June was sort of a crappy month for Los Angeles, seeing as every day consisted of dark clouds lurking over each city with a slight glimmer of light attempting to make its way through. It was also a crappy month for me because out of the 30 days of the month, I was sick for 26 of them! But alas, July has been here for no more than 2 days and the mucus that once had plagued me is gone and the sun has come back to the stage again. This makes me happy 
And ready to workout!
Last night was my first brick with the club since probably May. They were doing this really intense ride which I didn’t feel up for so I just did a few laps around the bowl in case I needed to stop. I did the first lap with them, had my heart rate up over 200 and never really got it down after that when I was on the bike.
Here is a picture overlooking the golf course and the San Gabriel mountains, so beautiful! I am also wearing my new PTC jersey that I picked up too!
I rode around for about 45 minutes and then decided it was time to run. So I cheated a little and actually drove to the start of the trail instead of running it because I really shouldn’t be running that far ANYWAY… I start out on the trail and it was really nice. I am really starting to enjoy running on trails because it is just so nice! This is me at a little clearing, through the trail:
Just a bunch of wilderness! And a freeway to the left….
As I was running, this guy passed me and he wasn’t wearing a shirt, and I thought to myself…hmmmm…I bet that is really nice! (in the sense that it was nice and cool, not that I was checking him out as I do not check out men anymore because I have mine!) So anyway…I was basically all by myself and I knew I had NO business running in just my sports bra…but it was hot…and I was all alone…so I did it!
AND IT WAS SO LIBERATING!
Having the little breeze from running cooled me off and it was so comfortable! But as soon as I got close to civilization…the shirt went back on.
At some point on the run, I got to this little fork and I wasn’t sure which way to go. I saw the shirtless guy go up this one little trail so I decided to go the same way, well turns out Mr. Shirtless must be a great runner because this is what I ended up running on for a while:
It’s like an animal trail!
But it was nice, I just walked the parts that had a lot of rocks.
While on my run I also took this picture:
That is the JPL campus in the middle with the little valley below it. It was so pretty out yesterday evening and it wasn’t too hot…
Overall I ended up running for 40 minutes and really only going 2.5 miles. I attribute the long time due to the frequent walking breaks, the frequent picture breaks and me being slow.
After my run I met up with George and we went and had tortas over at King Taco! YUM!
Tomorrow George and I are heading out to Santa Monica to do an ocean swim and maybe a little run afterwards on the beach..thats right…ON the beach. I have never done it before and I think it would be nice.
In other news….I have somewhat big news…I am being SPONSORED! Back in May I received an e-mail from Active.com that they were looking for ambassadors for Team GO Smart. Each ambassador will take 5 people and get them to walk a 5k with an Omoron Pedometer. I have most of my team together and I am really looking forward to it.
Here is the link to the webpage if you are curious: http://www.gosmartpedometers.com/
I will have more info to come, especially when I start getting my gear. Click on the picture below if you want to know what Team Go Smart is all about!
