July 21st

Exercised?: Yes
Calories?: Yes.
Tracked?: Yes.

Pretty much the same today. Had my jog (35mins), 30mins on the cross trainer, then 30 mins of strength training (with weights).

I'm trying to focus more on my upper body as I have very little strength in this area, I can't do push ups to save my life, lol and planks about kill me!

Haven't been sleeping well these past few nights, and I think it's starting to catch up with me as I felt really fatigued during my jog, but I pushed myself through it.
It's my Dad's birthday tomorrow (he's gone now) and it's been weighing heavy on my mind these past few days, so hopefully after tomorrow I'll start to pick up a little.

I've entered another 5K run tomorrow as well, so with it being his birthday I'm running this one for him - hopefully he'll give me a bit of a push!

@pribud - thank you for your kind words yesterday.
I too used to write poems when the kids where younger, mainly riddles, or I'd hide an object somewhere in the house then write a poem about where it was so they could guess it's location! Loved your poem to your son!

@RangerRickL - Your quote is great! It reminds me of another good rule of thumb as well:

Eat mostly food from the perimeter of the grocery store

The fresh fruits and vegetables, and if you eat them, meat, eggs and dairy are on the perimeter. The processed food is usually on the inside. Just one glitch, my favorite store has a bakery on the perimeter so, yeah, need to skip that part!

Congrats to you @conchita962! What a great feeling!!

Referring back to the headphones mentioned yesterday, I do love my Bose Soundsport wireless headphones. As Rick mentioned, having wireless headphones really makes a strength or similar type workout much easier and more enjoyable! These one's fit my ears well. Also, it used to be that women's workout gear had no pockets. Where are you supposed to put your phone with your music!!!? Armbands and waistbands lead to chafing when you run. Now, all the legging style workout pants and shorts have pockets on the side for your phone. Awesome! Little things in life make me so happy sometimes!

Got in a nice 9 mile run this am before the heat descended.

July 21
Exercise: 35 min walk w/Lucy. 30 min yoga
Calories: exact today
Tracked: yup
Miles: 2
Lesson learned: Just smile and nod when people bring you more zucchini bread!!

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Played with my niece and nephew today couldn't stay out too long heat index went over 100 today.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
89.29/ 125 mile

Heh! I been incommunicado for about a week or so.
No internet. No cell or data. Heh, no electricity.

So here I sit wondering what to say about my tracking or the legitimacy of my tracking.

Tracking and budget
Well I started tracking in the grocery store while assembling a food box. My wife and I agreed that we would only eat out of the food box for the whole trip. We allocated a meal plan or like a menu kind of.
So guess what? We ended up bringing food home.

So for tracking and budget can I say yes for a 7 day increment?

Exercise
All I can say is man o man! I set up a camp in a forest campground at 10,200 feet. Heart and lungs had something to say about that. But I acclimated.
In the morning I would get up and drive to a trailhead that was at 12,800 feet. Hey, let's just round that to 13,000 shall we? Then I would ride my bike and in 90 minutes I would get to 14,200 feet. I did 4 repetitions of that on 4 consecutive days.
I wore my heart rate monitor and got all of the data saved in Strava.
Didn't really run my heart flat out as you would expect. Mostly just shy of 80%.
I got all kinds of PR's for those segments but this is the first trip I have done with a GPS fitness tracker. So yeah, you get PR's when you first start keeping track. But still, 90 minutes to climb 1,400 feet at that altitude isn't too shabby.

And that don't count hiking.
I went hiking a time or two on a trail that trail runners frequent.
That can be weird. I am a guy that kind of likes to have hiking sticks for them places where my balance questions me.
Well, I forgot to take my hiking sticks. So the long story shortens to I was going down this boulder in the trail and I didn't see where to put my feet. So I do this unglamorous descending style that is reminiscent of a toddler descending stairs. In other words sliding on my butt. Trail runner girl just jumps right over me and lands on the top of another boulder! I wish I had a movie of that. Them trail runners got some spectacular moves in them. How about we envision a cross of runners jumping hurdles with ballet dancers. Jumping across the tops of rocks an a trail that traverses a boulder field. I gotta find a youtube that shows that.

Heh, and I lost some pounds. I am going to watch the scale for a couple of days just to make sure it is for real.

I think I will put a picture and do the show and tell thing. The road snakes up a mountain. Climbing, boring, just listen to climbing playlist and try to top out before the end of playlist.
Descending, you can really rip on those straight sections. But look at that hairpin turn. I don't know if this photo resolves it or not but there is a shoulder there but beyond that is a cliff. At first glance it looks like that hairpin is bounded by a big rock. But that rock is on the other side of a gorge.
So, test your brakes early on is what they say.

But that is fun and I can't even begin to describe it. I got to write it all down in case my memory fizzles.