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* :)

short walk with friends :)

we walked around ferry island, i estimate, thanks to gmap-pedometer.com, that it was about 1.85 miles (3km), and that i would have burned about 370 calories.

i added it to yesterdays short mileage (just to a friend's house and back) to make up my 'tuesday' mileage for the week...

it was great fun, and i may have a new walking partner! ... someone who doesn't wanna GO! GO! GO! and wear me out, lol. sweet. :)

i beat a vehicle, lol

i walked to a friend's house for a bridal shower. on the way there, another friend passed and offered me a ride when then were done an errand, they would come find me along the route i told them. well, just as i was walking up to my friend's driveway, the friend who offered me a ride drove up. she couldn't find me - and it's cuz i was already farther than she expected, and when she drove up, she was suprised to see me there ahead of her!!!! lol. i was walkin' at a pretty good clip!!!!

i would have walked home too, but it was already getting too late for comfort. :)

data: it was 1.6 miles, and i estimate it took me 35 minutes. i added it to yesterdays mileage (1.5) for my 'sunday' mileage (total 3.1).

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.