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Friday, May 18, 2012

walk a mile in my shoes/ Has started.

And that is exactly what I did yesterday, plus seven more. A good friend, Christy G., told me when I was back in Iowa recently that she walked the number of her birth years the week of her birthday in April. I thought that was a cool idea so that is what I am planning on doing. I walk every other day trying to get into shape for the big week. Just in case you don't know it will be 59 miles that week. Yesterday Phil and I did eight miles. My blisters now have blisters. Today I tried my hiking boots and that seems to be a better choice, although it was a short walk. I am including a picture of the mountains at the midway point when we stopped at a park for water. I also wanted to let you all know there is an app for your phone called "map my walk."  And it is free. Can't get better than FREE. Since I am still learning my way around it is great. You just start your app, head out the door and it keeps track of the route, miles and speed. You can also save your workouts if you so desire. Well, wish me luck.
 Love and miss you all.


Well, I was at the Santa Fe High School track with lori and phil helping lori prepare for the fbi fitness test when it dawned on me that I had not begun my birthday challenge. So I walked three miles and thought that was a good start.

Since then I walked 4 mi saturday afternoon and 4 mi saturday eveing. Sunday I walked 4 miles at high noon and 3 more in the evening.  Then Monday I realized I better step up my game if I was going to make 59 by Friday.

Since I am not a morning person my walks start between 11-12. It has been in the 90's all week.  In the shade and with the breeze it is okay. the problem lies that there isn't much shade. If I do find a block with shade I go back and forth like one of those bears at the shooting booth in a carnival.
I have decided to include some pictures during the walk to make it more interesting.
This floppy hat was given to me to wear during my high noon walks to keep the sun off. Carole is a really cool gal so I am surprised she owns something like this. All I could think of was Peg and Terri and how put together they always are and I can't believe I left the house in this. I must say there are many interesting people in Santa Fe and this probably wasnt the big deal I thought it was.

On my five mile walk I came across this lost little soul. He was making funny noises and wandering aroung the school yard. I think he was lost.

This picture is a little difficult to read. All around santa fe there are these stenciled sayings. Must have been some hippie dippies. This one says Love Is The Anwser.  Who knew?????

These black birds are everywhere here. I was trying to show how big they are but this pic doesn't do it justice. Anyway I was taking this pic and this lady comes running out of her house. So I explained why I was just taking a pic of the bird.  She said she thinks he is wounded and she has been feeding him chicken and he seems better. She put orange traffic cones in front of her house so no one could park there because it was his space. She has also named him inky. She said it was a Raven. Then she ran over to the post woman to tell her the story.

This is just a picture of a yard where the flowers were so pretty. I was kind of stalking the neighborhood just to get my miles in. 5 that morning. In the evening we went back to the track to help Lori again. Afterwards we decided to walk home. I was getting alittle crabby and hungry so we stopped at Maria's . I had a grand margarita which helped my foot pain and we shared a tamale plate. Terri you would really like their tamales, veggie and pork. It was just what I needed to make it home about 9:00 and it was much cooler. It has been like 95 at 5p.m. still.