My not so New Year's resolution?

**RICHARD** · 01-09-2009, 09:18 PM

I have been walking everywhere for the last month. I decided to get healthy in 2009.

When I looked at where I live I have 5 fast food places, four super markets,
a Target, two hardware stores and a bunch of eateries all within a mile radius of my home.

Two of the stores offer a shuttle service home, if I shop there!

Altho I have yet to take advantage of the shuttle, It has made me buy more frugally, I only buy what I can carry home!

Today I bought an FM radio and a pedometer to help me along with my travels. The pedometer was 4.99 and the radio was 12.99! I found them both at Target. Now I can keep track of how far I go and don't have to count steps or sings songs to myself.

I wore the head set to the radio on the way home but took it off halfway. It was way to weird to listen to it, I like to know what is going on around me.

I play to start a log of all the places I walk to and how far I walk-my plans?

125 miles for 2009- I know its a modest 12.5 miles a month, but I plan on doing more!

P.S. I have noticed that as I go one I can walk farther on the way home with a load of purchases and I am thinking of buying a scale to measure just how much I carry and keep track of that also!

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I am also pleased with my endurance, I notice that I am not as short of breath and have a little more stamina!

**DJFyrewolf36** · 01-09-2009, 09:31 PM

Walking is one of the best (if not the best in my opinion lol) forms of exercise. I prefer to walk places myself, and my job involves a LOT of walking too. I find that if I don't walk enough during the week I end up feeling listless and stiff. When I was in college, I walked on average 6 miles a day, sometimes more (a lot more if I had military exercises and marching to do that day) Living removed from everything and not having a car really had its benifits lol. I did that for a whole year, boy was I in shape! Heck, when I was first dating my husband, he lived across town and nither of us had a car for a while. It was about a 5 mile trip one way and I walked to his house and back 3-4 times a week.
Ugh now that I think about it, I really have let myself go although I think I can legitimately blame pregnacy on that

. I need to walk more.

**Cincy'sMom** · 01-10-2009, 07:23 PM

I didn't really notice how close I live to a lot things until I started running in October. To do a 3 mile block, I pass 2 pizza places, 2 Mexican restaruants, 1 small grocery story and a sports grill. Seems kinda silly to drive to them...but on days like today, when there are 8 inches of snow on the ground...that 4WD is appreciated!!!

The company I work for at the end of 2008 decided to put in a 1/4 walking path behin the buidling. While it was a nice gesture, there is a nice neighborhood just across the street several of us walk during the warmer months. I sorta wish instead, they had invested the money in some indoor excercie equipment, that we could have used year round.

**Bengalz** · 01-10-2009, 07:40 PM

Richard I think your plan sounds really good and you will likely get addicted to walking

It's a great way to exercise without hurting yourself and sounds like it serves several other purposes too

Good luck with getting used to listening to tunes while you walk - sometimes while walking I listen to my iPod and I pick tunes that I can keep pace to - it helps.

**RICHARD** · 01-10-2009, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Bengalz

Richard I think your plan sounds really good and you will likely get addicted to walking

It's a great way to exercise without hurting yourself and sounds like it serves several other purposes too

Good luck with getting used to listening to tunes while you walk - sometimes while walking I listen to my iPod and I pick tunes that I can keep pace to - it helps.

I am sorry to hear about all the people who cannot walk during the winter months. The gals in my office would do the stairs during bad weather.

Not only am I getting around, I am seeing all the pets that live in different houses! I am kinda sad that the radio is only FM. I do like listening to talk shows on the AM side.

**carole** · 01-11-2009, 04:40 PM

Good on you mate, i will join you, i too need to get fit, i hate exercise with a passion, but i need to and i am going to do it,every little bit counts, baby steps is the best way.

Well with not driving and not having too many fast food options near me, i am saved from that, not that i love them that much, but i do enjoy them as a treat now and then.

It always is my new years resolution, loose weight, get fit, now would it not be nice if i could stick to it and really do it for once, and keep at it, let us all try.