Awesome picture

As you can determine by the title, this post involves an awesome picture, but first it requires a story.  At the end of my second week here I went to the ranch where they film the show The Biggest Loser.  I posted some pictures, but there's something awesome that happened that I didn't tell you about.  It was planned this way so I can tell you now.

When we arrived we told the security guard that we were guests of the BLR.  As you know, at the beginning of this current season, half of the contestants worked out wit the new trainers at an unknown location.  Well, the unknown location was here at the BLR, so the security guard was familiar with the place and the program here.

He said that he would open the gym for us so we could go inside.  Right when this happened one of the contestants walked into the gym and the security guard said we couldn't go inside if any of the contestants are inside.  However, he told us that he would get us shirts from the show as a consolation prize.  I asked for a shirt size that was smaller that what I was wearing at the time so I would have room to shrink into it.

After that some of the other contestants came out for their exercise and came over to talk to us.  They were great and I enjoyed the conversation.  At that time, the security guard came back with the shirts and told us these were worn by the contestants during the season and the contestants name was written on the tag.  It turns out that one of the shirts was worn by one of the contestants that we were talking to.

When I got home, I immediately put the shirt on and it looks like the brand of shirt runs small because it was definitely more than one shirt size down from what I was at that time.

Since this is my last week, I decided to wear the shirt today and show Sam, who was on the Biggest Loser season 9.  So, here is the awesome picture of me wearing the shirt today!!

The hike today was Solstice Canyon.  A common question that I get asked is do the hikes get easier.  My answer is always yes because the do, but today I realized that no matter what, Solstice has always been a tough hike despite all of the progress that I've made.  

Tomorrow's hike will be Zuma straight through, so condolences are welcome.  This hike will be over 5 miles up then 2 miles down.  The elevation change at the top is 2500 ft.  I am positive that I can do it, but I will need a time extension past the two hour limit.  I am anticipating this to be my toughest challenge here at the BLR.  I will report tomorrow on how it was.

Closing thought for the day:  I can't believe my last hump day is over.  One thing I have not really struggled with is staying motivated.  The shirt in the picture above has been with me since the end of week 2 and now I get to wear it.  How awesome is that?