Sunday, June 12, 2011

Day 243 - Lake Merced

I walked around Lake Merced with D, and I came home with a sore back and a weak ankle.  I have been feeling a little blah lately, but our walk was about two hours (it usually takes me 90 minutes) and I got tired also.  It also was disconcerting that everyone was passing us.  I know I complain about that all the time, but when two little hunched over ladies went sailing by us, I knew I was - well limping along.

One of the girls at group said that she walked the Lake two to three times a week and she said that she would go around it twice.  I gasped out loud - twice that is ten mile and she said she does it in forty minutes?  I was sitting there shaking my head - like that is just not possible.  You can't even run 10 miles in 40 minutes = please.

So I said Lake Merced?  And she said yes - and I said you go all the way around Lake Merced and she said yes.  And I said sometimes you do it twice? And she said yes.  So I say you walk 30 to 40 miles a week? And she said what?  I only go around Lake Merced it is only like a mile around -.  I don't know what lake I have been walking around, but sure isn't the same one she is walking around.  I guess from all of that there is a shorter way around the lake - I don't know - maybe when my knee is feeling better I will explore the smaller Lake Merced.

Well off to be a nurse.

2 comments:

  1. Think she's ever been to Lake Merced?

    Maybe she means "crocodile lake" in Stern Grove - that's a pretty short walk.

    Stow Lake is also short (except for the extra 6 miles we walked to get there).

    T3 is the "Bee's Knees"!

    Go Whitemop!

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