I am Freaking AMAZING!
>> Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Okay... so not really ...but I am pretty darn proud of myselt today.
One of my biggest issues with the whole not driving thing is that I have felt trapped and totally dependent on other people to give me rides to wherever. Can't even count on the cabs in this hick town - more than half the times that I have called to try to get a cab, I've gotten a nope, sorry, can't help you.
So - I decided that I should build up to the point where I could, if I had to, walk to Midland, which is the closest town that has bus service (and cabs that actually ... you know... take people places) .... and I have been walking almost every day since school finished.
I usually only go as far as the post office and back - 2 km each way ...but today I got ambitious. I left Scrooge at home (much to his disgust) and walked all the way into Midland. I went to our local Walmart and the dollar store, then went to Boston Pizza where I was a very good girl and had one of the lowest calorie meals - shrimp skewers with a salad; dressing on the side. It is, according to Mapquest, 9.97km/6.19 miles... although that is the driving directions and doesn't account for the fact that the Tay Shoreline Trail does not follow the highway, but instead meanders back and forth along the shore of Georgian Bay.
Or for the fact that stOOpid me didn't know where the trail came out so when I got to someplace I recognized I left the trail and went WAY the long way! Figured it out on my way home though.
Did have to take a couple of painkillers for my back - but not nearly as many as I might have if I hadn't figured out that when I don't have the mutt, I can swing my arms more naturally, which seems to lessen the owies in the midscapular area.
My feets sure hurt now though!
But I don't care - I am proud of me.
I AM proud of you.
I've been proud as heck of all you've done the past month or so.
You so good.
yay
Woo, I'm very impressed! Congratulations!
Yay Flit! That's certainly a healthy walk. Your "meanders back and forth" route is probably equivalent to my walk down to Ballard Park, around Gooseneck Cove, up the "country lane" leg, and home via Newport Harbor is probably about the same length. I usually take a nap when I get back from that! Good work.
hoping to make it a weekly thing... not necessarily all the way to Walmart ...but at least as far as the end of the trail.
Still got a lot of weight to lose :(
Way to go! If you keep at it, it will just get easier each time.
Congratulations! You should be proud -- that's quite an accomplishment. I don't know where you live, but if your walk was near a bay and a shoreline trail, it sounds like a nice walk.