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My goal:

By January 31, 2017 – walk 4 miles, five days a week at an average pace of 17.00.

By February 28, 2017 – walk 5 miles, five days a week at an average pace of 16.75.

On June 15, 2017 I began walking as I wanted to become healthier. It started with walking about a mile in 20 minutes. It took until November 24, 2017 to consistently get in a rhythm of walking. I think it is important to reflect on our starting points, so we can celebrate our success as we reach toward our goals. I had just retired from working 40 years in the field of education. I was overweight and 61 years old. I mention this as I believe we can begin at any age and set goals that work for ourselves.

I absolutely adore @MapMyWalk. I works for me in so many ways. Here is a sample of last week’s data. I walked four out of seven days, three miles each day, total distance of twelve miles weekly, burned 1792 calories, for a total of three and a half hours total. When I magnify and examine each day’s data, I can see that I walked an average pace of 17:32 min/mile and burned 449 calories. It also details my pace for each mile/split pace. Since 11-15-17 I have lost 15 pounds.

What I love about @MapMyWalk is competing against myself. Each time I get home I check over my data and look for improvements from the day or week before. I wear my new @Bose headphones (I detest earbuds – I am NOT from that generation and will never get use to wearing them) and can hear the voice of the @MapMyWalk lady chirping in my ear “speed up – you’re behind” or “you’re doing great – slow down.” I search @Spotify for great exercise music to stream through my headphones from my iphone as I quickly walk along. I also use @GoogleAssitant to quickly change the song on my headphones as I walk along. Of course, I always have a bottle of water at my side as I cruise through the streets walking as quickly as I can.

During this last week in December I have hurt the upper part of my left foot while walking. I sure didn’t want this to slow me down so I went to the doctor. He suggested new shoes – I visited the @Asics store the next day – and realized I would need to rest it for a couple of weeks. This does NOT make me happy at ALL! I mention this because I think we all have set backs from time to time in our goals but, if we stay determined, we overcome them in time. “This too shall pass!”

My goal:

By January 31, 2017 – walk 4 miles, five days a week at an average pace of 17.00.

By February 28, 2017 – walk 5 miles, five days a week at an average pace of 16.75.