A much better day! Today was not perfect, but it was a great day. We journeyed into the Smoky mountains and drove around a bunch. We were surveying where we will return to hike tomorrow. What we did today was ride our bikes through the Cade’s Cove area. It was 11 miles of ups and downs though a beautiful flat lands area that is home to deer, wild turkey, bear and other critters. We had to share the roadway with cars and motorcycles, but there were other bicyclists out there too. We saw bears and turkeys from afar and deer and a small bear up close. The bear was keeping an eye on the the cars (and us) but he was down in a ravine so he would have had to run uphill to get us. We would have jumps up onto or in a car if we needed to. We were glad we did not need to. As the riding went on the hills became too much and we needed to walk up them. The biggest problem was the cars would sometimes go soo slow we needed to come to an almost stop and lose our momentum to get up the next hill. That is ok we got through it. There was a major traffic jam so we took the long way home and had a taste of “the Tail of the Dragon”. Look it up. We got back to the cabin at 8pm and I got in a 20 minute dumbbell cardio workout.
I used my body weight or 35 lb dumbbells for the exercises. I moved from one exercise to the next with as little rest as possible. Here is what I did:
Push-ups 10,8,7
body weight squats 10,8,8
overhead presses 10,8,7
deadlifts 10,8,7
alt. arm curls 8,8,8
crunches 10,8,7
I am sore! Today was great, I did good eating and finished the day at 2,340 calories. Pictures will get added later once I get home.
