I meant to get these written and posted last night, but, well, clearly I didn’t get to them.
So, let’s start out with food for the last two days. I again tried very hard to count all the bites and nibbles and not move things around, but I am sure I did not quite catch everything so I am not going to give myself points for that (see next post). Like, I didn’t count a few grapes here-and-there, or a spoonful of watermelon. That in mind, I’m certainly getting better.
We ordered some chocolate from a company we like, and it was supposed to arrive Friday. FedEx decided they didn’t want to deliver to us and ended up delaying a day. So, 28 lbs of chocolate later, about 50,200 calories, and Saturday’s eating included a lot of “various chocolates.” Ensuring I count these will be important over the coming weeks since it is so easy to wander into the pantry and grab one and not think twice about it.
So, moving to exercise, on Friday I did more “functional” weight lifting by moving around more asphalt on the driveway, given that it’s had a few cars over it and a week to settle. So, trying to even out some of the bumps and dips. I then walked. Not a lot, but not nothing. I’ve at least managed to do some activity every day this week except Tuesday.
But, yesterday was the big ‘un. I noted about a month ago that I really wanted to try to do “The Loop” again by April. Well, it’s April, and I had psyched myself into the idea I was going to do it this weekend. With a caveat. For those who don’t know this blog intimately, I live on a dirt road in the mountains of Colorado, and it forms a 9.6 km (≈6-mile) loop with about 850 ft of elevation gain along it. The house is roughly in the middle of that elevation. Going clockwise puts the western, steep hills as going up, while going counter-clockwise puts the eastern, less steep hills as going up but there’s more of it (long, slow burn). I’ve always done counter-clockwise.
So, the caveat was that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do more than an hour of that long, slow burn uphill, so I told the bf that he should come get me in the car after an hour. He really wanted me to go clockwise (for reasons I still don’t understand), but I said I didn’t want those steep hills to be the up. But then, if he’s coming to get me after an hour … . So, I told him to come get me after about 1hr 15min, and I’d go clockwise. So, I did the steep hill up (or “half” of it since the house is half-way up), and then did the mostly downhill portion, and he picked me up next to an old firehouse just before the steep uphill would begin. I more than filled both my move and exercise rings before I was done, before 11am. So, while I didn’t quite do the full loop – I did 7.7 km of it, or about 80% – and I didn’t do the full elevation gain – I did 139 m up, or about 456 ft – I did the vast majority of it, and an 80-minute walk is an 80-minute walk, with 750 calories expended. Yes, I could’ve gotten a bit more cardio fitness out of doing the last 2 km of hills, but that’s minor compared to the rest, at this point in time. So, yay.
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