Walking the Dog

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Uncle Marcel brought up a point about there may be dogs in the neighborhood that may need walking, so I should bring them along for company. Cue sad whimpering from my own dog, who rarely gets walked. SHe has always been hard to walk because she is a big dog (shephard/lab mix) and she pulls and no one has ever disciplined her and blah blah blah. But now that her arthritis is as bad as mine, we actually manage ok. So tonight we went for a walk.

It was shorter than I intended since not only did I have a big dog on a leash, but I also had the 3 year old NOT on a leash. Cait did well though. Upon announcing we were going for a walk, Kathy immediately went into automated mode and said, she needs tennis shoes not her sandals and you need the stroller or else you will be carrying her. Uh no, I will not be carrying her, she will walk. And her sandals are just fine, as I am also wearing sandals. Buh bye.

Accoridng to the Bee Well Miles website (I love that you can map out your walk and it gives you the distance) our little trip around our block was .486 miles. Not very far and you'll be happy to know tha Caity didn't ask to be carried, not even once. I on the other hand was looking for a pit stop.

Our neighborhood is on the incline of a mountain. While for most people the up hill climbing is hard, I really am ok with it. More so than anything downhill. The next time we walk around the block we will go counter clockwise and do the majority of it up instead of down. Down just really is a pain in the knees and hips.

It is a beautiful evening in Cal tonight, I hope we have many more, I like walking in the evening. Let's hope this initiative lasts me a while.

Bee Well and Walk

“Walking, walking, seems so easy now, but I remember when I was small and I did not know how. I would take two steps and then fall down and bump my bottom on the ground.”

Those are song lyrics that were on a kid’s cd when Adam was little, and I guess is one that Caitlyn listens to at Josh’s house, cuz I heard her singing it the other day. It is also, kinda how I felt about the big walk I took.

After the March of Dimes walk last week, I thought I was definitely going to be incapacitated forever. I couldn’t imaging ever being able to walk any distance again. But guess what? That walk didn’t kill me. Yeah, I was sore as hell for days afterwards, but had I taken a more disciplined approach to it, I would have been able to work my way up to 3 miles instead of doing it right off the bat.

I am making a commitment to you, my readers (and I know some of you will actually hold me to this), to get out and walk EVERYDAY. Not 3 miles, yet, but around the block, around the mall (maybe not the mall, I hate the mall), just around. I enjoy walking with someone, even if it is just pushing the baby’s stroller. But they are hardly around, so I will be on my own.



I have found the website BeeWell Miles .com where I can not only keep track of my progress in walking, but from 4/1/09-10/31/09, Bumble Bee Foods will donate $0.15/mile for every mile logged at BeeWellMiles.com (up to $200,000) to help Breast Cancer Network of Strength provide emotional support to those who can't wait for tomorrow's cure. So it is good not only for me, but I am doing good for others as well.



Who is gonna join with me? It is very easy, just got to Beewllmiles.com, log in, and start entering how many miles you walk each day. You can also keep track of your nutrition intake and other exercises.



Perhaps this is the kick in the butt I need. Perhaps not, but there is only one way to find out.

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