I love walking!

[SourdoughStomper]

A year ago today, I bought my pedometer. (It's a gadget you wear that counts your steps). I bought it to inspire myself to get some exercise. Boy howdy, it sure worked! 

Over the past year it has counted 4,453,969 steps. An average of 12,202 steps per day.

In the past, I've also briefly alluded to plotting myself a virtual walk. From Lethbridge, where I live, to Yuma, my hometown. I made it to Yuma after 10 months worth of walking, but decided I needed to make another route to keep myself motivated for daily walking. So I plotted another route back to Lethbridge, via a different direction. It takes me through towns that have friends or family living in them, so they'd have some meaning for me. Here's the map.

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I'm near Hatch, New Mexico!  Anyone there got any chilies to share? Mmmm . . . chilies.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share my love of walking. Very good exercise.

[kaoskat]

Very kool!!! You've gone a long way!

[kittybethy]

I like it!!

[Saja]

Thats awesome, keep it up!!

[Eviecorn]

I'm very proud of you, SDS!  I wish it would rub off on me ... haha.  When you walk through TN, say hi. 

[Kiwi]

Must be nice and warm down there right now

[kCherry]

THAT is so cool!! What an awesome idea!! I love to walk myself. When Mattman and I moved to SC we found that for the first time since we married, we lived on a road that had next to no traffic. One that we felt %100 comfortable walking the dog on. We love nice days and talking our hound out for a jaunt! It's an awesome chance to just spend some time talking without home distractions. I can't wait for Spring so we start walking daily again!!

[invaderhorizongreen]

i walk when the weather gets nice and i pick up trash along the road in both directions for about 4 miles. when the festival in town hits i walk 3 miles to town then walk all day , then we walk the 3 miles back home.

[SourdoughStomper]

Thanks for the comments everyone! I walked yesterday for 8.5 miles. My toes are a wee bit sore today, but it was worth going further than ever before, and back.

[mlp4me]

Wowie! You've been on a quest! LOL. Congrats SDS, you've got a great fitness plan and kudos for sticking with it!

[mlpfan]

I like to walk also, but the stray packs of dogs chased me to much so i stopped:) no that is no joke!

[sabathamk]

I LOVE walking, but it is so hard to go for long walks here.  I also got a pedometer... just this last November (you know the Walking Trainer game for the DS?  Picked it up with it's 2 pedometers for $7.50).  I love it!  I love seeing how much I've walked... although it's depressing lately as I just can't get my butt outside to walk.  Whenever I'm in town, I just want to walk, but we live on a highway in the country, and it's a busy highway at that.  Sigh.  I'm always afraid of getting run over with how some people drive. 

I can't wait until spring/summer when I can take the kids into town and walk outside again.  To the park!  right now, we 'mall walk' whenever we get the chance.