2.6? What the...??

I was going to just write a general post about the week or so just passed but I got a shock standing on the scales this evening.  I usually aim for a kilogram but the scales showed I lost 2.6kg in the last week.  Seriously?  I stood on the scales three times in disbelief.  

The result has inspired me to keep up the hard work.

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It's been a busy week.  I took my favourite fitness test on Sunday walking up Mount Tennent near Canberra.  It's a great challenge but I tend to spend most of the walk - it's a 700 metre climb in the 7km to the summit - muttering.  I managed to finish the walk in under four and a half hours, which is probably the quickest I've done the walk.

I had to stop at the supermarket on the way back home and who should I bump into?  The trainer from the Men with Guts programme.  He inspected the contents of my shopping basket and thankfully all was okay, except for having reduced fat milk instead of skim milk (I didn't know there was a difference).  I'm relieved I didn't have any contraband - chocolate or iced coffee - in the basket!

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The walk up Mount Tennent followed a bushwalk I took while I was in Adelaide.  It had been a while since I'd done an organised bushwalk - this walk was in and around Mount Lofty with Friends of the Heysen Trail.  Despite growing up in Adelaide, I've never really walked around Cleland Conservation Park and the Mount Lofty Botantic Gardens.  

Growing up in Adelaide, I thought the Mount Lofty Ranges were impressive but, after years in Canberra looking at the Brindabellas, the Mount Lofty's aren't as impressive.  I was made to pay for my lack of faith - in the 15km we walked, we climbed over 800 metres.  There was some fabulous scenery on the walk, a number of animal sightings, and the company was great too.