No pictures in this post. No song list. I went out walking after dark this evening. It was a full moon. A very beautiful night for walking. I walked 5.52 miles, burned 638 calories, and stepped 13,456 steps. I would have walked further but my feet were getting sore…. I guess from walking so far yesterday.
This post is a day late since I will be blogging about my walk that I took yesterday. I didn’t go walking Friday, Saturday, or Sunday because I had a blister on my big toe from walking so much yesterday. I had to give my toe some time to heal. Yesterday I went to my favorite park out to Long Cane Park, which is my favorite park to go walking at on West Point Lake in West Point, Ga. I set a new walking record again. I walked 9.69 miles, burned 1,121 calories, 23,614 steps in 4 hrs and 13 mins. I think that is awesome!! I will get rid of my love handles if it kills me!
Song’s I heard while walking:
I had another day out at the lake today getting my exercise. I also bought a new pedometer that counts calories burned so that I could keep up with that better than trying to guestimate it like I’ve been doing it. What is up with the freaking weather this week!!? It seems like the weather has been nice and clear almost every day this week except for when I get ready to go outside and get my walk on…. then it starts clouding up and getting all nasty. Anyway I had a good time today regardless of the weather. I walked 5.59 miles, took 13,645 steps, and burned 647 calories. That isn’t too bad considering I wasn’t planning to walk that much today and I have another blister on my left big toe from all the walking I’ve been doing this week. It is a blister on the same spot that my last one was at a week or so ago and it hurts! Maybe I should take a break from walking over the next three days since I’ll be working anyway to let my toe heal up a bit. Blisters suck!
I logged another song list of tunes I listened to while I walked today:
Yesterday I took a drive out to Long Cane Park and took a walk in the rain. Actually it wasn’t really raining… It was more like drizzling. Earlier in the day I had recieved Chamblee54’s comment on my cellphone about walking and listening to the world around you instead of listening to music on an mp3 player and that is what I did. It was really nice to hear the raindrops falling on my umbrella as well as the tree frogs, birds chirping, fish jumping in the water out on the lake, some swimmers out in the water throwing frisbee and enjoying a light rainy evening and seeing the sun settle down behind a thick blanket of rain clouds. I didn’t push myself too hard as I was too busy enjoying the scenery around the lake. I walked a total of 2.71 miles and 6,627 steps.
Today is supposed to be laundry day, but I think I’m going to put off laundry until later this evening because I think I am going to go back out to the lake again today and get a good long walk in before my off time is over, and I may not feel like getting out for a walk tomorrow after work.
I went for a walk this evening around 10:00 p.m. There was a storm brewing and I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to walk very long before I’d have to get out of the rain. I was able to walk 3.07 miles with 7,512 steps counted before the rain started to fall. I would have liked to walk more but I didn’t care to get wet while I was carrying my mp3 player and my cellphone. It was a nice walk and the air outside wasn’t too hot. I think I may go walking after sunset more often this summer. It is much cooler that way.
Songs I heard during this exercise:
I’m starting something new here. It’s my new fitness journal. Something to motivate me more to work out and try to get in better shape and also something to give me something else to write about. I was orginally going to do this as a walking journal but at some point in the future I want to get into some weight training and maybe start riding my bike again and I didn’t want to have different categories set up to write about each different activity and so since each of those activities fall under fitness then I thought it better suited just to write everything under the fitness category. I can keep a seperate walking journal on a different page seperated from my blog to keep up with how many miles I walk.
I’ve got some awesome news to start this off with. Today I broke my summer walking record. You are not going to believe this. Today I walked an incredible 8.20 miles with 20,048 steps recorded on my pedometer. If my calculations are correct then I burned 680 calories. I think that is the farthest I have ever walked since I got out of the army years ago, and what is more incredible is that just a few weeks ago I was in the hospital emergency room with a busted knee. I pushed myself hard out there today. I really want to lose a few pounds. I’m not fat, but I could stand to lose a few pounds. Tomorrow, I probably won’t walk so far… that is if I do go walk at all. Those 8 miles really wore me out today.
If any of you are interested in learning about the benefits of walking for health and fitness you can check out Walking at About.com
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