Lost in Hollywood-land

So this morning I decide to take a new route on my run. I was due for a “long run” but my long run turned into a really loooooong run. Leaving at 8:45 am , I’m on my way. I get to the street that I always cross and I have 2 choices…. I can run along the main road or I can run across the street and into a nice calm neighborhood and around the reservoir aka Lake Hollywood. I chose the latter.

I had a great 4 min run around the lake and always in the back of me is the huge Hollywood sign on the hill. So, I’m thinking I can run “around this hill” (where the Hollywood sign is) and it’ll get me back. Keep in mind these are big hills I’m talking about and part of me didn’t want to go up more hills than was necessary but hey… we can all use a good “butt” workout right?

I’m huffin’… I’m puffin’ and I get to the tops and the only way to get “around ” this mountain is a tiny dirt path that looks like where serial killers would place their victims. I get on the path then decide to retreat and go more along the main road. It is LA ya know and scary things happen here.

So, I’m going along and figured….well, these hills sure are getting to me. I think I will start to go “down the hills” and should be able to make my way back around. Bad move. See, I had no idea where I was. I was “turned around” already and this made me even more turned around. Yes, I had my iPhone but it doesn’t work really well in the hills. OK, so I go all the way down get to the bottom and there are all of these weird houses made of stone and paying homage to Oz. Hmmmm, I did feel like Dorothy and I knew I wasn’t in Kansas anymore…. but where the heck was I . Finally , the ol trusty iPhone begins working and I am 3.8 miles way outta the way and have no real direction to get back except the main roads which is the 101 freeway!!! Ah, I’m a bit nervous and disappointed cause I knew I had to go all the way back the way I came….and that meant going back up those big hills that I just came down!!! Ah, but we all need a butt workout sometimes right???

Ah, as I’m running up that hill ( Kate Bush song insert here) my knees start to hurt and I’m completely dehydrated…and miffed at myself. But for the rest of the journey I thought I’d take it easy and walk some. I did ; then I elected to not go exactly the way I came but to take the road that I originally took Lake Hollywood Dr. Another mistake….it was a dead end. There are many roads like that in this town where they end then begin some place else again…

OK, another delay but finally I went my path that I already took and it led me back but not w/o more butt workouts than I wanted and some aching knees. It was a great representation of how I feel right now here in Hollywood-land if you will. Taking wrong turns, wasting more time than necessary, getting distracted and turned around and thinking I know what is best for me. I think God is trying to tell me something … may be he knows the best path for me but I keep wantingto do it “my way.” Maybe not so much anymore …. I am tired of being lost in Hollywood-land… it’s no fun. Oh, BTW- time of arrival back home…. 11:15 am….