Me and pipeline are not good friends. Yep, today we went to pipeline. So I had a choice of going with Bill, Natalie, and Susannah up the switchbacks or go with everyone else the normal way. Yeah, chose the switchbacks, not really knowing what I was in for. Bill said the first 10 minutes sucked, and then it was fine, so I thought I could handle it. I was able to stay with Bill on the switchback part, but then 2 more hills came and i lost it mentally, thinking that this was how the whole run would be. I almost stepped on a snake, fell off of Bill, and to make it worse, I got lost. Kind of. I stayed on the trail, then it got tons easier, so I tried to pick it up a bit to try to catch up to Bill. Yep that failed. As soon as I hit the road I jumped to conclusions. I thought that I must've missed a turn or something, so I headed back. Then I saw a trail that I hadn't seen before, went up it, and soon gave up on it because it was all uphill, and came back and decided to go back. Probably got about .25 out of that. Then I got lost where the switchbacks met the normal trail, and went the wrong way for about .25 and then realized my mistake and went back. Oh yeah, forgot to mention why pipeline and I are not friends. Because every single time I've been there I've gotten hurt, including today, where I fell and scraped my knee. But it wasn't that bad. And because I get lost almost every time. | 