Allergies Suck

This week was kind of a bummer for fitness. I mentioned yesterday that I haven't been feeling that great. My husband and I have both been having really bad allergy attacks. It's Portland and every flower here is blooming. It hasn't been that fun. At first I thought I was getting a cold but now I'm pretty sure it's allergies. I haven't been sleeping and it's just been crappy. When I don't sleep I have no desire to get up with my husband to share the car so we can go to the big park.


Not going to Thousand Acres isn't that big of a deal. It's actually very good for Phoenix to get breaks. If we go too many days in a row she gets very overstimulated and stops using her brain. Getting a good break is also good for them because they are pretty extreme when we go out there. They are racing each other, jumping over fences and down trees, swimming and doing all sorts of crazy stuff. It's just go, go, go and if I let them they'd do it until they've dropped. Rest and recovery is pretty important for any fitness routine and luckily my dogs do not go too stir crazy on me.

So this week instead of a bunch of trips to the big park, we stayed home and did some indoor fitness with the wobble board, did some trick training, went for a bunch of leash walks and visited the dog park in our apartment complex. The cool thing about my apartment complex is that they've provided some agility equipment and the girls enjoy using it. We played a few games of fetch at the dog park, too. I also very slightly reduced their food to make up for not getting to run free.

Today, allergies or no we are going hiking with my friend in Mt. Hood National Forest. So that should be really fun for the girls. We are going back to that awesome trail I found about two weeks ago. 

I hope you all have a great weekend!