An update on the whole fitness thing. Three years ago I used to hike Mission Peak at least once a week. If you don't know, Mission Peak is about 3,000 vertical feet in the hiking space of about four miles. So it's tough, no matter how you cut it. I went a couple of times after Megan was born. Each time it was tougher and tougher until I finally gave up about 1/3 of the way up once. After that, I never went back.
I had let the mountain beat me and whenever I would drive into Fremont I would look up and see this peak and wonder if would ever be able to climb it again.
This weekend, I did it. And what's better. My times were really good. About ten minutes off my best, but it was slippery from the rain and I didn't take any of the shortcuts on the way up. Also, I never stopped on the way up. I never put hands to my thighs (the sign that your legs are giving out). And that was with the peak totally covered in cloud and 20 degrees cooler than the Stanford staging ground at the base.
I'm definitely back and I would say even better than before. I certainly couldn't have imagined also swimming two miles in the pool, especially not on the same day as an Mission Peak hike.
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