Week 4 - Day 23

Hey Everyone! Today, again, was a good day! I got up at 6:50 like usual and made it to breakfast at 7:05. We had cranberry muffins so I opted for the cereal. Which was great like usual! I love the cereal. The hike today was Paradise Rim. That is the same hike we did for our first off-road hike ever! My first Tuesday at FR. So, I was thinking that it was going to be pretty easy. I was able to do the hike 3 weeks ago and I'd be good at it. Well, hell! That hike kicked my ass!!! I did burn 1300 calories though! It was so hard! It got me down in the dumps. I've been here 3 weeks already and I really thought I'd be at fast intermediate by now. Hell, I could barely keep up with the regular intermediate. It kind of pissed me off. I'm mad at myself. I know I'm getting stronger. I can feel it. But, I'm just not happy with my hiking. I was planning on being advanced by the time I left. Well, shit, I'm not even at fast intermediate. So, that kind of sucked. And, for some reason, at the end of this hike, I was absolutely wore out. I could barely walk. I was good, oxygen wise, but my my legs and body was just spent. The weather was fantastic today! I was able to hike in just a long john shirt, tee shirt, and pants! And, I was dying from being hot! I never sweat so much on a hike. My sleeves were wet from wiping the sweat off my face! It's supposed to be nice all week so I'm very very happy!!! After the hike, I went back to my room and just laid down.

I went to yoga today instead of the pool. I really need to start going to the pool class. I burn about 150-200 calories more but sometimes I just don't feel like it. Yoga was good. I like the class when Paige teaches it. After yoga, Susan, Chris and I sat outside in the sun until lunch. It felt sooo good to be in the sun! Lunch today was a turkey sandwich which I love!!! OHMIGOSH! At lunch, I got two different packages!!!! I LOOOOOVE packages!! You guys have no idea how good it feels to get stuff in the mail! My momma sent me an awesome cookbook! and Kimmy sent me a ton of stuff! Everyone was jealous!!! They kept telling me how nice my mom is and how lucky I am to get stuff all the time! I was soooooo happy! It was funny. Kim sent me this clapper thing. I am constantly saying, "I'm so excited!" So, I got that clapper out and started clapping it, and said, "I'm so excited"! Well, Chris makes fun of me for saying it all the time because he says I'm always excited, so I told him I was going to carry around the clapper and everytime I get excited, I'll get it out and start clapping it! hahahaha I thought he was going to die! He told me he was going to take it away from me and throw it off a ledge on the hike! hahahaha

After lunch, I went to open gym. Paige took us to the park for tennis! Which I LOVE!!! I literally look forward to that every day! Its supposed to be nice all week so I'm planning on going every day! And, I burn a shit ton of calories. It was so hot today, I was dying!!! The sweat was just pouring off of me. I burned 500 calories playing in only 40 minutes! That's a ton!!! And, I had a blast doing it! That is one thing I plan on doing when I get back home. I'm going to try to find someone to play with! After that, I got back to FR and I got another package! It was my pictures I ordered online! I was soooo happY! I showed them to everyone and pointed out who everyone was! After that was cardio intervals. I normally love that class but I was so pooped out from tennis, I could barely do it! My face was so red from being outside and being hot. I looked pretty scary! I did alright in the class. I still burned 400 which is lower than normal but I was happy. After that was total toning. I also like that class but man, it kills my muscles!! They are screamin by the end!! I burned 330 which is normal. It's not alot because you focus on your muscles and not necessarily raising your heartrate to burn calories.

After that, I skipped stretch so I could shower and look at all my new gifts!!! I loved it! I immediately popped in one of my new Crystal Light packets and chugged it!!! I'm soooo sick of plain water!!!! (Great gift Kimmy!!!!) I looked through my cookbook and hung up all my pictures on my wall. It makes me SOO happy to see pictures of everyone! I love it!! :) That was the best idea I had. I actually patted myself on the back! hahaha I know, I'm cheesy. I went to dinner and it was baked pasta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! I had cheese on it!!!!! Ok, it was soy cheese, but it still was awesome that it was covered in cheese!!!! And, for dessert, was the beloved chocolate covered strawberries!!! Ohmigod those things are good! Susan doesn't like then so I took one of hers! I have to tell ya, by that third one, they were getting really sweet! She actually offered me her 2nd one but I couldn't eat it! Two is the perfect amount! After dinner, I hung out with Chris and Susan for a while sitting out by the pool. It was so nice out! Then, I went to my room and watched biggest loser online and then now I'm watching biggest loser on tv. I love that show.

I'm really happy here. I feel comfortable and I like my all my new friends. I love the people that work here! They are really awesome. But, I'm not extremely happy with my results. I don't know if I expected too much or what. I think I'm expecting too much. But, after working out for 3 weeks, I thought I'd be running circles around people. But, I still struggle every day! I still can't run for shit. But, also, part of that is my fault. I should spend extra time in the gym working out on the treadmill and building myself up. But, my God, after 5-6 hours of exercise, I really don't feel like putting in more time. But, maybe I should. Then, I think I'll try to run on the hikes. Well shit, I'm so tired on the hikes I can barely walk, let alone run. So, I think I need to kick it up a notch. I don't know.. ugh! I'm happy. I'm a lot stronger and I'm totally aware of that. So, I know I should just be happy with that. I was talking to Paige about the hike earlier. I was telling her how I thought I'd be farther. She told me that this week's group is a really fast group so I shouldn't be upset and compare myself to them. So, I know I'm kind of being whiney. But overall, I'm still happy and in a good mood. I'm just going to try to do well this week and we'll see what happens when I get weighed and measured this weekend! Wish me luck for the rest of the week!