Thursday, September 22, 2016

RAIN DELAY

I have hiked, walked, marched, stepped, traipsed, strolled, rambled, sauntered, and schlepped on  trails, beaches, hills, mountains, valleys and roads for the past many weeks and months. Mostly I have been lucky and avoided rain. Remarkably, during my epic Half Dome Hike in Yosemite last October, our group actually did manage to catch rain, which was no small accomplishment since it more or less, 'never' rains in California and rains even less during droughts. On that hike we beat the odds. On my hikes closer to home I have been very lucky and mostly avoided getting wet other than from own sweat which is not inconsequential on days when the temperatures are north of 90°F.  I was caught in real thunderstorm during a recent hike in Wisconsin, but that was memorable as it was so rare for that to happen to me. So, is there a point to any of this preamble? Yesterday when I woke up, the skies somehow managed to look darker after the dawn than they had during the actual night. This is an optical illusion of course, but it is still very unsettling to see such darkness when a new day is first unwrapping itself. Still, I thought I might take a little walk. Sometimes, dark skies, are blown away and rains don't come. Yesterday was not one of those days. An early morning hike was curtailed when the rains started when I was only 1 mile from home. I took refuge in a grocery store thinking I could wait out the storm, but the forecast was for a few hours of continuous rain - so I simply walked back the one mile in the pouring rain.  In the late afternoon, the rains had completely dissipated, although the threat for more had not. Still I ventured out, managed an eight mile hike which was marred only by a mild drizzle towards the end. When the day was done, I still had managed to walk ten miles. Always an accomplishment, no matter how dubious. 



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rain-shortened early morning walk, not even three miles.


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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bar 380 58 14 6 270 22
Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal 600 108 10 16 0 4

980 166 24 22 270 26
L U N C H
Home Made - Garden Salad, 1 bowl 100 6 0 4 400 4
Fried Chicken Tenders 300 17 20 14 766 2
Hash browns - Hash Browns 200 46 0 6 86 3
Quaker Chewy - Chocolate Chunk 180 38 4 2 160 14

780 107 24 26 1,412 23
D I N N E R
Curry Chicken With Rice 800 233 23 46 1,740 9

800 233 23 46 1,740 9
S N A C K S
Generic - Hersheys Dark Chocolate 500 28 38 9 100 11
Roundy's - Honey Nut Tasteeos, 3 cup 440 88 6 8 560 36

940 116 44 17 660 47
   
Totals 3,500 622 115 111 4,082 105
Your Daily Goal 4,298 537 143 215 2,300 161
Remaining 798 -85 28 104 -1,782 56
Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
*You've earned 2,368 extra calories from exercise today         
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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
2.6 mile rain-shortened hike
34 512
EIGHT MILE afternoon hike
96 1,770
Add Exercise
   
Daily Total / Goal 130 / 30 2,282 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 400 / 210 6,436 / 4,130  
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