The above quote went through my head several times on this 5 mile walk in 82 degree weather. Needless to say, one of Kirk's coworker's told him about this walk near Olympia. In fact, she told him about it last year and lets just say there is no way that I could have done this last year; however, I did it this year but paid the price in fatigue. Prior to the bleed this would have been a piece of cake, but post bleed this was one of the toughest exercise activities I have done, but I accomplished it along with learning some lessons. Lesson number one is my workouts are a lot better in an air conditioned gym. Lesson 2 If I do something similar again take an extra beta blocker to avoid post exercise headaches. Lesson 3 Just do not bring water on this walk, but you better have some Gatorade. Finally try new activities but recognize my limitations and listen to my body!
Here are some of the photos. As you can see this is a very long boardwalk and before you even get to the boardwalk you walk on paved and gravel road for a while. Lets just say Zachary and Isabella said that they never want to do this again.
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| The boardwalk |
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| The kiddos spent most of the walk up on the shoulders! |
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| Part of Puget Sound! The kiddos were not impressed because they did not see any marine animals. |
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| Once we reached the end of the boardwalk we zoomed in on Puget Sound. You can see some really pretty birds. |
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| One of the ponds |
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| Another view of the boardwalk |
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| The highlight for Isabella a butterfly! |
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| More shoulder riding |
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| The beginning of the boardwalk. The boardwalk is so long that there was no way I could capture a photo of the entire thing. |
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| The Kiddos and I at the end of the walk! We were a very tired and cranky bunch! |
