Walking
When I started walking, I was well over 100 pounds heavier than I am now. I could barely walk half a mile...if that.
I spent a lot of time walking trails around Grapevine Lake. The City of Grapevine has done a great job with its trail system (paved and off-road trails). We used to walk the paved trails almost everyday.
Over time, we extended the distance we walked. The hills on the trail still wiped me out, and "the long walk" we did really got to me.
I used to only walk at night, or when the sun was not directly overhead. If it was even vaguely warm out, forget walking.
I worked up to walking on summer evenings, but my distance wasn't that impressive. To walk any distance in the sun meant I felt like I was going to die. If it was 65 and sunny, it got to me.
It's 80 degrees out, and Cynthia decided to go hit the old trail at Grapevine Lake. Not a cloud in the sky and warm--the kind of weather that would wipe me out in no time back when we lived in Grapevine and walked the trails daily.
We did the old "long walk" without effort today. Even the hills didn't wipe me out. Sun shining down the whole time, but it--get this--felt good.
We've stuck to walking (and started running). I know I've been doing better, but it wasn't until going back to a walk that used to wipe me out--passing places where I used to have to turn around because I was too tired to keep going--and doing it on a warm day that I realized how far we've come.
And that's just too cool...
I spent a lot of time walking trails around Grapevine Lake. The City of Grapevine has done a great job with its trail system (paved and off-road trails). We used to walk the paved trails almost everyday.
Over time, we extended the distance we walked. The hills on the trail still wiped me out, and "the long walk" we did really got to me.
I used to only walk at night, or when the sun was not directly overhead. If it was even vaguely warm out, forget walking.
I worked up to walking on summer evenings, but my distance wasn't that impressive. To walk any distance in the sun meant I felt like I was going to die. If it was 65 and sunny, it got to me.
It's 80 degrees out, and Cynthia decided to go hit the old trail at Grapevine Lake. Not a cloud in the sky and warm--the kind of weather that would wipe me out in no time back when we lived in Grapevine and walked the trails daily.
We did the old "long walk" without effort today. Even the hills didn't wipe me out. Sun shining down the whole time, but it--get this--felt good.
We've stuck to walking (and started running). I know I've been doing better, but it wasn't until going back to a walk that used to wipe me out--passing places where I used to have to turn around because I was too tired to keep going--and doing it on a warm day that I realized how far we've come.
And that's just too cool...