Today is Thursday and I'm not walking today. I know that I said that I was going to walk on working days and today is a working day, but I'm tired and I just don't want to walk. I didn't pick anything and I don't want to walk if I don't want to walk. I don't want to force myself to walk and then make myself hate it.
I did this walk on Monday. It's Day 4 of the Niagara Hiking Mini Series, but I did it on Day 3 since I'm terrible about doing them in order. If you don't skip a day, they just move the workout to the next day, but they don't move the following day's workout too so you end up with two or three or more on the same schedule day. They aren't in the right order all the time either, but whatever. I don't care if I'm out of order.
So he said he was going to work on speed for this walk and he didn't like. He got us up to 3 MPH and I stayed with him for a couple minutes, but I knew that I wasn't going to make it and I'm very hesitant to mess with my shins because I'm such a baby when it comes to shin pain. I broke my foot and hardly took any pain meds for the entire experience unless my husband was on my case about taking them. It was nothing stronger than ibuprofen. My pinched nerve and shingles were the only times I took heavy doses of ibuprofen because that pain was horrible. I can handle a lot of pain, but shin pain is a special kind of hell for me. I knocked it back down to 2.5 for the bulk of the 3.0 section. When I knew it had to be getting close to going slower, I bumped it back up so that I could finish with a good push. I survived and my shin wasn't so bad. I don't think I had much pelvis pain either. My calves were getting sore. My feet did not go numb.
I'm a bit annoyed that he had us go 3.0. This is supposedly a beginner workout. Like super super beginner and here we are going 3.0 MPH. I don't feel that it's a super beginner pace. I feel like you can really make people feel like crap for not being able to keep up at a super beginner pace. I can do a 2 mile walk. I can some elevation. I'm not a super beginner. I'm still out of shape and need to lose a lot of weight. I also have a breathing problem so maybe I'm not the best person to judge what beginner is. Oh well. The view was nice. The walk was interesting. He rattled on about all of the other workouts he does in an attempt to get people to continue on with this process.
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| My Walk |
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