Stretching exercise at the Great Mall

The Great Mall, Milpitas, CA

Electronics store in the mall

Tomorrow I'm going to run a 12K race across the Golden Gate Bridge. That's 7 miles and will take me over 90 minutes to run. I don't like to run the day before a race because I need to rest my muscles. If I don't do anything my legs hurt more the day of the race.

I got lost and was following the girl in the orange dress

I wanted to get out and be around people today. I didn't want to go to the gym and sweat, but I knew I had to do something. I needed some place I could do much walking. I decided to walk around my neighborhood. It is a beautiful warm day today so I thought this was a good solution. When I went out of my house my heart still wasn't into the idea of walking alone. I thought about going to the batting cage with my daughter, and asked if she wanted to go, but she was busy today.

Many things to do and see at the mall

I figured the best way to get some stretching my legs and be around people was to go to the mall.

I used to work in a mall

Food Court, nuff said!

Most people reading this would not think of this as a big deal, but people that know me and my three daughters know this is something I don't like to do. Maybe it started with my three daughters because going to the mall with three girls is really frustrating. I just don't like to go to malls. I don't like to go to shopping without a purpose.

The only thing I bought!

I got to the Great Mall and walked around for 2 hours. I was surprised at the number of people. It seemed to be more people than when I was there at Christmas time. I thought the government should do a survey of the number of people at a mall as to whether the economy is doing better. It seemed to me it was doing better.

This guy needs to pull up his pants

I could go to the mall to watch tv

I like to do people watching at the mall. It is interesting all the nationalities that are represented. The variety of languages you hear just walking around the mall. I went into a few stores and sometimes got lost.

lots of gadgets for sale

Family shopping

I tried to walk clockwise, but sometimes I would go into a store and went the wrong way when I came out. At one point I decided to just follow a lady to not get lost. She was very tall so easy to follow. I wasn't there to buy anything, just stretch my legs to prepare for my run tomorrow.

Sporting stores have fun stuff

Men wait outside stores for their wives

The mall has people giving massages, that is a thing I don't understand. There are more massage chairs than benches for people to sit down on, I don't think that is fair. I had a nice time at the mall today. I remember why I don't like to visit malls and since I don't have daughters to take me around the mall any more I don't have a reason to go any more.

Photo place at the mall

Coach has a line of people waiting outside

 It was strange to see people standing in a line to go into a store. A long line was also standing at the pretzel stand to get a fresh warm pretzel. I couldn't understand why they didn't just walk over to the food court to get something else.

Line of people waiting for pretzels

Bumper cars on stuffed animals

I teach my students that want to be teachers that variety is important to keep a class fun. I think the same is important for exercising!