Summit junkie!

I wasn't all that sore after the hike yesterday, so I decided to run 5 after everyone was in bed. I had a very good workout and wasn't sore at all when I finished.

I usually lift weights every Monday and I also weigh myslef at the gym. I have lost a total of 8 lbs in the last 6 months and I don't think I'm losing fat. I have noticed some of my shirts fitting a lot more loose these days and I am wondreing if I need to eat more. I don't mind losing the fat, but I think I'm burning muscle.

I had a nice upper body and core workout for 45 minutes. I thought about running after, but decided to give my legs a rest. I am going to get out for a long run at some point this week. I just don't know what and when yet.

Did 18 holes at thanksgiving Pt. with a customer and I think I walked/ran at least 2 miles chasing my balls. The weather was perfect and we had a great time. I did get 4 miles in on the elliptical (40 minutes, machine said 7.5 miles) before bed while watching 'High Stakes Poker'. I had the max setting on for the last 25 minutes and it was a great workout.

Took the dog out for a run tonight. I was planning on going 5-6 miles, but running wih my dog is hard work and by mile 3 my hip was sore because I had to constantly try and keep her from knocking me over and I was running and looking down a lot. It was horrible, so I decided to stop at 3 miles. My time was 22:30, but I have no idea what the splits were.

I had a very interesting run last night and thought for sure I was going to have to dust off my karate skills that I put on the shelf circa 1989. Haha. First of all about a mile into my run I had two big dogs run out at me in the dark and I thought for sure they were going to bite me, but they ended up being rather friendly and then followed me for the next mile. I was laughing because I had left my dog home and one of these dogs kept running into my legs and almost knocking me over. It was rather annoying and I was thinking “Who just lets their dogs roam around unleashed?” come on people. After about a mile one of the dogs stopped to sniff something and I thought this is my chance, so I picked up the speed and made a turn down a busy street in Highland. I was about 100 yards ahead now and I saw both of them running to catch up. I thought about hiding, but then thought it might be funny to see how long they would follow me. Once they turned the corner there is a huge horse property and they quickly became more interested in the horses and let me go.

After I left the dogs my left arch started hurting, so I knew I wouldn’t be able to run very far. About a mile from home I had two jerks on a motorcycle flipping me off and yelling obscenities at me for no reason. I started to mentally brush up on round house… well, okay I also thought to myself I could easily outrun these fatties and they drove off anyway.

Speaking of fatties, I decided to post a picture of myself before I started running in January 2009. I know I am no Mr. Universe, but I think I did have some muscle tone at the time and now it is slowly disappearing, but I digress.

Did 4 while the kids watched a movie. I'm not going to run tomorrow because Sunday night I'm heading to the Uintas to climb Kings Peak (highest peak in Utah 13,528 ft), South Kings and possibly one other 13,000 foot peak if we can beat the weather. Our plan is to leave around midnight and hopefully reach the summit by 6:00 AM, and then head over to South Kings Peak, the second highest peak in Utah. If the weather looks ok we will also try and bag another 13er in the area if we feel up to it. We will do at least 27.6 miles, but might end up doing 30+ depending on where we go.

I was going to do a long run today and then cancelled it because of my plans to do Kings Peak on Monday. Well, it looks like Kings is out because of bad weather, so I'm mad I didn't go for a long run this morning. I went to the gym and lifted for 45 minutes and then took the kids to the pool. Fun day.