WEEKEND RECAP
This weekend's 12 mile walk routes were a Stairway Walk Extravaganza!
A lovely group of 20 walkers headed out in
the fog on a sleepy, quiet morning on a walk to Grand View Park. We meandered in the Presidio along the Mountain Lake Park Trail. Then we headed over and through
Golden Gate Park past the California Academy of Science. After our break at
Andronico's we headed to the triple stair portion of our walk. For our
appetizer: up the 15th Avenue Stairway, our main course, 16th Avenue Tiled Stairs Mosaic
Stairs and then for dessert, the final frontier, the stairs up to Grand View Park! From there it was an easy
mosey back to the Presidio and down the Ecology Trail to the Warming Hut for a 11.5 mile day
with 650.0 ft of elevation gain!
We
all agreed that waking up Sunday was tough! It was socked-in drippy fog when we
met at the Transit
Café. We started our walk by tackling the Lyon
Street Stairs, walking down Lovers Lane, then walking back
UP the newly improved lower Ecology
Trail – all of that and we had only walked 3.25 miles! From there we walked
out Lake Street and Geary Blvd. to the new Land’s
End Lookout Visitor Center where we took refuge from the damp fog, which by
this point, had us all a little soaked. We finished our Stairway Extravaganza Weekend with
a BANG by walking back on Land’s End
Trail (yup, with more stairs in there), to Baker Beach with the grand
finale: the 470 stairs of the Batteries
to Bluffs trail. Another 12 mile day with 623.0
ft of elevation gain!
It is exhausting
just reading through all of that! I am so impressed and inspired by everyone’s
amazing efforts this weekend. These walks were SUPER DUPER CHALLENGING but we climbed
all of those stairs with a lot of community support, love, laughter and
wooohoooos! Thank you everyone for taking part.
Be sure to keep
hydrating and stretching for recovery when you get home from training walks. Use Advil and ice for soreness but if
you have pain, lay off training! And if it your pain persists, see a
doctor. It is NOT worth damaging your body for the sake of training. We have
lots of training walks between now and the remaining events of this season.
Rest and take days off from training if you need it. Your well being is paramount!
MY NEW VICE
Chinese Foot Reflexology! My Peroneal Tendonitis
is creeping back again (oddly enough on my right foot this year) so I treated myself
the past two weekends to a 70 minute foot and back massage at uTOEpia. Oh, and they do mani pedis too, if you want to go for total indulgence! Highly recommended.
uTOEpia | 1722 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 | (415) 567-8668
glassybaby FUNDRAISING PARTY
glassybaby will be driving a van full of rainbow-hued votives down from Seattle for this very special fundraising party. 10% of the sales from the event will be donated to the Immediate Impact Breast Cancer Walk. We hope you can join us for this afternoon of light, color, love and giving.
Sunday, August 19th from 1:00pm - 5:00pm
1801 Wedemeyer St., San Francisco
More info & RSVP here: http://groupspaces.com/InOurLifetime/item/310761
WARMING HUT HOTTIES 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!
Saturday, September 1st at 12:00 noon after the 10 mile walk at the Warming Hut, where else?!
THIS WEEK'S MAP QUOTES
In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and
confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we
will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our
deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are
capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one
heart touching another heart. Roberta
Sage Hamilton
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t
worked, try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise L. Hay
Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it
on things that matter.
WEEKLY INSPIRATION
So, when you have a day
when you spill a large nonfat latte all over yourself in the car, water comes
gushing through the light fixture in your kitchen from your neighbor overflowing
their toilet, your your ATM card goes through the wash, you get a
call that a weird person has stolen all of the packages from
your building and is trying to leave them at your house "for
grandma..." (yes, these things all happened to me last Friday) sometimes
you just need to put on some great music, turn up the volume and shake it off! Riding wild horses you can't control, with all your glitter and gold, take care of your soul...
Glitter & Gold, Rebecca Ferguson
How
good or bad
Happy
or sad
Does it have to get?
Losing yourself
Don't cry for help
You don't think you
need it
And old friends are
just a chore
But now you need 'em
more than ever before
All
that glitter
And
all that gold
Won't
buy you happy
When
you've been bored and sore
Riding
wild horses
You
can't control
With
all your glitter
And
all of your gold
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
Soul,
soul, soul
How
high, how low
How
on your own
Does
it have to get?
Losing
your soul
Will
cost you more
And
that life you're paying for
And
all those friends that are just a chore
You're
gonna need 'em more than never before
All
that glitter
And
all that gold
Won't
buy you happy
When
you've been bored and sore
Riding
wild horses
You
can't control
With
all your glitter
And
all of your gold
Take
care of your soul
One
day you're gonna wake up and find that
No
dream is losing it's shining
Nobody
is by your side
When
the rain comes down
And
you're losing your mind
So
who you're gonna run to?
Where
you're gonna hide
Glitter
and gold won't keep you warm
All
those lonely nights
And
all those friends that were just a chore
You're
gonna need 'em more than ever before
All
that glitter
And
all that gold
Won't
buy you happy
When
you've been bored and sore
Riding
wild horses
You
can't control
With
all your glitter
And
all of your gold
To
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
And
all of your gold
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
Soul,
soul, soul
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
Take
care of your soul
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