Go, you chicken fat, go away!

I wish I had documented which knee was hurting last run, because I'm 90% sure it was the other knee today that made me quit and turn around :(

I ran as slow as I could today.  The knee, for the most part, behaved.

I was in Kingman for my sister's wedding.  My wife wanted to hike up in the Hualapai Mountains.  Every year scout camp was up at the top of the Hualapais at Camp Levi Levi.  It was National Trail Day, but we still had to pay $10 to hike.  We hiked the trail that I used to hike every year to get there.  There's a gate about two miles from the camp.  We would hop on the trail while our leaders drove the dirt road up to camp.  We would race them and usually beat them.  I remember one year after camp was over we were running to the gate and as boys will be boys, we were racing not only the leaders, but the other boys on the trail.  My brother and I had made some distance on everyone so the other boys started to cut the trail in an attempt to catch up.  Then we heard them calling us from up the mountain that there was a mine entrance.  We told them they were lying and they were just saying it to catch up with us.  But sure enough, there was a mine entrance.  It was too dark to explore, so I never did.  I think the other boys did throughout the years.  I remember thinking that if there was ever a nuclear war, that would be the place I would go to hide.  Anyway, I tried to remember where it was while we hiked, but I didn't find it.  Some day I'll go back again and find it.  We ended up hiking about twice as far as my wife wanted to, but it was good.  I saw one of my friends and she was surpised to see me.  I actually don't think she recognized me right away.  I texted her later.  We got back to my sister's after noon and by then my children were starving because they assumed we would bring them some breakfast.  Haha!