A few months ago, I was getting tired of a mile-loop my husband and I walked at least once a day. Although it is a nice path that wraps around a pretty lake, it is an easy walk for the fast walker I used to be. I was complaining to my husband that it was flat and short and that I needed more to my work-out. And I did in fact walked much more than that loop.
But after I fell skiing, I hadn't walked the loop at all. And over the last months of recovery, sudden nostalgia for the lake hit me randomly. I would have done anything to walk the loop again and again and again.
And finally today I did!
Gorgeous weather, pristine lake, and a terrain I had forgotten about.
The loop is actually not flat at all now that I am still in recovery. It climbs up and down and there is even a small bridge to cross the creek that overflows in the winter. Water is not rushing anymore but there is too much water to walk without the makeshift bridge.
The good news is that I walked across the log just fine, the one-mile-loop is still too easy for me as a cardio-workout.
The bad news is that I will have to walk the loop many times if I want to improve my gait and speed.
Until I get tired of it, I'm afraid.
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