Dec 10 - I hate walking

Yes, I hate walking.  Oh I can get from here to there, but I'm not a walker.  Many people walk for exercise.  I'd rather do anything else.  However, now I have to do some walking to prep for Kili.

I tried out my heavy socks in the hiking boots.  They change where my feet sit in the boots and bother my low arches.  They reduce the space for my feet and are thus too narrow.  Once home, I played around with a couple of other foot beds -- the orthotics from my cycling shoes and the insulated, arch-less ones from my winter shoes.  The latter feel the best.  I'll likely be carrying them with me as a fall-back. 

I also tried out other socks.  My cycling socks are wool and I've got two thicknesses, three if you count the non-wool ones.  For cycling, I use the medium weigh socks, now matter how hot out.  The heavy ones work nicely with the hiking boots - taller than the boots but not as tall as the hiking socks -- not mid calf.  I'll likely bring them up north and do some walking in them; give the combo a cold weather try out. I can see myself having alternate socks, footbeds and even my running shoes in my "day pack" during the hike.  Somehow I will suffer through, or not.

My walk yesterday was over the causeway.  It's about a 4 mile round trip.  Doing two long walks in the row is something that I can feel in my hips this morning. 

Sandy worked on the garden, wrapping up around 4pm.  We headed over to Jim and Joanne's at 5:30; the annual block party and boat parade.  There was enough food to satisfy, oh, 5x or maybe 10x the number of people.  Most items hardly suffered a dent.  I should have taken pictures.  I made tapenade but the "spicy hot" label scared people off.  This batch used about 1/10 of the hot peppers that I usually include ... perhaps if I do this again I will use zero.

Today ... pack car, squeeze in a 100k, but before that, I've got Dave Ask coming over to talk about the soffits and the concrete guys to do final prep for that installation.  They're going to do that while we're away.  We stopped over ther yesterday to see how it was coming, and it's looking good.

What else ... not much ... that's enough !

Onward !