Today marks my third day out walking in frigid temps. I’m not quite sure how cold it was — but I believe it was in the 20s. It has been snowing lightly for a few days and some sidewalks were shoveled and […]

Technically, today should have been a rest day since yesterday was my long mileage day. But long mileage was only 4 miles and I really need the exercise and to burn some calories. Silly me, I thought an easy 30 min. on […]

Because I’m starting to train for the Arizona Distance Classic in March, I needed to get a 4-mile walk in this weekend. Because I walked for only 30 min. yesterday, I decided to go to Antrim Park today. The moment I got […]

Even Monty Python knows the importance of walking.  “Now, here’s the meaning of life. Well, it’s nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and […]

Last year I made some public and not-so-public New Year’s resolutions. I decided to look them up and see how successful I was. Here are the results: 1) Walk five days a week most weeks of the year. — Didn’t make five […]

When I got up this morning there was about an inch of snow on the ground and the thermometer on the front window said it was about 39 degrees. I knew my racewalking shoes just would not work. Not only would I […]

While searching the internet for some information for my walking club newsletter earlier today, I found a good blog post about extreme dieting at http://www.danfalkenberg.com/. Dan does not post often, but the few posts he makes are informative. In September Dan commented […]

I got a heart rate monitor for my birthday this year, but have not used it enough yet to know what to do with it. I went through the book that came with it and set the maximum heart rate, etc. (Yes, […]

Today, I awoke to more snow. It wasn’t big, beautiful, heavy flakes like you see in Christmas movies that make you want to run outside and play — it was tiny flakes that are hard and frozen, and kind of bounce off […]