Today I went on my first geocaching hunt! I've been wanting to go for awhile now and when my friend Becky called me up this morning and asked if I wanted to go with her and her husband I certainly said yes! We picked six different caches to hunt for at the Greenlawn Cemetery here in Columbus as a kind of pre-halloween scare fest... though, it wasn't very scary during the middle of the day lol. Of the six sights we found five, which by my count isn't so bad! The one cache we couldn't seem to find may have been gone. The tree we thought it could be hiding in had just had a huge branch blown off of it in the heavy winds we had last week and it had been awhile since anyone had logged it. *shrugs* I hope it turns up.

 This was the first cache we found, unfortunately I didn't know that you could bring little trinkets along and leave them in the caches But there was some pretty cool stuff in there!

 I had to crawl inside a tangle of a bush for this one! Of course, I only went looking for it after Tony assured me there was no poison ivy! >.<

 This is the tree we were pretty sure was hiding the cache we had no luck with. There were lots of huge fir trees around the cemetery, some of these trees are probably a hundred or more years old!

 We spent a lot of time looking for one of the caches, and for awhile thought these windchimes were it, lol.

But, this was the real cache, cleverly concealed inside a dragonfly container, very cute.

All in all, I had a great time and I can't wait to go again!!

-179 pounds

-10 minute stretch

-Brisk 5 minute warmup walk

-Jog 5 min, walk 3 min, jog 8 min, walk 3 min, jog 5 min

-5 minute cooldown walk for a total of 34 minutes

-30 pushups (3 sets of 10)

-60 crunches (2 sets of 30)

-25 arm raises

-15 minute stretch

I didn't sleep very good last night and I could tell when I was out running today. That 8 minute jog was a real challenge, just wanted to walk home afterwards but I managed to stay with it. Now though, I feel like laying down on the floor and taking a nap, post jog stinky-ness and all. Also I did a week 5, day 3 "sorta kinda" thing on Saturday, lol. I mentioned that we were heading down to Cinci to visit family this past weekend? Well we stayed with my in-laws Friday night and Saturday morning I got up to run and bumped into my grandmother (who currently lives in the same neighborhood) who was out with her dog for their morning walk. So instead of day 3 I ended up walking with her for about 45 minutes all over the neighborhood, which was actually just as much of a workout! All in all it was a good weekend, got to see my parents, my grandma, all of my husband's family, and we had a gamenight with our friends Sunday evening. Good times.

-179 pounds

-5 minute stretch

-5 minute warmup walk

-Jog 5 min, walk 3 min, jog 5 min, walk 3 min, jog 5 min

-5 minute cooldown walk for a total of 31 minutes

-25 pushups

-50 crunches

-25 arm raises

-15 minute stretch

So I got a little behind with this week, the holiday weekend threw me off, but we certainly had fun. My grandfather's annual family picnic was this past Sunday, its always this huge outdoor pig roast at their house out in the boonies. My brother took first place in the horseshoe tournament and my dad took second, and my husband took second in the cornhole tournament. I think me and my partner ended up in like fourth or something, oh well, I think I did good having not thrown in a couple of years lol.

Anywho, today's run was fantastic. Last week I was worried that week 5 might be a little much, but then I was still running in that terrible, muggy heat. Well let me tell you, autumn has arrived with a vengeance! Its been in the 60s all week and cloudy and mostly rainy. Its amazing how much of an impact that had on my run today, I had no issues with my breathing and I didn't feel like falling over halfway through the run like I did all last week. I'm very happy with how the run went earlier and depending on how my legs feel tomorrow I'll probably do day 2 then and day 3 on Saturday when we are visiting family down near Cinci. Saturday is my niece's first birthday!