Week 2 at the "resort," day 9!

I am feeling better except for my ankle.  I did ice it at the end of the day, and as I write this (morning of day 10) it is feeling decent.  I think I will start breaking these posts up into sections, stats, food, hike and exercise, thoughts and commentary.  This section being thoughts and commentary.  I got some exciting news today, but I need to verify it is ok I can post it.  It is about one of the trainers here, so I will ask them if it is ok to post.  One things that was special to me today was I got a care package from my amazing wife Jennifer.  She sent me some sunscreen, warm pull overs, a wireless router that should help me get signals to my room, and a card from Jack and Katie.  The card was super cute with quotes from and it really made me feel good.  I think about them all the time while here and it feels nice to know they are thinking about me too.

Statistics for the day that was:
A brief note about these statistics:  The fitbit that I use does not measure my heart rate.  It has an accelerometer in it that measures body movement and tracks steps and estimates calories burned and miles traveled.  I do have a heart rate monitoring watch (which requires I wear a device on my chest to get my heart rate), and will try to incorporate some of that data since I feel it is more accurate on calories burning.  Every night my fitbit shoots the data out to twitter and facebook so I will cut and paste that into this section at the very least.

Fitbit stats were:
I walked 24,686 steps and 12.5 miles and burned 5,391 calories via my fitbithttp://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6

Watch stats:
Hike: 1018 calories
Intensati: 230 calories
Total Toning: 289 calories
H20 Intervals: 277 calories
Cardio Intervals: 394 calories


I will include a blog post that has my previous data this evening if I have time.

Hike and Exercise:
The hike today was to Reagan Ranch.  It was a scenic hike, but we did not get to go to the old M.A.S.H shooting site.  I hope to convince the guides next time to allow us to take that route.  I did hear a rattlesnake in the grass next to me today which was kind of freaky!  People back at camp kept asking if I went to look for it...  I guess no one knows my motto about natural predators and poisonous creatures.  The hike was moderately difficult.  It was one of my lowest calories burns ever.  This week I am not at the back of the group which makes me feel better a little mentally.

Workouts today were: Morning Stretch class, Hike, Post Hike Stretch class, Intensati, Total Toning, H2O Intervals, Cardio Intervals.

I have commented about all of these classes before except Intensati.  I am not sure it is my thing, but it was good to experience it.  It is like a combo of yoga, self affirmitive sayings, disco cardio, kickboxing...  It was a good calories burn, and I was the only guy that chose this elective workout!


FOOD!:
For breakfast I chose to have eggs and toast as opposed to the fruit parfait they were having.  Eggs and toast seem to stay with me through the hike.  I usually take a hard boiled egg on the hike with me as well.

Lunch was tomato soup and quinoa lettuce wraps.  Both of them were amazing.  The soup was the best I have had so far, and those wraps were really good with some hot sauce on them.  They seemed like a ton of food as well.  Great choice for the day!

Dinner was an enchilada and veggies with a chocolate coconut sorbet for dessert.  Both of these options were good, I would have preferred to have lunch again though.

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