I am so out of shape

The idea was to do a hike in the Yosemite national park called Half Dome this coming weekend. Now that’s a long hike that takes 8-12 hours apparently. The specs being its 16 miles long with an elevation gain of around 4800 feet. Sounds hard and it’s supposed to be.

Since I haven’t moved a muscle for a long time, thought we’d do what every bay area person does if he wants to prepare for half dome. We went to Mission Peak in Fremont. For comparison, Mission is a 6 mile hike with an accent of 2000 feet. We should have gone sooner and done it many times, but that’s bygone now. So we went off to Mission peak on Sunday and boy was I startled. I was out of breath and huffing and puffing like a hmm.. like a wolf is it??? Anyway, point being, I was terrible. Within 15 minutes all I ever wanted to do was to turn back and go get something to drink.

People you pass always chip in saying, “Oh. It’s not far. You are almost there.” Turns out that’s an old joke. Persistence paid off though. The pain subsided with 10 more minutes. Though I cribbed and said I could go no more (I can be dramatic at times, if you haven’t noticed), we actually did it. Took us half an hour more to make the round trip than the usual folk I gather, but we did it :-).

Now I dread the impending doom of the dome.