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Nana and Papa have been bad. It started the end of October with a weekend illness. The following weekend was out-of-town visiting family. Then finishing oral comps/degree and then into the Thanksgiving holiday. Oh we could come up with lots of excuses but we're very aware that they are excuses.

What we do know is that we have to take the responsibility and start again. This week we start...again. No hike this week but we will get back into the exercise mode.

We recognize the challenges ahead in December. First, it's December and that means parties and food and calories. We will need to be planning ahead to avoid big pitfalls.

Second, the schedule. For Nana, work gets extremely busy and stressful; stress eating will be a temptation as well as skipping workouts because of time pressure. For Papa, it's a whole adjustment of routine and balance in life now that the degree is complete.

We will start out slow and increase to get back to the previous levels. Then we'll get into the very serious training about 90-120 days out from the hike. Meanwhile, we continue to read and try to learn as much as possible.