Rest Day - Rec Patrols

Yesterday was a scheduled rest day and I actually had to work. The May long weekend is the first big camping weekend of the season and I often go out to check on the sites and see how they are doing. It was a long day of mostly driving...ugh. Took me over 8 hrs to visit them and then get back home. I'm always surprised at how exhausting a full day of driving can be even though you are just sitting there. Driving on logging roads though you definitely have to be aware the whole time of whats going on, no zoning out.

I had packed all my meals and snacks for the day. Since it was a rest day I was trying to keep it on the lower end of calories and had about ~1450. I dont usually ever go below 1650 (even though MFP tells me 1380!) so I'm not sure why I went that low. Maybe because I knew I would get no exercise. I headed out and was surprised at how dehydrated I felt. I drank 1.5L of water just on the way down and of course then had to stop at an outhouse at each site...lol.

Just before dinner I was at a site where the site operator had be slow roasting a pork roast all day on the beach. He came up to meet me carrying it on a platter and it was dripping in BBQ sauce. He insisted I have a piece and regardless of how many times I said no he cut me off a small chunk telling me I need to eat :)  So I headed off in the truck with this piece of BBQ pork in my hand and I swear it was the most delicious thing I have every eaten....my job has its perks lol!! No regrets on that one :) The rest of the day I stuck to my meal plan though so I think with the piece of pork I probably ended my day around 1650 which is what I usually aim for and on a Saturday no less! This weekend has been awesome for me calorie-wise.

Got home that night and just crashed. My kids stayed at my in-laws last night and I'm going to take advantage of being kid-free this morning. My training plan calls for 16-18km but I'm going to go hit the trails. Planning on doing closer to 24km :)