Today's walk

They're getting longer, LOL.

We parked in Redmond with the intention of taking the 520 trail, since it's a steep hill and we wanted to train on a few of those. The idea was to go for a while, then double back a bit to catch the new light rail like from somewhere in Bellevue back to Microsoft, where we'd catch a bus back to dt Redmond and our car.

Then we decided just to walk from dt Redmond all the way to dt Bellevue. Called our walk at 8 miles, as planned, just at the REI there. We went in and bought a waist pack for dh to carry crap in. Went to Trader Joe's, and then we had to walk an additional 1/2 mile or so to get to the dt Bellevue light rail stop.

It was long, but we did it. Feeling good.

I still need to work on eating. I now know I can do 8 miles on no food, but after we stopped, I got a bit dizzy, and dh said I'd been slowing down for the last mile, so maybe I should eat.

I think I may just end up being gummi bears or Swedish fish and eating those. Pure sugar, yes, but I haven't had luck with a lot of other things.

Next week, dh is at trains for two days, and then Sunday is Head of the Lake and both Perry and Anne-Chloe will be racing. So the plan is to do our -gulp- 9 miler on Wednesday evening after work. May have dh take the bus in to meet me, then we can walk across the 520 floating bridge.

Grrrr.

Last week I mailed some sneakers that were defective back to the manufacturer. I used the Postal Service, which in my experience has always been the best way of doing stuff.

This time?

NSM.

I dropped the package off Sunday evening.

And it has apparently disappeared into the ether.

The USPS tracking shows that they are "awaiting" the parcel.

Opening a case is quasi-impossible: they just say item not dropped off, can't open a case, back to the beginning. I finally had to file it as a complaint against the local post office to get someone's attention. Which I did? They are "looking into it".

What sucks is that since it never officially entered the system, I suspect I'm going to be SOL. Which, ugh, $110 of defective shoes plus $12 in shipping, grr.