Sweat is your fat crying.

Food log:  Breakfast: 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 piece of toast (buttered), 1 banana, 1 cup of yogurt. Lunch:  Kung Pao chicken, brown rice, Hot and sour soup, small salad with peanut sauce. Dinner: Fried catfish sandwich, 1 small cup of potato salad.  Day snacks: 1 orange.  Night snacks: None.

Activity Log: Hike into Wildcat Canyon Regional Park in Richmond CA., 2.6 miles, plus walking around onsite at work.

Thoughts: My plan was to go hiking at the Point Pinole Regional Shoreline tonight, but the gate into that park closed at 5PM, so I missed that.  However, I remembered that the Wildcat gate was open until 6PM, so I hurried over there.  I was able to get into the parking lot so that saved me another big climb up to the trail head.

Today, since I had more daylight to work with, I followed the route that I had mapped out last night.  Not only was it about a mile longer than yesterday, but the climb was much steeper.  I started out at an elevation of 157 feet.  The highest point along the trails I took was 696 feet.  That's a difference of 539 feet.  Luckily, there were stretches of gentle ascent, even ground, and downhill interspersed along the way.  But a few of those steep stretches were brutal, at least for a fat man like me.  But I did my best and didn't get discouraged.  I stopped when I needed to, but I tried to keep the forward momentum as much as possible. There were opportunities to take some short cuts and easier paths, but I stuck with the route I had begun with. It was actually kind of fun to push through it.  I was reward by beautiful views and terrain.  There were several other hikers. There were a couple people riding their bikes, and even a couple on horseback. I don't know if I can keep up the energy for another hike tomorrow, but we'll see what happens.