Where do I start?
The photo is of Mt. Belford.
In addition to getting ready for this harvest season, Paul and I have been busting our buns to get into good enough shape to climb this mountain. Why? Long story, for another day. The short version is that we’ve been doing the stairs at Communications Hill in San Jose, and let me tell you what, it’s no picnic. On our first day out to test them, we did one set. From the very bottom, all the way up, and back down. Thought I would die from heart or lung failure…so.out.of.shape. Ugh!
The next time, I did what I should have done the first time out and took a hit off the asthma inhaler before driving over there. We did two sets, up and down, up and down. Better. By lastnight, we successfully did “the hill”, five times.
In between hill climbs, we went over to Calero and hiked our normal trail, the hard way, and never stopped. The stairs are working! Usually, on the incline, we stop to catch our breath at least three times, sometimes more. We didn’t stop! Woohoo! There were a couple of times I thought I should, but then the trail would level off just a bit, long enough to catch my breath and we kept going. Felt great.
Things I really need to blog about that are vineyard and winery related are coming up soon, this is my test blog to see how the new platform works out. So far so good…of course I’m not to “publish” yet, so we’ll see what happens. Wish me luck.
-SR