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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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@sueinmn Blankets from Mexico, too? Nice to visit with the little fellows. Good trip and great experience. Good grandmother!!!!elizabetht
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How adorable! I remember when my littles were little. Now they are 19, 20, 22 and 23. But to me they are still 10.
Had my usual 2 miler today. Ordered some flashing light shoe clips because I am up so early it’s dark when I want to leave. That way I get to wave to one of my grands on his way to work or my daughter if she is going to her trainer and meet up with a friend who is a runner/biker.
Humidity not too bad in the early morning because of the rain we have had.
If I had an outing to the park with your two little ones I would need a snack and time out vertically on my sofa.
FL Mary
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6 ReactionsBlankets and quilts from Grammy's sewing room.
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6 Reactions@sueinmn What adorable grandchildren, Sue! I bet you were ready for a snack and a rest as well!!
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1 mile, that’s great. Your foot/feet must be a lot better. I haven’t had a soda in ages. A Dr. Pepper sounds so good.
I walked 1.6 miles today.
Jake
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I want a quilt of Mt. Shasta. (my favorite mountain)
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3 ReactionsThat's gorgeous Leonard. I can add you to my list for about 2050.
Sue
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They were raffling off a beautiful quilt of Mount Shasta at the museum there. I bought 100 tickets and still can’t figure out why I didn’t but at least 1,000. I never saw anything that I wanted more, but maybe subconsciously I wanted the extra 900.00 dollars or more worse. That stupid decision haunts me to this day since after I lost I found a quilter who worked on the original and I hired her to make me one. I paid her $1000 to start it. No telling how much more it was going to cost but it didn’t matter, then she got sick an couldn’t do it.
Well, at least I’ll have something amazing for my 97th birthday.
Jake
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5 Reactions@sueinmn, @jakedduck1. Maybe Sue can get your quilt made in time for that 120th birthday party we're all going to, Jake!
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4 ReactionsHi, everyone! Are you like me and not walking? I’m not really Not walking, but i sure don’t really walk far. This photo is of Crested Butte from the top of Mt. Crested Butte. And No, we didn’t walk up! I thought about walking down but my DIL said I’d be run over by mountain bikes. And now were home and back to unexciting walks. Just wondering if @lioness is still walking!!
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