Went for the first hike of the year today. Yea! It was a gorgeous day for it. Did the Highbridge Trail at Gorge Metro Park w/a little detour onto the Glens Trail. 3.84 miles total... w/lots of stairs. Felt great! Uploaded this not-very-fancy video to YouTube to commemorate the day:
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
New Challenges
I fell off the healthy eating wagon the past couple of weeks. A busier than usual schedule & not enough planning ahead did me in (as it does every time). But I'm back at it starting today... I've got healthy vegetarian foods at the ready. I have been keeping up w/my (minus)365 challenge though I need to snap some photos & take all the piled up piles to Goodwill. Good news is that I have emptied about 15 more boxes... the bad news is that there's still a ridiculous number left. Ha. I did find something I have been looking for for the last 5 years so that was nice. :)
This weekend I came up w/a new challenge. Yea! Every spring I go full throttle into hiking around all the awesome parks in & around Akron. I LOVE hiking and can walk in the woods for hours and hours. It's the nature, stupid. :D But by the time summer comes along, other things start to get in the way. Oh, I still go for plenty of walks & stuff but pretty much just around the neighborhood. And, usually on those walks, I'm thinking, "I should go for a hike soon," but don't do it nearly enough. So I was thinking about that & how I'd like to keep up the spring momentum into summer and fall (and maybe even winter). Thinking, thinking, thinking... oh hey, challenge!
And thus, the 100 Hikes challenge was born. Bam.
The goal is to go on 100 hikes between April & October. That averages to 3 per week, which should be completely doable no matter how busy I get. Of course, I would love to hike a different trail every time but should be realistic about that probability. I have some favorite hikes in the area but will definitely branch out & explore new trails. I'd like to spend more time exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I'd also like visit all of Summit County's Metro Parks & check out more of the little trails off of the Towpath. Regular walks that stay on the Towpath won't count (though I would like to explore more then the same 5 miles I usually stick to). There's also neighboring counties & the rest of Ohio & the world! Heehee.
But yeah, lots o' hikes coming down the pipe. Yea for new extra fun challenges!!
This weekend I came up w/a new challenge. Yea! Every spring I go full throttle into hiking around all the awesome parks in & around Akron. I LOVE hiking and can walk in the woods for hours and hours. It's the nature, stupid. :D But by the time summer comes along, other things start to get in the way. Oh, I still go for plenty of walks & stuff but pretty much just around the neighborhood. And, usually on those walks, I'm thinking, "I should go for a hike soon," but don't do it nearly enough. So I was thinking about that & how I'd like to keep up the spring momentum into summer and fall (and maybe even winter). Thinking, thinking, thinking... oh hey, challenge!
And thus, the 100 Hikes challenge was born. Bam.
The goal is to go on 100 hikes between April & October. That averages to 3 per week, which should be completely doable no matter how busy I get. Of course, I would love to hike a different trail every time but should be realistic about that probability. I have some favorite hikes in the area but will definitely branch out & explore new trails. I'd like to spend more time exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I'd also like visit all of Summit County's Metro Parks & check out more of the little trails off of the Towpath. Regular walks that stay on the Towpath won't count (though I would like to explore more then the same 5 miles I usually stick to). There's also neighboring counties & the rest of Ohio & the world! Heehee.
But yeah, lots o' hikes coming down the pipe. Yea for new extra fun challenges!!
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