some famous trail in walnut creek. headed to the hall of fame.
The trail was called the Iron Horse TRail in Contra Costa County http://www.ebparks.org/parks/trails/iron_horse. This was a paved trail for pedestrians, equestrians and bicycles. THey had huge bridges over main roads and crossing lights at all other roads. THe cars actually stopped for us EVERY TIME! I would move here for the trail alone. Not to mention the perfect humidity and temperature. I posed from my brothers Blackberry and didn't have much time. The Hall of Fame thing was really neat. These athletes were remarkable with not only sports but academically as well. THe majority went to Berkley and Stanford. I was pretty impressed.
We had an adventure with running this morning that added 4 miles to my run. At about two miles into the run DAn, by bro, needed to take a walking break. So Aly and I continued on to mile 3. At about Mile 2.78 the trail crossed the road, but we did not see it, so we went up this hill for a quarter mile and then turned back to meet Dan and continue home. Well, we must have just missed Dan, who continued on the correct trail for another 3 miles. He later told us he had gone so far that there were actually McCain signs. He had crossed over an entire political district :) We went back to the hotel, hoping that he had gone there. No luck! We ate, we showered, still NO DAN!! So, since I didn't need to do my hair and Aly did, I decided to go back to find him. No cars allowed on the trail and since my horse was unavailable I asked the concierge for a bike. He happened to have one. A pink bike with mostly flat tires! I road off in a "non biking" outfit and found him in about 2 miles. Since he was a mess, I gave him the bike and I walked/jogged back so he could shower and I could cool down. I had already showered and there was no time for me to re-shower before the Hall of Fame induction. Anyway, we all made it, good thing I had put on 'guy' deodorant. I got back to the hotel barley in time to throw on my suit, flat iron my hair and grab my make-up to put on in the car as we drove madly to the country club. Anyway, funny story, these older ladies that we had run into on our first run were coming back when I was looking for Dan. I asked them if they had seen my little brother? They looked really concerend and asked how old he was. I laughed and said 38! They laughed and said no. I passed them again after I had given Dan the bike and they said that they had seen him on the bike I was riding and wondered if that was him, I confirmed!
Great time, great adventures!!!
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