So for the last few weeks we have been getting up in the mornings to walk. I have NEVER been a "morning person" -- always having the inspiration but lacking the motivation to get moving in the morning. Now I feel energized when we get up and go.
I wish we could walk in the forest every day, but it is a good 15 minutes away from home and would require an even larger sacrifice of sleep than I am willing to part with at this time. So, we walk in the forest on either Saturday or Sunday, and the rest of the week we go to the park that is just around the corner. We usually do about a mile in the mornings before I go to work and between 3 and 5 miles on the weekend. I've set myself a weekly goal of 8 miles and so far have only missed it twice (and once was the week of surgery). See, it all started when we did a group 5k walk on July 20th. We didn't do any training and I figured, 3 miles, that's no big deal. The gals from our support group set a pretty quick pace and we managed to keep up with them pretty well. Our official time was around 53/54 minutes. A bit more than a 17.5 minute mile. Well after the walk we went to the farmer's market and by the time we headed home it was still earlier than we normally get up on a Saturday. That is when we decided to start walking. What started out as a Saturday thing, pretty soon became a 5-6 days a week thing. On the days we don't walk we do exercises at home. On this particular day we went on the last path we had yet to try, a 5 mile path that had many twists and turns and ups and downs. We were exhausted by the end but very satisfied that we had done it. This was the first time we had walked that far in one go. We saw two snakes, a chipmunk, and several frogs. All in all, it was a pretty magical day.
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Holly Crews
The mother of five angel babies, and one rainbow baby. I have had four miscarriages, an SCH (sub chorionic hemorrhage), pProm (pre-term premature rupture of membranes), and a pre-term still birth. Archives
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