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Yeah, yeah, I'm really, really late with this. My July cycling and walking totals were nearly 204 km, which I was pretty happy with considering I didn't ride for 2 weeks in July due to vacation. I'll post the August stats this weekend. Warning: my August results comparatively suck. But I had a good excuse.

I'm up a pound from last week, which isn't ideal, but the trend all week was even to down, so I'm figuring that today was an aberration.

OK, I was supposed to do this yesterday and I forgot. I have not been exercising nearly as regularly as I need to due to an unfortunate cycling accident a week and a half ago that left me injured. Nonetheless, I weighed in at 179.8 lbs this morning, which is on the good side of 180, and we'll keep pressing forward.

I had great success last year posting weekly pictures of me on my scale as a way of motivating (shaming, shurely) me to stay on my fitness kick and lose weight. Having slowly put 10 lbs back on in 2012 (despite all my cycling) I'm returning to what worked and will be posting weekly pictures of how much I weigh. But instead of scale pictures I'll be posting from the Tactio app. Today's entry: 181.6 lbs. Goal: 170 lbs.

Well, shortly after we left the eagle, Weather Armageddon descended upon us. We got some hail.

The highlight of our vacation: an eagle landed on a rock near the shore about 20 yards from where we were sitting. It was so calm it let me get within 10 yards of it to take pictures and we watched it for almost 90 minutes.