It began innocently enough.
A story assignment to cover Dirty Girl Adventures (I had expressed an interest) and a date to go on a hike. Then I discovered …
It was an 8-mile hike.
Eight miles. I knew I could walk 3 or 4, but frankly, 2015 and 2016 haven’t been the years of exercise. Or exertion. Or even getting off the couch much.
I knew friends who had done the Couch to 5K thing — training slowly over TWO MONTHS to run 3 miles. I had four days to be ready to hike 8 miles.