Hi!!! Thought I’d start the morning with a quick video
Juice after lemon water
Midafternoon check-in
Who knew salad and soup could taste so amazing!!!
I feel like my stomach might be shrinking too. I am getting full faster which is nice. Leads to less over eating.
See you tomorrow!!!!
Hola!!!!
Another hike down this summer! The boyfriend and I went to the very popular Silver Falls State Park. This is a state park that is a little over 9,000 acres. The two most popular trails are the Rim Trail and the Canyon trail, also known as the trail of ten falls. The canyon trail is super popular because you go by and even behind some of the 10 waterfalls. I would like to do that trail at some point but it is SUPER busy because its not a difficult hike and all the waterfalls, but also dogs are not allowed and the last two weekend adventures had not included Artemis, so she was coming on this one, so we chose a different trail.
Never trust the bf to take a picture, it will always be of your backside.
We did the Rim trail to the perimeter trail to the rackett ridge trail to a road walk for about a mile.
None of these were the trail we had planned on doing haha. We had gone there with the intention of doing the Buck mountain loop but parked in the main parking area (as I said it is busy and parking is limited. And didn’t know where the trailhead was from there. So we pieced together a route from the map.
We started on the rim trail where we saw maybe 20 people in 2.4 miles, not too bad.
Then we turned onto the perimeter trail where, after we made the turn onto the trail, we saw no one for the 3.2 miles. It was wonderful and I was able to let Artemis off her leash.
We got to the junction of the perimeter and the rackett ridge trail, from here the perimeter trail was closed due to winter storm damage so we turned on the rackett ridge which is also a horse trail for 2.2 miles. at about this point it crosses a side road and weaves back and forth through the forest and over the road. We chose to just take the road at this point and walk the just over a mile straight back to the parking lot because my feet were killing me!!! I had done a good mile increase this week and my feet had just had enough. This was also more than double the distance of our recent hikes so I was tired. Even Artemis was dragging behind us.
She passed out hard core as soon as we got to the car.
She was snoring in minutes.
I was so tired too
Overall:
The rim trail; you overlook a waterfall or two with plenty of streams and waterfall runoff around you. Busy but not too horrible depending on when you go, hardly any elevation gain, small rolling hills, very pleasant.
The perimeter trail; sparsely populated, 1000 ft elevation gain, slightly challenging at times for me, piece of cake for the bf. In the beautiful forest, because almost no people you will walk into a lot of spider webs crossing the trail, spiderwebs: 1000 spiders: 0. There are enough small streams crisscrossing the 3.2 miles of trail that we did that Artemis had enough natural water, I probably didn’t even need to carry a water bottle for her.
Rackett ridge trail: we did 2.2 miles of this and most of it was down. This trail is much wider because it accommodates horses as well, it also wasn’t as smooth as the others because there were less people and more horses who used it.
Silver falls state park is well marked and it is easy to piece together a hike here with almost any amount of mileage you could want.
All in all I enjoyed this hike very much, though I was dying a bit by the end, and would recommend silver falls state park as a great place to hike. You can choose how difficult or easy and how populated or sparse you want your hike to be.
Here are some fun stats curtosy of my Garmin vivoactive
Until next time, have fun trailing the blonde…………
Have you even been to Silver Falls state park? If so, did you like it?
Holy crap only 2 more weeks!!!! I am so excited for this quarter to be over, I feel like I am going to be swimming in oceans of time. Next quarter (summer) I am taking medical terminology online so I am going to have so much more time.
Food from the week:
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
The bf and I also walked to baskin robins and got ice cream.
Friday
Last Saturday my great friend was in town for the quickest of visits, she was here for a funeral, my boyfriend and I met up with her and her friend after work Saturday afternoon. When your friend is in pain and drinking it away and asks you to drink with her, you do. So I did. I don’t drink much and when I do its usually a glass of wine or something (though I will be trying more wine soon but more on that later) but I try in general to limit myself to 1 glass of whatever it is. I wasn’t the best with my limits in college and I don’t ever need to go back to that. Anyways, I ended up drinking 4 cans of Mike’s black cherry hard lemonade, this is how much of a lightweight I am now, I got drunk off 4 cans basically fruity beer hahahaha. We were at a golf course and ended up just staying there so I ate a hot dog. Thankfully I was in bed by 10pm because I had to be up at 5am for work. But those 4 cans were too much for me, I woke up sick at 2:30am and needed to get something in my stomach, I ate a pop tart. I was hung-over the next day, hence the Mexican food on Sunday and Monday. I cannot believe how long it takes to recover from a hangover now!!!! Like the whole week to feel 100% again. Anyways that was my weekend lol.
Monday I relaxed in between classes but Tuesday I got my butt out for a walk and a run. The roommate and I did 1.3 miles walking then I did another 4 miles on the treadmill.
Wednesday the pup and I got out for about 1.5 miles walking in between classes
Thursday I went out for a run and got 3 miles in. This run was quite tumultuous and will do a whole post on it in a few days. Beware for TMI hahaha.
Friday the BF, the pup and I went for a little hike. 9.4 miles. I will do a more in depth review on the hike next week.
This was a pretty big jump in miles for me this week and I am feeling it in my legs and feet. But I am excited, this is how to get back in shape and lose weight! 19.2 miles total for the week between walking, running and hiking.
Can’t wait to see what next week brings!
How was your week?
Did you get any miles in?
What is the best meal you had this week?
Week 5 of the quarter done, officially half way through!!! If you don’t count finals week, which I don’t because the insane studying comes before that.
I spend about 3.33 hours a week on the train now, wow when I add it up it seems like so much, along with about another 1.67 hours walking to and from the train. Makes sense why I am blowing through a book on tape every other week hahaha. It also means I spend 3.33 hours a week trying not to fall asleep on the train and miss my stop and sometimes trying very hard to ignore the crazy people around so they don’t try and talk to me.
This was a drinking week for me hahaha I had pizza with Brandon one night and I got those little bottles of Sutter’s home wine it was a nice cheap buzz and another night I opened a bottle of wine that Brandon, that is the BF’s name lol, and I bought on our first roadtrip down to Medford, OR.
The train was running late one day so I walked to the next bus stop to get in some extra steps, it was sunny so I soaked up some vitamin D. Got to walk over a cool bridge.
Got in 2.3 miles of running on Tuesday morning.
She just looked so cute I had to take a picture, don’t judge the clothes on the floor, the next day was laundry day.
I wrote out my May calendar……yikes, that always looks so intimidating at the beginning of the month.
Made slightly healthier top ramen, broke college student over here!!!!!!!!!!!
My Bio lab teacher was looking through this coloring WORKBOOk (I have only looked at coloring books) to see if she liked it and it looked amazing! I totally want it but of course its $75 on amazon.
Wednesday was another beautiful day so Artemis and I soaked up some sunshine by going on a little 2 mile walk down by the river in between my classes.
I actually had Friday off from everything!!! NO work and no school so the BF and I jumped in his car and hit the road for a mini road trip and a hike. We went just outside of Bend to Smith Rock park and did just under 4 miles, we would have stayed out a little longer but some serious wind and clouds started rolling in so we got some dinner and headed home. We hit a little snow over the pass coming back toward Portland and didn’t get home until just after 9pm so it is good we left when we did. A few parts were steep and difficult but overall it was super fun!
And with that I actually accomplished my 3 workouts this week goal!!! Woohoo!!!
Well week two of spring semester is over and here is how it went:
I had all my HW for the beginning of the week done by Saturday morning! Score!! Sunday morning I spent a little time studying for the quiz I had on Monday and did a quick refresher Sunday night! Sunday morning I may have forgot to hit the snooze button and instead just turned my alarm off resulting in an extra 40 minutes of sleep and waking up to the alarm telling me to head out the door, whoops!!!! Normally I make the 6:14am train but I thought there was a 6:29am train that would let me make it JUST in time…….except its the weekend so the next train wasn’t until 6:49! That would not work so I drove to work and parked on the street, meter parking sucks as does driving in Portland and running late meant I had no breakfast and no coffee. I ran down the street to get some coffee on my break and somehow paid more than I would have paid at Starbucks. But I got coffee and that is all that mattered!
Here is what I am currently listening to on my train rides and any walks with the dog. For running it will be this or something a little faster paced, like a murder mystery or thriller.
I got some meals prepped Sunday night but that was my dinner to eat at work, I didn’t get any lunch prepped to scarf down between classes, insert Subway.
I got an 80 on my first bio quiz, not horrible but not great. Just let’s me know what I need to work on.
I have company in the kitchen when packing my dinner for work, she likes to sit on the rug right under my feet, it has led to me tripping many times hahahaha
I have my dad’s old thermos that he used when he was a cop and man this baby is awesome! I fill it with hot coffee before I leave for class, around noon and I get hot coffee at 3, still at 5, still at 8 and it is even still warm the next morning!! It’s amazing!
All loaded up for work. I take my school work with me along with my suit jacket and heels to change into at work and my lunch. I think this thing gets heavier every week.
My one big adventure this week was my relief not showing up on time one night and I missed my train! Which is of course the last train of the night………thanks to data on my phone I was able to pull up the transit system website and plan my trip back to my car on a late bus, of course the bus didn’t arrive for 40 minutes so I got to sit at night at a bus stop for 40 minutes alone. Then I was so tired by the time the bus got there that I was a little in and out of it and dozed on the bus only to miss my stop!!!!! Thankfully someone pulled the stop in front of mine, I woke up and got off. I was home an hour later than normal but I got home safe and that is what matters.
First assignment due next Wednesday that deals with anatomy!!! Love it! But man is this complicated stuff! And its only the basics, but I got it hahahaha.
Hope you had a great week!!!!!
How is your Monday going so far??
(Image from google)
I am about to run out the door to Bio class then head home and let the dog out and pack everything for work tonight, then back to school for chemistry class then rush to my car to try and get to the train as early as possible to get to work on time! Woohoo!
It is week 2 of classes and so far so good. It is my 2nd week of school and working full time and I am easing into the schedule.
My goal for working out is to actually work out 3 times , in any form.
I have been looking at the weather and it looks like Tuesday morning it might not be raining and it doesn’t look like it will be freezing! If this holds true the pup and I will be out running!!!
Saturday looks like the afternoon might even have a little sun, we are running again!!
Every other day has rain, but if I can get the pup out 2 days this week for a run I will feel a little better about getting myself to the gym one day without her. Maybe Thursday after lab. Because I am gone so much now with work and school I feel bad leaving her to go to the gym. Which also means if this keeps up I might cancel my gym membership, no point in paying if I end up not going. I’ll keep you posed on that idea.
My sleep schedule is going good, it still needs refinement but I managed to keep most days pretty consistent……mostly.
Got my next organics to you box today!
Here is what i got
Watercress
Swiss chard
Bananas, they will need a few days to ripen though
Cucumber!!
Tomatoes
Carrots
Another GIANT onion
Grapefruit
Avocados
Apples
And lots of baby potatoes!
I made a gourmet grilled cheese for lunch
Sourdough bread with Provalone cheese
Cheddar cheese
Watercress
Onion
Apple
And a little extra flavor
It fell apart a little while cooking but was delicious!!!!!
I had some potato and roasted leek soup on the side.
Artemis got a clean bill of health from the vet, she had her yearly checkup.
And i took my biology final today, i feel good about it so fingers crossed.
And now its time for me to wind down because i need to be up at the crack of dawn. Goodnight!
Last weekend I was in Long beach, CA for my grandmas birthday and this weekend thr bf and I took a little road trip to Long Beach, WA.
This week I did all my training for my new floating concierge position. I worked Friday morning then met the bf at my place and we headed to Washington.
Complete with doggie and all!! He wasn’t too happy about the traffic hahahahaha
We got a little dog friendly motel room right on the beach. Went for a little run Saturday morning
After our little run we headed into town for lunch and some exploring
Super stoked to see this hahahahaha
And got the biggest ice cream cone ever!!
Even sharing it with the bf I couldn’t finish it!
It was a fun quick trip, I had to be back by mid-day Sunday so I could train that night.
This morning I had an amazing breakfast
12 grain toast with a 2 egg omelet that had onions and Parmesan cheese and an orange. Mmmm I’m hungry just thinking about it.
Then I rode the trimet/max around town getting down the routes from my place to the places I would concierge at. Parking downtown is horribly priced.
It was an interesting day lol.
And tonight I hit the gym to do 3 miles while watching The Bachelor
And a little Veronica Mars before bed
Let’s see Thursday i had class the hit the gym to train with my friend. After strength training we hit the treadmills, i watched Grey’s Anatomy and ran
I did intervals
Friday the boyfriend came over, we took Artemis to the dog park the ran some errands.
We went out to dinner and got Thai food. I got pineapple fried rice and he got pad thai……..they put curry in my pineapple fried rice!!!!! That was so not listed in the ingredients and I am not a big fan of curry, thankfully the boyfriend is and he very gallantly traded dinner with me. Afterwards we hit the bar for a pre-movie cocktail, this was probably my second drink of the year hahahahaha, I don’t drink much. Then we headed to the movie and saw Fifty Shades Darker. I enjoyed it.
Saturday I made us chips and dip, a delicious but simple dip my mom always made. Cream cheese on the bottom then mild diced green chilis add chili on top of that and cheese on top of that and bake in the oven at 375-400 until the sides bubble.
Then we went mini-golfing
He completely decimated me.
Saturday night we made homemade pizzas
I am also babysitting my roommates dog this weekend, he says hi
Today was relaxing. We met my friend at the park and went for a run
I am quite happy, my goal for the week was 9 miles and my weekly total was 10.6!!
That brings my yearly total to 41.6.
My goal for next week is 12 miles.
And now it’s study time!!! My midterm is on Tuesday, wish me luck!!!!!
How was your weekend?
Good morning!!! Happy Friday!!!
As i write this I am sitting here drinking my coffee out of the mug my man made me and eating a bagel
And of course catching up on last night’s Grey’s Anatomy
image from IMDB
This morning i did a little AM yoga
This was basic beginner yoga and it hurt. I know it’s morning so I’m stiff from sleeping but it has also been a while since I’ve done yoga, time to get back to it!!!!
Last night was my 3rd day in a row of running.
Thankfully my partner got to the gym early and I had to stop so we could pump some iron. I was definitely fatigued last night.
After a long workout I got my splurge meal
Why does crappy crappy fast food have to taste so good?
Before the gym I had class yesterday, it went well, then I had an interview for an on call part time position. They are going to schedule a 2nd interview so fingers crossed.
Snacks from yesterday
My crazy dog
Wednesday I got a run in
Awesome post workout snack
I love food in case you haven’t noticed, not always the best food for me but I try.
How has your week been?
What is your favorite food?
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