sweatiest….weekend….. evah.
Monday, Jul 24. 2006 – Category: Outdoors
staying up till 3am friday drinking scotch is probably not the best way to start training for Shasta. despite that, jesse and i set out saturday for our first training hike in our long arduous goal of getting ourselves in shape to haul ourselves up to the top of Shasta.
in all our infinite wisdom, we decided to train for hiking up Shasta by hiking a day hike (11 mile loop trail) in the blistering heat at Big Basin.
cause… you know… hiking in 100 degree weather is totally indicative of what we’ll be doing at Shasta.
after the best Jamba Juice smoothie ever, we finished up our training by devouring tapas and sangria before heading home to knock back some Henry Weinhardts Irish Pale Ale (i’m normally not a fan of Pale Ales, but this one was pretty good) and watching the 19th stage of the Tour de France.
<random tangential rant about the Tour de France> first: to the American announcer, it’s Tour “de” France, as in “de” rhymes with “the”. Not Tour DAY France. second: i’m sorry - but watching time trials at 1am has got to be one of the most boring things on TV. i’ve been assured that the regular stages are better and more exciting, but watching a time trial on TV is stunningly wickedly amazingly fantastically BORING. </random tangential rant>
we followed that up by watching Superman on Sunday morning and then running around in the afternoon for another exhausting sweaty 1.5 hours of ultimate.
today i feel …. broken. my hips hurt. my knees hurt. my fingertips hurt (yeah i don’t know why those hurt). ugh. i think i may take the week off of frisbee to let my body heal.
Tags: shasta
2 Responses to “sweatiest….weekend….. evah.”
Leave a Reply
Recent posts
- my first fake tilt-shift
(Tuesday, Nov 18. 2008 – No Comments) - Album reviews in mashTape
(Tuesday, Nov 18. 2008 – No Comments) - whacked gets fatty
(Sunday, Nov 16. 2008 – 5 Comments) - Songbird 1.0.0rc2 on OpenSolaris
(Sunday, Nov 16. 2008 – 1 Comment)
Categories
- Cars
- ChinaBlog
- Code
- Computers
- Food
- Football
- Grommit
- Linkage
- Movies&TV
- Music
- Musings
- OpenSolaris
- OpenSource
- Outdoors
- Pets
- Photos
- Quotage
- Songbird
- Sun
- Travel
Grommit
Mozilla
OpenSolaris
Songbird
Archives
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- January 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
- June 2002
- May 2002
- April 2002
- March 2002
July 24th, 2006 at 20:22
It’s weird, but I’ve gotten sore fingernails before, somewhat related to your sore fingertips. I can’t remember what it was from, but I remember thinking, “WTF? Sore fingernails?”
That’s cool you guys are climbing Shasta. I’m totally jealous. Too bad you guys can’t come down to LA and learn to surf with me.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:17
[...] so it looks like this weekend’s exertions gave me some mild heat exhaustion. i spent a good part of yesterday and almost all of last night alternating between shivering with chills, sweating with a fever, and having waves of nausea. [...]