Immediate Impact Walk: Day 2

Sunday's 20-mile route

We met this morning at 6:45am to start our route at 7:00. We went over the safety speech, and Linda read from a wonderful, inspirational book. It was a day of many miles, many hills, which ranged from 50 degrees to 75 degrees.


Group Circle to start the day


Group Photo at the beginning of Day 2!

It was a cold and foggy morning in Golden Gate Park. It was so foggy that we had a hard time reading the signs! The fog cleared up once we had reached our first break around mile 4.


Striding through a cold and foggy Golden Gate Park


The "Asian Invasion"! :)


Peggy has such a way with words


At last, a picture with Joe, our Moto Safety Guy!

We left our break at UCSF and continued on into the Forest Hills neighborhood. The sun started to come out, and the layers started to come off.


Sandy and Carol - happy with their coffee


Beatrice, carrying the pole of ribbons


Linda, knocking on the door of the Immediate Impact Green House


Krave: The Official Jerky of the Immediate Impact Walk
(really, they were one of our sponsors! We love Krave!

Up towards Twin Peaks, we came along a field of goats!


Goats!


Hello, Mr. Goat
(photo courtesy of Bea Dong)


Monica, (Rainbow Bright!) showing off her Green!


Joe and Tamara, Moto Safety, keeping us safe while we cross the roads


Stephanie leads us onto the Fairy Gate Trail

We had our lunch today at the Randall Museum around mile 12. It was so wonderful seeing so many of our friends and family cheering us on! Thank you to ALL who came!!


cheers at lunch!


Part of our cheering section


some of the walkers are greeted to lunch


our yummy lunch by Foodniks


Christopher and Dick came out to cheer us on, and to keep me company during lunch. Thanks, guys!


Group photo after lunch

The weather really heated up after lunch, as we walked through the Castro, Dolores Heights, Bernal, and Potrero Hill.


Making our way up Corona Heights Park


Photo-Op at Bi-Rite - one of our event sponsors! Thank you, Bi-Rite!

While we were walking along 18th street, we saw Joe in line for ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery! Busted!


Joe is a super nice guy - he brought ice cream to share!


Funny jumping photo at the top of Dolores Park


We love our Moto Crew and their sexy motorcycles!


urban shot

We arrived at the finish of Day 2 around 4:00. We were SO happy to see another group of friends and family cheering us on to the end!


Cheering station greeting us at the end


Carol and Allison some gracefully in


our last walker of the day!


Group shot with our friends and family. Dick was there, but he was taking the picture. :)


Today's temps when we finished. Pretty warm by San Francisco standards. It's the end of Indian Summer


Today's stats


not sure who took this photo, but I really love this one. This was after we conquered a series of hills around mile 6 today.

Tomorrow, we meet at 7:15 for Day 3. 15 more miles to go!

Immediate Impact Walk: Day 1

Saturday's 20-mile Route

Here we go again! Today was the first day of the 2013 Immediate Impact Walk!

We met around 6:00am this morning, loaded everyone's gear into the truck, and started Opening Ceremonies at 6:30. Opening Ceremonies was very nice. Linda opened with a great speech, then asked two of our walkers to speak this morning: Beatrice, one of our new walkers, and Judy, one of our survivors, telling why they walk, and what this walk/experience had meant to them. Charisse (medical crew volunteer) read us the safety speech, Sandy described our two poles, and the ribbons on each, then Linda asked for all of our survivors to gather in a circle and the rest of us formed a larger circle around them.


Just an example of how dark (and foggy!) it was at 6:30am


circle of our survivors, with the rest of the group circling them


our survivors in the center


getting just a little bit lighter! Time for a group photo!


...and, we're off!

We walked through the Presidio, and up and down the Lands End trail.

We came out above the ruins of the Sutro Baths, near the Cliff House. It's a part of the trail that we had not walked on any training walks that I've been on, and was neat to see so early in the morning.


Sutro Bath Ruins

We walked along the Great Highway, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean!


along the Great Highway

We had our first RRR (Rest, Refuel, Rehydrate) Break at the Safeway. There weren't many bathroom stalls there, so I took a couple of friends to a MUNI Bus station (where I assume the MUNI Drivers can take breaks, and asked one of the MUNI drivers if he wouldn't mind opening one of the bathrooms for us. He was so nice, and appreciated what we were doing. He told us about the pink ribbon that he wears on his jacket, and who in his life has been affected by Breast Cancer.


Joseph, the nice MUNI driver who let us into their private bathrooms!


Renee, one of our fabulous crew members, showing off her big jugs (of water!)


Refuel, Rehydrate and Rest!

We continued walking along the Great Highway, then made our way in the sand dunes towards Fort Funstun.


Not looking very much like San Francisco


Fun in the sand

At Mile 10.3, we had our lunch break at Westlake Park in Lake Merced! It was wonderful to have a few people cheering us on here, and we all enjoyed a really delicious lunch.


Mary, and her baby Grandson!!


The Plum Girls are Back!


Munching on our lunches


Catriona and Trina showing off our matching water bottles to fill with electrolyte drinks


The matching purple girls

After Lunch, we walked through Lake Merced area, and we kept safe and sound the whole day long by our Moto Crew, Tamara and Joe!! (hmmm... no pictures of Joe today! I'll be sure to get one tomorrow!


Tamara, making friends with the construction guy


Tamara's decked out motorcycle

Something new for this year, that I just LOVE: we have a white white board with permanent letters that read, "Today, I am making an impact for", and we could write the names of people/organizations in whose memory or honor we are walking for this weekend. I love this idea.


...and you, and you, and YOU!

We are walking with TWO poles of ribbons this year. The green ribbons have names of each of the walkers and crew members, as well as the names of our beneficiaries. We were each given a white ribbon, and we were instructed to write the names of the people for whom we are walking on our ribbon. We'll carry these poles of ribbons with us each mile of our event this weekend.


here I am with one of the poles of ribbons


Carol, leading the group in a good stretch


Carol, stretching it out!


Nasi, getting in a good stretch!

The sun started to peek out in the afternoon, but it never really got too warm (which was nice). We ended our day at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, where we will meet up again tomorrow morning at 6:45 for Day Two!


the final leg of the day - through Golden Gate Park


our cheering crowd greeting us at the finish line of Day One!


Group Photo - walkers and crew - end of Day One! 20 Miles down, 35 more to go!!


today's stats


Today's Fitbit Stats