I arrived home from my trip to Alamo Mountain late Wednesday afternoon, February 1, 2017.  After driving all day, I was quite stiff and sore.  I woke up Thursday morning feeling even more sore than the day before.  The hiking at Alamo Mountain, which was completely off trail and often steep scrambles, had affected the muscles in my legs and buttocks in a way I had not experienced before-  the soreness was very deep, and in areas that had never felt sore before.  So I decided to take a day off.  I did do some stretching, but no treadmill work or hiking.

Friday morning (2-3-17) my wife and I drove into San Antonio to attend an open house at a small company that is in the same office building where she works.  The company is Datawing Global and is a drone company.  Dorothy knew that I was planning to help an archaeologist friend from Texas State acquire a drone for use on his project this summer, and thought I might enjoy meeting the Datawing folks.  I did enjoy the open house and met some folks that I think will be able to help me and my friend from Texas State.  I am excited about the prospect of helping provide this technology for use on a very interesting and worthwhile archaeological project.  I am in the process of trying to set up a meeting, and will keep you posted.

After the open house at Datawing, Dorothy went up to her office to do a little work and I headed over to Eisenhower Park for a hike (it is about 10 minutes from her office).  The day was overcast and cool (48 degrees), but the trail was dry and there were very few people out on the trails.  I did a total of 5.76 miles and 760 feet total ascent.  I started with the Hillside Trail, did both legs of Shady Creek on the way up and, after getting up top, did the Red Oak Trail.  I went up to the Observation Tower then back down the Live Oak Trail, then went back up top via the Yucca Trail.  It was the first time I had ever hiked the Yucca Trail and I found that it has some good elevation, much like Hillside.  I hiked down via the lower portions of Yucca to conclude my hike.  Next time I am out at Eisenhower I think I will figure out a loop that gives me the most elevation work per mile.  At the trailhead area of the park, I ran into several hikers who carried packs and looked like they were training for something specific.  I stopped and talked to them, and they are vets who are training for the Bataan Memorial Death Walk out at White Sands,  New Mexico (see:  http://bataanmarch.com/).  Eisenhower Park is adjacent to Camp Bullis and you see lots of service folks out there.  I am going to consider going out and participating in this event.  I have included a picture of me on the trail and a picture of part of the Yucca Trail.  At the conclusion of the hike I felt good-  the soreness in my legs seemed to be much better.  My plan is to do treadmill tomorrow (it is supposed to rain here) then drive over to River Place on Sunday morning for a training hike over there.