Wrapped up another week with a quick trip to Laguna Coast Wilderness.
I haven’t been as religious in my calorie tracking. This week’s results show.
Friday
Distance: 0
Calories: ??
Saturday
Distance: 0
Calories: ?? – but – had a big party for all the graduates in the family. One Master, 4 Bachelors, 1 High School:
Sunday
Distance: 6.12 miles @ 15:27
Calories:??
Sunday weigh in: Down 0.5 pounds. Not much, but still going in the right direction.
Wrapping up the week. Getting ready for the weekend. Shoes are already in the trunk:
Tuesday
Distance: 2.65 miles @ 14:24 per mile
Calories: 33 calorie deficit
Wednesday
Distance: 0
Calories: 33 calorie deficit
Thursday
Distance: 2.65 miles @ 14:04 per mile
Calories: 149 calorie deficit
Onward!
It happened Sunday. I gathered my gear and headed to Pacific Ridge. Got a prime parking spot (sometimes a challenge here), opened my trunk to change into my shoes and started searching. And searching. And searching. Hmm.
Needless to say, the run on Sunday didn’t happen.
Friday
Distance: 0
Calories: 323 over (yikes!)
Saturday
Distance: 0
Calories: Put away for the day. Enjoyed dinner at Morton’s (the Cajun spiced rib eye was the bomb!)
Sunday
Distance: 0
Calories: Got lazy
Sunday Weigh In: Down one pound. Down 6 pounds since tracking here started.
Monday
Distance: 0
Calories: 52 calorie deficit
By the way – shoes were on the floor in the family room – right where I left them….
Is officially over. Headed out late in the evening yesterday for my run/walk around the neighborhood.
Thursday
Distance: 2.66 miles @ 14:29 per mile
Calories: 219 deficit
Onward!
Took a day off work on Tuesday and that gave me an opportunity to head to the hills again. Did a four mile out and back in Buck Gully.
Tuesday
Distance: 4.10 miles @ 15:33 per mile (still feeling some after affects of Sunday)
Calories: 117 deficit
Wednesday
Distance: 0
Calories: 84 deficit
Well – I finally got out for some exercise on Sunday. I headed up to Pacific Ridge Trailhead for Father’s Day. I guess it’s what a dad does when an empty nester.
I made good headway to my turnaround point at the Old Emerald Trail junction.
I got turned around and headed back when a few minutes later the lights actually started to dim! I started feeling nauseous, sweating profusely, and started seeing stars. I took a few steps off the trail, found a flat rock and had a good sit down. The only other time I had ever felt like this was a few years back when I tumbled off a rowing machine in full pass out mode. At that time, I had a full sugar Coke and recovered in a few minutes. Of course, this time I had no fuel - nothing other than a handheld with some water. All I could do was be patient. I still had two miles out to the car, and I was determined to not get there in the back of a ranger’s truck. Eventually the feeling passed, and I got back on the trail.
I took it easy up and down the undulating ridge top and made it back to the car, no worse for wear. Except of course for the bruised ego. Next weekend? Breakfast first!
Friday
Distance: 0
Calories: Took part of the day off
Saturday
Distance: 0
Calories: Broke my 30 day tracking streak
Sunday
Distance: 6.35 miles @ 15:44 per mile
Calories: Hey! It’s Father’s Day!
Sunday Weigh In: Flat (as in no gain or loss for the week). It’s what I earned for essentially taking the week off!
Monday
Distance: 0
Calories: 342 deficit (okay – back on the wagon)
So – it started out by oversleeping my alarm on Tuesday. No problem. I’ll just head out in the evening.
Tuesday evening – get home late. Be hungry. East dinner. It’s 8PM. Okay no problem. It’s just a missed day of running. When in training mode, a missed day is a missed day. No reason to make it up. Just like spilled milk can’t be put back in the bottle. No problem.
Wednesday – not a running day.
Thursday morning. Repeat of Tuesday morning. Tired. Thursday evening. Wife’s birthday. Family time. Spilled milk is still on the floor.
Friday morning. Trying to be careful not to drop the whole bottle. Yes indeed – what a slippery slope.
Tuesday
Distance: 0
Calories: 171 deficit
Wednesday
Distance: 0
Calories: 17 deficit
Thursday
Distance 0
Calories: Tres leches cake was good. Put the calorie counter away for a day.
Sorry about the cryptic last posting. It was a busy weekend, and I didn’t have time to post the week’s results, but you all have done such a good job of keeping me accountable, I didn’t want to get out of the habit of posting weekly results.
So – on Sunday I took a little departure from the past few weeks and headed over to a different place to get in 5 or so trail miles:
This is an interesting place to run. Multi-million dollar homes are perched on the ridgetops of the canyon, and Pelican Hill Resort’s golf course provides the runoff that keeps water flowing in the canyon.
About 1.2 miles in, there’s an opportunity to make a 500’ elevation gain in 1/2 a mile up and out of the canyon.
The views are pretty spectacular from up top along San Joaquin Hills Road.
About a mile or so later along the ridge, you can re-enter the canyon.
Then, about two and a half miles along the canyon bottom puts you back at the car.
Now for the rest of the story…
Saturday
Distance: 0
Calories: 185 deficit
Sunday
Distance: 5.16 miles @ 15:31 per mile
Calories: 540 deficit
Monday
Distance: 0
Calories: 73 over (burrrpp!)
Sorry folks – I am running a little behind this week. All the sordid details tomorrow. For now:
Weigh in: Down 1 lb. Total of 5 lbs in 4 weeks. The battleship is pointing in the right direction.
Up until now, I’ve been a three day a week wogger (part jog, mostly walk). And even though I’ve been back to blogging for three weeks now, I’ve actually been regularly exercising a couple additional weeks, which means it’s time to up the ante a little bit.
I’m currently in the 10 – 11 mile a week range. I’m doing two mornings a week (Tuesdays and Fridays seem to be working) and one weekend day (Sundays) that’s a little more extended (5 plus miles). The commitment is comfortable and the results seem to be reasonable.
So – that now that I’m comfortable, it’s probably time to do a little more. Whether that’s one more morning a week or extending miles on Sundays remains to be seen. Like a lot of things this time around, the decision will be a game time decision. Stay tuned.
Now for some results:
Monday
Distance: 0
Calories: Deficit of 10
Tuesday
Distance: 2.65 miles @ 14:57 per mile
Calories: Deficit of 57
Wednesday
Distance: 0
Calories: 54 over
Thursday
Distance: 0
Calories: 265 over
Friday
Distance: 2.65 miles @ 15:12 per mile
Calories: Deficit of 554 (was in bed asleep at 8:30 so no midnight snack)
Thanks for following!
Headed back into the Laguna Coast on Sunday. It was a pretty spectacular day.
It’s been a long time since I put in the kind of effort that I put in yesterday.
In fact, Sunday afternoon ended up being naptime!
Saturday
Distance: 0
Calories: 548 over
Sunday
Distance: 6.04 miles @ 15:33 pace
Calories: 188 over
Weigh in: Down another 1.5 pounds. 4 pounds total in 3 week.
