I used to have a saying about hard hikes. “What do you do the day after a hard hike?” The answer was: “A hard hike.” At 77, I don’t do that anymore. The day after a hard hike, I take it easy.
That was the case this Thursday. The day before, I had done a fairly steep hike with friends, my first after a prolonged bout with a cold.
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