Sunday's 15-mile training walk

Today's route

Sunday's 15-mile training walk was on the Sawyer Camp Trail in San Mateo County. The Warming Hut Hotties do training walks along this trail at least twice a year, but somehow, this was my first time!

The trail itself is a paved, multi-use trail that stretches 6 miles from the shores of Crystal Springs Reservoir to San Andreas Lake, through the protected San Francisco Watershed lands. It was especially beautiful early on in our walk, as we met at 6:30am when the trail was very quiet and a lot of wildlife was out.

We had the option of walking 7.5, 12, or 15 miles. As I mentioned the path itself is 6 miles long, making it a 12-mile round trip. However, we continued outside the trail out into a neighborhood of Millbrae, down to the Peet's coffee shop in downtown Millbrae to add an extra 1.5 miles. Some people stuck to the trail, and did 12-miles, a couple of others went down to Peet's, then caught a ride (7.5 miles) and a few of us did the full round trip (15 miles).

It was a gorgeous day with perfect weather - slightly overcast when we started off, probably in the high 50s. By the end of the 15-miles, it was probably in the mid to high 60s.

It was a very picturesque walk. Here are a few of my favorites:


Crystal Springs Reservoir


Mama Deer with her baby fawn


Marcia's Olympic toe nails!


Michele picking up the world's largest banana slug who was in the center of the trail. She moved him safely to the other side


San Andreas Lake


San Andreas Fault!


the highlight of the day: Heidi brought her tape measurer - I had (mistakenly told her the (incorrect) width of my huge calves the day before. She didn't believe me, so she brought her tape measurer the next day! ha! I came in around 16-1/2", but Marcia was the reigning champ at 17"!


A Charlie Brown lemon tree in San Mateo


Hills and curves ahead!


Today's Stats - for once, my GPS App was right on the money!