starting again

so ok, i'm going to try to start again.

i keep having a yen for long walks.

today i wandered for 2 miles.

i drafted out a rough plan for the year, slowly increasing my mileage by no more than 1-2 miles a week... so i don't overdo it!

recent exertions

tonight went to a friend's house to watch a movie. biked there and back - 4.56 miles, or 7.35km.

a couple days ago walked ferry island campsites with a friend, leaving from my house - 3.5miles, or 5.6km.

really taking it slow. overtired from moving. focussing on resting, and not putputputputput non-stop, and happens before/after a move.... *sighs* :)

campout fitness and personal overcoming!

this weekend was the church campout. i swam in the lake 'my mother always told me' (well, sometimes mothers should just shut up! O_o ) was full of sewage, leeches and lice; shucked some (evidently poisonous to eat) freshwater clams(?) with my bare hands for their beautiful shells, and to prove to myself i *could* do the gooey job; and... swam across the lake. and back. all 260 some pounds of me. with my friend maria. whoot whoot!

it was a big adventure for both of us. it was awesome! we went slow and steady, and sat and yakked on the other side before we headed back. it took us a grand total of approximately an hour and a half to do the trip. according to gmap-pedometer.com, our approximate route was almost exactly a half-mile (ie. .25 there, .25 back).

too bad there is not a gmap-swimometer, lol~!!!! :D

the view was amazing, there was a storm rolling in, so huge white clouds were billowing up from behind the mountains, and the sun was beating down on us and making the clouds glow. wow. God's creation is amazing, reflecting His glory. wow.

abbreviated walk

so, feeling under the weather today, i didn't do the 6 mile walk, did only a 2.57 mile one instead... but still, it burned 515 calories. and amazingly enough, i still managed to beat my goal for the weak by half a mile! whoot!

feel drained, and a bit like a limp rag.

i'm thinking i need to do a walk every day... keep every second day to a short walk - or do another activity instead - but it seems i can't afford to let (or force!) myself to veg for a whole day or two in between walks, and then expect myself to get right going again!!!

last home group - 4.35miles, 7km, pouring rain

walked this evening to the last home group of the summer, in the pouring rain, to the area of town i've always known as 'thornheights'.

• 4.35miles (7km), 870 calories burned (i don't care about calories, but it's another interesting stat!). and i went a little further than planned (had planned 3.5miles) cuz i made good time to the top of the hill, and didn't want to show up on the doorstep *too* early!.....
• 0.7miles of it was uphill, up 217feet in altitude (anyone know how to work out an average gradient from that there data? lol).
• took me about 1 hour and 45 minutes, but i'm unsure, because i spent about 10-20 minutes in wally world picking out a poncho.

got damp thru, i think more from sweat and the poncho's lack of 'breathing' than the rain itself - but i didn't by any means get 'soaked'!!! ('that'll do, poncho, that'll do'...)

but.... the dummy i am with money, and decision making.... i couldn't decide what rain gear to get, so i got two - a poncho and a rain-suit. (granted they were both pretty cheap.) ...*plus* a cheap emergency poncho to give away if i saw someone getting soaked.... so, being charitable, i guess one could argue that it merits only about 2/3's of a *doh*. :P

i felt like walking home, too, but i thought a 10pm-midnight solo walk would be pushing it! :P

(data via gmap-pedometer)

conversion?

i have worked out all my plans and goals in kms, cuz like, i'm canadian, eh?

but the handy dandy walking log i'm using is in miles, and one of the pedometers will only work in miles, which means i'm constantly converting my kms into miles....

so i'm wondering if i should just work things out in miles for the time being, for simplicity's sake.

i'm thinking so.

which means more work now (converting everything back to miles!), but less work later.

yeah.

canadian pride is just that: pride. measurement is just a tool.