Walked 3 miles during lunch today
Where do you walk at lunch time Pam? Is it City streets or do you walk around a park?Good for you, Tammat! Everybody....keep up the keeping up!
3 miles walked today over lunch
I work in town, but it's more of a suburbia kind of thing; we live in a fairly rural county. So my miles thread through a residential neighborhood and, when there's no snow, a small park area. Right now, there's about six inches of snow on the park's walking trail, so I can't walk there. Normally, I get between 3 and 3.10 miles walking my route through the neighborhood. If I can add the park in, then it's closer to 3.5 miles. There's a lot of traffic because I still have to walk on fairly busy (for around here) roads to get from one place to another. But overall, it's not too bad.Where do you walk at lunch time Pam? Is it City streets or do you walk around a park?
That sounds great. You've got lots of options. If your body likes 3 miles then I guess you have to listen to it. 3 miles is a terrific distance anyway. Keep going girlI work in town, but it's more of a suburbia kind of thing; we live in a fairly rural county. So my miles thread through a residential neighborhood and, when there's no snow, a small park area. Right now, there's about six inches of snow on the park's walking trail, so I can't walk there. Normally, I get between 3 and 3.10 miles walking my route through the neighborhood. If I can add the park in, then it's closer to 3.5 miles. There's a lot of traffic because I still have to walk on fairly busy (for around here) roads to get from one place to another. But overall, it's not too bad.
The worst part is constantly watching for the "old folks" who get in their cars and back out of their driveways without watching for anything. I almost got hit one day because an old lady was busy talking to her friend in the car and backed out of her driveway. She didn't even look. I stopped walking and just stood there, and after she had backed out, she saw me standing there and almost had a heart attack. People don't pay attention at all.
We have a rails-to-trails walking area (also covered in snow right now) that's probably about ten miles long altogether, and I use that when I want to walk over to the library or out to the natural food store to get something. I walk that to get to our farmers market during the summer, too. If I can hit the natural food store and walk around the market, I've got 3 miles in. I also walk in to town (on the other side of the highway) to get my coffee k-cups or to go to our local homemade candy shop for chocolate-covered pretzels for Dear Richard, but that's only about two miles total. We will soon have a new supermarket well within walking distance, so I can walk there during lunch to pick something bread, milk, things like that.
I like the idea of being able to walk to these places instead of driving. I really can't walk outside at home (I haven't walked at home since that old guy hit me the other summer....he wasn't paying attention) and I miss those walks very much.
As long as I get 3 miles in, I'm happy. When I get 3.5 miles in, that's even better, but it's not happening very often. I need to start using the treadmill in the mornings again, but it seems that whenever I increase my distance too much, that's when I end up with some kind of injury. My knee, my hip, my foot. 3 miles seems to be a good distance for me; at least that's what Rick says.
Luckily we have only -5C so with windchill that is only around 4F or -15C, but without gloves that wind makes fingers freeze very fast, faster than -15C without wind, imo!Thanks, Tammat. It's a fairly nice area for walking. Next month, I think I'll be starting my 13 (I think 13; I'll have to check) year of walking. I keep track of my walking mileage throughout the year, but then throw the stuff away at the end of the year. I should have logged it all from year to year, too, just to see how many miles I've walked in those years. Between that treadmill and walking outside, I'm sure it's a lot.
JTbo, I don't blame you for wanting to stay inside! I can do the cold and I can do the wind, but doing them both at the same time is just nasty stuff.
Welcome Yes do keep us posted. Best of luck with your recovery.I just had a dual chamber pacemaker installed 1 week ago so won't being doing much yet, but do have to start a program so will visit this thread often for updates if you would like me to share my progress with you
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