Usually when I travel alone, I try to make time for a nightly bubble bath. To me this feels like something special. I hate scrubbing my own tub at home, especially after a 14-year-old boy has used the shower, so I don’t […]
We walked 12 miles Saturday. I love step down days when training for a long-distance event! After 16 miles last week, I really needed a shorter walk this weekend. I started to panic about whether I will be able to wear either […]
For the most part, I’m a little different from most of the other walkers I know. I like walking alone, I like listening to a great audio book and zoning out while I do my miles, I like walking when I feel […]
It has been raining on and off for about two days. We were scheduled to do 8 X 400 sprints today. Knowing that Deb never walks in the rain, especially when it is cold outside, I anticipated not going to the park […]
It was pouring and I wanted to get in a couple of easy miles, so I walked to the library. The umbrella didn’t make much difference. Though my hair was dry, I was soaked to above my knees. I’m hoping a couple […]
When Deb picks the day we do our long slow distance, it is always the one day of the weekend that the weather is great. Today was perfect – the rain stopped, the sun was shining, the snow melted. We did 3.5 […]
Yesterday I was wearing boots and trudging through “snow cone” style snow. Today, the snow is about 90 percent melted and the sun was very bright! With no jackets and too heavy of walking pants, we did 3 X 1 miles “sprints”. […]
It was 50 degrees and sunny today – plus it is now light an hour later due to daylight saving time. It seemed like the perfect day to try walking to the Library again. The great thing about it being so warm […]