Well July 1st has come and past, and we decided
to continue our challenge as none of us felt satisfied with our progress so
far. I had been so good with my updates for the first few weeks, and then after
missing a few days it felt like a bigger and bigger chore to write a new post.
Unfortunately, for me all the aspects of the challenge started to fall away.
After the Love Run at the beginning of June, I was running way less, and
haven’t ran at all in several weeks. I stopped recording my daily weight and
food intake in my notebook as of 2+ weeks ago. And with that I have no idea how
many calories I’ve been eating and have been eating a lot of junk.
Major Events:
Love Run 5k– I beat my goal and set a new PR! 24:53!
Hiking in Zion – the last weekend of June Bach and I went
with 3 friends to Vegas and then Zion and did 2 major hikes there. The first
was Angel’s Landing, which is a 5 mi trail out and back that goes up a steep
rock “fin” where at the end of the hike you are on a narrow path with steep
drop-offs on either side and there are chains to help. The uphill and the heat
(upper 90s I believe) made it an intense hike but the view was spectacular and
our friends got engaged at the top!
The next day 6 of us hiked the Zion Narrows. We woke up at
5am, took a shuttle at 6:30am, and started hiking at 8:15am NE of Zion National
Park. We started the hike on dirt roads but followed the Virgin River as it cut
deeper through the terrain and soon enough we were walking through the river
between the steep sides of Zion Canyon. The hike was 16 miles next to/through
the river and we finished at 8:30pm where the canyon opens up to the main road
going through the park. The hike was gorgeous and I’m proud to have
accomplished a hike that long. I also enjoying hiking through water a lot more
than I thought I would (most parts were calf/knee deep but twice I was chest
deep). Unfortunately afterwards we were all extremely fragile and sore, and my
toes were tender for a good week from my toes jamming into the front of my
boots so much.
So lately I have not been exercising at all. Last week I was
wary to work out because of my tender toes, and I also don’t have any races in
the near future to motivate me, and I’ve just been lazy and not making workouts
a priority.
Also I have not been cooking much at all lately, which means
that I’ll be eating out or snacking on things around the house that are not the
best choice. My sweet tooth is out of control sometimes and if there are sweets
sitting in the break room at work or I see candy I like on clearance then I
just give into temptation and eat what I like. If I cut out sweets like I do
during Lent then I think my diet would be pretty good.
I also got a second job that is currently 2 days a week,
which means that I’m almost always going to be working every day of the week.
Before I had 2-3 days free in the middle of the week, which were usually my
days to get longer runs in and possibly make/prep something during the day if I
wanted. Now I’m out of the house for a large chunk of the day almost every day,
which is definitely something I can work around but will take some getting used
to.
