Day 1 - March 20, 2011

First day of training.  Sunday morning, up at 7 to go hiking up in Harriman.  Beautiful day, around 34 degrees when I started.  The plan was to do a hard hike for about 6 miles, lunch, head back to the city, climb with a friend for a few hours.  Crash.

A few stats on the hike.

Distance: ~ 6 miles
# of times I got lost: 1
# of older couples I hiked past and hope to be able to hike as well as when I'm 70: 1.3 million
# of older couples with knee braces that look like NASA made them that hiked past me...:  1
Number of times a snake scared the bejeezuses out of me: 2 (ahem...)

The route I took was off of the first entrance to Harriman off of 7 lakes drive, red, to orange, to blue.  It was rocky (suprise...) and almost continuous up and down hills.  Good for training.

Observations:
Climbing after hiking, even with a few hours rest in between was more difficult than I thought it would be.

Wow, I am in worse shape than I thought I was, this is going to be an interesting 10 weeks.