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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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oh, my, @artist01 Glad you're back home and thinking good thoughts sending your way.....but, what for crying out loud are lodgepole pines? I know long-leaf pines, cypress pines, spruce and the lovely norfalk island pine, white pine, ponderosa pine, eastern white pine, scotch pine, and I'm sure hundreds more.....but lodgepole pine is new to me. It must be a rocky, nothwestern pine, maybe?
I ckd on Bing, it's a beauty. Tall, lovely and I imagine a mass of them is beautiful. Ok. I'm getting out of my little bubble and learning so much from all of you living in the far wilds of America. Love it.
Now, you feel better, do well and feel the blessings flowing down onto and into your body, healing every cell! elizabeth
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4 ReactionsSweet, isn't he? But, sure is bossy...hope all is well your way, Leonard. Blessings sent to you, elizabeth
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6 ReactionsWelcome back @artist01 You’ve been in the hospital? Hope all is ok. I haven’t been walking as much, either. Between snow, ice and cold and my headaches, it’s been hard to get out. But I had 2 nice walks today. Sidewalks were clear and the sun was sort of shining. I’ve found that I really need walks to feel better and to keep my spirits up!
Do you have any spring/summer walking goals?
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3 ReactionsWALKERS/EXERCISERS! Do you have any goals for walking this summer? I’ve even thought of going into Boulder and walking around downtown and neighborhood streets. Maybe I’ll try just once a week. I’ll report on how it goes.
What are you going to try?
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5 ReactionsHi Becky - Two plans, actually. One day a week walk in a brand new place - whether a nearby town, state park, wherever it seems fun. One day a week, walk with my grandsons in a local woods or park, with a special theme each time - find something, go a certain distance, or we have some walking paths with books along them to read aloud.
Sue
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6 Reactions@becsbuddy My goal is simple. To walk without a cane. Since January I have had very limited movement due to new issues, but still try to get out to walk. A slow turtle can beat me. Additional PT and procedures in near future. But going slow, I get to "really" see the neat things there are to see.
Ginger
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8 Reactions@gingerw
WOW, I can actually beat someone. I'm a fast turtle. But I just walked 4 tenth of a mile yesterday & today. I better get with it or Becky is going to be after me.
Running scared, more like walking slow,
Jake
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5 Reactions@becsbuddy, @sueinmn, @gingerw and all....I've never scheduled of planned walking. Important concept, planning the day, for pain control in whole body/brain, so...We go from the low 70's to high 80's overnight and back. I plan to go out tomorrow to PT and a few errands to FedEx, so tomorrow may be not a walk day much. But, Sat will begin a day outside with my hot pink walker, if only for a short walk around the cul-de-sac...we'll see if that can be a beginning of some scheduled walking. To ck out the cypress tree and see if a nest is in sight!
Thanks, everyone for the great suggestions and support. What a real blessing. Elizabeth
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3 ReactionsNow your going nuts about a pine tree. I guess we all are nuts about something. I go nuts over my duckie friends.
Take care,
Jake
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5 Reactions@becsbuddy, I'd not heard the term: 'forest bathing' before but can certainly relate to any outdoor/nature bathing. Being outdoors just transports me to a place of appreciation and gratitude unless...the weather jumps for near 90 and then drops overnight to several days of below freezing nights.
Daughter shared that April snows are supposedly not that unusual in Colorado but in southwest TX, consecutive days of below freezing night temps are really interfering with walks and gardening opportunities. Last night dropped to 28 degrees; Sun and Mon predicted up to 88 and 90 degrees.
Obsessed with more and diff seed starting methods and making sure all are receivng daily checks for moisture/sprouts. Not the same but getting some exercise from daily checking all indoor "sprouting" locations. vbg
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