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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)Comment receiving replies
A friend sent me this and thought it great to share: "When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky."
Just being outside is a welcome experience and early morning walks start the day "just right" for me. So far I've met my personal challenge for the year of going for walks three times per week. Not a record, but so far I've managed and setting specific days for the walks increased the importance for me. It is far too easy for me to procrastinate about some things and since the loss of my wonderful 4 legged companion, I just couldn't gear up the discipline to continue until setting this challenge.
Until March and the onset of Covid-19, during inclement days, I drove to big box stores for the walks. Now, I'm starting to wonder what I'll do to fulfill my challenge through the end of year. I'm not comfortable going into stores so I can do as I did early in the year by setting a timer and trooping repeatedly through the house and garage (if I move the car onto the drive vbg) but that has very little allure at best and certainly a dull compromise. Probably require changing out the carpets afterwards too. Any suggestions for alternatives???
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I have gotten "tough" with myself about walking in inclement weather. Even on rainy days, absent gale-force winds or lightening, I put on rain gear and old walking shoes and walk for at least 20 minutes. Yesterday my 4 yo grandson & I walked for 35 minutes in "I'm going to blow away Grandma!" wind while Mommy worked & little brother napped.
I have a goal to walk 6 days a week, and except for a few days while feeling ill, I have managed all summer.
Do you have room for a small stationery bike or treadmill? You can often find them very cheap or free on neighborhood groups - my neighbor even delivered his to an older lady nearby who couldn't get it herself.
Sue
I’m going to try to keep walking outside until the snow flies, which can come early where I live....the temperature is already dropping here, and since I’m “cold blooded”-I have to make myself bundle up and go outside. Today, though, an eagle soared very close to me to let me know my efforts can make me so grateful for life
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@fiesty76 Drive or walk to a park and walk. Get a bicycle [3 wheel if needed] or a pair of roller skates. If you are in a house, how about yardwork? Personally I much prefer the outside to inside a building of any sorts.
I like what your friend said. In the past I have gone to the ocean and stood looking out to sea. And realising the enormity of it all, and my little part in it. Very humbling.
Ginger