<p>5 miles, 9:29 pace, relaxing run with heart rate around 80-88%.</p>
<p>Just read the latest on Yahoo’s new CEO. She’s implementing free food in the cafeteria like at Google and Facebook. Talk about dangerous to your waistline.</p>
<p>We had someone visiting from overseas so we all went down to the cafeteria for lunch. I looked around and couldn’t find anything that I wanted (I haven’t eaten lunch there for at least a year) so I just went to one of the kitchens and poured myself a cup of coffee and that was good enough.</p>
<p>We have some free food in our office and it takes some effort to avoid it or not take too much.</p>
<p>You ran 5 miles. You’re supposed to eat. :-)</p>
I had breakfast which was enough. As far as eating goes, if there’s nothing good to eat, I generally try very hard not to eat - I’ll wait for something decent.
<p>6.5 mile loop. Up Mt. Morgan, across to Mt. Percival, and back down.</p>
<p>I did the ladders. They were fine, but I scared myself on the steep rocks above the ladders, having to scramble up some pretty steep bits on all fours and along a ledge, with no margin for error. A little too close to rock climbing for my taste and a tumble would have been bad news.</p>
<p>In fact, the day had a lot of rock scrambling, including some bits that were too steep to come down frontwards. Had to turn around, face the rocks, and back down.</p>
<p>The views of Squam Lake and Lake Winnepesaukee were just amazing.</p>
<p>You’re really getting a healthy dose of this state. I haven’t done that stuff in a long time when the kids were young.</p>
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Wow, sounds pretty extreme. Glad all the scrambling was worthwhile.</p>
<p>REI is ready if you change your mind, iDad. :-)</p>
<p>[Getting</a> Started Rock Climbing: Expert Advice from REI](<a href=“http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/articles/getting+started+rock+climbing.html]Getting”>http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/articles/getting+started+rock+climbing.html)</p>
<p>I had a look at the picture on that page - no thanks.</p>
<p>“don’t look down”</p>
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<p>I’m completely in sync with you, BC. If it’s lousy food, I can’t eat it. If it’s not healthy, I’ll eat a tiny bit, just to keep the hunger at bay. But I’ll wait to really be sated until I’m near good-tasting, healthy food.</p>
<p>Man cannot survive on coffee alone. </p>
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<p>iDad, per that REI chart would you say a class 3 climbing trail today?</p>
<p>I’ve never gone climbing. I think I’ll stick to class 1 trails.</p>
<p>IDad- that sounds like a little more fear than I want to have! I don’t do ledges! Good job, though.</p>
<p>I don’t mind a little scrambling on hikes, but I’m not interested in rock climbing. </p>
<p>No KBs yesterday, but did get to the gym. Forgot I was going to add burpees so I didn’t do that many. </p>
<p>DH has a project to see if one of the other profs is right and that the school cafeteria is terrible. I hope it doesn’t do a number to his waistline! He’s only going to go once a week for a month or so.</p>
<p>idad, having done it once, you can now say you’ve done it. Once. </p>
<p>Now on to the next challenge!</p>
Today’s workout mainly consisted of moving treatment tables. We got some new ones in our clinic which meant moving a couple of them around to diferent offices.
I did go back and do some other work as well this evening…
-3x6 (each side) of Pallof Presses and Chop and Lifts
-3x6 (each side) Single Leg Deadlift on Airex Pad
<p>Deborah:</p>
<p>Probably just Class 2, at least for a young whippersnapper. The worst of it was having to commit to jump up a ledge that was about the height of a kitchen counter and then scramble up a 45 degree rock slope once I got up on top of that – all without any solid hand or foot hold. At the top of the 45 degree slope was the “ledge” to go across. So, it wasn’t like I was going to fall off a 100 foot sheer cliff, but slipping would have resulted in bounding 20 or 30 feet down the boulders. A little more exposure than I was comfortable with, but I was kinda stuck because getting on the ladders and going backwards down them was no piece of cake, either. It isn’t like this is big time rock climbing, but I’m a 58 year ol’ (formerly) fat guy with a 20 pound pack on my back.</p>
<p>It’s becoming clear that scrambling up some rocks is a part of the gig, at the summit of these hills, so it was good to get some experience on all fours, both up and down.</p>
<p>Fortunately, that whole section above the ladders was dry (except for the rock cave I had to crawl thru at the top of the ladders), but most of the trail and rocks today were wet – which added a slippery new challenge.</p>
<p>What did I say about rock climbing a few days ago? ;)</p>
<p>I’m taking a day off today. Just weights. I will start the KB swing challenge form scratch tomorrow since I took a break due to a painful monthly event. Grrrr…</p>
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<p>Yeah, the next time I do this hike, I’ll take the Geezer Bypass. And, I’ll be more inclined to take the geezer bypasses in general.</p>
I found a [photo</a> of the rocks I didn’t like](<a href=“http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2698/4106138717_6e9d641128_b.jpg]photo”>http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2698/4106138717_6e9d641128_b.jpg).
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You come up the ladders, thru a cave (have to take the pack off to squeeze through), then you have to go from the top of the rock to the lower right side of this photo diagonally across to and past the yellow paint mark on the rock on the left side of the photo. You would not want to slip and start going down the sloping rock below that.
Here’s [another</a> view](<a href=“http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2803/4106139635_57cf9b9d8b_b.jpg]another”>http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2803/4106139635_57cf9b9d8b_b.jpg). Same deal. Start from the rock beside his head on the right side (that you have to hop up onto) and then work diagonally across to the left.
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<p>[The</a> view from the top of that little rock scramble.](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/morgan.jpg]The”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/morgan.jpg) The Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Squam Lake in the foreground, Lake Winnepesaukee in the distance.</p>
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