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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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Golly, @becsbuddy, Doesn't car bouncing count for exercise???? Not sure where you are visiting but on my visit to the children last fall in Boulder I experienced several of those sudden short of breath episodes from the higher altitude. It sounds as though yours are longer bouts and that is a real bummer! So very happy you can spend time with your grands and can truly appreciate how you are savoring those quiet moments sans kids. Honestly, it takes me at least three days after returning from a visit with mine to readjust to the lack of so much more activity and constancy of energetic voices. My thought is that just being in the presence of those grands expends extra energy. You can always make up for the walks when you return so sit back and savor your time with the grands, right? Smiles
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1 Reaction@ellens, I'm laughing at the "good luck" and agree that arid climes do have the downside of so drying out the skin that I laughingly say that because of the extreme dryness, we tend to molt like snakes! One summer spent in Corpus Christi made me a true believer in that smothering, warm, wet blanket experience you describe!
@becsbuddy. Might count on the physical part but not sure about walking .I to haven't been out to much to walk to hot so did what I could indoors, not the same but hopefully it will be cooler next week .Hope you feel better seeing the grandkids are worth it though
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2 Reactions@fiesty76 Happy belated birthday fiesty76. Your what 39 now lol Mine is coming up in Oct. Won't be going out this year .Wonder what my son will do this year I love gecko,s how nice of you to rescue that little guy These fires are terrible for sure Bless the firefighters every night prayers go up to all the front line workers Been just to hot to walk here just doing it indoors Take care
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1 ReactionI'm glad you got a good laugh! I first started noticing the worsening heat in 1991 in Bozeman, MT, and we called it "the summer from hell." Now it's been like that in SW MT pretty much every year. I may have mentioned I moved to "the air-conditioned city" of Duluth, MN. Temp right now is about 70 degrees. I'm willing to shovel snow if I can avoid the heat of summer. It gets warm here but is cooler than places inland from Lake Superior or south of here.
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1 Reaction@lioness, Yes plus another 60 or 70 yrs added! Thanks for your good wishes. It seems remarkable to me that in this time of so many restrictions and radical changes many of us are making to our daily lives, along with heart wrenching losses, this has been one of the happiest birthdays for me in some years. Unexpected calls, gifts and cards from others I've not been in frequent touch with have added so much happiness to my birthday week. Your love of geckos, too, just adds another bond to our cyber friendship!
The high heat is really interfering with our walks and I can't begin to imagine what it must be like for the valiant firefighters putting their lives on the line to prevent the terrifying spread of fires causing so much more grief and devastation. Saturday, I had to really push myself hard to walk. After circling a couple of blocks, I was more than ready to head back home and this was before 7:30 am. The temp at that time hadn't gotten too high, yet... but it felt like an invisible layer was hanging in the atmosphere...may have just been my imagination but struggled to walk out to the mailbox later in the day.
Some days may be long but the months seem to be flying by. With my short term memory loss and well in advance, because we're soon into Sept., I'll wish you Oct. b.d. greetings now! Think you'll understand. Smiles and Hugs
@ellens, Hurry up fall/winter! I would so easily trade a few days of 70 degree temps to be in your "air-conditioned city" of Duluth right now! However, I'm impossible to deal with because I'm not willing to even think about Duluth snow and the thought of shoveling has me running for a parka despite our three digit long running heat..might just move the parka from one closet to another??? vbg
@fiesty76 I do understand as mine is getting bad at times. I can't remember names and whatsome one tells me just a minute ago but I put apps on a new cell phone yesterday and called to have it activated , I guess our minds are just programmed to do things we like to do our school days of programs still work . That's what they say short term memory goes first but long term memory last I saw it in the nursing homes with alzheimers and dementia patients as other nurses can attess to We would have carperters hammer the rails or housekeepers clean there rooms or hallways. But as long as we can still keep ourselves busy ,, walking and hobbies we can be happy That's what my Mother was happy all the time in her little world. I had my husband and her in the same nursing home I worked in at one time , she use to keep the nurses in stitches and every night come with us all on our break. Those where fond memories . Im sorry didn't mean to go on like this . Guess it's just the times we are in . Be well today
I just leave the parka hanging by the front door. I noticed the other day that my Sorel pacs are also sitting under the parka. My snow shovel is still on the front porch. What's the point of moving them? I don't mind winter if we're not in some Arctic vortex. We were spared that last winter but, on the other hand, we had a Big Snowstorm Thanksgiving weekend and the city shut down for a couple of days. Sidewalks stayed 4" above the concrete. Walking in the street was the thing to do. I still despise hot weather (like 90+ degrees). The big plows were saviors--even they had a tough time for a while. You can generally dress for the cold and I have some high-powered winter clothes, but in summer you can't run around naked even if that were permissable.
Lake Superior is the great temperature moderator (unless it's iced over which didn't happen last winter). Duluth was named by The New York Times to be the most climate-warming proof city in the U.S. because of Lake Superior.