This morning I hiked the Y again. For some reason this morning I just naturally woke up early. With all the found time, I decided to hike the Y, and do it before it got to hot outside. I left at about 8:45am. At that time the sun had hit the valley, but not quite the west side of the mountain. Even though I left pretty early, it was still pretty warm outside.

My focus today was to get to the top as quickly as possible. I brought my stopwatch, so I could time myself and use the time as motivation to get to the top. I decided that I could stop every 10 minutes for a drink of water. The end result is that I got from the trail-head to the the bottom of the Y in 29 minutes, which I think is a new best time for me. Even though the hike was hard at that pace, I felt like I was more energized than on previous hikes.

Today I thought I should get out and get some exercise, so I decided to hike the Y. I wanted to see how fast I could hike it, reasonably. I did the whole thing, up and down, in about 50 minutes, just before sunset. It was warm, but there were some clouds that kept things from getting hot. It was quite pleasant actually. I think if I work on it, I should be able to shave about 10 minutes off of that time without having to run it, just hiking a little faster.

I thought I was in really bad shape, but this hike let me see that I’m not as bad as I thought. A few more hikes and a good pair of shoes, and I should be able to do something that might merit the word, climb.