I actually felt well enough to try jogging yesterday. I kept the pace slow, 11 min/mile, and it went pretty good. I had to stop after 4.5 miles though, I was starting to have indigestion and I didn't want it to progress to the next level. Then this morning, I woke up at 160 pounds. I guess if I'm going to get something out of being sick, weight loss is a good thing to have!
No workout today, I'm going to REI at lunch. The final TRT hike is tomorrow.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Hello, everyone. I've been posting here and there but haven't had a chance to explain what's been going on with me the past few days.
Saturday I did my TRT hike. Sunday I was tired, no more than usual after a long hike. The same with Monday during the day. I found out Monday that my son has tapeworm, so he had to be home from school a few days.
Monday afternoon we went to Sam's Club & Walmart, did some shopping for my mom, then came home. On the way to our house, we saw the fire aircraft overhead, and when we got to our street, we were told there was a mandatory evacuation and we had to get ready to leave as quickly as possible.
We went to my in-laws house, which is about 10 miles from where we live. Halfway there, my son said, "What's that smell? It smells like throw-up." We didn't smell anything, but just then my 2-year-old daughter threw up ALL over the backseat. We were lucky in the fact that we were right next to Mervyn's, so I went in and bought a big towel to mop up the mess. Once cleaned up, we drove the rest of the way to my in-laws.
She seemed to be doing better, so we put the kids to bed while I checked out the online news about the evacuation. By 8:15 they were letting people back home, but because the kids were down we decided to stay put. My wife and I went to bed. The next morning I found out that both girls (2 & 4) were throwing up all night and my wife and both in-laws were up and down with them. I was completely unaware this had happened, I guess I was pretty out of it.
Thing is, I had an unusually hard time opening my eyes. In fact while getting ready and driving to work, I felt like I just couldn't break out of sleep. My stomach was also a bit woozy. Once at work, I started feeling progressively worse. I felt like I was going to have diarhea, felt like I'd vomit, but never did. I was sweating like crazy and at one point I even asked someone what the temp was. I was definitely going to head home, but had an outstanding issue here at work that needed to be resolved first. I went into the restroom.
I tried to go but it didn't happen. The sweating got worse and was getting unbearable. I put my head back to lean up against the wall.
I woke up on the floor. The strange thing is, I didn't question it. My only thought was that I'd better get up, because people would see me under the stall with my pants down, and that would be silly. I got back onto the toilet and wiped the sweat off my face. There was a bit of blood, but again for some reason I didn't question it. After a minute or so I went into the break room where there's a cot, and lie down there for about 10 minutes.
I went back to my office to find the situation had sort of resolved itself, so I decided to head home. I basically lay down on the couch for two hours until my wife got home. When I went into the restroom, I noticed a cut on my forehead and found that I had a bump. It's obvious that I passed out. I'm still in a quandry as to why I didn't question being on the floor! I think I figured that I had lay down there, but come on... why would I lie down, pants around my legs, on the nasty restroom-stall floor where people could see me underneath the barrier? Right.
I rode out the rest of the evening and we finally all went to bed. Yesterday morning I got dressed and headed to work as usual, although my stomach was still a bit upset. I called my wife to check on the kids, only to find that she now had what I had but worse. She was both vomiting and had diarhea, and with my son having tapeworm and being home, she had all three kids to take care of. I told her I'd come home and help.
So I took the kids to McDonald's for lunch (a rarity), then to the park. I found I couldn't really play with them much because my stomach was still a bit upset. Anyway this got the kids away for a few hours so my wife could rest.
Fastforward to last night, my wife was still having stomach pain but was doing much better. My son kept saying he felt like he was going to throw up and sure enough, he started around 7:30. He was sick all night.
This morning my wife is feeling better. I'm finally 100%, and may give running a go in a little bit. My son hasn't thrown up all morning.
So anyway guys, that's my three days. How you been?
Saturday I did my TRT hike. Sunday I was tired, no more than usual after a long hike. The same with Monday during the day. I found out Monday that my son has tapeworm, so he had to be home from school a few days.
Monday afternoon we went to Sam's Club & Walmart, did some shopping for my mom, then came home. On the way to our house, we saw the fire aircraft overhead, and when we got to our street, we were told there was a mandatory evacuation and we had to get ready to leave as quickly as possible.
We went to my in-laws house, which is about 10 miles from where we live. Halfway there, my son said, "What's that smell? It smells like throw-up." We didn't smell anything, but just then my 2-year-old daughter threw up ALL over the backseat. We were lucky in the fact that we were right next to Mervyn's, so I went in and bought a big towel to mop up the mess. Once cleaned up, we drove the rest of the way to my in-laws.
She seemed to be doing better, so we put the kids to bed while I checked out the online news about the evacuation. By 8:15 they were letting people back home, but because the kids were down we decided to stay put. My wife and I went to bed. The next morning I found out that both girls (2 & 4) were throwing up all night and my wife and both in-laws were up and down with them. I was completely unaware this had happened, I guess I was pretty out of it.
Thing is, I had an unusually hard time opening my eyes. In fact while getting ready and driving to work, I felt like I just couldn't break out of sleep. My stomach was also a bit woozy. Once at work, I started feeling progressively worse. I felt like I was going to have diarhea, felt like I'd vomit, but never did. I was sweating like crazy and at one point I even asked someone what the temp was. I was definitely going to head home, but had an outstanding issue here at work that needed to be resolved first. I went into the restroom.
I tried to go but it didn't happen. The sweating got worse and was getting unbearable. I put my head back to lean up against the wall.
I woke up on the floor. The strange thing is, I didn't question it. My only thought was that I'd better get up, because people would see me under the stall with my pants down, and that would be silly. I got back onto the toilet and wiped the sweat off my face. There was a bit of blood, but again for some reason I didn't question it. After a minute or so I went into the break room where there's a cot, and lie down there for about 10 minutes.
I went back to my office to find the situation had sort of resolved itself, so I decided to head home. I basically lay down on the couch for two hours until my wife got home. When I went into the restroom, I noticed a cut on my forehead and found that I had a bump. It's obvious that I passed out. I'm still in a quandry as to why I didn't question being on the floor! I think I figured that I had lay down there, but come on... why would I lie down, pants around my legs, on the nasty restroom-stall floor where people could see me underneath the barrier? Right.
I rode out the rest of the evening and we finally all went to bed. Yesterday morning I got dressed and headed to work as usual, although my stomach was still a bit upset. I called my wife to check on the kids, only to find that she now had what I had but worse. She was both vomiting and had diarhea, and with my son having tapeworm and being home, she had all three kids to take care of. I told her I'd come home and help.
So I took the kids to McDonald's for lunch (a rarity), then to the park. I found I couldn't really play with them much because my stomach was still a bit upset. Anyway this got the kids away for a few hours so my wife could rest.
Fastforward to last night, my wife was still having stomach pain but was doing much better. My son kept saying he felt like he was going to throw up and sure enough, he started around 7:30. He was sick all night.
This morning my wife is feeling better. I'm finally 100%, and may give running a go in a little bit. My son hasn't thrown up all morning.
So anyway guys, that's my three days. How you been?
Monday, September 01, 2008
Alright, boys & girls, I'm finally all rested up. Actually I also had to get all my materials together to post about it. So our trip...
If you click the image it'll take you to Flickr, where you can see the full sized view of the topo map for the trip.
We actually made REALLY good time driving up to Tahoe, and the Brockway Summit trailhead came up faster than I expected. It was probably the shortest drive to any of the TRT hikes I've had. We left my car here and drove onto the Mt. Rose plaza in Bob's car.
A bit about TRT logistics. Each hike is one way, and there's not a shuttle between trailheads, so you have to have at least two cars. When hiking with the Meetup group we always have plenty of people, but in our case with two people, we just had to drive up to Tahoe separately.
Anyway, we were actually moving on the trail around 8am. My original plan was to, at the end of the trail after we'd come back for Bob's car, to hike to Mt. Rose then. That would give us a chance to look at how we felt after hiking, in case we didn't want to continue. Since we had such a good start, we decided to go ahead and do Mt. Rose first. My apology for the lack of real pictures.
The wind, the wind, the wind! It was tough walking around up there, but the view was great. We could see Reno, which is like 30 or 40 miles away. It helps that Reno has all the casinos or it'd just be some nondescript town. We spent all of about 5 minutes up there.
We headed down off Mt. Rose and took the connector trail from the Mt. Rose, .7 miles back to the TRT. Then we got to climb up all over again to the top of Relay Peak!
At this point I think we'd hiked about 6 miles, that sign says Brockway Summit is 15 miles. The views at this point were getting better and better, as we came across the ridges and finally in full view of Lake Tahoe, which went on for at least half of the hike, maybe more. BTW, I promise next time around I'm bringing my DSLR. These pictures suck.
As I said earlier, the trail went on along the ridge. At one point we needed water, but the only spot with available water was Mud Lake, which was down a bowl from the trail. We really had no choice, which added another 120 feet of elevation loss/gain. Once back on the trail, we came out onto the ridge again.
Past the ridge, we descended down into a more forested area, where we hiked the last 7 miles or so. We ran into a few backpackers, who were asking us where to find water, and who told us about how much farther we had to the end. From that point on the trail was mostly downhill, which made the going much, much faster.
Back at the car, the GPS said we'd gone about 24 miles. Back home in the National Geographic TOPO! software, it turned out to be 23.86 miles. Elevation gain +4920, max elevation 10,776'. Calories burned: 5055!
If you click the image it'll take you to Flickr, where you can see the full sized view of the topo map for the trip.
We actually made REALLY good time driving up to Tahoe, and the Brockway Summit trailhead came up faster than I expected. It was probably the shortest drive to any of the TRT hikes I've had. We left my car here and drove onto the Mt. Rose plaza in Bob's car.
A bit about TRT logistics. Each hike is one way, and there's not a shuttle between trailheads, so you have to have at least two cars. When hiking with the Meetup group we always have plenty of people, but in our case with two people, we just had to drive up to Tahoe separately.
Anyway, we were actually moving on the trail around 8am. My original plan was to, at the end of the trail after we'd come back for Bob's car, to hike to Mt. Rose then. That would give us a chance to look at how we felt after hiking, in case we didn't want to continue. Since we had such a good start, we decided to go ahead and do Mt. Rose first. My apology for the lack of real pictures.
The wind, the wind, the wind! It was tough walking around up there, but the view was great. We could see Reno, which is like 30 or 40 miles away. It helps that Reno has all the casinos or it'd just be some nondescript town. We spent all of about 5 minutes up there.
We headed down off Mt. Rose and took the connector trail from the Mt. Rose, .7 miles back to the TRT. Then we got to climb up all over again to the top of Relay Peak!
At this point I think we'd hiked about 6 miles, that sign says Brockway Summit is 15 miles. The views at this point were getting better and better, as we came across the ridges and finally in full view of Lake Tahoe, which went on for at least half of the hike, maybe more. BTW, I promise next time around I'm bringing my DSLR. These pictures suck.
As I said earlier, the trail went on along the ridge. At one point we needed water, but the only spot with available water was Mud Lake, which was down a bowl from the trail. We really had no choice, which added another 120 feet of elevation loss/gain. Once back on the trail, we came out onto the ridge again.
Past the ridge, we descended down into a more forested area, where we hiked the last 7 miles or so. We ran into a few backpackers, who were asking us where to find water, and who told us about how much farther we had to the end. From that point on the trail was mostly downhill, which made the going much, much faster.
Back at the car, the GPS said we'd gone about 24 miles. Back home in the National Geographic TOPO! software, it turned out to be 23.86 miles. Elevation gain +4920, max elevation 10,776'. Calories burned: 5055!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Today at lunch I ran 4.5 miles. It was supposed to be a tempo run, and I did run as fast as I could for most of it. It just wasn't near as fast as it was supposed to be. I think my "goal" is 8:27/min., but overall it was more like 11:20. In part it was because I walked about 2/10 of a mile, but even if I'd run the entire thing it would have been 10:00.
I could blame the heat, the water getting hot in my bottle quickly, the fact that I was running without gel. In the end though, it was mostly a lack of effort on my part. And you know what, that's ok. I was comfortable running today, compared to last Thursday when I had to stop after a mile and a half.
So anyway, I ran 4.5 miles in 52 minutes and burned 601 calories.
I could blame the heat, the water getting hot in my bottle quickly, the fact that I was running without gel. In the end though, it was mostly a lack of effort on my part. And you know what, that's ok. I was comfortable running today, compared to last Thursday when I had to stop after a mile and a half.
So anyway, I ran 4.5 miles in 52 minutes and burned 601 calories.
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