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Item Completed: Go on a Hike with the Mix Crew

 Today, I finally got out of the house and joined the Mix group on their bi-monthly hike.  This time they were close to home at the Couchville Lake Trail at Longhunter State Park.  It was a nice, easy path, asphalted all the way and a loop.  The loop is 2 miles and... it was both easy and tough.  I didn't have a lot of problems with the walking at first, but my legs weren't used to that long of a walk.  I could feel my upper body trying to go faster than my lower body at around 1 mile.  Thankfully, my friend Bonnie refused to leave me behind and sat with me at a bench when I needed to rest.  It took us about an hour to do the walk. 

I'm glad that I went, not just for the exercise but also for the chance to talk with both people I've met before and those I'd never met.  I found one person who has a child at the same school and is the same age as my youngest.  A couple of us were talking about our D&D game tomorrow.  The conversation kind of meandered everywhere and I was grateful for the chance.  I'm hoping to get out and walk more regularly (with my eldest) so the next hike won't be so difficult.  And I'm hoping to meet up with them on Wednesday night when they have a meet-up at a place downtown.  I suspect that I'm going to Uber down and back because I hate driving downtown!

It feels good to have another thing checked off my 101 list.


Here are some of the pictures I took on the hike.  Not as many as I would have liked, but as my stamina increases, so will my ability to take more pictures.

A beautiful bit of frozen water
beside the trail

I love these little jetties of rock.

My friend taking pictures herself.

More water with bits of snow around

It's a little hard to see, but there are
daffodils poking out of the ground

Me, at the end of the walk
Feeling good about me


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