Keeping Our Resolutions

In keeping with our resolution to take the dogs on more hikes and to give Gus more exercise, we accomplished both last weekend.

Gus and I went on a 5K run. He did pretty well, but needs to work on hills. I had to pull him up each hill. I used to rely on Steve and Kat’s puppy power to pull me up hills when we lived in Charlottesville. I guess Gus doesn’t have much puppy power! After our run, we picked up Kat and went for a 2 mile walk. Needless to say, Gus thought that was adding insult to injury and walked as far behind me as he could.

The next day, the weather was beautiful, so we took Kat and Gus to a park for a hike. I think they both enjoyed it.

This was our first time hiking at this park and it was really nice. Some trails were groomed like in the picture above but others weren’t, like in the picture below. We definitely plan to go back and explore more of the trails. There is also a river with lots of good places for the pups to wade if we bring their long leashes.

We are still feeling out the right distances for Kat. She seems to feel great, but we don’t want her to overdo it. She isn’t good at self limiting. So far we’ve been keeping things to 2-3 miles. We will see how that goes for now!