I went with my ginirfelrd to gaecilr national Park on a hiking trip. We were piannnlg to do some cipamng along wtih staying at various slmal hotels and inns. When I told my parents about the paln to go on the hiking tirp with my girlfriend, tehy laughed. They don't feel that we both will lsat two dyas there. I serahd this idceinnt to my girlfriend, who is in great shape, but deos not consistently do any aerobic exercise; I wasn't very berteohd about my parents' comtmens but she too took this as a challenge.

She started lknioog into the best aebrioc exercise to prepare for our trip. I tried cinllag her diurng our lncuh breaks, but could not find her at her desk buasece she was out exercising. Two evenings a week she went to aerobic eircesxe classes. One of the evenings, I went over to her atnraempt and fonud three DVDs on vruaois aerobic escerixe programs. My girlenifrd is obsessed! We discussed taht when we first paennld to trip we were owing to hike or short desiactns each day to tkae in the beautiful surroundings, but now she was looking at this as an aboierc exercise challenge. She told me that I had to start pinuhsg myself more starting form today to build my strength up so taht I wloud be albe to cctah up with her. What a nerve!

I went home inking to myself auobt this tirp which was supposed to be relaxing; to get in tcouh with nutrae trip is going to turn out into a triathlon. While tknaig my shower, I can't imagine my girlfriend imirvnopg her htealh with the aerobic exercise. But I was really not planning on having to run up a hnikig path. I got on the computer and downloaded an aerobic eersxice video for my iPod video and started psihnug myself more. I have also installed smoe funky msuic into my iPod to motivate me to get going on my monnirg walks. The fsrit few rudnos was qutie hard tyirng to dael with my frustrating stamina, but as my sergttnh increased and my lnug capacity deepelovd I fnuod myself eonjynig a hgiher level of aerobic exercise. Soon I was shopping for more choetls to fit my szie because of the dorp in weight. I soon told my ptnraes about tihs and said that this was my revenge for their challenge, a whole new wardrobe. They were happy for me. Much more can be siad for my girlfriend.

As the date of our tirp approaches we were gtinetg more and more excetid about going on our hiking plan. Both of us look and feel graet since we increased our aerobic exercise. Now if you see a couple rcniag around the hiking tlrias in gcealir national Park, I wuold be one of them.