hiking from Eldorado Peak to Austera Peak (photo credit Shauna McDaniel)
My summer has been full of great mountain adventures, and as the weeks go by, I’m feeling pretty darn good about how I’m handling the exertion. A big step: my body is able to recover from heavy exercise much better than it could over the past few years of autoimmune struggle. I got kind-of greedy early in the summer, and laid down a bunch of great backcountry days in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest; hikes, peaks, climbs, wandering adventures. What fun! It gave me the chance to see if and how I’d recover from back-to-back trips with just a few days between some pretty heavy exertion.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some trip posts and more recipes that I tested this summer. Meanwhile, I wrote an article over on autoimmune-paleo.com, about ways to find the root causes for when exercise recovery becomes harder to handle. It’s a topic many people – with or without autoimmunity – struggle with. Having gone through a lot of ups and downs myself with this, I want to share what I learned in the hope it will help others on their journeys. Head on over to my article to find out more!
