Finally took a day off Sunday & went hiking!!! JR, his girlfriend & her family went camping over in AR this weekend & JR’s mom has recently begun wanting to talk about the past, trying to reconcile things a bit it would seem. Her refusal to acknowledge or discuss problems the last 10ish years of our 25 was mostly what killed our marriage IMHO. Anyhow, we talked over dinner & Megaritas Saturday evening after MMS & when I mentioned taking Sunday off to go hiking she wanted join in so we could talk some more, or so she thought!
My original plan was to take the 7 mile horse / mountain bike trail around Shelby Farms which is dirt & has some decent terrain (for the Delta) but since she isn’t accustomed to exercise AT ALL I was a nice bear, or so I thought, opting for the smooth, relatively flat, paved nature trails & Greenline but still laid out a 7 mile “walk” which seemed totally do-able since I planned on starting NO LATER than 8AM!!!
Well, by the time we got done looking through all the old photos she wanted me to see, that she’d dug up, we hit the trail head at 11AM, 91F & FULL blazing sun. Slathered on LOTS of sweat proof sun tan lotion, packed 4 quarts of water for us in MY backpack & headed out. By the half way mark she was NOT happy & by the time we got back to the truck she was nearly ill, wishing to water Steely’s flower beds, a blister on the little toe of one foot & another on the ball of the other foot. Griz’s name was MUD! I should’ve known better than to throw that much at her! She’s not used to that much exercise & I KNEW that!!! Blah Blah Blah! Can we go back to not talking now LOL???
We stopped A LOT, rested in the shade PLENTY, drank LOTS of water. Admittedly she has spinal issues where her neck meets her shoulders but I said, “It’s not like you were carrying a tool box OR even wearing THE backpack!” Her reply was just TOO tempting!!! “Well, I was carrying me!” Now, you know Griz just HAD to go there!!! Yep! Took a beatin’ for that one BUT it was worth it LMBO! “Yeah, that’s true! That was BAD ENOUGH!” OUCH, OWWW! Wow! I did get sun burnt shoulders & she knew RIGHT where to hit!!! I deserved it so on we go! Dumping what was left of my water bottle on her head seemed like the thing to do at the time too LOL!!! Turned out she actually liked that, after the initial shock wore off!
Anyhow, cranked out 9.5 hours at MMS yesterday after 78,350 LBs of core iron & 300 HIIT cardio calories which had the calves, hammies & quads screamin’ since they weren’t really happy after Sunday’s adventure anyhow. Hit Helga’s House of pain this AM after watching a gorgeous sunrise & cranked off 33,975 LBs of chest, shoulders & tricep iron prepping for trainer Sam’s return tonight. We’re supposed to hit hammies & calves tomorrow then back, shoulders & biceps Thursday so we’ll see how that all shakes out.
On the getaway front, things are looking better & better! Came across a package deal that includes round trip passenger train tickets from Memphis to New Orleans Europe but they were admittedly 120MPH so Amtrak’ll be just a LITTLE bit different LOL! Still not crazy about a cruise but EVERYBODY swears I’ll love it & I’m SURE I’ll love hiking the Mayan ruins & the Yucatan
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