In 2014 my husband did the hiking.\u00a0 Early in October there was an evening of celebration and possibility of winning prizes.\u00a0 He won a prize though I have forgotten what it was.<\/p>\n
Since I had been on a healthier living kick for a while (attending a \u201cHealthier Living for the Chronically Ill\u201d course during the winter and getting back into swimming, plus a couple months on a very low carbohydrate eating plan), I thought perhaps I would do the hiking challenge this year (2015).\u00a0 We both registered and started\u00a0 with an easy hike.\u00a0 To be considered a \u201cwinner\u201d in the challenge this summer, a hiker had to complete 5 of the 8 hikes in the booklet.<\/p>\n
We started out right away.\u00a0 I took my \u201cstroller\u201d over hill and dale and large boulders in the middle of the trail, picking it up to go over a log.\u00a0 I was completely bushed when we finished but finish we both did.<\/p>\n
My husband went on to do several more hikes before I got back into the woods.\u00a0 Eventually, with encouragement from him, I managed another hike by myself.\u00a0 We hiked together on three more hikes, with him insisting that I figure out the trail by myself (to teach me some woods skills).<\/p>\n
We did the final two trails together which were very difficult, at least for me, and nearly killed me.\u00a0 Well, it felt like I was near death’s door when I crawled up out of the gully….\u00a0 When we finally came out of the woods we were on the main north-south highway between towns.\u00a0 He hiked another half mile along Route 10 to our car while I leaned against a guardrail watching the cars go by. And go by. And go by!\u00a0 No one stopped to see if the older fat lady leaning against the guardrail was in trouble or needed anything\u2026.I really was okay but I had long before consumed the last of my water and could barely move and was so hoping someone would stop with a bottle of water\u2026<\/p>\n
When the husband and car arrived, he kindly opened the door for me and I fell in.\u00a0 A complete rag.\u00a0 By the time we got home I was over my outrage that no passersby stopped to check on me and resolved to be more cognizant of what was going on around me both when I am on the road and other places as well.\u00a0 I hope I would have stopped, at least to check on the fat lady\u2026<\/p>\n
I also decided that I would participate in the challenge again in 2016 if the town offers it!\u00a0 Healthy living in the meantime should make those hikes easier!<\/p>\n
We attended the October celebration night again this year.\u00a0 We won a prize: $10 off an order at the famous local doughnut shop!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a town near us there has been a hiking challenge the last two summers.\u00a0 For a $5.00 fee you can register, receive a booklet with 8 or 10 hiking trails listed, get a tee shirt advertising the challenge, and get off into the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}