Strawberry Peak Tracklog

From 2010-01-03

So there is my hike. A bit of the hike is missing around the base of the mountain, but I followed my trail pretty closely so you can't see it on the log.

Feeling Sick Is Also Feeling Better

I feel sick. I know it happened on the mountain. Hiking in the sun was warm, and comfortable. Anytime I stopped the wind felt cold. Hiking in the shade was cold, and stopping in the shade was worse. As it got cooler in the evening I kept a windproof jacket on, and it regulated heat well, but in the end, I felt a cough that day, and I had it yesterday, and today I'm very tired (skipped work tired) and I have junk in my throat and more of a cough.

But the notable thing is how ill I feel. Prior to my get-healthy kick, illness only came in one flavor: crushing. At the smallest hint of feeling bad I knew I was doomed. I'd plummet over the edge into being bedridden and incapable of much of anything and I lived in a state of total misery. It always knocked me out for several days, and often as much as a week, no matter what. I haven't really been sick since I started to take care of myself. Aside from the surgery, I missed a day of work because I felt a little bad, but that was it; I just felt a little bad. I feel worse now than I did then, but I'm only laying in bed because I want to get better; not because I'm too ill to get out of it.

It's nice to feel this way. I used to get very ill pretty often.

The Failure Needs To Stop!

Between diagnosis and my surgery I was gung ho. After surgery I was crippled with pain. But now I'm not in constant pain anymore, but neither am I gung ho.

Friday I lifted weights. It had been a long time for that. I managed to pull something in the back of my left thigh. A great return to weightlifting!

Sunday, yesterday as I post this, was an attempted climb up Strawberry Peak. I don't have the GPS offloaded yet. I have a few pictures. I didn't make it all the way up. I turned back pretty close to the summit, really, but I was getting tired and it didn't seem worth it.

Today was yoga. The yoga was hard because of how sore I was from yesterday. Even just sitting and trying to raise my arms up over my head required painful grimacing and some grunting noises.

I need to force myself back into shape, and I need to get up that mountain again sometime soon to redeem myself!

I need to post pictures from it, and from my snowshoeing trip that I last posted here about.

I need to post here more often as well, to self motivate into staying active and improving my health.