So the 100 mile Fitness Challenge ended on June 30.  I’m what you call a “peak too sooner”.  (Points if you can name that movie).  I am not going to embarrass myself by putting the week-by-week description, but I would like to say I did better than I thought.  I also did a lot of my miles in the middle of the challenge.  So the grand total is…

40 miles! (or 64.3737600002575 kilometers!)

Definitely not as good as someone who did 454 miles(!!), but pretty respectable.  I almost got half way to my goal.  I definitely won’t be trying to go out and exercise to make up for it considering the heat wave we have been experiencing in Toronto.  It’s almost midnight and it’s still 81°F, or 27°C.  All I can think is how lucky I am not to be living in my first apartment that did not have any a/c, was on the top floor and did not have an easy way to install a portable a/c.  It was hot all year-round (like shorts and T-Shirt hot) despite having the patio doors to the covered balcony open all year round.  I have been thinking about the person who is living in there now and how I really hope they found a way to make it work.  One day it was so hot that my smoke detector started beeping because the apartment got that hot.

This is a view from my bedroom into the covered balcony. There was a door leading into the dining room and a long one into the family room. My apartment was U-shaped. It trapped heat in and didn't let it out.

Now I am living in the lap of luxury with a functioning a/c.  Well…until the power goes out because of everyone using so much electricity trying to stay cool.

Yeah, That Just Happened!