A view East.

Erin and I took a spur of the moment trip this week to a friends cabin at Pinecrest Lake, CA. This is a cabin she has spent almost every summer at since she was 13. We drove over early Thursday morning, and stayed through Sunday night. Our time was spent, very busily, hiking, swimming, eating, sleeping, ……. It was a Very fun weekend!

Erin and I drove up to Sonora Pass on Saturday and hiked a few miles of the PCT. We started at 9631′, and hiked to a maximum height of 10,657. It was a beautiful day for a hike!

Erin and I at a team-in-training water stop on Saturday.

Sunday morning I ran the Los Gatos 10k Jungle Run. I’ve never run a 10k race before, and I placed 13th out of 472. There were 1300 runners total, but the remainder ran the half-marathon. I didn’t get my goal of under 40 minutes, but that gives me something to keep working towards. Upcoming races I’m entered in are the Primo’s half-marathon in October and soon-to-be registered for the CA International marathon in Sacramento on Dec. 2.
Race Results

Here’s a picture of Chocolate Hills in Bohol that I haven’t ever posted. I salvaged a bunch of my Philippines pictures from Raphael’s computer when I was in Gainesville last month.

Wendy, Bob (her Dad) and I started laying tile in the kitchen area today. They had already pulled up the crappy pergo flooring during the week, and scraped up old linoleum adhesive. I’m glad to be practicing on someone else’s house, so it will be that much easier when I have my own :). I’ll post finished pictures later in the weekend.

Here are some happy impatiens I planted out front of the house: