the debilitating #PEM associated with my #LongCovid
Today I have a full Stability Score bar from #visiblehealth for the first time since my trip to the maxillofacial facial dept over a week ago. Yay me.
Data details during my morning check-in with EliteHRV. Mean HR 48bpm but very erratic HR plot over 2.5 minutes.
Readiness 2 and very high RMSSD leading to clear swing to right on graph - Parasympathetic Dominance
RMSSD graph for the past 7 days. Massive leap this morning
...EliteHRV sees these ridiculously high RMSSD values as a BAD thing 👇
From experience, this is a typical Parasympathetic Swing. If I'm not careful, I will easily over-exert today, as I will clock-up very few #VisibleHealth pacepoints, due to a ridiculously low Resting HR...
13.1 out of 30 Pacepoints used so far today
Glad I rested in bed until 7am. I've been full-on busy at work since 0815 and running parallel to my #VisibleHealth 'Pacing Line' 👇
3 hours of (online) parents' evening next.
#LongCovid #Teacher
Visible health heartrate graph showing Activity but not Exertion this morning
Visible PacePoints graphics
Four hours of busy-ness!
Staff meeting
Straight to Assembly
Taught three 1-hour lessons, back-to-back
And STILL I haven't even used three #VisibleHealth PacePoints because
1. My resting HR is so low (Parasympathetic Swing Danger 🚨!)
2. I have avoiding walking around much - and Exertion avoided
Visible Health Morning Stability of 3 out of 5 - Slightly out of balance
Woke up full of energy after a quite active day-off yesterday (although I did stay within my 'Energy Envelopes' for #VisibleHealth PacePoints and for #KiActiv Movement).
Resting Heartrate is very low and Heartrate Variability very high - Signs of a slight #ParasympatheticSwing
Feb 8th to March 10th 2024. Very up and down
Feb 9th to March 12th 2025 - fewer extremes but up and down
Feb 9th to March 10th 2026. Mostly 4 out of 5
What getting on-top of my #LongCovid #PEM symptoms looks like 👇
Comparative graphs of my Morning Stability score from #VisibleHealth over the past two weeks, in comparison with the same period exactly one year ago and exactly two years ago 😊
This comes from careful heartrate monitoring and #Pacing
Heartrate graph shows lots of lying down in between each set of exercises
Just 7.7 out of today's 30 pacepoints used! Well behind the pacesetter
Cooked a meal and thought that was it for the day; but after lying down for 30 minutes I decided to go to the gym after all.
I don't regret it! Feeling much better in myself and still FIFTEEN #VisibleHealth PacePoints behind today's PaceSetter 😊
I've managed so much today by #Pacing!
#LongCovid
Visible Health heartrate graph for the past hour. Red is exertion, white is Resting Heartrate
Just under an hour strimming the long grass in our garden.
Of course, under half of that time involved strimming and much of it was Deliberate Rest 👇
Thankful for the #VisibleHealth app in helping me to Pace and to my separate #CoospoFitness armband for the Warning Buzzes!
Visible Health pacepoints: 5.1 out of 30 daily pacepoints used - well behind my pacesetter (I should be around 18 by now!)
Strange 🤔
8 hours later. Been to work, taught three one-hour lessons to teenagers, had lunch, went shopping, then home for my early Friday finish.
All that and only FIVE #VisibleHealth PacePoints used 🤔
Forgot to take painkillers when teaching so had dental pain by 1pm, but why is my HR so low?
Visible Health morning stability 4 out of 5 - Looking Stable
Whereas on those two occasions I waited too long to address my dental infection, resulting in a drop of 10ms in my Heartrate Variability (HRV) scores, this morning my HRV is actually *rising* 👇
The #VisibleHealth app notes Stability and a low resting heartrate; infection is being knocked-back?
Pacepoints tracker screenshot
Heartrate monitoring every minute. Exertion on treadmill and during some weight training. Lots of lying on the floor!
Coming to the end of a very carefully-paced session at the #NuffieldHealth Fitness Centre.
So interesting to get a new insight via the updated #VisibleHealth PacePoints tracker 👇
Running parallel to my daily pacesetter during my gym session, but PacePoints in-hand due to deliberate late start.
EliteHRV 9 out of 10 Readiness. HRV 61ms. Resting HR 62bpm. Relative balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems displayed at bottom of image.
Visible Health 'Looking Stable" 4 out of 5
KubiosHRV Normal Readiness of 59%
A quick check-in with my three HRV-based apps confirms that I've rested well for the past 16 hours and I'm...
READY (9/10) and IN BALANCE ( #EliteHRV )
LOOKING STABLE with both HRV and Resting HR in a good place ( #VisibleHealth )
NORMAL in terms of #KubiosHRV READINESS.
#Pacing to avoid #PEM
Visible Health heartrate graph showing rest periods
Pacepoints graphic. Hardly registering!
2:45pm
Mind-blowing! 2km walked - very slowly - and I'm almost at town.
Less than one #VisibleHealth pacepoint used and I've not felt this good in years.
I'm going to keep stopping to sit and rest on every bench, as I know what's at stake, but this feels amazing!
#LongCovid #Pacing
Visible PacePoints graphic showing only 0.2 of a pace point used this morning
1:15pm
I've lazed-around all day so far.
Going to try the flat walk into town again; I know where all the sitting and resting places are, and it's SUCH a sunny day ☀️
ELEVEN #VisibleHealth PacePoints behind today's pacesetter.
As long as I'm cautious, as ever, I'll be fine. Maybe catch bus home 🙏
Visible Health display saying 0.0 out of 30 pacepoints used so far today. HR well into my rest zone at 50bpm
Visible pacepoints monitor
The joy of a weekend lie-in, as a relatively high-functioning person with #LongCovid 👇
Current heartrate nice and low, at 50bpm!
No #VisibleHealth PacePoints used, because I'm still in bed and I've not used any of my limited energy supply yet.
The second image shows that I've got 4 PP in hand 🙂
Heatrate graph across today
Pacing line below pacesetter line. 11 pacepoints behind today's pacesetter
5:30pm Friday. I've avoided exertion today 🎉 despite having taught my lessons *and* doing lunch duty around much of the school site.
#VisibleHealth Heartrate graph and Pacing graphic 👇
It's a fragile Stability, but #pacing slowly is allowing me to Live with #LongCovid rather than simply Survive 🙏
Visible Health pacepoints. 9.6 out of 30 used so far today. 11.4 behind my pacesetter, for this time of day.
5:30pm.
At work for 9.5 hours, including 5 hours of actual teaching of teenagers, and THIS 👇 is what #pacing looks like 🙂
Look at the gradient of that line - staying well below the diagonal line of my daily Pacesetter ( #VisibleHealth ) 👇
Only possible because I started the day Stable & Ready.
Visible Health HRV on waking each morning
10 days ago, we travelled abroad for the first time since I started to properly monitor my heartrate (HR) and heartrate variability (HRV).
It broke my routine and it's interesting to see how, despite careful #pacing, I struggled to maintain my HRV 👇
( #VisibleHealth morning check-ins )
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Visible display showing my pacepoints use ahead of my pacesetter - on the curved semicircle line and on a line graph below.
Here is an interesting new graphical display by #VisibleHealth which shows how my REST over the past half-hour has reduced the gradient of my 'Pacepoints Use' line, giving me a better chance of falling back in-line with today's Pacesetter 👇
Another tool to aid my #Pacing and to avoid overexertion.
