October 11, 2018 Pickleball

We had the twins for a week and after Alicia and Arnold came to pick them up I went down to the courts to try and play.  Yvonne had a game set up with a couple people and one of them was visiting from out of state.  I wanted to play and see how I did.  I had only been doing drills so up to this point and I needed to know how I could do.  I played with the girl I didn’t know and the funniest thing happened.  I always do this to Yvonne and now this girl did it to me.  A ball came over the net short and she said go go go so I went went went.  It was the first time I ran and moved at a quick pace, and shockingly I did it and it felt fine.  I was once again ready to get out there and start playing again.  Yay!!!

October 3, 2018 Bike Riding

Since I got the ok to be riding my bike Kev and I decided to go for a ride after breakfast.  We just rode around our neighborhood but went all over.  It felt good to be out and about but I screwed up and should have gone around the block one last time to get past the 7.99 mileage we did.

And then a funny thing happened the same day.  Our community cycle club had an event to ride the cart path on the golf course.  It was open to all residents and Kev and I had seen it listed on the events page but then kind of forgot about it.  So I went to Fry’s and on my way home I saw all these people riding along the golf course.  I quick ran in the house and told Kev it was happening and we jumped on our bikes and started at hole 4 which is right by our house.  It was really fun.  There were lots of people riding and having a great time.  I thought when we reached home 18 we would just take the road home but Kev went around and we finished up doing the cart path that we missed around 1, 2 & 3 and then finished at 4 where we started. 

I hope it’s something they do more often it was a fun ride and really pretty all along the course.  I do have to admit it was a little too much riding for me for one day and it being my first time on my bike.  Had we known we were going to ride the course we wouldn’t have rode so far in the morning.  But nothing a little ice and ibuprofen can’t fix.  

September 29, 2018 Hiking

I went away for the weekend with my girlfriends from high school. We went to Steamboat Springs in Colorado and stayed at this nice condo at the ski resort.  It was a weekend of relaxing and hanging out with the girls.  We did do some walking around town and sight seeing and also went on a great hike.  It was my first hike since my surgery and felt great.  It was a short hike, maybe 3 miles in and out and the trail was really nice, part of it was even paved.  It felt good to hike and be out there on a trail with some beautiful scenery.

                                            

I didn’t have any problems going up or down any hills so I felt good.  Looking forward to hiking more this year cause I didn’t do any last year my knee just wasn’t up for it.