I dont know how many steps

We took a few days off this week because real life took over for a few days.  On Tuesday we went to a local running shoe store and got equipped with better footwear, here is to no more blisters (cross my fingers and hope, and no more duct tape on the heels)

On Wednesday I was feeling down and dragging, could it be two days with out walking had gotten to me.  It was a long and miserably slow day at work and work didn't seem to be a bad day, so it had to be me.  So on the way home I decide to get my blood pumping before the gym.  Plugged the Ipod into the car radio and cranked some Rush.  Got thru 2112, Fly by Night, Finding My Way and Working Man and I was amped up.  Good old heavy metal does the trick for me (and remember to turn the radio down so the wife wouldn't be upset).  Changed and off we went.

Hit the treadmill and plugged in a program called Pikes Peak for an  hour.  Still trying to find the right level of intensity for me so I ended up with something more like Pike's Mounds.  But as the course ran along I would increase the incline to make it harder and I usually go at a 3.4 pace, so I started playing with that also.  The last minute before cool down I was on flat terrain so I bumped the speed to the point I had to jog.  I may have only been for a minute but now I remember what that is supposed to feel like.  We will be back to that point again, even if next time its for 2 minutes.

So how many steps?  I don't know.  Remember him the ghost character from Family Circus that Billy always blamed things on.  He must have turned off my pedometer.

Friday night takes us out to Middleton for a 10K AVA walk.  This is a group walk so we get to start to meet some of the other AVA members in the local club, most seem to be a very nice group, but there is always one.  This walk was a little different it is a night walk and they ask that you don't use your flashlights.  We started by going up a unpaved trail that was a long slow hill that twisted and turned until you got to a nice view that featured the State Capital in the distance.  We kept near the front of the group and I surprised my self that over uneven and rough terrain I didn't roll my ankle at all, I do that at least twice on flat paved pavement.  The trail took us behind some very nice homes in the area and Middleton has done a nice job interlocking its trails together.

The biggest complaint we had was there was another husband and wife that droned on and on  and on about politics.  Now maybe some of the reason it grated us was their views were different than ours, but there is a time and a place for those discussion.  This was neither.  I was wishing I had duct taped my heels, I could have used the tape to tape their mouths shut.  Thankfully they eventually dropped back into the crowd.

So how many steps? I don't know turned off my pedometer after 343 steps,  I need to have a serious discussion with that ghost.

Hopefully the weather holds off on the rain, would like to do the AVA Cedarburg walk and also test our PiGo app on our Iphone and see if we can do The Pharm Girl's WhereIGo Cahce with that app.  Hopefully I don't know stays home