I was thrilled 2 weeks ago when my friend Tricia from California was in town for a wedding. That meant I got to spend all of Saturday with her just laughing and drinking…. not so great for my goals but super really good for my psyche! We had soo much fun!
Ever dedicated to hiking, I pulled myself out of bed on Sunday to hike, even a little hung over because I can’t miss hiking on my weekends anymore, that next week just doesn’t feel right! Even worse now, I don’t feel right – but worse meaning really good and awesome.
White Ranch park was really hard hit in the floods we had jut 2 months ago….it has been mostly closed and had just reopened a few trails not too long ago Belcher Hill (Hike details here) being one those. We took advantage of that reopening and headed out there that Sunday morning!
The day was just spectacular 68, sunny and no wind what so ever. It is one of those days where you want to be outside all day long doing whatever makes you happy. Fortunately that was exactly what I was doing, hiking and being happy.
The trail itself was still rough from the floods with lots of debris, mostly rocks and pebbles pushed down, adding a new dimension to the trail and some dry debris sliding. There was also a lot of deep grooves from rushing water that changed the degree of pitch in some places, forcing a lot of the bikers to walk with their bikes. I also added to the challenge by trying out a smaller hiking shoe size, my feet have gotten a little smaller as I have lost weight and my toes are paying the price so I figured it was worth a shot to go down a half of size. On the way back down my right foot felt the best it had in 8 months…. my left the worst. The result of my experiment…. I started one size on my left foot and a smaller size on my right, my feet have been feeling awesome!
Despite the toe thing, the hike was just wonderful there were lots of people out enjoying our mild weather.
Sorry for the delay on posts. I am hiking every weekend no matter what, last weekend I even got 2 hikes in and both mostly new. Work has just been super intense and when I am not working late or getting some more work done at home, I am squeezing in exercise where ever I can. I won’t lie, sticking to eating well has been hard as I am a serious stress eater currently under immense stress, I have really good days and really bad days but my weight hasn’t changed too much. I swear I will get back on track with telling you all about it again soon!!
hiking to healthy 
It has been perfect hiking weather lately, well until the attic blast.