crossfit bolton - let's do cindy . . .

look at these 2 lovely ladies! so strong! lia killed 'cindy' with 16 rounds and lisa's running just keeps getting better - 3 x 800m ! wicked!

thomas and jay - also crushed 'cindy' . . .

love this girl . . .

ah, friday night club picture . . .

random mushroom shots from my run a couple of weeks ago in palgrave

riding up the gore from crossfit . . .

top of k2, thinking about my upcoming adventure next weekend . . .

last 'long' run before hali - LOTS of wind carnage north of 9 - had to do some bush-wacking to find the trail !

messing around on the dingle - fuck it was hot today !


and finally, i want to congratulate my little 'beer-drinking' pylon digger for running his first 50 miler! awesome job my friend - welcome to the club!

east coast trail - lamanche

i was feeling kinda fat tuesday morning from all the bread and chocolate i'd been eating, so i decided to do a crossfit workout. i figured i'd do 10 rounds of 10 push-ups and 20 sit-ups. tone could count rounds while reading his book. when i got to number 10, tone suggested i keep going a few more, cuz he still had a few pages left to read! haha! ended up doing 15!

we then decided we'd head over to the lamanche section of the trail and do just a bit of hiking, and maybe go for a swim.

WOW!!

the trail was so spectacular that we just kinda just kept saying we'd turn around in 5 more minutes.


after almost 2 hours, we made up our minds to turn around at the next 'ohhhh, ahhhh' - and this was it . . .

tone had a great laugh at me trying to do push-ups on the stairs, and even more so after i got stuck trying to get back up!!

LOVE this shot!

and of course, the trip wouldn't be complete without me doing some nakid swimmin! it was especially amusing to see the guy get yelled at by his wife for taking a pic of me with his zoom lens !! haha! loser !

and a final shot of me and tone coming back over the suspension bridge - did i mention how much i dislike suspension bridges . . .

on the way back, we stopped at this little coffee shop by the water and treated ourselves to a couple pieces of cheesecake! mmmmm! and mercifully tone didn't make me walk anywhere that night!

i totally forgot to mention that tone WON that 5k he ran on sunday! wicked!! FIRST PLACE overall!

and so, another dora the explorer adventure comes to a close - big sad face! i had so much fun and saw some incredible sections of trail. it sure helped to fix my poor broken little soul. i'm definitely going back there! and special thanks to my beloved friend who made it so amazing!

love ya tone!

east coast trail - pouch cove

and so on monday, with the threat of 'irene' in the air, we loaded our packs and headed to pouch cove! the sky looked nasty to the south, but nothing ever materialized!

first look-out . . .

already lost count - so incredible . . .

okay, so it was a bit windy . . .

back in the forest . . .

silly dora !

lots of stairs . . .

'king of the castle'

just leave me here - i'm good!

we were out hiking for 4 hours - and it was spectacular - again!

once we got back and cleaned up, we WALKED into town for pizza - mmmmmmmmmmm! and then WALKED home, with the only thing keeping me going was a 40$ chunk of dark chocolate almond bark in the fridge . . .

sigh

east coast trail - fort amherst to cape spear

sunday was another gorgeous day! tone was doing a 5k road race, so we decided he could just drop me off at one end of the trail, and i'd run for 4 hours or until we met up again. he let me off at the deadmans bay path at fort amherst, waved good-bye, and headed over to his race!

wahoo! lookout east coast trail - dora the explorer is about to run . . .

man - what a beautiful trail. words can't really describe it, so i'll just throw in some pictures.

it seemed every time you'd pop out of the forest, you'd come across a view like this!

or this . . .

i eventually caught up with tone at cape spear. we decided we'd had enough for the day and headed back to his place. later that night we walked back into town to the yellow belly brewery for a burger and some sweet potato fries! did i mention that he made me walk EVERYWHERE!

i still can't get over how incredible the trail was, and ended up spending 4 hours on it - by myself - and loving every second of it!!

'sigh'