Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

Who are you now?


Then 

Still Then

Almost Now
Now as hilarity ensues on set


In the past 2 weeks I have started working out at a new gym. (2110 Fitness Check it out). While getting crushed by a metabolic workout, I kept thinking back to myself saying “ I used to _________”(insert something of my former self). Might have been I used to be able to do X number of pullups, or run X miles or certain strength, but either way I was saying it. Then I started thinking back to when I was doing my nutrition consulting and the number of times I would hear that.

We all look back and relish at our former success. While it is meaningful never to forget where you came from, it is more certainly a paramount issue to establish where you want to be.  I have my fitness goals, lifestyle goals and travel goals as well.

Here is a quick look at where I am going:
  • Gain about 7 more lbs of muscle (just over 3 kg)
  • Develop my chest more evenly
  • Get on no less than 4 more hikes this season
  • Restart my professional career (aiming for pharmaceutical sales, nutraceutical, or agricultural and still thinking a bit about nursing)
  • If the right contract comes head to Tokyo, Seoul or Hong Kong or Potentially Europe
  •  Climb some of the highest peaks in the world (learn more of mountaineering)

These are a few of my goals that immediately come to mind, of course there are others more personal with regards to gooey stuff like love and relationships.  


Sunday, July 29, 2012

Hike up them socks




Ah. Mosquitoes!!!










My spare time has been well spent as of lately. Today I completed my 4th hike of the season. While that is a much further behind than last year, I am satisfied with it.  Hiking is easily one of my favourite pass times and other than friends and family, the mountains were what I yearned for most.

This has happened twice in the past week.
What is it about the mountains that make them so intoxicating? I could begin to describe the crisp breath of alpine fresh air. Or the awe of windswept rock faces, the magnificent blues and greens of recently thawed glacier that develops into a mountain lake. However as amazing as I would like to describe the background of the Canadian Rockies, I feel that my vocabulary cannot entirely justify its awesomeness.  With that said here are a few pictures of recent hikes. 

Lastly, just in case you thought you could get away with it; Kelly…Emma here are a few recent videos I snapped of efforts to cross a few creeks.