Well the 4th has come and gone.

I decided to run a 15K in Golita on the 4th. But, I was pretty wiped out from our 12 mile hike the day before to Boney in Sycamore Canyon. We never actually reached Boney so what would normally be a 3 hour hike turned into a 5 hour hike. Dean and I hiked with Dave, Cheryl and Ari. Ari was a trooper! He started to loose it at the end but Dean carried him up the nasty hill…Dean you are a good man! We rewarded Ari’s good attitude and determination by heading directly to IN-N-OUT burger. After a good dose of burgers, fries and soda we all felt much better! We spent the rest of Sunday at the Brandt’s celebrating Passion Feast.

By Monday I was not really wanting to run this 15K race. I was very thankful to Dave, Jenna, Dean and Jason for their willingness to get up at 6AM and accompany me to Golita. My run was good yet at mile 4 I was pretty exhausted and wondering to myself what in the world I was thinking to get up that early and drive an hour away just to run 9 miles! The weather was pleasant though. I ran the whole time with an overcast sky and heavy mist in the air. Considering my fatigue I was pleased with my personal time of 1:30:54 … my speed is improving.

After the race Dave called a mutual friend of ours to see if we could drop by so I could take a shower. He was very hospitable and even asked us to hang around awhile. We took a walk with him through the the town he lives in. It’s called Isle Vista–a college town with apparently more people clumped into one area than in any other town in the US. We stayed several hours but decided to head back toward Thousand Oaks around noon. We found out that fireworks in Santa Barbara don’t even start until 9:15 PM and none of us were up to hanging around all day.

Dean grilled up some leftovers from Sundays BBQ and we rented 3 movies and watched all 3 consecutively! By 8:45 we were done being sloths (having sat in front of the TV for over 6 hours!) so we decided to walk to the dog park to see the fireworks. I was so glad we decided to be homebodies yesterday. We were all really tired and needed the extra downtime.

Now it’s back to work!