Leave tomorrow ~2pm

Psyched for the trip to Ireland via a long lay over and walk about in Paris. 100km walk should be long. All good though. Cheers...can't wait for Guinness from the source.

Ankle recovering...

Last weekend I went out for a hike on Granite Mountain and about half way had to turn around due to a stubborn bear another hiker told me about...he wouldn't get out of the wya nad I didn't have my bear wrestling outfit on...so I ran downt he trial turned up another trial to rond out an hour of cardio...truned around after a bit and was heading for the barn when i bit it, rolled my ankle and gimped mildly out. Picture shows the carnage. I'm feelling quite well now we'll be walking in ireland 100km before we know it. We've surpassed our team goal but would love to double it so any donations would be great. The link to the donation site in on this blog...

33.5 miles overnight training hike

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
33.5 miles overnight

Barbara and I had a surprisingly fun evening of walking from Duvall WA to Rattlesnake Lake in North Bend via the whole length of the Snoqulamie Valley trail. We headed out at about 730pm Saturday and with a combo of minibreaks, breaks and break-breaks stopped about 630am Sunday. No critters to challenge minus a few rabbits and lazy birds (started chirping rather long after first light). There wre areas of spooky and some tired feet at the end but some how held a conversation 95% of the 11 or so hours. My left quad freaked out a bit but I rallied to teach bootcamp on Monday morning. The best move was from Barb asking the Frogger family for bug spray something we forgot. They had some, thank you frogger fam.

PB &Js were money as was my can of starbucks at around 1 am. The sign as we left the 3 mile stretch of road returning to the trail that stated, "sections of the bridge may be missing" was classic. We're as ready as we probably can be. My quad lit up after boot camp but again recovered quickly. A little ice and vitamin I and I'll be fine in Ireland.

Hoping donations and cheers will start rolling in...

Finally sent out my official call to friends and family asking for support. I'm hoping to get some donations rolling in SOON. Oxfam will be thankful of all those helping.

Running today

I know we're walking the deal in Ireland but today I shall run. Big night time walk tentative for next Saturday 25 miles plus Mt Si.

Trying to figure this out.

Someday someone might take a look at my silly little blog. I was actually thinking of ditching Facebook and just having a blog to share the cool pictures of Tia with the folks that wanted to see them. This Ireland blog will indicate if that's a good idea or not. The last training hike was an attempt up Rainier. See our track here:

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First post

This looks somewhat crappy...guess that's why I'm not a computer programmer.