Changing One Step At A Time is how I feel that I need to address an issue in my life. Like many people as I got older I got heavier, like many I said I would do something about it, 250 passed nothing 275 still nothing. I became the guy who would watch the Biggest Loser eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Something had to give.
My wife having some of the same issue started her journey thru diet 5 weeks ago and I stepped on the scale, 296. How did this happen, yeah I know. The first few weeks of her diet I watched what I ate and dropped some weight, with no exercise.
Within two days of each other my employer announced they were going to sponsor teams for the local Heart Walk and for Children's Hospital and a friend of mine posted a link about ourhike.com. The Heart walk and the Children's Hospital walks are both shorter walks (5ks) and later in the year. The ourhike.com was coming up, 7.5 miles. Can I do this? Can I even go 1 mile? So I sign up less than 1 week before the event, and take two 1.2 mile hikes as training that week.
At ourhike, I meet Robin Grappa the founder of the event who several years earlier walked from Delaware to California for her charity. During the walk it occurs to me that I can use walking to become a major way to help in my battle in weight. I completed the 7.5 miles know I did something good for the charity in question, and even though my feet are blistered I feel pretty damm good
In the following week I have gone out 3 times, the first day walking on my blisters, Monday 2.4 miles, Tuesday 2.6 and Wednesday 3.2 miles. Now I am looking for some event to walk at this weekend
Things I have learned along the way, it is great to have my wife walking with, get the proper socks and underarmor compression shorts help with a bad chafing issue.
So why am I doing this, well to keep myself accountable. In next May there is a full marathon for walking not far from where I live, I guess that is my first goal,and to do that I will need to have less of me to drag around.
In the meantime if I cant find an event for this weekend I want to find a trail and push myself for another 7.5 or longer
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