The Chances

Wow, I haven't blogged since Friday. Heh.

I'm still getting everything together for the Whitney trip. We leave on Monday, and I want to have everything ready to go so I'm not all stressed out. On Saturday I went to the Folsom REI gear sale and they had more stuff than I've seen at any gear sale to date. But did I find anything that I wanted or needed? Nope. My wife found some shoes & boots for the kids, and Gregory got a marshmallow gun, but that was it.

I still needed more food for the trip, so I picked up a couple more Mountain House meals. With the Folsom store being so small, I decided to drive over to the Sacramento REI to pick up my synthetic thermal underwear. Come to find out, the construction on the store has made them reduce their inventory, and they didn't have anything in my size! So I drove to the Roseville store.

On the way through Roseville, I stopped off at Trader Joe's and got a dried fruit for the trip, as well as a cheese roll stuffed with ham and a loaf of dense bread. Good, good stuff. At REI, I picked up the thermal underwear.

Then today at lunchI ran 5.5 miles. I am just *loving* the weather lately! The high today's supposed to be 79, and while I was running it was a mere 64. 64 degrees!

I ran to the gym (3.25 miles, something like that), then did some weights in supersets of two:

1A: Bench Press, 3 sets of 6, 115lbs
1B: Dumbbell Curls, 3 sets of 6, 25lb dumbbells
2A: Chin-ups, 1 set of 2, 2 sets of 1
3A: Dumbbell Shoulder Press, 3 sets of 10, 25lb dumbbells
3B: Reverse Crunches, 3 sets of 10

Afterwards I ran the rest of the loop back to work, a little under 3 miles. I stopped the GPS timer when I stopped at the gym, then started it once I left again for accuracy. 50:18.79 for the loop, 9:13/mi which is almost :45 better than my last couple. I only worked the weights for 10 minutes. 726 total calories burned.