There is a difference between interest and commitment.

WEEKEND RECAP

We had another weekend of stellar walking weather! Saturday's walk was another route filled with new vistas and amazing scenery. We walked through Golden Gate Park and made our way via Ocean Beach to the swanky new Land's End Lookout and Visitor Center and fancy pants bathrooms (which Trina has deemed the BEST bathrooms on our walk routes!) We finished our walk by stopping at the new Golden Gate Bridge Overook which has the most amazing view straight onto the bridge. 

Do these people look like they just walked 10 miles?! I don't think so! Gorgeous.

For Sunday's walk we met in a new place - The Transit Cafe at the Main Parade Grounds! (According to Judy, the bathrooms are neck and neck with the Land's End bathrooms. We might need to do a scientific survey!) It was HOT so we tried to walk on the shady side of the street. We made our way along the water to the ferry Plaza where we bumped into some walkers who had just completed The Commute, 55 mile non-stop walk from San Jose to SF.

The seconds part of the Sunday’s route was all new. We continued along colorful and urban Market, UP Fell to Divisadero. The cool of the Kaiser Medical Center bathrooms was so great and I discovered their pharmacy has a "Foot Care Section."

TIPS FOR RECOVERY

Many people told me they were sore and tired after Sunday's walk. My tips for recovery: keep hydrating!, take some Advil for soreness, take a nice, long hot shower or bath, and keeeep stretching! Eat protein when you get home. Get plenty of restorative sleep as well after increasing your cumulative mileage on your weekend walks. This endurance training is asking a lot of your body - treat it with loving kindness!

THIS WEEK’S MAP QUOTES

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path. Osho

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen

For listening to the stories of others… is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name. Mark Nepo

WEEKLY INSPIRATION 

You know that famous Woody Allen quote, "90% of success is just showing up."? Well, I think even before the “showing up” part, we have to have made a commitment. We have all done that by signing up to participate in a breast cancer fundraising event! We made a huge, rewarding and life changing commitment  when we paid our registration fees. You make the commitment when you sign up for a training walk.

Hopefully being a part of this amazing community helps you honor your commitment to your participating in your walk event, to consistently working toward your fundraising goal, to showing up to do the work on training walks and to taking care of yourself as best as possible throughout it all. Show up and do with work and great things will happen. Honor yourself for your unwavering commitment!

FOOD IS FUEL!

Eating protein within 45 minutes after a moderate to intense workout (of at least 45 minutes to an hour) helps your muscles rebuild and repair—and also helps increase the number of calories you burn. Teddy Bass, L.A.–based trainer