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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Many of you living with cancer or an autoimmune disease, like me, deal with daily fatigue. You know that exercise is so important to your health, but it’s so hard. There’s always an excuse: it’s too cold or hot, it’s going to rain or it’s raining, or it’s snowy and icy, or I just don’t want to. I, too, have all these excuses, but I have a new rescue dog who wants to go out and who doesn’t care about my excuses! And I’ve got traction devices for my boots.Now I just need a walking group who will keep me accountable. People who say, ‘let’s go for a walk.'
And I thought: What about my virtual friends on MayoClinicConnect?
Mayo Clinic has an easy 12-week walking program to get us started! Here’s the link:
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/get-walking-with-this-12-week-walking-schedule/
So let’s form a virtual walking group. We can agree to walk every day and encourage each other through Connect. We can walk outdoors, in a mall, or in the red center, or in the hallways of our apartment building.
Who’s in? Who’s going to join me?
Come on, Let’s Go Walking!
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If I put my wet mask out on the porch it would freeze!! LOL Maybe not today, it's about 45*. We may get all the way to 60 by the end of the week. I had hat, scarf and gloves on plus an electric hand warmer in my pocket today. I also have a jacket that runs off a battery like a cordless tool for when it's cold!
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1 ReactionOn my walk today it was very foggy, which yielded a new delight - beautiful spider webs festooning the trees and bushes. They visible only because there were water droplets clinging to them. No photo can do justice to their beauty and intricacy. We were able to observe at least 3 very different kinds, including one which appeared to be "baited" with something to attract other insects, and another with a damsel fly caught right in the center and looking as though it was posed there.
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3 ReactionsSometimes it helps if we whine, then push through it and so our best to stay positive.
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2 ReactionsLove your spider web description, I think you could transform that into poetry.
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1 Reaction@jude07 Haiku based on @sueinmn description:
Spider web revealed,
Catches my passing at dawn.
Water bead necklace
Ginger
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7 Reactions@grammy12377 No grammy your not a whiner We all vent when we need to this is a safe place to whin as we all have the same problems PAIN Dont push yourselve if you have any pain with walking I tell my class to stop when this happens Walk as you can . @becsbuddy I went to the grocery store today and did a lot of walking but after I rest up I,m going out again for my walk someone planted tomatoes here so go check them out ,
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2 ReactionsLove the Haku!!!
@sueinmn, enjoyed taking a vicarious walk with you today...smiles. Spider webs are fascinating to me as well and your description provided a moment of pleasure to imagine. Thank you!
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2 ReactionsWow, @grammy12377, You sound well equipped for those frigid walks you are taking...talk about bravery! Whoo, below 70 and my house thermostat get dialed up and I resort to my "igloo" mode. Smiles and hats off to you!
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1 ReactionPersonally, grammy12377, I think whining from time-to-time is good for the soul. Kitty Precious doesn't always agree, but she is free to slink away if mine becomes too much for her delicate ears. Smiles
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