Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Last week was not a good week for my diet.  First of all, I took a cheat day on Father's Day.  I'm sure that would have been fine being just one day, but my wife and I went on our anniversary vacation starting Thursday and ending Sunday.  Subsequently, we made all those days cheat days, too.  I gained 5 lbs this week.  The first 5 weeks of my diet I was averaging losing 5 lbs a week.  So it's almost like two weeks lost.  Oh well.  We went to Colorado.  When I ran Ragnar Colorado a couple of years ago, we went through some cute little towns that I thought would be fun to take my wife through some day.  So I finally decided to take her there this year.  She found that it would be cheaper to fly into Colorado Springs than Denver, so we ended up doing mostly things around the Springs.  We actually never went to those cute little towns.  But there was plenty to do and see.  Who knew?  The first day we immediately went to the top of Pike's Peak.  In hind sight that wasn't the smartest thing.  I got elevation sickness and had a bit of a headache for about a day and a half after that.  But it wasn't too bad.  Just bad enough to make me not want to run any while I was there even though I had packed running gear.  The next day we went to the Royal Gorge.  I had my first ziplining experience, and that was pretty fun.  The next day we went to 7 Falls and the Garden of the Gods.  The last day we went to Cave of the Winds.  We did a lot of hiking and stair climbing, so I was hoping it would help with the days off I've missed running.  My legs weren't sore except for my ankle joints from hiking on unsteady rocks and stuff. 

I got out the door at 7am this morning to run.  I planned on running three loops so that I could hopefully lose some weight before weigh in.  It was already hot.  When I got to exactly a mile I had to stop and stretch a little.  My sore ankles were starting to bother me.  I decided to just do one loop.  I'll try again tomorrow.