A walk with my sister

My plans changed from the moment I woke up today. My sister Chrissy called to ask if she could come over later. Since I thought I had other stuff to do today, I told her it would be fine for her to come over sooner than later. By the time she got to my place, my other plans fell through. So we just hung out and chatted. However, our chatting (ok, mine) had soon begun to sound like complaining. We definitely didn't want to go there, so Chrissy suggested we go for a walk. She wanted me to feel better. She's very caring like that. And she's very happy when the sun is out, so she was extra excited the day was so nice. Although I had planned on running later, I agreed to go with her. I needed to change the subject of converstaion anyway, as well as get some sun and exercise in.

Well, I live near the end (or the beginning, I suppose) of the Los Gatos Creek Trail, so we decided to do that walk rather than driving somewhere to walk. (I don't know why I always need to drive somewhere to exercise!)

Anyway, we walked and talked and walked and talked. Suddenly, it seemed we were in Campbell. I don't live far from Campbell, but I never walk there! Wow, how quickly the time had passed. Finally, my sister said she needed to be getting back to do something at home, so as we turned around I mentioned how I had really wanted to know how far we had walked. Any other time in my life I wouldn't have cared, but with my training and my blogging, I felt it important to know!!

I saw a mile marker just about at the point we turned around, so on the way back, I kept notice of the other markers. I stopped seeing the markers towards the end, but I estimate that it was a four to five mile round trip.

Although I intended to go running later today, walking with my cheerful sister was definitely good for my soul. When I got home, I felt lovely again. No more complaints from me.

Dana and David have now invited me to go with them to visit my Uncle Alvin up in Vacaville. We'll stay the night and come home later tomorrow. Since our TNT training was an OYO (on your own) run tomorrow anyway, it seems our own run will be on the trails in Vacaville. That's cool!

Until tomorrow...