Elation and frustration

I'm skipping my walk tomorrow, so I've been trying to go a little further than normal the rest of the days this week. I figured today I could hit the beach as well as the gulch, which would give me a couple of extra miles. Of course, as is always the case for me, the gates at the beach parking lot were closed. So I drove back up to my regular parking spot at the gulch and walked down to the beach before walking back up.

( Boom! Pow! Ugh... )