Can't edit that post any more, but this should work:
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/di...ate=2019-06-23

Exercise: 27 miles / 2:05:00 - slow ride with the dudebros
Food: 1700 cal / 72g protein

I'm getting into mtb, and actually plan on heading to a DH park here in a few weeks. Wasn't sure if that was in your wheelhouse or not...

I have never done downhill, looks both fun and terrifying. Around here the mountain biking is not "great", because the terrain is not really that good for it. There are 2 trails near me, they're OK but not super interesting. There are some better ones further south but I'd have to drive to them and I think they're probably beyond my ability also.

I love to mountain bike, but it also makes me anxious because I'm slower than most people and I hate holding them up so I'm always watching behind me instead of just enjoying myself.

Exercise: 3.25 mi walk / 1:15:00
Food: 1800 cal / 95g protein

The terrifying part is what makes it exciting for me. There's a pretty good network of trails around here, with a decent amount of variable skill level trails from greens to double blacks, but I've got to go out of state for the DH park.

I understand that, but In my limited time and video watching, it seems that most mountain bikers are just having a good time, and they're excited that you're having a good time too.

Yeah totally. They never get mad at me, I just don't like to be in the way. When I ride with a small group I always want to be at the back if possible.

Exercise: about a half hour / 1.5 miles, just a quick walk after lunch
Food:1750 / 76g protein

Exercise:
Walk - 2.3mi - 45 minutes
Bike ride - 20mi - 1:25:00

Food: 1520 cal / 52g protein

Weekly weigh in: 182.6
Not really losing any weight recently but I kind of tend to lose it in spurts. Also I've been drinking a lot which doesn't help, kind of feel like I gain or retain weight when I do that.

I had intended to go for a walk today, but I got drafted into some other stuff, so I didn't. Going to go for a ride in the morning.

Food: I made steak and fries for the family today, so I opted to basically not eat anything else. 1500 cal / 86g protein

Exercise: easy ride around town, 20 miles 1:40:00
Food: 1770 cal / 70g protein

Dang it, I wrote a longish post and lost it. Not going to try to recreate it now.

Anyway, walked 4.5 mil / 1:10:00
Ate 1700 cal / 63g protein.

So obviously I stopped logging, and I've been in a holding pattern weight wise. Work has been crazy, I'm stressed and mad a lot, and I've been eating/drinking my feelings. So it goes.

In a few weeks I'll be going to Scotland to walk the West Highland Way trail. It's about 100 miles long, I'll do it over, uh, 8 or 9 days, not sure which. Should be fun. September is scotland is cool and rainy, especially compared to here, so I'm not real prepared for that, but I bought all the stuff I think I'll need (mostly waterproof clothes and some layers).

I've been doing my nightly walks carrying everything I think I'll carry on the hike except for my camera, and I'll probably do some trial runs of that too - I'll be carrying a full SLR and possibly an extra lens. It's bulky and heavy but I'm going to want pictures and I'm something of a traditionalist so what can you do. I have a variety of harnesses that I've used over the years, I think I'll be using my Peak Design clips for this one. Basically I have a padded thing that attaches to a backpack strap, the camera has a plate attached to it, it "clicks" into the clip and is held firmly there but I can get it out in a few seconds. Trying to convince myself to only take one lens.

I haven't been walking as much as I was when I was logging, but still around 5h/week. Having been cycling at all because my free time is all after dark. So I walk in the dark mostly.

Enjoy Scotland! I'll be nearby at about the same time - I have diving trip to Northumberland.

It may well be worth taking decent anti-mosquito stuff. I haven't been to the West Coast for a while, but I think it has a lot of midges.

https://must-see-scotland.com/midges-in-scotland

Yeah midges are off the charts bad I hear. I have a full head net and some bug ointment that's supposed to be good.

Also, it rains an average of 12 days in september in that area, so I supposed we'll get rained on some.

I don't suppose you'll be around Fort William on the 7th September? If so you'll have to come and check out the Ben Nevis Race and say hi!

Here's a handy midge forecast for you btw: https://www.smidgeup.com/midge-forecast/

The walk ends in Fort William on 9/10 but also the whole thing is only 100 miles long. I think we spend the last 4 nights in a house in Fort William so I may "be" in Fort William on the 7th, but probably not during the day. Can you post some details?

And yeah, I've been watching the midge (and weather) forecast for a few weeks now. I'm normally not too bothered by insects, but I guess we'll see.

It's one of the classics of British fell running - about 700 runners going straight up and straight down the UK's highest mountain, from pretty much sea level (1360m of climbing from start to summit). The biggest climb you can do in the UK followed by the one of the roughest, toughest descents.

It starts at 1pm at Claggan Park, 10-15 mins walk from the town centre, and will take runners between 1:30-3:30 to get round. It's a great spectacle if you can get up on the mountain a little bit, especially to watch the faster runners descending. Also, there will be bagpipes.

I honestly have no idea what to expect in terms of when we'll generally arrive at places. Each day is I guess like 10-12 miles but I don't know when we'll leave in the morning or what kind of pace we'll maintain, etc. It seems a little unlikely we'll be in town before 1pm. If you're going to be around possibly we could meet for dinner. Anyway, I'll know more after the first few days of the walk

I leave saturday afternoon. I am in the process of charging all my **** and washing clothes so that I can pack tomorrow. I am really kind of afraid of leaving something important behind, since a lot of what I'm taking is not really stuff you can pop into a drugstore to get.

Today was the first day of the west highland way. We walked 13-14 miles of fairly flat terrain. It rained most of the day - mostly a light drizzle with a few minutes here and there of stronger rain. It was basically fine though. I have a fairly large blister on the back of my heel. I have some blister pads, hopefully it'll be all right.

GPS had some trouble at the beginning so I'm missing a few miles, but this is most of it
https://www.strava.com/activities/2676326365/overview

30k steps!

I have failed to keep a log, I actually had very little free time and poor internet. I have lots of pictures and will post about the trip when I get back, currently on the plane home.

There was really no way I was going to make the Ben Nevis race but I did follow it on the internet and after seeing it I am super impressed by people's times

Winner this year was about 95 minutes. 2 people from my group walked up and down it in 6 hours.

OK so I'll start trying to fill in a TR. Some observations first

1. I did not have 100% of the gear I needed - I really could have used a proper waterproof jacket. I took 2 different cycling rain jackets both of which were really only water resistant. It rained a lot, so I was moist at the end of some days, but not really wet. It was fine.

2. it did rain a lot - all of first day, half of second, half of 3rd, none on 4th and then for the rest kind off and on. Usually just light rain, no downpours and it was fine. I did end up using all the stuff I brought that I had assumed would get light or no use, such as waterproof pants and gaiters, both of which I wore most days.

3. I got awful terrible blisters. My boots were semi-worn in - they had about 15 miles on them but they are reputed to not require much break in (keen targheels) and to not be especially durable so I didn't want to go HAM using them before the walk. I have one foot a bit larger than the other, and my smaller one got all the blisters so I suspect just not a great fit for that foot. The guide recommended wearing a thin liner on that foot in addition to socks but I didn't have one so I just put on Compeed and sucked it up. The worst one was a giant blister on my heel, full width of the heel. With Compeed on I could suck it up and bear it though. I ended up changing my socks at lunch every day in attempt to keep my feet dry(er)

4. most people carried and wore a ton of stuff and I kind of don't get it. I carried a 23L bag and it was "full" but I carried stuff that I didn't really think I needed to, such as a small first aid kit and a complete change of clothes in case I fell in a brook and got soaked. I probably could have stuffed most of what I needed into a fanny pack. What are these people carrying? And lots of people wore full rain gear all the time, even when it was sunny and warm, I would have been baking

5. speaking of which I had no experience with walking in rain or cool temps, much less together, so I packed assuming I would be too cold - I brought long underwear and lots of layers. In retrospect on half the days I would have been better off in a short sleeve shirt and shorts. That turned out to be sort of a surprise. I was fine though.

6. I had no preconceived notion of what the trail(s) would be like. I was still surprised though, a few days were much rougher than what I expected. One day in particular, walking along the side of Loch Lomond, we were up and down all day. Like you'd clamber up 5-10 feet on some rocks and tree roots, cross a little brook, then right down again. Repeat every 20 or 30 feet. It was exhausting mentally and physically and if there had been a way to bail, I might have (there was no way out but to get to the end). By the end I slowed down a lot because if I tried to keep pace I would make dumb mistakes and eventually fall or twist something. More than one person did twist an ankle or knee pretty good - the guide's wife did and had to back out of the rest of the walk.

There was a lot of variation in trail quality. At some points it was plain dirt track (so: mud), some places it was sort of like a rocky stream bed, some places it was "military road", a term I found confusing until I realized they were built by the english military in like the 1700s, where I was thinking of modern military. The military roads were basically: make a gravel road but out of random sized rocks from pea sized to fist sized, sprinkle some mortar on the top and call it a day. They were easy to walk on in the sense that they usually didn't have mud or anything to trip over, but I found them rough on the feet because they were hard and had big rocks embedded in them. Some of the slopes had a lot of loose rock and sometimes you'd almost fall if you hit a loose patch. Overall it was all fine though.

Great log, read it all in a few sittings. Like a ****ing novel, some real ups and downs! Keep on keeping on, and keep logging dude!