Rain Check (Little Bird)

View from a mountain top.

We're taking a zero day today at a hotel in Hiawassee because of rain. I've been sitting here just thinking how much I'd like to quit and how, believe it or not, I get no time alone to myself. But when I'm actually putting in the miles, it's really fun. The nights are super cold. I probably haven't been getting enough sleep, even though I go to bed around 8pm and get up around 7am. I just lay there all night willing myself to be warm. But spring is coming on slowly.

The first few days were really tough. We only went about 7 miles a day
and I was really hurting at the end of each. Now, we do 7 miles before
lunch. Our max mileage day so far was 13.5. For now, that kind of mileage hurts, but I bet next week it will be a breeze. And tomorrow? Tomorrow we will enter North Carolina, our first big milestone. 

I got my trail name today: Little Bird. I told one of my friends last week that I wouldn't mind having a bird name. I hadn't seen him since then, until this morning, but apparently he'd been calling me Big Bird, lol. The six of us at breakfast talked about it and decided Little Bird was a little more fitting.

Hopefully my feet and legs won't be sore anymore tomorrow. Each day it seems like a new muscle group gets worked to the max, but it always makes me stronger. Our next resupply stop will be Franklin, NC, in 3 days. Our plan is to just pop into town for food and maybe a shower and get back on the Trail.