Wednesday 3/19/08 8:30am

I took a day off work and visited Mt. Madonna County Park in Gilroy with Judy. This was my third visit to Mt. Madonna this year. It’s like I can’t get enough of it. The trail reveals something different every time I visit there. We ran into lizards crossing our path, a couple of banana slugs, and a dead rat. Judy jumped more than a foot in the air at the sight of the rat. I was really stoked to be out in the woods with my favorite partner and running in my favorite trail in the middle of the week.

Running in the woods with my new backpack from REI.

Lizards going to Mt. Madonna school of lizardry

Judy is pumped!

An elf sighting on the tree stump

But he was gone in a second

Judy tackles the downhill

Me and the banana slug

Banana slug up close

Help! I'm suffering from hypoxia.

View from the top

Another elf sighting

Judy loves downhill

The sweet end