No exercise for a few days, up it goes

I haven't done anything remotely physical since Monday's 64 mile bike ride. This morning's reading:
138/87

The Omron machine I use to take readings has a nice feature that averages three readings taken one minute apart. Those are:
138/89
137/87
138/85

Top number is pretty darn consistent, as is the bottom, though I'll take that slight downward diastolic trend from 89 to 85 as I remained still for a few minutes.

Given this morning's reading, I would usually motivate to run around Green Lake or go on a bike ride to pull my bp down, but this weekend myself and seven others are climbing Mt. Adams, so I will save my weary muscles and bones for that and assume that it will be enough exercise for several days to come.

Also of note: my pulse rate this morning is 45. When in the 40's I used to assume the low number was due to Atenalol, which my doctor says lowers your heart rate. Now that I've been off it for a while, it's kind of nice to see that it's still in the 40's.

This blog's next post will be next week after this weekend's Mt. Adams trip. In the future I plan on writing about some of the many topics in The High Blood Pressure Solution, like why exercise lowers blood pressure, why the potassium/sodium ratio matters, my experience with two different blood pressure home monitors, and more.

As a final note, yesterday it was confirmed that I will be showing photos from our May Eastern Europe trip at Motore Coffee next month. The show will focus on Romania. Below is a Bucharest scene I think I'll include.