I came, I saw, I conquered!

I got off to a false start this morning - thought I'd try to reach my trail from another angle but ended up going around in circles for about 30 minutes! - but I finally found the suspension bridge. :)

Was the bridge as wonderful as I had anticipated? No, but it was fun to jump on and make it sway. And it could have been worse - after all, about 500 feet from where I turned around last weekend I came to this rinky dinky bridge and I thought it was bridge I'd been searching for the last few weeks! But after continuing on for what felt like 5 or 6 miles, but was in reality only about 1/2 mile I came to the actual suspension bridge.

The rest of the trail was a killer! I swear it was straight up the whole way back except for one little section where it was straight down. I thought I was going to DIE. And have I mentioned the big fallen tree?? I was too tired to try to jump up on it to crawl over it so I took the low road and went under it. And I went under it with very little grace and dignity!!! This was of course during the little section where the trail went straight down. I ended up flat on my face, sliding under the tree and down the incline!! The good news was that I could "feel" that I was near the end so the fact that I was covered in dirt with sweat trails running down my dirty face and dead gnats in between my teeth (I was doing most of my breathing from my mouth because I was so out of breath) didn't bother me one bit.

Now I'm off to figure out how many calories gnats have so that I can log them into my fitday journal....