Thoughts from the T-Shirt Lady

Okay, okay, I know what you are thinking - why is she talking about a New Years resolution at the end of February?

Well, I like to give the excuse that life interrupts what we are trying to do.

My New Years resolution was to start walking again. Oh, not just around the house, but an actual routine. I can’t walk outside the house - the driveway is gravelly (?) and I’m afraid I would twist or break my ankle. The road at the end of our driveway is loaded with truck traffic - logging trucks, etc. No way am I going to try and walk there.

My neighbor and I had been walking last year at her church about 4-5 days a week, before the cold weather set in. However the cold weather was not the reason we stopped. There was a man loitering on the grounds, and the last time we walked there - as we were driving out - he was hiding behind a wall that we would have passed, if we had walked another loop. Too scary for me!

Then my sister recommended a structured walk.

It is a “do it yourself” walk.    You register, keep a track of your walking and mail your paper in when your done.  Take a look at the website,  It is a boy scout troop out of Nome Alaska and they started this to raise money for the EMT services in their town. 

Idita Walk Instead of driving a dog sled for 1049 miles, you get to walk for 1049 minutes over a 2 month period (Feb 1 - Mar 31). Which if you do it right, you can walk 30 minutes a day - which is the recommended length of time for exercising, for a total of 35 days or more, and feel that you have accomplished something… a goal…an incentive to exercise, etc…

So with that in mind, I signed up and started my walk on  February 1st. This, then was my new New Years resolution!

So the days that I have walked in Feb are 1,2,4,6,8,9,10,14,27 and hopefully today. Why such a large gap? Well I was on a roll and then had my surgery on the 12th - walking on the 14th was a little too soon - I was really wiped out, waited until the 27th after I had had my 2 week checkup, and am ready to get back in the groove!

So as of the end of the walk on the 27th, I have accumulated 272 minutes. I still have a long way to go, but feel much better and ready!

I’ll let you know how I progress.

If anyone out there has signed up and is also doing the Idita Walk, I’d love to hear from you. We can encourage each other!

Sandi

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