Just Havin' Fun

Sunday we went out for a hike up Mt Watatic.. It's a great local hike with an excellent view from the top and it was the peak of the Fall foliage season. To be honest, I don't get the whole "we have to go see the foliage" thing, but I do get the whole "let's go hike up a mountain" thing.. Mountains are about the best outdoor functional conditioning gyms around.. For example, there's giant boulders to climb up on and do sets of pistols....

There's trees to climb...

There's big rocks to do plyometric jumps on:

And there's lots of uneven, rocky surfaces to challenge yourself on with your handstand walking.... Right up to the point where your hand slips and your finger gets stuck in a crack of a rock and almost breaks off...

And like the last time we all went hiking we played the "ten lives" game on the way down where you start with ten lives and you can only step on rocks or roots on the way down and every time that you step on the ground you lose one life.. As we were playing the game on the way down a group of guys in their 40's and 50's came up behind us and got held up a little by us playing our game. I quickly described the rules of the game to them to let them know what we were doing and they laughed, probably thinking it was a goofy game.. After about two minutes they were still behind us and I said to them "you're playing the game, aren't you?".... 

You know what the answer was, don't you? It doesn't matter how old you are (or you think you are), you're never too old to stop playing.. I heard the quote once "We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing".. Very true.

Have fun,

Kevin