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Day Two - 21.1 miles- Hill Street or Hill Hell day
You will begin your day in the area that was originally called “False Bay” by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542, Mission Bay Park. The route will take you along the breathtaking boardwalk of Pacific Beach and Mission Beach. From there, you head into the laid back, unpretentious neighborhood of Ocean Beach, or OB. Sunset Cliffs is next, named for its exquisite sunset vistas. The sleepy town of Point Loma will be next before heading back through Ocean Beach. On your way back to Camp, you will pass one of the world’s premier marine adventure parks, SeaWorld San Diego.
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So, Day two begins, and my legs are saying no way. I am taking baby steps. I am stretching and it’s not helping. I am taking 1600 mg of Motrin, it’s not helping. I am going to walk a bit and see what happens. Kate and I take off. They do start to loosen up, but they hurt and I am slow. Kate takes off ahead of me and we make it to the first pit stop at 1.5 miles out. I beg for biofreeze and it helps a bit and I walk to pit stop two (5.7 miles) after walking though Pacific Beach. By now, I am getting a walking tour of Zippy’s photos
and I am learning that our little cards with pit stops and lunch stop and cheering sections lie!!! Their miles are off by at least a mile or two and sometimes 3 by the end of the day! Mind games at their best. Here is where I was supposed to meet OKODOM, I think. It’s where the cheering station is and I am thinking that would be great to sit for a bit and stretch and chat. LOL I am looking and don’t see her. I turn on my phone, and get her message that she is at pit 3. GREAT! I will hop in a sweeper van and sweep to 3 and not walk there!
Win WIN! Right? Wrong
They swept me past 3 and into lunch. My phone didn’t get her number, I forgot it with my credentials at home in LV, so I didn’t get to meet her
I really wanted to! And I am very sorry!
Sweeper vans are really nice. They follow and circle around us as we walk along the route. They each have themes – Lucy and grape stomping, Dolly Parton, the 80’s, the 60’s there is one covered in bras and a couple others. They drive by and honk, cheer you on, some have candy others have a button or beads or something to say you rode with them in the sweeper. They are looking for thumbs up – meaning you are in good shape. When you need a sweeper, you raise your hands above your head and cross them; you can also give a thumbs down sign. They stop and help you into the van and sweep you to the next pit stop or depending on what their directions are (if they are to move ahead) lunch. And that is what happened to me.
After I ate, I headed out with Julie (our team captain) and her SIL, Dawn and Allison. We were all sore and planned on sweeping. A mile and a half later, we finally saw a sweeper and climbed in. Thank goodness because we were heading to Hill Street and there would have been no way I could have done that. We swept into pit 4 and I “sagged”. I climbed into the bus and waited for it to fill up and went to camp. I showered, got more bio freeze and Motrin and by then, everyone else was walking in. I walked 9.53 miles that day all said and done. I was done. We had fun at dinner that night; Dawn stopped by a liquor store somewhere along the route and bought some rum. So we had a shot in our sodas and laughed and ate and stretched and hobbled around camp a bit. I felt bad for sagging, but I really wanted to walk the third day and I knew if I had pushed myself the second, I would have been in an ambulance.