Weekend Update

After almost a week with no updates, I wish I had more impressive training stories to share. But sometimes our crazy lives get in the way of training.

Jenn and I did walk on our own Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for a few miles each day. On Saturday, we spent the morning out at Chuck and Jen's helping Bryce and Natalie organize things for the yard sale next weekend - if you live in the area and enjoy going to yard sales, there will be some good stuff at this one so email me for more information.

After leaving Newfield, we spent most of the afternoon cleaning our apartment and rearranging some furniture, before going to a cookout that evening. While the cookout was a great time, it ended with somebody tearing a ligament in their knee and a trip to the emergency room. Since we didn't get home from that until well after midnight, we felt obliged to sleep in on Sunday.

We spent most of Sunday doing more chores around the house that we've been putting off for weeks. But finally at around 4:00 or so, we got our walking shoes on and headed out to meet Zoe and Robyn. I'm sorry to say that Robyn has decided to pull out of the walk from TAFA due to being over scheduled with other life needs, like finding a job and a place to live. But she'll still be joining us on some of our practice walks.

After having soymilk and cookies at Zoe's house, we started walking in earnest. After some meandering around, we settled on walking to Buttermilk Falls, which is located on the outskirts of town. We arrived just an hour or so before sunset. Included here is a picture of a natural rock tower that has been left behind by centuries of erosion.

Finally, lest people think that our walks are all waterfalls and idyllic garden paths, I'm including one shot from our stroll down Route 13. We walked along 13 for a mile or two on our way back to town. The sunset was gorgeous, even if it was just the backdrop to a long row of big box stores. These pictures looked a lot better on my Mac but somehow the images were shrunk down when I uploaded them to Flickr, so you're seeing the compressed versions here.

After the walk, Zoe and Robyn came over to our apartment where we made some pizza and watched a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Good times.

I calculated this morning that we walked about 8 or 9 miles altogether. Nothing compared to our previous weekends but it was a lovely walk and nobody got any blisters for a change. Jenn and I will be trying to do more 5 to 10 mile days throughout the rest of this week and then do 20 - 25 miles on Sunday. Zoe will be out of town from Wednesday till next week sometime.