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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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We usually are in warm weather by now, but alas it's 2020...
The virus is still overwhelming the medical facilities at our winter residence, so we fear being there and in need of medical attention due to an illness or accident - not to mention the perils and pitfalls of traveling through many of the virus hotspots for 3 days to get there. Most of our favorite activities there are still on hiatus, and many friends are staying home this winter, so the only advantage is the warmth.
We are watching for a safe time to go, probably after January 1st. Until then I'll just whine and put on my warm winter clothes.
Sue
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2 ReactionsAll of my summer things are tucked under snow now. I'm thinking I may just leave them there. I will look on the bright side - it won't take me long to decorate for summer next year.
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3 ReactionsI think I'm too much a Type A to do that. I started today by pulling the pumps from the pond and draining them. As soon as the weather allows we will cover it for winter. Many of the summer pots get cleaned and tucked under the cover too.
The patio furniture needs to be put away also, to preserve it from a continuous freeze thatw cycle, which we learned the hard way degrades the finish very fast.
Sue
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2 Reactions@migizii It is a really small world as I live in Turtle River Township about a mile east of Concordia Language Camp!
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1 ReactionI did drain my fountain pumps and put them inside, they are the only things that I think would be wreaked - the rest will probably just wear out a bit quicker and I can relate to that! LOL
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1 ReactionTime to move to sunny California. Umbrella, and patio furniture still outside, and water feature still operating.
Too cold for me, your weather.
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3 Reactions@sueinmn
“leaves are still on the trees.”
In California the leaves are where they belong on the trees. I guess that’s what happens when you have four seasons. No way I could handle your weather. I think the humidity alone would be enough to do me in.
Take care,
Jake
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2 ReactionsDear family and friends, and my volunteer activities keep me here!
Sue
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1 ReactionHad planned to drive to mall for an early walk yesterday. Instead, a huge drop into teens overnight brought with it a large layer of ice, sleet and heavy fog. Last yr. we only experienced one very light snow which had melted by day's end. This cold snap is predicted for several more days and is highly unusual for our community. My goodness, the calendar says it is still October!
A light snow added overnight plus even lower temps this morning had many schools closed because we lack neighborhood street clearing equipment. Overpasses were closed and my Tues. walk changed to setting the timer for a repeated stroll through the house.
Our neighborhood mailboxes are placed on the street and a neighbor called to caution me about going out for the mail. Hadn't planned to but her thoughtfulness was appreciated. A local newscaster was showing the thickness of ice on a stray shopping cart and that made me wonder what our poor postal carriers have to do to get frozen metal boxes open.
I think of our two years in Duluth while we were in our twenties and drove to work each day despite the snow. We did carry emergency supplies and snow clearing equipment made it easier than here where our limited equipment is used for highways and some main streets only. Interesting how aging can create much more caution. Osteoporosis and balance issues make a walk down the slippery driveway more daunting than I will venture.
The ice must be gluing the tree leaves in place but oh my what an avalanche we'll have once it thaws. One advantage of living in the southwest is that we do have a change of seasons but really inclement weather is usually of very short duration.
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2 Reactions@fiesty76. Please be careful with ice. My brother slipped on black ice one year and he said he had not felt the same since then. Take care!!!
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