Ultra blog 5000

I'll never forget yesterday. We climbed up a mountain road to do some work at Mountain Top Ministries. For two reasons, really. Our leader's back is in a lot of pain, and I'm deathly afraid of that drive :-). So Pam and I got out of the truck, and everyone but 3 guys got out with us. Great leg workout. All the locals were passing us pretty easily, and smiling and laughing in many cases. I'll share the end of our mountain journey, then tell you what we did up there. We walked down the mountain and it started to rain. I don't know how to explain how steep these roads were, and mixed together with the rain, and one sharp turn in particular, it freaks me out to think about riding down the mountains in the rain. However, I'd trade it for walking down the mountain. We were warned by one of our pastors that you will use muscles you don't normally use. True, and I was looking forward to that. A good workout is a good thing. However, what I did not anticipate is that the shoes I bought specifically for this trip (rather, that Jill bought) were like snow skis down a mountain. There was no traction. At one point I started walking, then got to jogging, and was nearly in a full sprint when I just had to throw myself to the ground. I was like a runaway train. Just a few tiny cuts and bruises, though. I was one of the first down, so I yelled to warn the others about this particular steep hill. Only a few fell. There's not a lot of grass to walk on, mostly large weeds. It was sort of comical. Some fell multiple times. A boy was carrying bananas and passed some of our people, then set the bananas down and sat to watch the comedy take place before his eyes. Great stories to tell his friends, I'm sure.