Mackinac trip

My husband and I got back from Mackinac Island Saturday afternoon. We had a nice and relaxing trip. During our trip, my husband attending conference meetings at the Grand Hotel. While he was doing that, I was doing other things.

After eating breakfast Thursday morning, I went out and pounded the pavement. I went out for an 8 mile run around the island on M-185. The run started out nice. Once I got to the back side of the island, the wind coming off the Great Lakes really hit me. To avoid injury by running off the side of the road, I ran down the middle of the road. If I happened to fall and twist an ankle, there wouldn't been help for a while. It was a chilly morning and not too many people out on the back side of the island. I made it through my run alright. Except for my back hurting and injuries on my right foot. My third toenail sliced into my neighboring toe, the second one, and created a nice cut. I also got a cut on the top of my third toe and it was bleeding.

On Thursday morning, I waited a while to go running. At 8 a.m., the temperature outside was 37 degrees and that was with the wind chill. I only had shorts and a long sleeve shirt. Those items wouldn't have kept me too warm. I ran around 11 a.m. and it was a bit warmer. I only went for a 3 mile run. My legs were a tired from the run a day before.

Besides running, I did do a little shopping. All of the stores had huge sales because it is the end of tourist season. Most of the items were between 40-70% off. I bought two sweatshirts. It was really hard just finding those two. Most of the ones that I liked, they didn't have my size. Or if they did have my size, they were really ugly. I also read in my room and enjoyed sleeping in and taking naps. Only on Friday, did I take my camera outside. And I didn't really take that many photos. I know. I'm a bad photographer. This trip was mainly about training for my half-marathon and actually relaxing. Unlike our trip to New York/New Jersey. We were so busy doing stuff everyday. It was nice to not do so much this trip.

When I was running on the back side of the island, I saw so many things that I wanted to take photos of. But I wasn't about to carry an extra ten pounds of camera equipment on run. I wished we would have taken our bikes on the trip. I could have rode my bike out and taken some photos. Since we didn't bring our bikes, I didn't have the money to rent one and I really didn't want to walk four or five miles to take photos. If and when my husband return to Mackinac Island, I will photograph the back of the island. And we will bring our bikes.

The photo was taken on the shoreline of Main Street (M-185). In the background is the Mackinac Bridge.