Recently I put up a link about walking at work. I’ve decided to put my money where my mouth is. I’ve been walking to work. I live about 2 miles away so I’m putting in 4 miles of walking a day. It takes about 30 min to get there and home, but the weather is wonderful and it’s just so nice. It’s also saving me a ton of gas money. I was thinking how it’s weird that I’m walking 2 miles to work, but when I lived 6-7 blocks away, I never wanted to walk. It’s been really weird this past year getting so out of shape. It seems like I was just sick and/or couldn’t breathe for so long. On top of that I was just tired all the time. I was tired when I woke up, tired at work, tired when I got home. Some days I was sleeping 12 hrs or more. Even when I started sleeping “normal” hours I would still come home and just sit around cause I was too worn out to do anything else.
Right now I feel like I have the energy to go running and stuff, but I don’t think the lungs would quite be up for it yet. The walking works out pretty well. It’s very low impact on my joints, I’m doing a significant amount of walking, and I’m not spending extra time to do it. Hopefully it doesn’t start raining. That would kinda put a damper on the whole walking.
I’m with you on the walking thing. Somehow it does energize a person. I’m glad you’re lungs are getting better. Do you think by summers end you’ll be back 100% (Barring any set backs of course, like neighbors burning leaves or something).
Let me just warn you, don’t cut across anyone’s yard when walking to work. I did that yesterday and got chastised by an old man. “Did you see the sign?” he asked. Well, no I didn’t see any sign. “Says no trespassing!” I blanched and apologized and assured him I’d never do it again. Thing is, when I thought about it, I remembered the sign. It’s right outside my back door, I see it every day. But in my mind, I wasn’t TRESPASSING…b/c that’s what we say in the Lord’s Prayer and it means your sins. I wasn’t sinning by walking across his yard. It was the very edge of it anyway. Oh well. I won’t do it again. He was so pissed at me. Pretty sure he cussed me under his breath. Shook his head like I was an ignorant, delinquent of a person.
Are you talking about one of those people that lives in out little neighborhood? Cause if so, that’s not really “his” yard anyways.