Day 9 AND 10: Do you talk to yourself?

I was just wondering because I had an argument with myself.  It was Monday, I was still recovering from my tree climbing activities and well,... I just did NOT feel like walking.  Distracted by doing all the things that keep me unfit like eating, sitting around and finally LAYING DOWN!  Some how I ended up in my room and the internal conversation went like this... "DON"T DO IT!", "But I'm tired.. just fifteen;...,", "Oh NO, DON'T'.... "TOO LATE",,,,, OMG this bed feels so good."  "BUT YOU Have to walk" "But I don't want to", "But you have to..:" ..After fifteen minutes.... (and I was afraid I would fall asleep),  the stronger side up me said "GET UP!" and I did.  I took a walk but it was just a walk.. I didn't want to... wasn't happy about it but I did it.. Then I came home and went to bed. 

The next day, I realized I  had fans.  Friends at work were saying, what happened., my mother had been emailing me, anxiously awaiting the next adventure in Elizabeth's Experiment. Who knew? But then again maybe the absence of my blog entry was more noticeable because of my previous entry, "OMG, that's gonna hurt tomorrow"  and my conclusion to let everyone know how I would be the next day.  So just to clear everything up, I have recovered from my tree climbing.  Everyone at work loved the star fruit but I cringed when I saw the big thank you from management with a little note, "Can you bring more, they went really fast!"  The sweet side of me took over and I wrote, "I'll check the tree on Wednesday".

The great local news journal, The Northeast Journal, stated and I quote, "It's easy to become a devoted walker in the Old Northeast".  I am definitely not alone in my love and admiration of the architecture and landscaping in the area. Candy Lenderman, wrote and excellent article "Totally Zen-ful" and now I am ready to take walk to Cherry and 10th Ave. to few another beautiful home.

I am still getting wonderful advice from friends.  I read an  article stating you lose this much in a year if you walk this many miles per day at a certain speed per hour.  Well I don't know how fast I am walking! Perplexed, I pondered the ways to figure out my walking speed. Then a friend sent me a link to Spark Peoples Walking Guide  and what do you know, a fitness map that calculates not only how fast you walk, but how far and how many calories you burned. Is that not AMAZING! 

And yes I did walk tonight. My usual late night quick walk. So now I am going to plug in my numbers and found out how fast I was walking.  Give it a try.  Oh, by the way I may not write every day, but I WILL WALK!!

~ Elizabeth