training day by day

8-17-09 After Kiwanis meeting I walked in Riverview Park from 7:25 to 7:55, 1.5 miles.

8-18-09 Tai Chi class with some Yoga

8-19-09 105 miles in 30 minutes at Riverview Park with a samll backpack

8-20-09 only a mile, diden't keep track of time - small pack

8-21-09 1.5 miles again after working at the theatre with Cheryl

8-22-09 no walking

8-23-09 2 miles in 40 minutes

8-24-09 1 mile after Kiwanis meeting - 20 minutes because I ran out of daylight

8-25-09 Tai Chi

8-26-09 Rosanne Roy and I did 2 miles for 40 minutes

8-26-09 at Sesquicentennial Building in Palmyra with Jonni and Rosann. 3 miles 1 hour

8-31-09 today Rosanne and I started at Java Jive walked north on Main to the old River Road to the end of that road then back to the access to Soap Hollow Trail; up the trail to Shelter 3, around the loop at the overlook there and back to Java Jive. Good walk! Not sure of distance, can't drive it and forgot my pedomoter.

Shirley MacLaine

Just finished her book about walking the camino, called THE CAMINO. Very interesting. Lots of great thoughts. She did the long camino from France and did it in 30 days. Also reading WALK IN A RELAXED MANNER by Joyce Rupp. It is quite inspiring. She was 60 when she did the camino with a friend who was 69! Gives me hope.

Jonni, Rosann and I walked in the Sesquicentennial Building in Palmyra on Thursday night because it was storming. 17 laps = 1mile. Jonni did 21 laps (she is just starting). Rosann and I did 36 laps, just over 2 miles. Then we walked one of the short loops outside in the Park. Total of 3 miles in a little over an hour.

Friday Rosann and I walked in Grandview Cemetery. More hills. Didn't walk as long or as far. Mostly because I was sore from Thursday.

Saturday. I didn't walk today. The weather was good so I painted fence after a trip to Palmyra to recycle glass and have coffee/tea with Jonni. The outside of the fence is finished, except for about six slats - ran out of daylight. Message to the universe: lattice work fencing its very tedious to paint! Will finish last little bit tomorrow - then the inside will need to be done.

Gooodbye, Teddy

Can't believe that the last Kennedy brother is gone. How very ironic that it was cancer in his brain! Both Jack and Bobby were shot in the head. Came home from my walk and turned on TV while fixing and eating supper - all Kennedy all night on MSNBC so I am immersed in it. And the tears come as they did all those years ago when a college freshman lost "her" president. And again in 1968 when I woke up to the news that Bobby had been shot IN THE HEAD! Requiescat in pace, Teddy.

keeping on

Walked longer tonight - nearly an hour. With Rosann Roy who inspired me to go further, longer! Tomorrow she and I will walk with Jonni in Palmyra.

start at the beginning

The prequel is that I celebrated my 64th birthday on July 8, 2009. Some days later I decided that I was tired of fighting aging and weight so I would just let go. Hey! Get old, get fat, what the hell!?!

Then I get a call from Maggie. She and Dave are thinking of doing a pilgrimage in Spain in September 2010, did I want to go too? For whatever reason, this appealed to me so I said yes!

Knowing that I needed lots of training to do this - ahem! walk 8-10 miles a day for about a week. - I started thinking. Knowing myself I figured I had better line up support for this training so I am asking all and sundry to agree to walk with me sometimes.

And so I have begun, about which more later. A friend suggested I blog about this journey so here I am trying THIS new thing!

Would love to find some hikers in my area to train with me so let me know...