Training Plan

I am hoping to do a backpacking trip this fall.  There is a situation out of my control that may cause me to cancel.  But in the hopes I can go, I've started training.  Here is my training plan.  The top table is a plan, the bottom, what I actually do.  I'm having fun doing it.  MBG is Monkey Bar Gym, where I go for exercise class.  Devil's Lake is a state park with some 500 ft bluffs.  That's as steep as it gets around here.  I do a 5 mile walk around the lake climbing 2 bluffs.  It's very pretty.

Update:   The trip was cancelled.  But I'm hoping to go in 2016.  I should be in even better shape by then.  I'll keep training.

today's food

I was still in the mood for salads at breakfast, and it's easy to do on the weekends.  I forgot to take a picture.  It was lettuce, spinach, grapefruit and 1 oz nuts.  It was really good.

Lunch and Dinner were not real meals as I was cooking and snacking all afternoon.   I ate a lot of raw carrots, some celery, and raw cabbage, a serving of from a big batch of greens I cooked up (kale, onion, garlic), and probably about 2 servings of the chili I cooked up.  I was planning to make some salad but didn't feel like it so just ate more carrots.

Exercise:   easy pilates workout in the morning.  in the afternoon I went up and down the stairs for 30 minutes with a backpack on (slowly).  Then I walked on the treadmill for 1.5 miles with the backpack on.  That was a good workout.  We had an ice storm a few days ago so I've been feeling trapped because the sidewalks are too treacherous to walk on.  I enjoyed discovering that I could still train for a backpacking trip without leaving the house!