Today I went hiking at the lost bluff trail at Grenada Lake and it was very warm out. I beleive when I started it was 99F with a possible heat index of 104F.
More on the trail here http://www.thebackpacker.com/trails/ms/trail_241.php and here http://www.grenadamississippi.com/gtc_hike.htm

For some reason Runkeeper says it was 1.6 miles when the sign says its 2.4 miles. Who knows.

I jogged/walked it several days ago and did better than I did today. I think the heat had gotten to me or maybe it was the Chinese food I had for lunch???

I want to get to were I can jog all of the trail and later work on better times. Right now I can complete it in under 30 minutes no matter what. I my best time so far is 24 minutes. Today it was 26 mins.

Details below. Click on the View Details at RunKeeper link to see more

Ok so I had this bright idea that I wanted to ride my bike from my house to the Grenada Lake emergency spillway, run the stairs there and ride back home afterwards.

Sounded good at the time. I even got my good friend  Ferg (Justin Ferguson - follow him on facebook – he’s single ladies) to come along. We knew it would be tough but after telling several others that we were gonna do it, we couldn’t NOT do it now so Thursday afternoon as the rain was about to pour we said F it and started on our trek.

It was a Killer Bike Ride!!!

We ended up doing around 17 miles up and down hills and we also ran the Spillway Stairs twice. Thats 99 or 100 one way. So that means we did about 400 stair steps. We ran em up and down.

For those of you that know where I live, we rode from my house, down riverdale road, through the industrial park, then to the Grenada Lake tennis court area to ride the 1 mile fitness trial, then onto the emergency spillway area to run the steps next to it and back to the house.

I aint scared of a kick ass killer work out! Bring it on!

Here is our trek.

I used to be able to run 3 miles all at once and not even think about it. I participated in 5k’s before too!

That was back in the good ole days.
These days its much harder for me to run.  I get winded very easily. That’s why here lately I have decided to try my best to get back into better shape.

I have been doing so by bike riding, getting on the treadmill, and my favorite has become trail hiking/walking/running.

I get bored easily on treadmills or the track so fitness trails, biking, and hiking seem to be the solution to that.

With the help of my co-worker Justin, we decided that we would try to use Tuesdays and Thursdays to do some sort of cardio exercise. I may be running, walking, hiking the Lost Bluff trail, nature trail, or biking.
Anyone of you that read this blog, know me and live in my area, feel free to hit me up through email or whatever if you would like to join in. The more the merrier.

Whats making all of this exercising even better is some of the apps that I have been using on the iphone.

So far I have used some really great apps like MotionX GPS, Trailguru, and Runkeeper.

MotionX-GPS was great but it loses gps signal if you fall below 3mph. I think this is terrible for a PAID FOR app as I sometimes only walk 2mph and I would like for it to log my walks. For bike riding it may be ideal, but I have yet to use it for that yet.

Trailguru is an awesome free app for the iphone. I like it alot, it has never lost signal even if I were to crawl. It makes really nice posts to the web as well as the ability to embed into your webpage as I have done here before. Right now however at the time of this writing, their website is down and I can not post my logs to their site.

Runkeeper was the very first app I ever put on my phone relating to walking/running and I have just now got back to using it. Mainly because the Trailguru website was down. I am glad I relaunched the use of this fabulous free program.

Today Justin and I did the regular 1 mile nature trail near the tennis courts at Grenada Lake. We ran it mostly and walked it in spots. We did it twice playing with the app runkeeper.

Below are the results using runkeeper. I think so far out of all 3 apps, I like it the best.
First time through.

Second time through.