WOW!!!
Who knew that I could/can walk over 10,000 steps in a day?
Not me, for sure.
I was convinced that I could only walk once, maybe twice, around the park, for a kilometer total. Not so.
I started walking, with a lot of pain, sometime towards the end of March. On the 20th of March, it took me 47 minutes to walk 1.5km with an average pace of 31 min/km. I used my bastón as a crutch, stopped every 20 ft to stretch my lower back, and had my earbuds at a fairly high volume, listening to a book.

Fast forward to this week; one day I walked 3km at an average pace of 20 min/km, and an average heart rate of 115 bpm. I’ve walked over 6,000 steps everyday for the past 2 weeks. Let me show you.

Why I walked 12,172 steps last Tuesday, I don’t remember. I only know that there had to have been a breeze each time I went out, and the sun must have been “just so” in the sky, because when there’s no, or little breeze, the heat makes it too difficult for me to walk.
I listen to books, spiritual as well as fluff, while I walk, but with whichever earbuds I’m wearing, I have them so I can hear the sounds around me. (It makes hearing the cars coming along beside me easier to hear, and avoid being hit.) I carry my bastón with me every time I walk so I can use it to clean the dog poop off the sidewalk, (though I almost never walk inside the park as it smells of dog urine, yuck), or as a crutch. Now that I’m walking faster, and farther, I use it to keep me balanced.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I’m working diligently towards getting rid of the excess weight I’ve gained over the last year, sitting sedately in my “nest”, and getting my mobility back. I’m tired of being tired.
Until next time, and I again, thank the Lord for a next time, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.