no, joke, we walked on april fools day.

My mommy would have been 101 yesterday. She was an April Fools baby.

On the trip on Wednesday we decided to walk on Friday. Thursday after school I called Bonnie. The weather report looks dreary. Downpours, storms, everything but the swarms of locusts. We decided to wait till morning and decided.

It was dark and dreary but not raining, so we went.

We parked at the Hotel Bethlehem and went in to get the 1st quarter Volkssport paperwork. Then we walked thru town, and made our way to the Fahy bridge. Then it was off to the Comfort Suites to grab the south Bethlehem Paperwork, and then back over the bridge. I have no idea how far we walked because Bonnie's phone died. Of course I didn't have mine. (And even if I did, I deleted the app because it never worked right.)

Thursday I didn't walk. I had planned to. I need to do it when I get up. But I made the mistake of checking my email. A project I'm doing is imploding and there were dozens of emails about it. One thing led to another and soon it was time to make dinner (lunch), and get ready for work. I leave at two.

Overall this week I did pretty good. I got out nearly every day.

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The Idita-Walk is over for another year. I think I'm the only one that did it this year. I missed the silly stories we'd make up about who was where, and who was bringing the bourbon. I missed David's updates about the real race. (Dallas Seavey won. Ally Zirkle, the one I always root for, came in 3rd.)

Previously it was run by volunteers from the Nome Boy Scouts to benefit the BS camp. It's been taken over by the Nome Community Center. (My guess is that the volunteers children aged out of BS.) It was quite confusing at first, and more than a little unorganized, but they found their rhythm. The on-line log came back, and also the list of finishers. But there was only about 130 participants this year. That, I think is a sizable decrease. I finished at about #8. Even with half as many minutes as usual. Usually I'm down around 60 or 70. Thankfully one of the people that didn't come back was the annoying participants who would have 30K minutes by week three. The highest person had a much more reasonable 10K on March 31.

I'll do it again next year. It's only $10. And it gives me a winter goal.