<p>Oh noze. How am I going to eat healthy now?</p>
<p>[Global</a> bacon shortage “unavoidable”](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57519703/global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-group-says/]Global”>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57519703/global-bacon-shortage-unavoidable-group-says/)</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to have bacon and eggs at least once a week. Makes for a high protein, low calorie, low carb breakfast/lunch.</p>
<p>I buy my pork/bacon at my farmer’s market from local small pork producers, typically all natural and pasture raised. During the winter, they deliver to a parking lot for a ‘group’ pickup.</p>
<p>I eat bacon and sausage at least once a week.</p>
<p>Well, US supplies of pork will be down by a whopping 1.3%.</p>
<p>I just buy Peppered Turkey Bacon at Trader Joes. They sell Beef Bacon and they probably have soy bacon too though I’ve never looked for it.</p>
<p>No workout today. I was busy buying a car and I have a one-day fast coming up. Next workout is tomorrow night.</p>
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<p>My condolences! I know how that goes… If I recall the saga, you were looking at a pretty major repair. I was thinking, “Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark…”</p>
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<p>5K walk/jog for me this evening just before sunset. It’s cool and dry enough that a false heart rate monitor spike ended my first two intervals early (which was fine with me), except that it put me on schedule to run a bunch of steep uphill intervals. Seems to be the story of my exercise life here, lately. 
I’m almost to the point where running uphill isn’t any more painful than running downhill. It’s all hard for me!</p>
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<p>Turkey bacon? That’s a concept that escapes me. The only time I want to eat something with those two words used together is a club sandwich and I don’t eat those anymore!</p>
<p>Here’s a fun event that one of the strength coaches at M. Boyle’s website participated in last weekend. Cross country in the Exmoor countryside of western England. Five member teams racing 30 miles with backpacks weighing at least 30 pounds.</p>
<p>[Fantastic</a> photos](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/exmoor3030/sets/72157631587284377/show/]Fantastic”>2012 - White Men Can't Yomp | Flickr)</p>
<p>I couldn’t do it. I might be able to do the shorter 30K version if I trained for about a year.</p>
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<p>I replaced the tires, steering rack and high-pressure hoses. A few days later, leaks and they told me this morning it needed low-pressure hoses. There are some additional problems that they weren’t able to diagnose so the approach is to wait until they get worse and then they should be straightforward to diagnose. The car is 250K miles so it’s as good a time to replace it as any and doing the diagnoses/repair thing was taking too much time.</p>
<p>I was really amazed at how much car you can get today for so little money. I guess we really have had a deflationary environment for the last dozen years. The update on my car was about $4k more than what I paid in 2000 but it’s like a limosine today - much, much nicer for just a little more. I bought a fairly inexpensive car that was as close to what I have now as I could fine and it’s very nice and is great on gas.</p>
<p>Turkey bacon is great. 30 calories a slice and so filling.</p>
<p>Cheese omelet and bacon to start the day. Super-healthy grilled shrimp and grilled fresh asparagus for dinner. Even with a late night snack of an apple an an ounce of seriously sharp Vermont cheddar, a good carb/calorie day:</p>
<p>Cals 1663
Fat 109 g
Carbs 61 g
Fiber 23 g
Protein 117 g
Sugars 29 g</p>
<p>58% fat
28% protein
14% carbs</p>
<p>Ran 4 miles. Ate a little bit of carbs for dinner. Cheese ravioli… had to have some :)</p>
<p>I ate packaged fresh ravioli once every week or two for the past couple of years. It was one of my wife’s “grab it and go” items at the grocery and I had a couple of quicky sauces to whip up: a fresh tomato garlic basil or a sauteed mushroom marsala sauce. As long as I limited it to once a week and moderate portions, it didn’t seem to kill my fat loss efforts.</p>
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<p>I matched my lowest weight of the year this morning. I’ve only been under 160 four days this year and three of them have been this month.</p>
<p>Probably an aberration, though. 160 seems to be a pretty solid floor for me. Even with six weeks of tracking my food recently, I bounce around in the 161 range.</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting for Life. Warm up. Planks and side planks lifting arm and leg. Squat Presses. Kettle bell swings. Rear foot elevated split squats. Assisted chin ups. Trap bar dead lifts. And push ups with my feet in the Jungle Gym straps. Punched the clock.</p>
<p>I’m not pushing super hard on the weight or the reps. I kinda feel like my weekly hikes are demanding enough that I shouldn’t be trying to burn myself out in the other workouts.</p>
<p>Serious geezer fitness:</p>
<p>I’m breathless. I was reading some articles written by the co-editor of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountain Guide (he owns a bookstore in Lincoln with a hiking website).</p>
<p>[White</a> Mountain Guide,29th: AMC’s Comprehensive Guide to Hiking Trails in the White Mountain National Fores](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/White-Mountain-Guide-29th-Comprehensive/dp/1934028444]White”>http://www.amazon.com/White-Mountain-Guide-29th-Comprehensive/dp/1934028444)</p>
<p>I came across one describing his completion of “redlining” the White Mountains and found a website describing this feat:</p>
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<p>To give you an idea of the scope of this, the White Mountain Guide describes every trail in the White Mountains – short, long, flat, steep, smooth, rocky (well, they are pretty much all rocky!) The history is long as this area (Boston, Exeter, NH) was the epicenter of US mountaineering in the early days (more recently, Seattle). The first edition was published in 1907 and the current edition is the 29th published this year. The current edition is 700 pages (plus four separate maps) of nothing but trail descriptions, No pictures. Just text and stats (distance, elevation, est. time, etc.). </p>
<p>608 trails to be exact. 1440 miles.</p>
<p>As of last week, fifteen people (11 men, 4 women) had successfully “redlined” the White Mountains:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.48x12.com/red-lining/finishers.php[/url]”>http://www.48x12.com/red-lining/finishers.php</a></p>
<p>Looks like they come in a all shapes and sizes, but I guarantee they all have strong legs and good lungs! :)</p>
<p>1440 miles - that would take a while.</p>
<p>That would be almost a year for MOWC, wouldn’t it? :)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I saw one of these guys hiking on Saturday. Pretty distinctive looking guy. Wirey fellow with a shock of white hair. He was headed up while I was stumbling down.</p>
<p>It won’t be until next summer, but one of the next 4000 footers on my list will take me up part of the oldest footpath in continuous use in the United States - the Crawford Path, first cut in 1819 according to the guidebook. It starts near the historic [Bretton</a> Woods Mt. Washington Hotel](<a href=“http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4129/5045317287_d5ba08abe7_b.jpg]Bretton”>http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4129/5045317287_d5ba08abe7_b.jpg), goes up Mt. Pierce to Mt. Eisenhower to Mt. Franklin to Mt. Monroe and finally to Mt. Washington. I’ll be looking to do the first bit, up and back to Mt. Pierce.</p>
<p>Re-seeding grass and sinking 300 perennial bulbs. Exhausted. Sore. That’s it for me for a day or two.</p>
<p>It would take me forever! It’s slow going. Sounds like a great accomplishment.</p>
<p>I’m about 70 miles ahead of the 2000 mile pace bunny. I gave back a mile last week due to the ribs stuff. Won’t gain much if any this week, either. Barring injury, I should make it. Approaching a year on the Stupid Streak, too. Now that I am Important again in the day job, life is a little more stressful and tiring. Going to PA for the weekend for a high school collective 60th birthday party for all of us in class of 1970. Will also get to watch WildChild’s big race on Sunday (Poconos Half Ironman). I’m nervous for him. It’s a big deal.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t just end up feeding the squirrels sewhappy!</p>
<p>33 mins. Explored a new area. Trees, gentle hills. I think there might be a longer loop there somewhere, but that’s an adventure for a time when I’m less scattered.</p>
<p>WildChild will do great! He’s a natural. And, there are no sharks swimming in the Poconos!</p>
<p>I knew my weight yesterday was a fluke. Back up 1.6 pounds today and I’m pretty sure I didn’t eat an extra 5600 calories yesterday!</p>
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<p>Well, that will be a lot quicker than me. The article I read was about how the author had been too afraid to try the Huntington Ravine Trail up Mt. Washington despite hiking for 30 years in the White Mountains, owning a hiking bookstore in Lincoln, and editing the definitive guide to hiking in the area. He had to do it when two of his friends completed their red lining.</p>
<p>I’ll never lay eyes on most of those 1440 miles. Many of them are simply too challenging. And, a whole lot of them can only be hiked by strapping a tent on your back and heading out for multiple days and nights. No thanks.</p>
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<p>That’s a LOT of squats and lunges! And, probably a more than a few dead lifts as you moved around bags of soil and fertilizer…</p>
<p>Went to therapy for my neck and it’s feeling better, but still not 100%. Therapist suggested that I just do walking and not lift anything. So–that’s what I’ve been doing. Did 3.5 mi. today. Will do a longer walk tomorrow. Don’t have enthusiasm for much of anything.</p>
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