Treadmill Wednesday night

After almost making it through my "Firm" workout DVD without pauses (I did have to take a couple heart rate-lowering breaks toward the end ... sad), I decided to haul my sweaty self to the gym for a nice, hour-long interval walk, which yielded 4.25 miles. (This works pretty well as a calorie-burner; I walk for two minutes at a brisk pace, on an incline, then one minute even faster, on no incline).

17.25 miles this week
71.5 miles this month
116.25 miles this year

883.75 miles remaining

The Lake

4 miles Monday around the lake.

4 miles Tuesday around the lake.

Haven't done anything today (yet).

So.

13 miles this week.
67.25 miles this month
112 miles this year

888 miles remaining

Just leave me dying in the forest, please ...

We went snowshoeing today in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Amy thought "let's go snowshoeing" meant "let's walk on a flat surface in snowshoes for an hour or so."

Tom thought: "let's go snowshoeing" mean "I'll bet none of these people have ever hiked, skied or snowshoed to June Lake. Let's do it."

Four hours and a really strenuous excursion (especially for those who'd never been before) later, we limped back to our four-wheel drive vehicles: Blistered, soggy, chilled, foggy spectacled, twisted footed, and (in some cases) swearing under our breath.

But it was a pretty day. It snowed the whole time - beautiful, fat snowflakes that clung to us and slowly melted, seeping through the vest I found out is NOT waterproof and through my fleecy shell thing ... and then through my long-john shirt. Through my hat. Through my gloves. For a time, through my sense of humor. Huh. But not through my boots or socks, it needs to be noted. Those horrible snowboots that aren't fit for hiking (they really, really aren't) and those wonderfully woolly (they really, really are) alpacy wool socks Mom gave me for Christmas a couple years ago. As long as your feet are dry and warm and you can slap some HotHands into your soggy gloves, you can make it back to the parking lot.

Anyway.

I'm calling it 4.5 miles today. I wish I could earn double mileage for this trip, since those 4.5 miles were waddled, climbed, crawled and, in two very fun instances, unintentionally sledded on my backside.

4.5 miles this week
58.75 this month
103.5 this year

896.5 remaining

MODIFICATION:
Amy got my hope up when she estimated the trip was a 6-miler, but ... not so. Tom estimates 5. So:

5 miles this week
59.25 miles this month
104 miles this year

896 miles remaining

Gym Thursday night

6.25 miles on the treadmill. An hour and a half. The guy lifting weights behind me probably thought I was crazy.

15.75 miles this week
54.25 miles this month
99 miles this year

991 miles remaining

Productive time off (Portland, the lake)

I'm calling my afternoon in Portland 3.5 miles, since it was a mile and a half just to get to the restaurant and then back to my car. And I walked a lot before that.

Walked four miles yesterday around the lake.

Walked 2 miles today around part of the lake.

I gotta say - walking outside is a (very, very) nice break from the treadmill. But I still won't do it at night (in case you talk to my mom and she's still worried about that). I'm not as clueless as my family sometimes thinks I am.

So:

9.5 miles this week
48 miles this month
92.75 miles this year

907.25 miles remaining.

Wednesday night treadmill

According to my wellness coach, this is a "great way" to keep track of my activity.

Yay, me.

68 minutes on the treadmill (lightheadedness kept me from reaching my 90-minute target):

5 miles


5 miles this week
38.5 miles this month
83.25 miles this year


916.75 miles remaining

Friday night treadmill

E and D were texting me from the bar. I was sweating it out in the gym. That's my Friday night.

5.75 miles. On a night when I had planned 4. I call that good.

20.5 miles this week
33.5 miles this month
78.25 miles this year

921.75 miles remaining.

Treadmill Wednesday night

4.75 miles on the treadmill. Ran for about 15 minutes of that. (Ran = jogged. Badly. Painfully.)

So -

14.75 miles this week
27.75 miles this month
72.5 miles this year

927.5 miles remaining

Treadmill and Vancouver (not the exciting Vancouver)

7 miles on the treadmill (I'm running a little bit again!), and then I clipped on the pedometer for my day buying a camera and my night at the circus: 2.25 miles.

9.25 this week
23 miles this month
67.75 miles this year

932.25 miles remaining

Saturday night treadmill

5 miles on the ol' treadmill. *sigh* Glad I didn't do another hour-and-a-half thing. Seventy minutes about drove me batty.

13.75 miles this week
13.75 miles this month
58.5 miles this year

941.5 miles remaining

Tuesday. Astoria. Gym. Ouch.

2 miles toodling around Astoria, Fort Stevens State Park and sundry points in between.
6.75 miles on the treadmill at the gym.

Plus lunges, squats, crunches, leg lifts and plank.

On this side of things, that might have been a bad idea.

But:

This week: 8.75 miles
March : 8.75 miles
This year: 53.5 miles
946.5 miles remaining

I need to get on this thing ... I should have been over 100 by now ...