Trail Kindness

Last Saturday, Coach Mom and my sister participated in the Stepping Stones run/walk for Developmentally Challenged Youth. It was a well attended event and the San Leandro Marina (SLM) was a bit more crowded than usual. I didn't participate in the event (cause I am a cheap-o), but that was my training run/walk spot for the day. I took off for my 7-mile run/walk way early than the event started as I don't really like it when the trail is super crowded.

I am run/walking, doing my thing grooving to my ipod and making some great time. I am at the 4-mile mark and I make an adjustment, but in the process, I drop my phone.

Meanwhile, I'm still run/walking along in an area I hadn't been before and it looked a little sketchy. Not in a total dangerous way, but in a way that told me to not go too far along this portion of the trail. I checked my pocket to grab my phone for the time and realized I dropped my phone. I was not up to buying a new phone this day and I was thinking about the many numbers I hadn't memorized...petty thoughts, but my thoughts, never the less. I hadn't gone too far from where I had previously dropped my phone and there weren't too many people along the trail behind me. My phone could be on the trail. I traced my steps back and back again, but to no avail.

I saw a man and a woman talking and asked if they had seen a phone along the way and neither did, but the man let me know that someone on a bike had mentioned to them that he found a phone and was going to try to the owner. I was more than excited. I asked if I could use their phone to call my phone hoping the finder would answer. Sure enough, he did! Ironically, I saw the kind man along the way, twice pedaling along!

The kind gentleman told me to finish my run/walk and to call him, on my phone, of course so I could get his address to pick up my found phone.

I was so thankful that he found my phone. He didn't make any crazy calls, called my work and left a message of a lost phone found on the SLM trail, and took a message for me!

I had many kind encounters on the trail this day. The man who mentioned the biker picking up my phone, a lady who let me use her phone, and the man who found my phone.

There are kind people out there.....I met thee kind people on the trail. Thank you all very much for being kind.....